╨╧рб▒с>■  HJ■   G                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ье┴Н@ Ё┐╒!jbjb┬┬ ┐\иdиd╒      lввввввв····· ·M Д........  ,╤ ё f8 в.....8 Твв...ТТТ.^в.в. Т╢"╪"вввв. ТxТ вв " ь╔S╔··М M M W ТW Т├хA JAMES BOGGS READER Pages from a Black RadicalТs Notebook, a James Boggs Reader, compiled and edited with a 34 page introduction by University of Michigan historian Stephen M. Ward, will be released in February by Wayne State University Press. The Reader is part of the African American Life series, edited by WSU Professor Melba Joyce Boyd who is planning a book party Tuesday evening, February 15, at the McGregor Conference Center. Described as Уrequired reading for anyone who wants to understand urban social transformation in the second half of the twentieth century, У the Reader is arranged in four chronological parts that document JimmyТs activism and writing. Part 1 presents columns from Correspondence written during the 1950s and early 1960s. Titles include У What makes Americans run?Ф and УA Visit from the FBI.Ф Part 2 presents the complete text of The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro WorkerТs Notebook, JimmyТs most widely known work which documents the rise and fall of the union and the challenge of automation. It was translated and published in French, Italian, Japanese and Catalan. Part 3, УBlack PowerЧPromise, Pitfalls and Legacies,Ф collects essays, pamphlets and speeches that reflect JimmyТs participation in and analysis of the origins, growth and demise of the Black Power movement. This section includes the complete text of the Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party, JimmyТs 1972 New York Times column У Beyond Rebellion,Ф and УThink Dialectically, not Biologically, Т his 1974 speech challenging Black Nationalism. Part 4 comprises pieces written in the last decade of his life, the 1980s and early 1990s. During this period Jimmy not only challenged Coleman YoungТs Casino gambling proposals. He proposed Detroit Summer, a youth program to Уredefine, rebuild and respirit Detroit from the ground upТ and insisted that the time had come to У Stop Thinking Like Victims and УAct Like Citizens, Not Subjects.Ф Steve WardТs introduction provides priceless insights into the pivotal role that JimmyТs southern roots played in his thinking and practice. УThe youngest of four children born to Ernest and Lelia Boggs, young James picked blackberries and worked in cotton fields as a child. He attended school in Selma and Bessemer, and at an early age became something of a scribe, penning letters for elderly people in the community who had not learned to write. Throughout most of his adult life as an activist, he credited the community in which he was raised for instilling in him a sense of responsibility and an appreciation for struggle, a sensibility that is captured in the African American folk saying Сmaking a way out of no way.ТФ The introduction also provides an account of our close relationship and later split with C.L. R..James , and of our relationships with Robert Williams, Rev, Cleage, and the Henry brothers, Milton and Richard. It concludes with an Afterword by me and over 15 pages of endnotes A paperback copy of the Reader, $27.95, can be ordered from WSU Press, 4809 Woodward Ave., Detroit 48201 plus $5.50 SH for the1st book, $1.00 for each additional book. Books will be available at the February book party where we plan to show the 11 minute video of Jimmy that was produced for his Memorial Celebration in 1993. THINKING FOR OURSELVES By Shea Howell Shrink what? Mayor Dave Bing likes to say that we have no choice but to shrink the city. He constantly points out that Detroit was once a city of 2 million people. Now, with half that number, we cannot provide services as if we were that big. This sounds like a reasonable, almost inevitable conclusion. But it creates a distorted image. The phrase subtly conveys the idea that somehow or other only the population has gone down but everything else is up and running as it always did. This is not true. Detroit has not only lost population since 1950. We have lost services and infrastructure. Basic services have been cut back, again and again, for years. Trash collection has been restricted. Bulk pick up, once routine, is now reduced to four times a year. Police precincts have been cut nearly in half. Police ranks vastly reduced. Fire stations have closed. Neighborhood City Halls boarded up and police mini stations abandoned. City departments have been decimated. Half our public schools have closed. Rolling blackouts have long been a fact of life. No one expects streets to be plowed in winter or cleaned in summer. Roads crumble. Virtually every cultural institution has been diminished. The Detroit Institute of Arts is closed Mondays and Tuesdays and operates on limited hours. The Detroit Public Library shares a similar fate and many branch libraries have closed entirely. The Belle Isle Aquarium is shuttered, and, like many parks, much of Belle Isle depends on citizens groups to keep it going. We have closed the highest number of Catholic churches at any time since the European Reformation. Between 1978 and 2000 more than 161,000 homes were demolished, one-third of the city housing stock. The City Arts program shut its doors. Parks and Recreation has been reduced to a hollow shell. Most recently, Mayor Dave Bing blundered into his first major controversy when he unilaterally tried to close down entire bus lines. In all of this, Detroiters have consistently voted to increase taxes to provide for the common good. At every opportunity we have voted for parks, zoos, museums, regional transport, education and infrastructure. Detroiters have also refused to abandon those things we value. Sometimes we occupied neighborhood libraries and organized committees to keep them going. We organized nonprofits to support cultural life. Neighbors run little leagues, cut the grass in parks and keep up abandoned houses. Everything that could be reduced, for good or ill, has been. There are few functions left to shrink. When pressed to explain what he means by Уshrinking the city,Ф the mayor has been vague. He and his supporters resort to the tired example of an isolated house that should not expect quick police protection, rapid responses to fire and emergency or basic utilities. But this response defies logic. Most Detroiters have long ago given up on rapid response from much of anything in the city. Longtime residents swap stories of how long we have waited for police to arrive in a crisis. But the reality of utility lines, water, electricity, gas and sewer is that these lines followed the expansion of the city outward. We cannot stop electricity or water at Mack and start it up again a few miles north and east, on its way to more populated areas and suburbs. The mayor should stop throwing around irresponsible images of shrinking. He prides himself on being a hardheaded business man. He owes us some hard numbers. Just what does he think he will save by cutting off a lone house here and there? How will this save anything? 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