Archive for November 19th, 2009
LIVING FOR CHANGE Ft. Hood: We’re Killing Ourselves By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov 14, 2009 In his 1967 “Break the Silence” speech, Dr. King warned the American people that the Vietnam war was not only killing tens of thousands of American servicemen and countless Vietnamese but destroying our souls. Now, over 40 years [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES The Long War By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, November 14, 2009 The war in Afghanistan is a small part of a much larger strategy. We are starting to hear about the “Long War” against international Islamic terrorists. Pentagon strategists are envisioning a 50-100 year war against Al Qaeda, marked by periods of [...]
Kwanzaa @ the Renaissance Produced by Khary WAE Frazier & Yusef Shakur Presented by General Population Music Group & The Urban Network Saturday December 19th 2009 8pm at the Renaissance Club, 200 Renaissance Center 36th Floor, Tower 200 Detroit, MI 48243. As 2009 comes to a close we want the community to come together and [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Talking Truth By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, November 9, 2009 The Afghan election drama ended this week with the unexpected withdrawal by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah from the run-off election scheduled for November 7. The run-off had been a last ditch effort on the part of the international community to bring some legitimacy [...]
Steelworkers Create a Working Agreement With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op By Harry Kelber November 3, 2009, LaborTalk The United Steelworkers (USW) and the Spanish-based Mondragon Internacional, S.A. have announced a framework agreement for collaborating to establish Mondragon cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada. The manufacturing cooperatives that will be created [...]
Shareable.com presents a photo essay on Detroit as the New Frontier, featuring words by Aaron M. Renn and images by Detroit photographer Vanessa Miller. Excerpt: Detroit, for all its problems—or perhaps because of them—has become nothing less than a new American frontier. Once, easterners heeded the call to “Go West, young man,” to leave behind [...]
Photos from the October 23 Peace Zones for Life March. See more photos at BoggsCenter.org READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
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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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