Archive for December 1st, 2009
“Discovering Technology” Saturday December 12th – 2:00 – 6:00pm. 5E Gallery 2125 Michigan Avenue at 14th street. Join the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition for an afternoon at the “DiscoTech.” Learn more about the impact and possibilities of technology within our communities. Take part in workshops designed to demystify and inform the community around issues such [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Corrupting Ourselves By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, November 21, 2009 This week Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Unsurprisingly the report concluded that public sector corruption in Afghanistan has worsened over the past two years. Afghanistan is now considered to be more corrupt than any other country in the [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE “Seattle” Goes To Copenhagen By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov 21, 2009 Ten years ago in the “Battle of Seattle,” more than 50,000 Americans. Including steel workers, women, people of color, environmentalists, and just plain citizens, closed down the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle because they recognized that We, the [...]
In the wake of another brutal attack by police on our community, the Detroit & Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has teamed up with the National Police Accountability Project, the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Sugar Law Center to host a panel discussion & public forum on police brutality. 7:00pm on [...]
Obama, Bush, and Latin American Coups by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Nov 15, 2009 Something strange is happening in Latin America. The Latin American right forces are poised to do better during the U.S. presidency of Barack Obama than they did during the eight years of George W. Bush. Bush led a far right regime [...]
Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community by Thomas Linzey with Anneke Campbell Inspired by five true stories of communities who were tired of corporate political power entitlements running roughshod over their townships, Be the Change offers solutions for how individuals can stand up and take back their local governments. [...]
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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