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2010
LIVING FOR CHANGE
Looking Forward to 2011
By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Jan.2-8. 2011
I anticipate that in the second decade of the 21st century we will deepen and broaden the visionary advances that became visible in the first decade.
In 2011 it will become clearer to more millions that our good health depends on
our making the good food revolution. Instead of relying on an industrialized food system that keeps us ignorant and powerless about what we take into our bodies,
we will be producing most of our food locally, not only growing vegetables on neighboring lots, rooftops and balconies but raising chickens in backyard coops and fish in home and other local aquariums.
This is not just a question of physical health.
As Wendell Berry wrote in Home Economics years ago, "We are each called to
be an artist, to learn to give love to the work of our hands. It is one of the last places where the maker…is responsible, from start to finish, for the thing made.
This certainly is a spiritual value, but it is not for that reason an impractical or uneconomic one. In fact, from the exercise of this responsibility, this giving of love
to the work of the hands, the farmer, the farm, the consumer, and the nation all stand to gain in the most practical ways: They gain the means of life, the goodness
of food, and the longevity and dependability of the sources of food, both natural and cultural. The proper answer to the spiritual calling becomes, in turn, the proper fulfillment of physical need." read more
LIVING FOR CHANGE,
Looking back at 2010
By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Dec. 26-Jan, 1, 2011
It was the worst of times.
In 2010 joblessness and foreclosures reached record heights. In cities like Detroit and Milwaukee, 50% of African American males, ages 18-60, were unemployed
.
In Afghanistan Obama's troop surge and U.S. air strikes were killing so many civilians that the Afghan people were viewing the U.S. military and NATO as
foreign occupiers.
Meanwhile, most Al Qaeda operatives have scattered across the Mideast, Central Asia and Africa. Only a few dozen remain in Afghanistan. Yet our
government continues to squander billions on the Afghan war, swelling government deficits and fueling Tea Party discontent.
In the midterm election Obama was shellacked because, stuck in a dysfunctional
and obsolete political system, he has no inkling that another world is not only both necessary and possible but in the making, and that our national security depends
not on a war vs terror but on our continuing to make it known that this other world is in the making
But it was also the best of times. read more
Milwaukee's Sweet Water Organics
By James Godsil
LIVING FOR CHANGE
Michigan Citizen, Dec. 12-18, 2010
JAMES GODSIl is a roofer, poet, civic entrepreneur and visionary. An activist in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s, he has been a
National Science Foundation and Fulbright fellow, an awardee for work related to the Bonobo Congo Bio-diversity Initiative, and the Board President of ESHAC, Inc., a community development corporation.
A board member of Growing Power Inc., 2005- 2010, he is the founder and webmaster of Milwaukee Renaissance, founder and president of Community
Roofing & Restoration, Inc., and also co-founder of Sweet Water Organics.
The father of Rachel Godsil, Megan Godsil Jeyifo, Joseph and Bridie Godsil, he envisions the charismatic cities of the Sweet Water Seas (Detroit, Chicago,
Cleveland, Toronto) collaborating to win a bio-regional Nobel Prize for Peace.
He and his partners invite on-line brainstorming around the miniaturization of Sweet Water Aquaponics systems for use in schools, museums, as well as small
home systems and small businesses- GLB read more
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Much of the story of Sweet Water is contained in the serendipitous power of the name.
Reflections on Thanksgiving y Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Dec.5
-11, 2010
Ford Auditorium: Metaphor for Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan
Citizen, Nov. 28- Dec. 4, 2010
Reverberations of War By Kerry Vachta Michigan Citizen, Nov.21-27, 2010
Why was Obama Shellacked? By Grace Lee Boggs Miichigan
Citizen, Nov. 14-20, 2010
New Orleans Teens Rethink Schools and Shrimping By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Nov. 7-13, 2010
Remembering Basil Davidson, 1914-2010 By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Oct.31-Nov.6, 2010
THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Oct. 24-30, 2010 Cover Coming Spring 2011 Picture UC Press Designing Schools to Energize Kids By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Oct. 17-23. 2010
Enlisting the Energies of Schoolkids By Gregory Smith Oct.10-16.
2010
The Neighbor in the Hood By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Oct.3-9. 2010
Economics as if People Mattered By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, September 19-25, 2010
Moving Detroit Forward via Milwaukee By Myrtle Thompson-Curtis and Wayne Curtis, Feedom Freedom Growers Michigan Citizen,
Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2010
The Good Food {r}evolution By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Sept. 12-18, 2010
MLK and Aug. 28, 2010 By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Sept.5-11, 2010
Our 21st Century Growing Pains By Larry Sparks, Guest Columnist
Michigan Citizen, August 29- Sept. 4. 2010
If Not Now, When? By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Aug. 22-28, 2010
August 7 is Detroit Neighborhoods Day By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, August 8-14, 2010
Another Education, NOT Another Controller By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, August 1-7, 2010
Debriefing the 2nd USSF by Grace Lee Boggs July 18-24, 2010
Another Education is Happening July 13, 2010
The 2nd USSF: ReBuilding, ReDefining the U.S.A By Grace Lee Boggs. Michigan Citizen, July 11-17, 2010
"I Dream a Garden" By Grace Lee Boggs July 4 -10, 2010
THE CHANGING ROLE OF TEACHERS By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, June 27-July 3, 2010
Maybe JOBS aren't what we need By Frank Joyce
Place-Based Education: Its time has come
Michigan Citizen, June 13-19, 2010 By Dr.Shari Saunders Professor of Educational Practice, University of Michigan
The Next Development in Education By James Boggs Michigan Citizen, June 6-12, 2010
Schoolkids can revive our dying cities By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 30-June 5, 2010
Re-Connecting Generations By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 23-29, 2010
Redefining the Value of School By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 16-22, 2010
We who believe in Freedom cannot rest By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 9-15, 2010
¿Requiem for Detroit? By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 2-8,
2010
Community-building Education: Its time has come By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, April 25-May1, 2010
Localized schools build lively communities By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Apr.11-17, 2010
Scribes of Redemption and Malcolm By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan
Citizen, Mar. 28- Apr. 3, 2010
Deepen Democracy - Or Lose it By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen,
March 21-27, 2010
Our Organic Intellectuals By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, March 14-20, 2010
In Defense of Manufacturing Michigan Citizen, Mar. 7-13, 2010
Movement Educators Nurture 21st Century Citizens By Grace Lee
Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb.28-Mar. 6, 2010
WHY RETURN TO LOCAL ECONOMIES? By Grace Lee
Boggs Feb.21-27, 2010
Economics and Solidarity in the 21st Century By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Feb.14-20, 2010
Changing Consciousness By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen,
Feb. 7-13, 2010
Re-Imagining America, Re-Creating Ourselves By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Jan. 31- Feb. 6, 2010
Love And Hope in The Ruins By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Jan. 24-30, 2010
Ringing In A New Decade By Rochelle M. Taylor Michigan Citizen, Jan. 17-23, 2010
Is Another America Possible? By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Jan. 10-16, 2010
Copenhagen By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Jan. 3-9, 2010
Christmas 2009 By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, December 27-Jan.2
,2010
2009
Obama's War By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, December 20-26, 2009
At the University of Michigan Winter Commencement on Sunday, December 20,
Grace Lee Boggs will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree for her "commitment to community leadership, activism and
personal involvement in civil rights."
Saturday, December 19, the day before commencement, the University's Center for Afroamerican & African Studies (CAAS) will host
{r} evolution: A Conversation with Grace Lee Boggs
2:30-4:30 Room G648 Haven Hall
Honoring Nathan Huggins, Martin and Malcolm By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan
Citizen, December 13-19, 2009
Climate-Change Movement builds at Copenhagen By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen. Dec.6-12, 2009
Nathan Huggins, Revolutionary Historian By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen,
Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 2009
FT. HOOD: WE'RE KILLING OURSELVES By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan
Citizen, Nov. 15-21, 2009
A WOMAN'S CHALLENGE FROM AFRICA
Wangari Maathei. Unbowed A Memoir. Anchor Books 2007
The Challenge for Africa. Pantheon Books 2009
Bonding Together in Tough Times By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, October 18-24, 2009
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME BACK By Grace Lee boggs
Media Coverage of the D By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Oct. 4-10, 2009
CHANGING CONCEPTS OF SOCIALISM By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Sept.27-Oct. 3, 2009
Fiddling While Rome Burns By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Aug. 9-15, 2009
Love and Revolution (2) Michigan Citizen, Aug.2-8, 2009
Love and Revolution By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, July 19-25, 2009 A New Kind of Community Organizing By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, July 5-11, 2009
Present, Past and Future By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, June 28-July4, 2009
Establish Justice, Create Peace Zones By Richard Feldman Michigan Citizen, June 7-13, 2009
A Letter To President Obama By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, May 17-23, 2009
Obama's First 100 Days By Grace Lee Boggs May 10th-16th 2009
EVOLUTION OR EXTINCTION By Grace Lee Boggs , May 3-9, 2009
The End Of Economics By Grace Lee Boggs April 25th-May 3rd
STUDENTS BECOMING CITIZENS Michigan Citizen, April 12-18, 2009
Changing Concepts of War and Revolution By Grace Lee Boggs April 5th-April 11, 2009
Spreading "The Grassroots Stimulus Story" By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, March 29- April 4, 2009
Beyond Pipelines-To-Prison Schools By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, March 22-28, 2009
The Womanist Liberation Movement By Grace Lee Boggs March 15th-21st 2009
March is Women's History Month By Grace Lee Boggs March 8th-14th
A New Way Of Responding To Crisis By Andrew Plisner March 1-8, 2009
I Remember Malcolm By Grace Lee Boggs
Opportunity knocks: A local food economy By Olga Bonfiglio Special to the Michigan Citizen
What do we do NOW? By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Feb. 1-7. 2009
Community Or Chaos: MlK & Clint Eastwood By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Jan. 25- 31, 2009
Rediscovering Lost Values Michigan Citizen, Jan. 18-24, 2009
An American Icon Looks in the Mirror By Scott Kurashige Michigan Citizen, Jan.11-17, 2009
Turning Over in his Grave? Jan. 4-10,2009
Another Education is Possible Michigan Citizen, Dec. 28-January 3, 2009
2008
Beyond Opposition and Protest Dec. 21-27, 2008
Beyond Survival, Towards Transformation Dec.14-20, 2008
From Germany about the Election Dec. 7-14, 2008
It's Our Time Nov. 30- Dec. 6, 2008
Our Time is Not the 30s Nov. 30- Dec 6, 2008
Where Do We Go From Here? Nov. 16-22, 2008
Midwifing a New America 11-15-08 Vincent Harding
It's a Tsunami 11-08-08
The Economy Isn't Everything Oct. 19-25, 2008
THE WORST AND BEST OF TIMES
By Grace Lee Boggs & Richard Feldman Oct. 12-16, 2008
Looking in the Mirror October 5-11, 2008
Questions About a System in Crisis By Scott Kurashige
Re-Thinking The War On Terror Sept. 21-27, 2008
WHAT TIME IS IT? Sept. 14-20, 2008
Change is Finally Possible Sept. 7-13, 2008
NEW TIDES OF HOPE Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2008
Wayne State Hosts Hip Hop Playwright Aug. 24-30, 2008
Loving The Local By Liz Wahl Aug. 17-23, 2008
Democracy and the End of Cheap Oil August 10-16, 2008
The Worst and Best of Times Aug. 3-9, 2008
The Power Vote 2008 July 27-August 2, 2008
Wall-E: Gardens save the day By Olga Bonfiglio July 20-26, 2008
Independence Day, 2008
A HEALTHIER FOOD SYSTEM IS POSSIBLEJuly 6-12, 2008
Another Amazing Allied Media Conference June 29-July 5, 2008
A (NEARLY) CARFREE SOCIETY IS POSSIBLE June 22-28, 2008
SEEING DETROIT WITH YOUR HEARTJune 15-21, 2008
Another Food System Is PossibleJune 8-14, 2008
TEENS RE-INVENT EDUCATION June 1-7, 2008
Nurses build 21st Century Workers Movement May 25-May 31. 2008
Over the Mothers Day weekend Bill Moyers Journal told the inspiring story of the California Nurses Association (CNA), a profoundly different workers
movement led by feisty women.
DON’T LEAVE IT ALL TO OBAMA May 18-24, 2008
Hyenas and Our Failing Schools May 11-17, 2008
Hyenas: Sociable, and Smart May 4-10, 2008
MLK and Redeeming our Cities April 27-May 3, 2008
A Defining Moment
Organizing Can Be Fun April 5, 2008
Sorrow in our Hearts Mar.22-28, 2008
The Next American Revolution Left Forum Closing Plenary, Cooper Union
New York, March 16, 2008
Our Sad State of Democracy By Scott Kurashige Mar. 16-22, 2008
Joining the very new & the very old Mar. 9-15, 2008
Hard Questions Mar. 9-15, 2008
“Significant damage” Mar.2-8, 2008
The Authenticity of Obama's Leadership Feb. 24-Mar. 1, 2008
Justice and the Mayor By Stephanie Change Feb. 24-Mar.1, 2008
A New Generation, Out of Obscurity Feb. 17-23, 2008
Restoring Justice By Marcia Lee Feb. 10-16, 2008
MLK’s Visionary Legacy Feb. 3-9. 2008
The Evolving Meaning of RevolutionJan.27-Feb.2, 2008
OBAMA & MLK Jan.20-26, 2008
The Fierce Urgency of Now Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration
The Islamic Struggle and Ours January 6-12. 2008
Is Obama Black Enough? Dec.30-Jan.6, 2008
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