Archive for March, 2009
Old Visions Create Old Fights, New Visions Create Hope and New Conversations by RICH FELDMAN, March 21, 2009 The Cobo Hall expansion and the Detroit City Council are discussed on talk radio every morning and afternoon on my way to and from work. If I listen to Mildred Gaddis, I hear about the history of [...]
“Family Unity Tour” Friday March 27, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Greater Faith Temple. 4735 W. Fort Street, Detroit, Michigan 48209. Two blocks west of Clark St, (Between the Ambassador Bridge and Livernois). EVERY ONE IS WELCOME The Family Unity Tour announced by The Congressional Hispanic Caucus will visit Detroit. U.S. Congressmen Luis Gutierrez leads the tour. [...]
In a special Earth Week presentation, FOCIS welcomes David Suzuki, an award-winning scientist, broadcaster and sustainable ecology expert. Suzuki will deliver a lecture on Thursday, April 23, 2009, at 9:30 a.m. in the Community Arts Auditorium. Dr. Suzuki, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an environmentalist who is renowned for his radio and television [...]
Excerpt: During the Great Depression eight decades ago, confidence in the national economy was so shattered, and people’s ability to earn cash so limited, that thousands of communities created local currencies to save hometown commerce. Provincial dollars allowed businesses and their customers to exchange goods and services with currency that had regional worth. A Detroit [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Beyond Pipelines-To-Prison Schools By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Mar. 14, 2009 Since the urban rebellions of the late 1960s, I have been urging a paradigm shift to more participatory, more democratic forms of education, leaving behind our factory-model public schools, which were structured 100 years ago to prepare young people to [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Bonus Time By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Mar. 22, 2009 The news that AIG chief executive officer Edward M. Liddy will pay $165 million dollars in bonuses to people in the very unit that has been blamed not only for the company’s collapse but for much of the current financial crisis has [...]
Photos by Larry Sparks. More images. Rochelle Riley on Weusi’s legacy. CLICK HERE TO COMMENT.
Where do we go from here? – Boggs Center Monthly Discussions This month’s topic: “Changing Concepts of Socialism, Changing Concepts of Revolution” April 18, 2009, 2:00 p.m., at the Boggs Center, 3061 Field St., Detroit. Based upon our March discussion on work, economics and unions, as well as the current national discussion taking place in [...]
In honor of National Women’s History Week, the Michigan Chronicle selected Grace Lee Boggs in its feature on “Historical Women Changing the World.” Excerpt: Meeting Dr. Grace Lee Boggs was historical and didn’t come easy. In fact, I was told it would be impossible. Not so. On March 6, 2009, I visited her Detroit home [...]
By Susan C. Strong, Executive Director, The Metaphor Project As the wheels of D. C. slowly crank out top-down, compromise solutions for our problems, out in the grassroots some people are taking matters into their own hands. When Republicans decide to make life more miserable for the hardest hit Americans, who dares rely on D.C. [...]
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Becoming Detroit
January 19, 2012
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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