Where Are We Going? Backwards or Forward?

By: Rich Feldman
I have read about half of the book: “Blessed Unrest” by Paul Hawken.
Thanks, Grace and Shea, for pushing this book. It is the first book that begins to explain to me why so many of the young people in and around Detroit Summer have moved beyond the thinking of the New and Old [...]

Allied Media Conference 2008

The 10th annual Allied Media Conference, entitled Evolution Beyond Survival: Media Strategies for the Next Ten Years, will be held in Detroit from June 20-22. If you don’t know about this conference, and you are interested in Detroit, movement building and/or your role in the future of media, it’s time to do your research.
Register [...]

Mind of Tha Musician

By: Timothy A Peoples Jr.
Why do I play when it hurts me so badly to perform?
I imagine this dark room filled with an audience of distinguished gentlemen,
In collard shirts and middle aged wives fantasizing about the color,
Of which I represent while moving my fingers across keys,
Designing a brilliant melody, her mind sets on internal secretion,
Rather [...]

Performing Activism in Detroit

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 [...]

Big Changes. Really Big.

By: Frank Joyce
The forces changing our world are not those that are measured by years or even decades. We are in the midst of changes that are measured by centuries. We all know something about the transformation from feudalism to capitalism or the shift from an economy based on agricultural production to an [...]

The Future is Now

The Future is Now: California’s Multiracial Challenge to America
By: Scott Kurashige
Sixty years ago, Carey McWilliams, the well-traveled writer/activist and soon to be editor of The Nation, described California as “our nation’s racial frontier.” As the West Coast’s multiracial makeup posed new problems and challenges, it also offered America “one more chance, perhaps a last chance, [...]

Bill Moyers interview Grace Lee Boggs

Grace giving it straight to Bill Moyers

Revolution of the Snails

Encounters with the Zapatistas
By Rebecca Solnit
I grew up listening to vinyl records, dense spirals of information
that we played at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. The original use of
the word revolution was in this sense — of something coming round or
turning round, the revolution of the heavenly bodies, for example.
It’s interesting to think that just as [...]

Movement Building in the 21st Century

By: Rich Feldman
The opportunities for building a grassroots movement committed to rebuilding communities and creating a new self-governing America are increasing daily. We don’t need a national organization, nor do we need a national party or even a coalition, we need a national network that is truly rooted locally and moving beyond protest to [...]