Archive for August, 2009
THINKING FOR OURSELVES No Distraction By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, June 28, 2009 Most Americans knew that the election of Barack Obama would alter the racial landscape in this country. Yet the mainstream media seems unable to grasp the depth of the shifting grounds of dialogue about race that are emerging. Locked into old ways [...]
While hundreds of people packed Central United Methodist Church last month for Grace’s 94th birthday party, a rainbow emerged in the Eastern sky. A rainbow also appeared in the sky during Grace’s 88th birthday party. The cosmos are on our side! READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
LIVING FOR CHANGE Message from the Elders By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, July 14, 2009 This message is especially timely at this transformative moment when (1) a few young people, affiliated with Greenpeace, have just hung a banner on the face of Mt. Rushmore to warn President Obama and other politicians in Washington that [...]
Excerpt: It isn’t what she said — I couldn’t hear her well standing in the back of the room. It was what others said about Grace Lee Boggs, revered activist, that moved me during her 94th birthday celebration last night. A motley crowd, indeed. Young and older. People from the city, suburbs and way across [...]
The Boggs Education Center has launched a website! To view, click the screenshot above.
LIVING FOR CHANGE Love and Revolution By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, July 14, 2009 The older I grow, the more I realize how lucky I am to have lived so long and been part of so many historic changes. When I became a radical nearly seventy years ago, you ran the risk of seeming [...]
Excerpt: Will Allen, a farmer of Bunyonesque proportions, ascended a berm of wood chips and brewer’s mash and gently probed it with a pitchfork. “Look at this,” he said, pleased with the treasure he unearthed. A writhing mass of red worms dangled from his tines. He bent over, raked another section with his fingers and [...]
CNN reports on community gardens in Atlanta. Excerpt: On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment. HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE A New Kind of Community Organizing By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, June 29, 2009 I am often asked to explain the difference between yesterday’s Alinsky-type protest organizing and the kind of Community Organizing we need in this period when our cities are dying and life on our planet is threatened by [...]
Adrienne Maree Brown reflects on Grace’s 94th birthday party last June. This was a smaller celebration that preceded the big birthday event following the Allied Media Conference in July. Excerpt: The room was full of people who have known Grace for decades, people who have changed their whole lives based on the teachings of Grace [...]
The Boggs Center
NOW AVAILABLE AT THE BOGGS CENTER STORE
The Next American Revolution (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
ON Being Krista Tippet
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
Let's Talk About Malcolm & Martin
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