Archive for December, 2009
Obama as a Black President by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Dec 15, 2009 The Congressional Black Caucus has been growing impatient with President Obama, and this political strain is now leaking out to the press. The Caucus members feel that Obama hasn’t paid enough attention to the fact that the current economic difficulties have had [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES “Why do they hate us so?” By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, December 13, 2009 Much has been written about President Obama’s decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. The media has dissected his process of decision-making, chronicled the influence of Vice President Biden, Secretaries Clinton and Gates. In the end it is [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Honoring Nathan Huggins, Martin and Malcolm By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Dec 13, 2009 I spoke (via Skype) to the graduate students Symposium at Harvard University on December 5, the 20th anniversary of the death of Nathan Huggins, former director of the university’s DuBois Center. This is what I said: “I [...]
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THINKING FOR OURSELVES Another Way By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, December 5, 2009 Against our best hopes for this administration, President Barrack Obama will continue the war in Afghanistan. The decision to commit more lives to this foolish enterprise comes as no surprise. The signs have been there for weeks. The tragedy of this escalation [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Climate-Change Movement Builds At Copenhagen By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Dec 5, 2009 “Climate-change activists at Copenhagen will argue that, far from solving the climate crisis, carbon-trading represents the unprecedented privatization of the atmosphere, and that offsets and sinks threaten to become a resource grab of colossal proportions. Not only will [...]
Excerpt: There is a better alternative to escalation, which is to make the stability of Afghanistan a regional responsibility, and to withdraw in a very timely fashion. The regional partners with the greatest stake in the stability of Afghanistan, such as Iran, India, Pakistan, China and the various Central Asian republics, will not begin a [...]
In a recent column, Grace Lee Boggs wrote of Nathaniel Huggins: “Although we never met, Huggins has been my favorite historian for thirty years… I was fascinated by the way he wrote about the Africans who arrived on these shores in chains, not mainly as victims but as human beings with both the need and [...]
Over 200 organizations and individuals have signed on to support the Dignity in Schools Campaign National Resolution for Ending School Pushout, a call to action for our school systems to end the harsh disciplinary policies and law enforcemnet tactics that push too many young people out of school. The National Resolution calls for schools to create [...]
Excerpt: Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times, which is saying something given his well-established capacity for smug self-assurance. According to Friedman, the big challenge we face in the Arab and Islamic world is “the Narrative” — his patronizing term for Muslim views about America’s supposedly negative role in the [...]
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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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