Archive for May, 2009
LIVING FOR CHANGE Seize The Time By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 19, 2009 Last week, at the “Economic Meltdown” Town Hall meeting in Cobo Hall sponsored by The Nation magazine, I said I was concerned that speakers were trying to restore the dehumanizing, deskilling Jobs of industrial society, instead of seizing this time [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Memories in Small Towns By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, May 26, 2009 This Memorial Day I was in a small town in Maine. It has a year round population of a little over 2000. Few tourists or summer people have come to town yet. I decided to go to the local holiday [...]
Grace Lee Boggs was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Progress Michigan Policy Summit at Cobo Center. Curt Guyette of the Metro Times reports on the event. Excerpt: And then came Boggs, who sat in a wheelchair but seemed mentally as spry as ever. An icon of the left, she told the ballroom [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE To President Obama from MLK By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 19, 2009 Last week I shared a letter written to President Obama in the name of Jimmy and myself by a student in historian Robin Kelley’s class at Duke University. This week, as the Afghanistan war has become Obama’s war, [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Changing Command By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, May 19, 2009 This week President Obama gave the commencement address to the students, faculty, and staff at Notre Dame, searching for common ground in the abortion debate. It was vivid reminder that the President offers the promise of bringing new insights into old arguments. [...]
Excerpt: The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media, and wrecks the economy. The liberal, democratic forces, tasked with maintaining an open society, [...]
Paul Hawken’s speech at the 2007 Bioneers Conference on the worlds largest movement, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations that address social and environmental justice. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
LIVING FOR CHANGE A Letter to President Obama By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 5, 2009 Distinguished historian Robin D. G. Kelley asked his Duke University students to write a critical letter to President Obama based on the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Angela Davis and black feminists, or James and [...]
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered: Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know [...]
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