Archive for April, 2010
LIVING FOR CHANGE Community-Building Education: Its Time Has Come By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 25, 2010 I am constantly amazed at the opportunities to build the world anew that are now emerging, often in disguise. History has many cunning passages. On Sunday, April 11 a multicultural lounge in Baits 11 on the University [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Visionary Schools Today By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, April 25, 2010 Judge Wendy Baxter has given a boost to the community opposition to the Bing-Bobb land grab, granting a preliminary injunction that halts Bobb’s scheme to save the public school system by destroying it. According to her order, Bobb has overstepped his [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Oprah: SOS on Schools By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 18, 2010 Four years ago, before Bing/Bobb proposed demolishing neighborhood schools, this April 23-29, 2006 column projected schools in which our children learn by doing. It is an idea whose time has come.- GLB On April 12 and 13 Oprah sounded [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Growing Community By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, April 18, 2010 Our words reveal much more about us than we intend. Last week, in public forums, John Hantz and his President Mike Score defended their vision for large-scale industrial farming in Detroit. In the course of these discussions both demonstrated why there is [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Localized Schools Build Lively Communities By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 11, 2010 Detroiters of all ages and backgrounds are meeting and marching to reject the Bing/Bobb proposals to downsize Detroit schools. “This is our city. These are our schools. No one has the right to determine our future without us.” [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES A Regional Look Beyond Crisis By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, April 11, 2010 The week began with the release of yet another report stating the obvious—Detroit is in economic trouble. The report, issued by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, continues the orchestrated effort to heighten the crisis mentality in our city [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Democracy vs. Downsizing in Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 4, 2010 Looking out at Detroit from their car windows, Detroit Mayor Bing, Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb and Foundation officers see thousands of vacant lots. They have no sense of Detroit, the movement city that over the years has [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Beyond Budgets & Speeches By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, April 4, 2010 In his first State of the City address Mayor Dave Bing promised to “reinvent Detroit.” He pledged “to demolish 3000 dangerous residential structures this year” and “10,000 by the end of this term.” He promised that “We’re not giving away [...]
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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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