Archive for September 27th, 2009
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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 [...]
The August 2009 edition of Detroit’s African American Family Magazine featured articles on urban farming, the greening of Detroit, and community-building. Click here to download a pdf of the magazine. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
Excerpt: This June, the doors will open at the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, a state-of-the-art, nearly $6 million facility in Cleveland, Ohio. What’s so special about this laundry? In a word, ownership. The business will be 100 percent owned by its 50 employees, virtually all of whom live in the surrounding community. Life is tough in [...]
View this promotional video for the 2009 edition of the The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs with new commentary by Grace Lee Boggs, Shea Howell, Carl Edwards, Larry Sparks, Julia Pointer-Putnam, Jenny Lee, and Richard Feldman. NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE IN THE BOGGS CENTER ONLINE STORE. READ AND ADD [...]
U.S. Internal Politics and its Military Interventions by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Sept 15, 2009 In the last few weeks, there has been a marked increase of calls, coming from both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, for some kind of early “exit strategy” from Afghanistan. This is coming at the very moment that Gen. Stanley [...]
The Boggs Center
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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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