Archive for September, 2010
By Tom Stephens Counterpunch September 24, 2010 “We inherited a hell hole.” – Mayor Dave Bing Between September 14 and 22, 2010, Detroit experienced five extraordinary, well-attended public meetings on the subject of land use and related public policy issues. Mayor Dave Bing, Kresge Foundation-funded Team Leader Toni Griffin, Co-Team Leader (and Deputy Director of [...]
by Matthew Rothschild In The Progressive and at Common Dreams September 4, 2010 Glenn Beck’s got me worried again about fascism in America. His so-called restoring honor rally last weekend assumed that somehow America has been dishonored, and that is a classic trope of fascists. Nor was I comforted by all talk from Beck about [...]
By Michael Carriere and Alex Knight The End of Capitalism July 20, 2010 The following exchange between Michael Carriere and Alex Knight occurred via email, July 2010. Alex Knight was questioned about the End of Capitalism Theory, which states that the global capitalist system is breaking down due to ecological and social limits to growth [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE Economics as if People Mattered By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Sep 19, 2010 As I‘ve been following President Obama’s desperate efforts to devise a popular Jobs programs in order to avoid his party’s defeat in the November election, I’ve also been re-reading (and urging others to read) “Buddhist Economics” by E.F. [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Misinformed and Misinforming Media By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Sep 19, 2010 A few days after Jesse Jackson called urban agriculture “cute but foolish,” Will Allen convened Growing Power’s National-International Urban & Small Farm Conference in Milwaukee. Billed as an opportunity to become part of the “good food revolution,” the conference taught [...]
Democracy – Everywhere? Nowhere? by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Sep 15, 2010 Democracy is a very popular word these days. There is virtually no country in the world today whose government does not claim to be the government of a democracy. But at the same time, there is virtually no country in the world today [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE The Good Food Evolution By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Sep 12, 2010 “Every year 76 million cases of foodborne illnesses occur, leading to about 300,000 hospitalizations and 5000 deaths.” (New York Times, Sep 4, 2010) That’s because most Americans still believe we have no alternative to the food produced by agribusinesses [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES No Sham Democracy By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Sep 12, 2010 The Detroit City Council is back at work. Detroit school children are attending fewer schools in some of the most crowded classrooms in the nation. Meanwhile, Mayor Bing is launching an effort to engage the community in his plans to reshape [...]
By Julie Hollar Extra! at FAIR.org September, 2010 When it comes to covering activist gatherings, corporate media have established clear standards: Numbers don’t count nearly as much as politics do. Last fall, when tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists and their allies marched on Washington in a grassroots rally for equality, [...]
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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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