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By Donna Terek From The Detroit News Back in the 1700s and 1800s, areas of Detroit we think of as residential were actually farms. The Indian Village and Berry subdivision neighborhoods on the city’s east side originally were ribbon farms that stretched north from the Detroit River. Fast forward 100 years, and some parts of [...]
Several hundred activists at the US Social Forum in Detroit heard philosopher-activist Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein of Yale University discuss today’s daunting problems of environmental destruction, economic collapse, and political paralysis in terms of the decline of the capitalist world system and the urgent need to build and struggle for a new system [...]
The “It’s Our Story” project is a national initiative to make disability history public, accessible and interactive. This video was put together to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Visit the project at www.itsourstory.org READ AND ADD COMMENTS
In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane. Via RSA Animate. READ AND ADD COMMENTS
Last weekend, many community members gathered for a Heal Detroit march and gathering. Yusef Shakur helped coordinate this event and was one of the leaders of the march. Watch this clip of Yusef sharing his experiences with everyone in attendance. Yusef is a community leader who speaks sincerely and passionately, and backs up those words with [...]
Adrienne Marie Brown singing to Grace Lee Boggs, closing out her 95th Birthday Party at USSF. READ AND ADD COMMENTS
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.
boggscenter.org
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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