Archive for February, 2010
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Holding Civilian Trials By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Feb 28, 2010 The controversy over the use of civilian courts to try suspected terrorists has intensified over the last few weeks. In our world of polarized politics, basic facts have been turned upside down. Led by the bullying, outlandish claims of former Vice [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Movement Educators Nurture 21st Century Citizens By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb 28, 2010 All across the United States there are teachers resisting the totalitarianism of test-driven schooling by educating children in ways that nurture the power within them to create the world anew. I discovered this ongoing pro-democracy movement recently [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Leaving The Senate By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Feb 21, 2010 During the heady days of the Obama campaign it was commonplace to hear older folks wonder what would happen to all the young people newly energized into political action. Frequently people worried that these young people would be rapidly turned into [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Why Return To Local Economies? By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb 21, 2010 When we distinguish Wealth from Income, returning to local economies makes a lot of sense. Thom Hartmann explains this in a February 8 Common Dreams article. “Income is simply compensation for work. If you wash my car for [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Tea Party Questions By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Feb 14, 2010 Last week at the end of one of my classes at the university, Andrew, a student, came up to talk to me. He said he was very upset with me, not because of anything in class, but because of something I [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Economics & Solidarity in the 21st Century By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb 14, 2010 We can learn a lot about economics and solidarity from Haiti’s past and present. Historically, Haiti is so poor because ever since the 1791-1803 revolution that freed the slaves, the United States has helped bleed the [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Beyond Budgets & Speeches By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Feb 7, 2010 After a year of little progress and a White House strangely out of touch with the concerns of most Americans, President Obama has demonstrated a new energy for addressing our economy. His State of the Union address combined a more [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Changing Consciousness By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb 7, 2010 Last week I was involved in some important consciousness changing discussions. On Wednesday and Thursday, January 27-28, I participated in an intimate Retreat focused on the role of informal leadership in individual and community transformation. The Retreat was at the Fetzer [...]
The struggle for educational justice in our communities and nationally is stronger than ever. The declining economy, increased privatization of schools and lock down on our communities call for us to come together and share resources & energy for revitalizing the education for liberation movement. Teachersforjustice.org is an innovative new website launched by Teachers for [...]
John Maguire will never forget his first encounter with a “precocious” divinity student who later became the leader of a movement that swept through the nation. In 1951, Maguire visited a theological seminary in Pennsylvania, where he heard a young Martin Luther King Jr. give a welcoming speech to curious students. “He was an incredible, [...]
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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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