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Grace and Shea write a weekly column for Michigan Citizen.
"Living for Change" and "Thinking for Ourselves."

Grace 5-10-2008 Hyenas: Sociable, and Smart

"I can’t get out of my mind an article on the social intelligence of hyenas by Carl Zimmer that I read two months ago in the Science Times section of the March 4 New York Times. Zimmer tells the story of what Michigan State University Professor Kay E. Holekamp learned about brainpower from her studies of spotted hyenas." read more

Shea Sand Storms

"It has been a little more than one month since Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki decided to launch an attack on Basra. In the course of this month the U.S. has shifted into a largely unreported, intense level of urban combat, devastating the poorest people in Iraq and initiating a crisis of survival for the two million people who live in the Sadr City section of Baghdad." read more

Grace 5-25-2008 MLK and Redeeming our Cities

"Last week I was the Honorary Co-Chair and keynoter for the 2008 Congress on Urban Ministry which met in Chicago to explore “how to create redemptive communities, release prophetic imagination and engage in justice, reconciliation and restoration” in our cities." read more

Shea From War to Occupation

"On September 12, 2001, Bernard Brock, Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University, insisted that it was a mistake to call the attacks of the previous day an act of war on the United States. Until his death in the spring of 2006, Brock argued that we should consider the attacks a crime against humanity. His articles making this argument were published in the Michigan Citizen." read more


REBUILDING DETROIT: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CASINO GAMBLING

By James Boggs Public Speakout, 1st Unitarian-Universalist Church Friday, June 24, 1988

"Monday night I went to the graduation for one of my grandsons in Ford Auditorium at which Mayor Young was the main speaker. The student who introduced Young said, with a smile, that he was the only Mayor she had ever known. Young then said in the same joking vein that maybe some students should come back in ten years and run for Mayor because by then he would probably have retired. Everyone laughed, but it is no joking matter. The sad truth is that his honor has been Mayor for so long he thinks he owns the town and seems to have forgotten that the people elected him and may one day retire him before his vision of Detroit leads us into even deeper chaos." read more
Scott Kurashige The Future is Now: California's Multiracial Challenge to America

"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, to establish the principle of racial equality." In this regard, it blessed California's residents and observers with "a ringside seat in the great theatre of the future." In stunning fashion, the California Democratic primary signaled that the future has arrived with dramatic implications for the entire nation. There has never been an important election like this where a candidate failed to win African Americans and whites but won overall-as Clinton did in California." Read More

Now available The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans
in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles by Scott Kurashige

Burning Times Dreaming The Dark - STARHAWK

" We still survive, in the culture of estrangement, for how much longer no one knows. Yet to change that culture intelligently, we must understand it, trace its roots, know its history - not because estrangement is the lineal descendent of one particular historical event or time, but because the past is still alive in the present."

Ron Scott: 12/15 Beyond Jena

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