Archive for March 14th, 2009
Pioneer for peace dies one week after life celebration by ROCHELLE RILEY March 13, 2009, Detroit Free Press Weusi Olusola, who survived a drive-by shooting at 16 to become one of Detroit’s most outspoken anti-gang and anti-gun activists, died this afternoon at his Belleville home. He was 38. He died of bladder cancer six days [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE The Womanist Liberation Movement By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Mar. 14, 2009 Last week I celebrated Women’s History Month by telling the story of how the feminist struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries have won high level positions for professional women like Condolezza Rice and Hillary Clinton but have not [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Beyond Divas and Demagogues By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Mar. 14, 2009 I am no apologist for the Detroit City Council. Like a lot of Detroiters, I was stunned by the news coverage of Council members singing in the midst of a meeting called to overturn Mayor Cockrel’s effort to veto the [...]
Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit, Detroit Evolution Laboratory, and Eastern Market Corporation are pleased to present a free screening of The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil on Wednesday, March 18th from 7 – 9 pmat Eastern Market Shed 5. This fascinating and empowering film shows how communities pulled together, created solutions, and ultimately [...]
Garden Girl TV is a website dedicated to informing and educating the world on methods for Urban Sustainable Living. I have created a series of how-to videos and web pages that you can view here. With one hundred hours of video tape, I’ll be releasing new videos weekly. On this site and in my videos, [...]
Andrew Plisner is a volunteer at the Boggs Center. Here he writes about his experiences working with a group of “Alternative Spring Break” students from University of Michigan. University of Michigan “Alternative Spring Break” Students By Andrew Plisner Mar. 10, 2009 During mid-March, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across a group of University of [...]
Grace Lee Boggs was named one of “PBS’ Favorite Unsung Heroines” in honor of Womens’ History Month. CLICK HERE TO COMMENT
This Financial Times article shows how dramatically the economic crisis is shaking the foundations of established thought. The article uses examples from Detroit to talk about the depths of the economic crisis and ends by suggesting the hope for the future lies in urban agriculture! What makes it more striking is the fact that the [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE March is Women’s History Month By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Mar. 7, 2009 Over the years I have witnessed and experienced huge changes in the status of women and in my understanding of feminism. In 1915 I was born female to a mother who couldn’t read or write because there were [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Imperial Dreams By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Mar. 7, 2009 Within a few short days President Barack Obama managed to push through a stimulus package to prop up the deepening economic crisis, propose a 10-year budget plan that restores government to a role in protecting people and advancing essential priorities for health, [...]
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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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