Archive for June, 2011
LIVING FOR CHANGE By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, June 26-July 2, 2011 CFA – An Important Victory The last minute decision by Detroit Public Schools’s Emergency Finance Manager Roy Roberts to keep Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy open as a charter school was an important victory because it was an acknowledgement by the power structure [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES CFA Victory By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, June 26-July 2, 2011 On Thursday, June 16, about 20 people had gathered inside the halls of Catherine Ferguson Academy. We were awaiting the beginning of the rally to lock our arms around CFA, insisting the school remain open. The atmosphere was subdued. Actor Danny [...]
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Moms are Solutionary Revolutionaries By Barbara Stachowski Barbara Stachowski is a Weed &Seed site organizer in Hamtramck, Michigan. She is also a connector to the Hmong community. A couple of weeks ago Myrtle Thompson of Feedom Freedom Growers and I drove with Grace Boggs to Chicago for TNAR book signing events and radio interviews. [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES People’s Festival offers Hope By Shea Howell In Detroit sometimes you can step into the future. There are moments when the best of who we have been and who we hope to be come together. The People’s Festival last Saturday was such a moment. More than 600 people gathered on Detroit’s East [...]
photo by Barbara Stachowski
Can-Did team of Andrew Plisner and Kezia Curtis. Cinnamon Apple Sause we started the business essentially as a platform to create paid work for folks, and then, in eventually moving towards a worker-run cooperative, folks creating various forms of work for themselves through various creative expressions. we believe that we have the resources – [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Mackinac mania By Shea Howell Michigan citizen, June 12-18, 2011 There’s something obscene about the annual gathering of Michigan business and government elites on Mackinac Island. It is not only the fawning over the event by the media, clearly delighted that it is finally allowed “access” to the presentations and panels. Nor [...]
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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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