Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor - Publications

Publications

The group's publications arm, the Youth Liberation Press, began in 1969 as a separate entity known as CHIPS (Chicago area High school Independent Press Service,) the acronym later changed to stand for Cooperative High school Independent Press Service, founded by John Schaller based in Chicago, Illinois. The news service was created to provide articles and graphics for high school papers (both official and underground) as well as to young people in general. After a short stint from 1970-1972 in Houston, Texas, where the press began publishing FPS, a news magazine for youth, the press moved to Ann Arbor and merged with Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor. An early issue of FPS lists its contributors as Liz Bell, Keith Hefner, Chuck Ream, John Schaller, and Sonia Yaco. In addition to FPS (later Magazine of Young People's Liberation), the press put out several collections of essays in book and pamphlet format, including:

• How to Start a High School Underground Newspaper (Chicago, IL: High School Independent Press, 1969).
• Youth Liberation: News, Politics and Survival Information (Washington, NJ: Times Change Press, 1972).
• High School Women's Liberation (Ann Arbor, MI: Youth Liberation Press, 1976).
• A Youth Liberation Pamphlet (Ann Arbor, MI: Youth Liberation Press, 1977).
• Growing Up Gay (Boston, MA: Carrier Pigeon, 1978).
• Keith Hefner, Children's Rights Handbook (Ann Arbor, MI: Youth Liberation Press, 1979).