Archive for February 10th, 2010
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, [...]
CREATE // CONNECT // TRANSFORM the 12th annual Allied Media Conference. June 18-20, 2010. Detroit, Michigan. McGregor Conference Center, Wayne State University. Media and Creativity to Transform Our Selves and Our World Register now for 3 days of Focused Discussions, Skill Sharing, Hands-On Media Lab, Film Screenings, Music, Bowling. We come together to share tools [...]
Featured on WUOM 91.7 FM Ann Arbor. Michigan Radio’s Morning Edition host Christina Shockley speaks with Detroit-based hip hop artist Invincible. Listen here. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
The United States Misreads Brazil’s World Policy by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Feb 1, 2010 When the United States first realized circa 1970 that its hegemonic dominance was being threatened by the growing economic (and hence geopolitical) strength of western Europe and Japan, it changed its posture, seeking to prevent western Europe and Japan from [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Massachusetts Message By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Jan 31, 2010 One year into the Obama presidency, the Democrats managed to lose the most Democratic Senate seat in the country. Until the last weeks of the campaign, they didn’t even see it coming. They had viewed the election as simply a formality to [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Re-Imagining America, Re-Creating Ourselves By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Jan 31, 2010 As we move towards the 2nd USSF that will bring 15,000-20,000 people to Detroit in June, new visitors to the Boggs Center are giving me a deeper understanding of the energies stirring in our country at this very special [...]
Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary. A New Detroit is Underway. Register Early to Join the Planning and Avoid Late Fees. 20,000 changemakers will be gathering in Detroit in June from all different sectors and communities to share vision, strategy, practice, and action. You can now register yourself or your organization at http://ussf2010.org/register. [...]
The Boggs Center
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The Next American Revolution (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
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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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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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