Archive for February 13th, 2009
Here is classic Grace Lee Boggs column from 2005 on movement building strategy. LIVING FOR CHANGE MLK and Movement Building By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb. 20-26, 2005 I was not involved in the campaign to make King’s birthday a national holiday initiated by Congressman Conyers after his assassination.. As a Black Power activist [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. associate Vincent Harding, a professor emeritus at the Iliff School of Theology who chairs the Veterans of Hope Project, draws connections between President Barack Obama’s election and the civil rights movement and talks about what the inauguration meant to him.
Rick Feldman of the Boggs Center shares his reflections on the UE Workers Victory Tour: Let me share last night’s celebration (organized by Jobs with Justice) with the workers from UE and the recent inspiring sit-in of the Chicago Republic Window workers. The IEBW Hall was filled with probably 500 folks. There was some music [...]
Rebecca Solnit’s article on Iceland’s collapse is worth reading. It includes the following: “Since then, the media and others seem to have forgotten that the body in question was declared terminally ill and have focused instead on how to provide very expensive first aid for it. This avoids the question of what the alternatives might [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE A New America in the Making By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb.8-14, 2009 While the Obama administration in D.C. is doing its best to resuscitate a dying economic system, people on the ground have begun to create another America. That is the huge difference between today’s response to our interlocking crises [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Time to Remember By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Feb.8-14, 2009 Our national culture encourages us to ignore important anniversaries. We rarely use events from our history to encourage public reflection on what we have learned from a critical moment or on how we have grown or declined as a people. For example, [...]
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We travel to Detroit to meet the civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs. We find the 96-year-old philosopher surrounded by creative, joyful people and projects that defy more familiar images of decline. It's a kind of parallel urban universe with much to teach all of us about meeting the changes of our time.
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