Archive for December 10th, 2009
Dear friends of the Boggs Center, We invite you and your family to an end-of-the-year brunch to celebrate our collective dedication and creativity. Please join us Sunday, December 13, noon to 2:00 p.m., for a potluck brunch, end-of-year reflections. Bring a poem, a story, an instrument). The pace of events and the deepening crisis have [...]
In preparation for the US Social Forum, work brigades from Atlanta, San Antonio, and Milwaukee/Madison converged with local organizers in Detroit over Halloween weekend 2009 to initiate dialogues, tour the city, network, and help install neighborhood projects. View photos. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
The Struggle of Hope vs. Fear Continues by Scott Kurashige The Huffington Post, Dec 1, 2009 I am listening to Barack Obama explain his order to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But I am really wondering how the millions of people who elected him, especially young people and communities of color, will respond. 2008 was [...]
Dear Friends, As readers of the Boggs Blog, you probably know that the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership was founded in 1995 by friends and associates of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs to honor and continue their legacy as movement activists and theoreticians. Since then BCNCL has increasingly become a space for theoretical [...]
Western Europe and Russia — Coming Together by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Dec 1, 2009 The slow process of creating a lasting geopolitical alliance of western Europe and Russia has a long history, which is slowly maturing. It may be traced to the visit of President Charles De Gaulle to the Soviet Union in 1944, [...]
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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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