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The new Paper Back Version The Next American Revolution (click to purchase $17.00) book by 95-year-old philosopher/activist Grace Lee Boggs A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. Drawing from seven decades of movement-building experience, Grace Lee Boggs shows how to create the radical [...]
Boggs Center Reading Book List From Grace Lee Boggs PHILOSOPHY/ECOLOGY Phenomenology of Mind by G.W.F. Hegel Science and the Modern World By Alfred North Whitehead Dreaming the Dark: By Starhawk; Appendix-”Burning Times”’ Staying Alive By Vandana Shiva Death Of Nature By Carolyn Merchant Small Is Beautiful By E.F. Schumacher Leadership and Modern Science – By [...]
A JAMES BOGGS READER By Grace Lee Boggs Special to The Michigan Citizen Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook, a James Boggs Reader, compiled and edited with a 34 page introduction by University of Michigan historian Stephen M. Ward, will be released in February by Wayne State University Press. The Reader is part of the [...]
November 12, 2011 for immediate release contact: Eric T. Campbell guymingo@gmail.com The quarterly journal of black politics, ‘Souls’, has dedicated the entire Fall 2011 issue to examining the life work of political activist, James Boggs. Guest editor Matthew Birkhold assembled writers and scholars to explain, in seven comprehensive essays, the ongoing [...]
LIVING FOR CHANGE THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Oct. 24-30, 2010 Cover Coming Spring 2011 Picture UC Press Read ch one http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269248 The Next American Revolution, my book with Scott Kurashige, will be available from the University of California Press in the spring of 2011. At http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269248, you will find [...]
The website listing for The Next American Revolution is now online with a projected Spring 2011 release. The Next American Revolution Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Grace Lee Boggs. With Scott Kurashige A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this [...]
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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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