Archive for April, 2009
Grace Lee Boggs is making a rare out-of-town appearance in Los Angeles for a panel discussion on the “First 100 Days of the Obama Administration” on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. This free event is presented by the Center For Diversity and Democracy and will take place at University Park Campus, Doheny [...]
The third music video off Invincible’s acclaimed ShapeShifters (2008), “Ropes” addresses the often taboo subject of depression and suicide. After being accepted by mtvU, the station’s standards department axed the video citing how its “suicidal undertones would be problematic” for a college audience. Ironically, Invincible and Tiombe’s intention with the song is to speak openly [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Time For A New Kind of Pacifism By Frank Joyce Michigan Citizen, April 10, 2009 Most days news of parents killing children, husbands killing wives, children killing parents, physical abuse in your own family, mass murders at churches, schools, shopping malls, workplaces or wherever just washes over us. The same goes for [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Moving Toward Peace By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, April 10, 2009 More often than not, checking the news every day has become bearable. President Obama gets so many things right. He has declared that the U.S. will not torture people. He has ordered the closure of Guantanamo and of hidden prisons around [...]
Grace Lee Boggs is featured in the Kyoto Journal. Click the screenshot to read the article. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
What Was the Point of the G-20 Meeting? by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, March 1, 2009 Almost everyone took the meeting of the G-20 in London on April 2 too seriously. Pundits and critics have been analyzing it as if it had been designed to accomplish some change in policies by the states which participated. [...]
“These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew.” -GRACE LEE BOGGS READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
Food systems scholar, Cecilia Rocha, to speak on Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s, creative programs to provide healthy food for all residents. Cecilia Rocha, Ph. D., is associate professor of nutrition at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Event 1: Free Public Lecture at Wayne State University Healthy Food for All: How Belo Horizonte (Brazil) does it with Municipal [...]
According to a recent Rasmussen Reports poll of American adults under the age of 30: 1/3 favor capitalism 1/3 favor socialism 1/3 are not sure This is unprecedented in many of our lifetimes and helps to frame the shift in attitudes that the economic crisis is causing. Excerpt: Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism [...]
Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History’s grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead [...]
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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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The Boggs Center was founded in 1995 by friends and associates of James Boggs (1919 -1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915 - ) to honor and continue their legacy as movement activists and theoreticians.Our aim is to help grassroots activists develop themselves into visionary leaders and critical thinkers who can devise proactive strategies for rebuilding and respiriting our cities and rural communities from the ground up, demonstrate the power of ideas in changing ourselves, our reality, and demystify leadership.
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NOW AVAILABLE AT THE BOGGS CENTER STORE The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook (2009 edition)Revolution & Evolution in the Twentieth Century (2008 edition)
Living for Change (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nations Future
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