Posted on April 7, 2008 by Boggs Center
by Grace Lee Boggs
[This article first appeared in the Michigan Citizen, Jan. 20-26, 2008. Then it was published on Saturday, April 5, 2008 by YES! Magazine and appeared on commondreams.org]
The new energies being unleashed by Barack Obama hold great promise. In his person and prose Obama embodies the achievements of the movements of the 20th [...]
Filed under: Detroit, Grace Lee Boggs, Intergenerational, Martin Luther King, Movement Building, Obama | Tagged: Beloved Communities, Deindustrialization, Dying cities, Election 08, Martin Luther King, Obama, Revolution of Values | No Comments »
Posted on April 2, 2008 by Boggs Center
By: Julie Rosier
I am seeking to develop a performance activism project, where a group of people will tell their own stories on stage through a collage performance. This collective storytelling extravaganza will portray under-told personal stories about the intersections of identity, exploring relationships between categories such as class, race, gender, sexuality and the place [...]
Filed under: Art/Performance, Intergenerational, poems, videos | Tagged: Art and Activism, Dailectical Humanism, Group Building, Storytelling, Theater, Writing | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 25, 2008 by Boggs Center
The Next American Revolution
By Grace Lee Boggs
Left Forum Closing Plenary, Cooper Union,
New York, March 16, 2008
I have decided to talk about the next American Revolution because I
believe it is not only the key to global survival but also the most
important step we can take in this period to build a [...]
Filed under: Detroit, Grace Lee Boggs, Intergenerational, Movement Building, Zapatisitas | Tagged: CLR James, Deindustrialization, Dialectical Humanism, Grace Lee Boggs Speech, James Boggs, Johnson-Forest Tendency, Left Forum 2008, Martin Luther King, millennial generation, Movement History, Personal transformation, Restorative Justice, Revolution, Revolution of Values | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 25, 2008 by Boggs Center
By: Barbara Stachowski
[...On Growing Green Beans was featured on Detroit Today, a public radio show on WDET.]
Gardens can teach us many wonderful things. How do I know? My grandfather taught me so!
I grew up in a wonderfully extended Polish Catholic family in the Detroit suburb of Warren. My father recently reflected how, as a little [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by Boggs Center
By: Zakia Carpenter
I have noticed a break down in youth-adult functionality that I’m just beginning to articulate. From what I have read about the millennial generation, i.e. youth born between 1977 and 1998, I’ve learned that experts predict this generation to be more separate from previous generations due to the technological divide; however, this is [...]
Filed under: Intergenerational, Movement Building | Tagged: discussion, growing community, Intergenerational relationships, millennial generation, organizing, youth-adult partnerships | 2 Comments »
