Archive for April 12th, 2009
LIVING FOR CHANGE Changing Concepts of War and Revolution By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 5, 2009 I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is because I have struggled all my adult life against what historian Barbara Tuchman calls “woodenheadedness.” “Wooden-headedness,” Tuchman says, “assesses a situation [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES GM & Wall Street By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, April 5, 2009 Another chill passed through Michigan as the Obama administration rejected the GM and Chrysler plans for additional aid. “We, as a nation, cannot afford to shirk responsibility any longer,” President Obama said. “Now is the time to confront our problems [...]
WEEKEND WORKSHOP Education for Liberation: An Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Concepts & Techniques Sunday, May 17. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm @ The Brecht Forum. 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets), New York, NY 10014. (212) 242-4201. brechtforum at brechtforum.org This is an introductory hands-on workshop in the use of popular education concepts [...]
Yes! Magazine brings us 8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement. Excerpt: #1: From Lawn to Lunch To convert your sunny lawn to a lunch box, remove turf in long, 18-inch strips. Cut the edges of each strip with a sharp-bladed edging tool. While one partner rolls up the grass like a jellyroll, another [...]
The financial logic of neo-liberal capitalism has devoured the world and exhausted itself in the process. A new model beyond “financialisation” is needed, says Saskia Sassen. Excerpt: The evidence is in: we don’t have the resources to save this system – even if we wanted to. It has become too big to save: the value [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Spreading “The Grassroots Stimulus Story” By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Mar. 29, 2009 This week I am sharing “The Grassroots Stimulus Story,” an article by Susan C. Strong, Executor Director of The Metaphor Project, which helps individuals and groups find the language that evokes the best American values. As Marshall McLuhan [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Unexpected Moments By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Mar. 29, 2009 Detroit is a city that helps us think in new ways. Many of us don’t believe in the quick fix. We have seen too many empty promises and watched too many grand schemes give way to more disappointments. We are not easily [...]
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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)
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