Archive for September 6th, 2009
Sept 10, 2009, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents’ Dining Hall. 800 S Halsted St., Chicago, IL. Free. Open to the public. For more information, call 312.413.5353. Join us in celebrating the birthdays of Jane Addams and our Special Keynote Speaker Grace Lee Boggs, an acclaimed activist, writer, and speaker whose more than [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE How About Sharing for a Change? By Stefa Shaler Michigan Citizen, Aug 25, 2009 Stefa Shaler, whose work for many years was with violent youth, is currently a student in Chinese medicine in Vancouver, B.C. During a recent visit to Detroit she explained to me how shifting “from trading to sharing” could [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Healthy Communities By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, August 23, 2009 The debate over health care has entered a critical moment. At the beginning of the week the President and his team signaled they were willing to back away from a public option and were open to talking about other possibilities for covering [...]
Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Urban Farm second annual Harvest Dinner featuring Grace Lee Boggs
Register Today! Ticket Deadline is this Friday, September 4! Join the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Urban Farm, for our second annual Harvest Dinner Saturday, September 12, to celebrate working together for food justice for all. 5 pm – A social hour in the garden with light appetizers and garden tours given by members of Earthworks’ [...]
Please join us in celebrating the 60th anniversary of MONTHLY REVIEW. MONTHLY REVIEW, the leading English language publisher of socialist thought in the post-war period, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a gala celebration at 7pm on Thursday, September 17, at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street. Doors open at 6:30pm; [...]
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.
boggscenter.org
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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