Archive for January 21st, 2010
2009 ended with a Micah Fialka-Feldman winning his right to live in an Oakland University dorm. This is a great victory not only for Micah, not only for the disability movement, but for the “beloved community” movement in our country. Micah distributed this message announcing his win: The Federal Judge ruled that I can move [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES A Woman Among Warlords By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Jan 3, 2010 One of the most hopeful voices to emerge out of Afghanistan is Malalai Joya. Barely 30 years old, Joya has been called “Afghanistan’s bravest woman.” Under the Taliban she risked death by running an underground school for girls. Shortly after [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Copenhagen By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Jan 3, 2010 At Copenhagen President Obama disgraced himself, the United States and the American people by caving in to the oil and gas lobbies who virtually own the Senate and offering up a pathetic 4 per cent cut by 2020. As UK reporter Johann [...]
A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences. The End of the Black American Narrative by Charles Johnson It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies [...]
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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