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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind

Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind by Victoria Law offers a vital guide for childless allies who want to support parents, caregivers, and children within their communities. The book fills a unique gap by addressing how activists who may not regularly engage with young people can effectively participate in dismantling oppression faced by caretakers and children. Through practical tips, thoughtful suggestions, and compelling narratives, it fosters community solidarity and transformative activist culture.
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Ideal for activists, community organisers, and anyone interested in becoming a supportive ally to parents and children within social justice movements. It is particularly relevant for those seeking to engage more deeply in building inclusive, interdependent communities.

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A collection of articles and narratives on ways people can support parents, children, and caregivers involved in social movements, focusing on social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation.

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There are few books on being a good community member and ally to parents, caregivers and children. Any group of parents will know how hard their struggles can be, but no book focuses on how childless allies can address issues of caretakers' and children's oppression in the community.

Many well-intentioned activists do not interact with young people on a regular basis and do not know how, so Don't Leave Your Friends Behind provides a collection of concrete tips, suggestions and narratives to guide supporters in their work in the community.

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Praised as "mind-blowing, brilliant, and urgently needed," this book provides useful models for inclusive activism that centres families and children. Dean Spade lauds it as essential for collective action projects, while Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha values the real stories that rewrite community dynamics by placing parents and kids at the heart of movements.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781604863963

Publisher: PM Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: PM Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 246

About the Author

Victoria Law is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College Young Alumna Award. Widely known as the grandma of the mama zine scene and a pioneer in the genre of radical parenting writing, China Martens raised her daughter as a single mother on welfare and working poor while continuing to put out The Future Generation, the longest-running parenting zine in the history of the Western world (1990 to the present). Her daughter is nearly 24 years old and her zine has been anthologized into the book The Future Generation: The Zine-book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company 2007).

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