Archive for July, 2010
Nsroma Institute will host an open house on Saturday, August 7 form 1-3pm: Peace! We have an exciting 2010-2011 school year planned! Join us during our Open House to find out more about this dynamic institution! Nsoroma Institute is an independent African-centered charter school, located in Detroit. Characterized by its small class sizes and extended [...]
“Presented by Nice Work Public Media, The Legacies Project actively intervenes on our youth-obsessed culture by training high school and college students to interact with community elders through filming comprehensive oral histories. As part of their work in class, students create stories about their interview subjects, or share material from several seniors to make mini-documentaries [...]
The “It’s Our Story” project is a national initiative to make disability history public, accessible and interactive. This video was put together to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Visit the project at www.itsourstory.org READ AND ADD COMMENTS
This report-back on the 2nd U.S. Social Forum from Mari Rose, of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, gives an Oaklander’s perspective on Detroit and organizing for environmental justice here and nationally. “There was a rumbling in Detroit at the 2nd ever US Social Forum—not a raucous riot of rebels, but a deeper stirring of the [...]
From the new pamphlet Another Education is Happening, published by the Boggs Center and available from the Boggs Center Bookstore. Introduction Education is in crisis everywhere. Cities and suburbs alike face dwindling support for schools, concern for safety and a growing feeling that our children are less prepared than ever to assume the responsibilities of [...]
Listen to the audio of Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein’s dialogue on June 24 at the 2nd U.S. Social Forum. Read Scott Kurashige’s introduction to this dialogue: Thank you all for coming and welcome to Detroit. My name is Scott Kurashige. I am an activist based among several organizations in Detroit and a professor [...]
Click the image above to download the order form (PDF). Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in [...]
In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane. Via RSA Animate. READ AND ADD COMMENTS
Nowtopia author Chris Carlsson wrote this summary of his experience at the USSF: The Social Forum is structured to facilitate conversations, meetings, networking, and a rich cross-pollination among social activists. As Immanuel Wallerstein put it in front of 500 people while conversing with Grace Boggs, “the panoply of organizations at the World Social Forum (and [...]
Why McChrystal Did It by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, July 1, 2010 Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he and his staff insulted the civilian leaders of his country. He was fired for insubordination by Pres. Obama. Even his defenders said that McChrystal’s remarks [...]
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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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