Flying Squads
Where Youth Rights Take Flight
Flying Squad: A Documentary
A short documentary on the Brooklyn Flying Squad made by one of the young people in the Squad, James Khost (15).
Flying Squads
Where Youth Rights Take Flight
Alexander Khost
Bribe Children and Call Them Stinky
“Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody’s serious but me.” –Allen Ginsberg I remember my father telling me a story about a criminal psychology course he took in college. Apparently the professor posed the question to the class: why do you…
Flourishing Education: Flying Squads
From the podcast: I am so happy to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Alex Khost. He talks about Flying Squads, the project he is currently working on. Alex is a father and Youth Rights advocate. He is the Editor-in-Chief…
Flying Squads 2020
The facilitators of the Flying Squads old and new across the country wrote up year end summaries of each of our communities. We hope you enjoy them.
Frozen III, or: The Day I Met Joe Leonard
What a start to the New Year (if you’re Gregorian, as someone pointed out in the morning… which then led to lots of “What’s Gregorian?” questions…). And yeah, I made a Disney reference in my title… I’m not sure what’s…
Friday the 13th on Friday the 13th
It’s Friday the 13th! So… we played Friday the 13th!
Upon Us All a Little Rain Must Fall
“This is the mystery of the quotient, quotient / Upon us all, upon us all a little rain must fall.”
The End of Capitalism
Today we went to the Museum of Capitalism, an exhibition at Parsons School of Design (my alma mater!) It was a great exhibition that asks viewers to imagine a future where capitalism is gone and we’re looking back at artifacts…
In Transit
Today we went to the New York City Transit Museum, a Flying Squad favorite. It is also a favorite of mine because it brings back good memories of when my own kids were little and we basically went to the…
The Perfect Day
By my definition, today was the Perfect Day (I’m glad I spent it with you…)