Archive for February, 2012
LFC Youth “learn a lot” from RE-Imagining Work By Grace Lee Boggs Feb. 25-March 3, 2012 “I liked it. It was interesting.. I learned a lot.” That’s what a 15 year old member of Dedicated to make a change said after participating in the second RE-Imagining Work gathering on February 12 at the Church of [...]
Thinking for ourselves Cities for Democratic Action by Shea Howell Feb. 21,-March3, 2012 Cities foster democratic action. They bring together strangers who must craft a sense of common purpose to simply carry on daily life. Often, where there are tremendous differences in cultures, historical experiences, and future aspirations, cities create a more open, creative and [...]
RE-IMAGINE TEACHING By Julia Putnam LFC Feb. 18-25, 2012 Recently Grace Lee Boggs and I skyped a conversation with 17 teachers from the Portland, Me. area who are students in a university education class taught by our friend Ken Jones. As the students introduced themselves, we got a sense of the wide range of age [...]
Thinking for ourselves Support Metro Foodland By Shea Howell February 14, 2012 A group of Detroiters are calling upon us to show our appreciation for Metro Foodland. It is the only local grocery stores owned by an African American. For 27 years Mr. James Hooks has provided service to the community. Now, as so many [...]
LFC By Grace Lee Boggs HEALING CIVILIZATION By Grace Lee Boggs Feb. 11-18, 2012 The author of this important book is Dr. Claudio Naranjo, a psychotherapist who was born in Chile in 1932, grew up in a musical family and became a medical doctor in 1959. While he was a medical student, Naranjo gave up [...]
Thinking for Ourselves Style and Substance By Shea Howell February 7,2012 Detroit is bracing for another round of school closings. While lacking the arrogance and of his predecessor, Robert Bobb, Emergency Financial Manager Roy S. Roberts has made it clear more schools will be shut down. Highlighting the difference in management styles, Roy Roberts has [...]
LFC Everyone’s Talking about Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs 1/31-2/4, 2012 Frithjof Bergmann, philosopher and community catalyst for HiTech Self- Providing (HTSP) work, just emailed us from Europe that “ Everyone’ s talking about Detroit.” YES Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical [...]
Thinking for ourselves Foundations punishing power By Shea Howell Feb 4-11, 2012 Foundations wield enormous power in defining problems and determining solutions. In Detroit, as in much of the country, this is especially clear in the education of our children. Gates, Walmart and Broad have been directing educational policies, with little or no public accountability. [...]
The Boggs Center
NOW AVAILABLE AT THE BOGGS CENTER STORE
The Next American Revolution (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
ON Being Krista Tippet
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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