The Boggs Blog

By Michael Carriere and Alex Knight The End of Capitalism July 20, 2010 The following exchange between Michael Carriere and Alex Knight occurred via email, July 2010. Alex Knight was questioned about the End of Capitalism Theory, which states that the global capitalist system is breaking down due to ecological and social limits to growth [...]

Democracy – Everywhere? Nowhere? by Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global, Sep 15, 2010 Democracy is a very popular word these days. There is virtually no country in the world today whose government does not claim to be the government of a democracy. But at the same time, there is virtually no country in the world today [...]

By Julie Hollar Extra! at FAIR.org September, 2010 When it comes to covering activist gatherings, corporate media have established clear standards: Numbers don’t count nearly as much as politics do. Last fall, when tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists and their allies marched on Washington in a grassroots rally for equality, [...]

By Lisa Marshall Natural Awakenings Magazine July, 2010 Ask Isaac Graves what seventh grade was like at The Free School in Albany, New York, and he paints a picture that would seem like a dream to many conventional middle schoolers—and a nightmare to their administrators. There were no tests, no homework and almost no schedules. [...]

By Christopher Cooper Common Dreams August 31, 2010 This evening, Tuesday, the last day of the month of August, 2010, our president Barack Obama will lie to us. You can be sure of it. It is a fact that all presidents lie. This particular untruth will be a big one. It will hang with us [...]

By PRI’s The World August 25, 2010 Heated rhetoric continues to swirl around the proposal to build an Islamic community center a few blocks from the World Trade Center site. Historians say this sort of debate has many precedents in American history. Historian Scott Kurashige sees a parallel between the controversy over the community center [...]

By Mia Mingus INCITE! Blog August 23, 2010 “This summer, Detroit was an opening for me. And not just because it was the first time that there was a Disability Justice track at the Allied Media Conference (AMC) or because of any workshop or plenary I attended. Detroit was an opening for me because I [...]

By Thomas Martin Sobottke From Struggles for Justice August 24, 2010 “The time-honored ritual of children returning to school and adults to colleges and universities is as much a part of the seasons as it is ritual. There are exciting and important things going on in Detroit at the Boggs Center and with Detroit Summer, [...]

By Zuleika Irvin From the Institute for Democratic Education in America July 24, 2010 I recently went through a book I picked up in the Children’s room at the Central Library. This story, “The Apple and the Arrow,” by Mary and Conrad Buff, has a plot with many parallels to the state and nature of [...]