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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 [...]
REMEMBERING MALCOLM: A Personal Critique of Manning Marable’s Non-Definitive Biography of Malcolm X by Bill Strickland At the outset, I want to “make it plain” that my critique of Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X is political, historical, and personal—personal because I was born in Boston and grew up in the same Roxbury that Malcolm [...]
New Work, New Culture Technology and the shrinking job market could liberate us from meaningless work and allow us to do things we care deeply about. An interview with Frithjof Bergmann, by Sarah van Gelder According to philosopher and community catalyst Frithjof Bergmann, we are less free than we think, surrounded as we are [...]
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Living For Change Violence in Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 22-28, 2011 In the summer of 1967, in reaction to a police raid on an after hours joint, massive violence erupted in Detroit. Tens of thousands took to the streets, looting and burning. Whole neighborhoods went up in flames. Law and order [...]
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/imagining-detroit/?hp Detroit was once called the Paris of the West, but at this point it’s more reminiscent of Venice. Like Venice, its demise has been imminent for some time, as crucial businesses and huge chunks of the population flee. And, like Venice, it has a singular look. Not everyone will find Detroit beautiful, but with [...]
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Commentary No. 299, Feb. 15, 2011
“The World Social Forum, Egypt, and Transformation”
By Immanuel Wallerstein
The World Social Forum (WSF) is alive and well. It just met in Dakar, Senegal from Feb. 6-11. By unforeseen coincidence, this was the week of the Egyptian people’s successful dethroning of Hosni Mubarak, which finally succeeded just as the WSF was in its closing session. The WSF spent the week cheering the Egyptians on – and discussing the meaning of the Tunisian/Egyptian revolutions for their program of transformation, for achieving another world that is possible – possible, not certain.
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 [...]
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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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