Archive for May, 2009
LIVING FOR CHANGE Obama’s First 100 Days By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 5, 2009 I supported Obama’s election because his “Together We Can” campaign helped restore in the American people, and especially young Americans, the conviction that we have the power within us to create the world anew. I didn’t support him for [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Columbine and Torture Memos By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, May 3, 2009 During this past week many people around the country recalled the school shootings in Columbine ten years ago. Even as reports come in of eight recent massacres at schools, social service centers and shopping malls, the deaths at Columbine continue [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE The End of Economics By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 3, 2009 In 1970 we celebrated Earth Day on April 22 in Detroit for the first time by planting a tree at Belle Isle. Ever since that day I have realized that to save the planet and our own humanity, we [...]
Grace Lee Boggs made a rare out-of-town appearance at the University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles for a panel discussion on the “First 100 Days of the Obama Administration”. You can view the dialogues in which Grace participated on the USC website. [NOTE: To view these videos, you may need to download an external [...]
You are invited to our upcoming Detroit City of Hope monthly meeting: Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30 p.m. 3061 Field Street (Boggs Center) Detroit, Michigan 48214. For more information, please call 313-923-0797. The topic will be: “Community Building: Urban Gardens, Farms, and Food Security – Where Do We Go From Here?” In addition to organizational [...]
You are cordially invited to attend “Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King and Obama’s Other Ancestors” presented by Dr. Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Leader, Historian and Theologian at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Author of There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 6:30 p.m. 1500 Social [...]
Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a Detroit activist and United Methodist pastor serving St. Peter’s, an Episcopal congregation. In his article, Resurrection City for Sojourners Magazine, he outlines a broad vision for how Detroit is transforming into a model for urban sustainability. Resurrection City can be read as a companion piece to Jenny Lee‘s Detroit: Arsenal of [...]
Silent Art Auction to benefit the Allied Media Conference Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Motor City Brewing Works. 470 W. Canfield, Detroit. Auction bidding: 8PM – 1030PM. Winners announced at 11PM. Come see the art and learn more about the AMC. All are invited! CALL FOR ENTRIES Art submissions are due on or before May 10 [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Evolution or Extinction By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 24, 2009 I am inspired and encouraged by the many different alternatives that people in this country and around the world are creating to replace the dehumanizing and destructive capitalist system which, after all, only came into existence a few hundred years [...]
In a recent article in The Nation, Jeff Chang argues for arts and culture to take a leading role in rebuilding our economies and communities. He cites the work of the Boggs Center as an example of the kind of leadership we need. Excerpt: In Detroit the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture [...]
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The Next American Revolution (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
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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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