Archive for October 28th, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009. 6:30 pm. Boggs Center, 3061 Field Street. Detroit, MI 48214. Join us for a conversation on community building, creating new kinds of work and transforming ourselves through a “green” lens. Speaking on behalf of a diverse range of projects, initiatives, and ideas will be Tom and Peggy Brennan, Sandra Simmons, and [...]
Actor, playwright, songwriter and Michigan native Jeff Daniels will receive an honorary degree and will deliver the address at the University of Michigan’s Winter Commencement Dec. 20. Also receiving honorary degrees at the 2 p.m. ceremony at Crisler Arena are: journalist Helen Thomas, a Detroit native who has served the White House press corps during [...]
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage (ERUEV) is a community of people fostering a sustainable urban neighborhood that promotes social and economic well-being while contributing to the preservation of our planet. We are located in Price Hill, near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio; building a new way of life on the foundations of this beautiful historic area (affordable homes, [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES After 8 Years By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, October 18, 2009 This week the United States begins the 9th year of war in Afghanistan. On October 7, 2001, less than one month after September 11, Operation Enduring Freedom began. Sending cruise missiles from submarines in the Arabian Sea and B-52s and Stealth [...]
A Nobel Prize for Evo Morales by Fidel Castro Ruz October 15, 2009 Via Bolivia Rising. If Obama was awarded the Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his being African American, Evo deserves it for winning them in his country despite his being a native and his having delivered on his [...]
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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