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"Rising Up From the Ashes: Chronicles of a Drop-Out"
A hip-hop audio documentary by the Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project

"Rising Up From the Ashes: Chronicles of a Drop-Out"
A hip-hop audio documentary by the Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project

Through the Live Arts Media Project, Detroit Summer is using art and media to voice creative, sustainable solutions to the problems we face in our schools, neighborhoods and the world.

We believe that young people should have a voice in the decisions that determine their lives. Our CD, "Rising Up From the Ashes: Chronicles of a Drop-Out", is a youth response to the drop-out crisis in Detroit schools. If every student who dropped out went back to school, DPS would have enough money to keep all the schools open. What would it take to stop people from dropping out? What would it take to bring them back?

We believe it would take a new vision for the purpose of education, new relationships between students and teachers, between students and students, and between students and the material they are learning. We would need curriculum that was fair and relevant and that prepared youth to solve the urgent problems in their lives and their communities.

To keep our schools open, we need money. But we need creativity, hope and youth participation if we want our schools to fulfill the human right to education.

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

Since its publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United States.

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s.

Few books have done as much to shape the consciousness of a generation of activists. The new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic-along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on the political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.

An Army of One

The armed services have responded to declining enlistment rates by hiring thousands of new recruiters, spending billions on slick ads and marketing, lowering educational standards, forcing soldiers to stay in the military, overlooking histories of criminal violence and substance abuse and raising the enlistment age to 42.

Many activists say current recruiting methods amount to a “poverty draft,” targeting urban and rural youth with limited economic or educational prospects by dangling offers of enlistment bonuses of up to $40,000.

An “Army of None” gives dramatic expression to how many people feel about the Pentagon and its wars. Poster by David Hollenbach, printed by The Indypendent.