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Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary. A New Detroit is Underway. Register Early to Join the Planning and Avoid Late Fees. 20,000 changemakers will be gathering in Detroit in June from all different sectors and communities to share vision, strategy, practice, and action. You can now register yourself or your organization at http://ussf2010.org/register. [...]
On Saturday, January 30, 6pm @ Urban Network Bookstore (5740 Grand River), Yusef and the Inca of the Greensboro Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation chapter will be co-hosting a conversation on “outsiders.” In 1963, James Boggs wrote in the American Revolution that a generation of “outsiders,” those marginalized by the introduction of automation, would [...]
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2009 ended with a Micah Fialka-Feldman winning his right to live in an Oakland University dorm. This is a great victory not only for Micah, not only for the disability movement, but for the “beloved community” movement in our country. Micah distributed this message announcing his win: The Federal Judge ruled that I can move [...]
Over 200 organizations and individuals have signed on to support the Dignity in Schools Campaign National Resolution for Ending School Pushout, a call to action for our school systems to end the harsh disciplinary policies and law enforcemnet tactics that push too many young people out of school. The National Resolution calls for schools to create [...]
Dear friends of the Boggs Center, We invite you and your family to an end-of-the-year brunch to celebrate our collective dedication and creativity. Please join us Sunday, December 13, noon to 2:00 p.m., for a potluck brunch, end-of-year reflections. Bring a poem, a story, an instrument). The pace of events and the deepening crisis have [...]
Dear Friends, As readers of the Boggs Blog, you probably know that the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership was founded in 1995 by friends and associates of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs to honor and continue their legacy as movement activists and theoreticians. Since then BCNCL has increasingly become a space for theoretical [...]
“Discovering Technology” Saturday December 12th – 2:00 – 6:00pm. 5E Gallery 2125 Michigan Avenue at 14th street. Join the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition for an afternoon at the “DiscoTech.” Learn more about the impact and possibilities of technology within our communities. Take part in workshops designed to demystify and inform the community around issues such [...]
In the wake of another brutal attack by police on our community, the Detroit & Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has teamed up with the National Police Accountability Project, the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Sugar Law Center to host a panel discussion & public forum on police brutality. 7:00pm on [...]
Kwanzaa @ the Renaissance Produced by Khary WAE Frazier & Yusef Shakur Presented by General Population Music Group & The Urban Network Saturday December 19th 2009 8pm at the Renaissance Club, 200 Renaissance Center 36th Floor, Tower 200 Detroit, MI 48243. As 2009 comes to a close we want the community to come together and [...]
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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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