Archive for September, 2009
THINKING FOR OURSELVES A General’s Assessment By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, September 27, 2009 This week much of the top-secret report prepared by General Stanley McChrystal assessing the U.S. position in Afghanistan was declassified and made public. The 66-page document is worth reading. The media has focused on the General’s predictable recommendations. He wants more [...]
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GRACE’S TALK. This event celebrated the birthdays of Jane Addams and the Keynote Speaker Grace Lee Boggs. Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer, and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of this century: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Asian-American, Women’s, [...]
Excerpt: “This is an exciting time to be in Detroit,” said Grace Lee Boggs, a 94-year-old activist. “We’re engaged in creating something new.” As I sat in the dimly-lit upstairs of the Boggs Center, where many social justice activists had sat before me, I looked to the other participants of Semester in Detroit and saw [...]
During the summer of 2009, Philadelphia Student Union members set out to create a musical piece that documents the struggles students are faced with during their time in high school. The summer project focused on the production of 3 songs integrated into one student’s story dealing with the nearly 50% drop out rate plaguing Philadelphia. [...]
Click the image above to view the trailer for Grown in Detroit by Dutch filmmakers, Mascha & Manfred Poppenk. The trailer features a poem by Starlet Lee of Detroit Summer. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
LIVING FOR CHANGE Changing Concepts of Socialism By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Sept 22, 2009 I was in New York September 17-18 for the 60th anniversary celebration of Monthly Review. While there, I was on Democracy NOW two times [ 1 | 2 ]. At the MR celebration I began my remarks with Einstein’s [...]
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THINKING FOR OURSELVES Labor Negotiations By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, September 19, 2009 I am no stranger to strikes. I grew up in a town where miners, steel and mill workers were often locked in battles for better working conditions. When one group struck, the others soon stopped work in a solidarity bred of necessity. [...]
Grace Lee Boggs on Mass Protest and Race Politics in the Obama Era, Economic Devastation in Detroit, and the Legacy of Socialist Thought in the US Part two of our conversation with the legendary activist and community organizer Grace Lee Boggs, a ninety-four-year-old philosopher and activist based in Detroit. Boggs has been involved with the [...]
Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs and Sociologist, Monthly Review Editor John Bellamy Foster on the Financial Meltdown, Social Change and Redefining Democracy While Wall Street appears to be recovering from the financial meltdown, Main Street has not. We speak to two guests who for decades have advocated for a radical rethinking of how the nation’s economy [...]
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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)
Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nations Future
Let's Talk About Malcolm & Martin
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