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2010
LIVING FOR CHANGE
Enlisting the Energies of Schoolkids
By Gregory Smith
Oct.10-16. 2010
High school students in Boston helped orchestrate a campaign that after six years
led to the enforcement of an anti-idling statute and an order to convert the city's buses to natural gas. Each year, middle school students on the Hawaian island of
Molokai investigate local natural resource issues for several months. Their reports to the community have resulted in an island-wide recycling program, the restoration of traditional fishponds, and a state bottle bill. read more
LIVING FOR CHANGE
Enlisting the Energies of Schoolkids
By Gregory Smith
Oct.10-16. 2010
High school students in Boston helped orchestrate a campaign that after six years
led to the enforcement of an anti-idling statute and an order to convert the city's buses to natural gas. Each year, middle school students on the Hawaian island of
Molokai investigate local natural resource issues for several months. Their reports to the community have resulted in an island-wide recycling program, the restoration of traditional fishponds, and a state bottle bill. read more
LIVING FOR CHANGE
The Neighbor in the Hood
By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, Oct.3-9. 2010
As I rejoice at the news that more grassroots Detroiters are beginning to rebuild,
redefine and respirit our city by turning Motown into Growtown, War Zones into Peace Zones, etc., I have been revisiting the chapter in the American Manifesto where Jimmy and I envision Neighborhood Responsibility Councils as the
building blocks for a New Self- Governing America.
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1982, we wrote, "Our country was founded by a great
revolution which inaugurated an age of revolutions all over the world because it gave men and women a new concept of themselves as self-governing human beings, as citizens rather than subjects. Instead of looking to kings or bishops to
make the difficult decisions which are necessary to the functioning of any society, the men and women who made the first American revolution were convinced that
ordinary people could and should think for themselves, could and should accept responsibility for making social, economic and political decisions. Instead of
viewing history as made only by elites, they believed that they themselves could build the world anew." read more
LIVING FOR CHANGE
Economics as if People Mattered
By Grace Lee Boggs
Michigan Citizen, September 19-25, 2010
As I've been following President Obama's desperate efforts to devise a popular
Jobs programs in order to avoid his party's defeat in the November election, I've also been re-reading (and urging others to read) "Buddhist Economics" by E.F. Schumacher.
I first read this amazingly timely article in 1969 when my friend, Henry Geiger,
featured it in Manas, his little 8-page weekly with only 2500 subscribers. Robert M. Hutchins, the internationally renowned University of Chicago President, called them "the 2,500 most interesting people in the world."
Schumacher (1911-1977) was a British economist who served as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board. In 1973 he explained
Buddhist Economics and advocated small, appropriate technologies in a little book titled Small Is Beautiful,: Economics as if People Mattered. The Times Literary Supplement ranked it among the "100 most influential books published
since World War II. " read more
Moving Detroit Forward via Milwaukee
By Myrtle Thompson-Curtis and Wayne Curtis,
Feedom Freedom Growers
Michigan Citizen, Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2010
We were in the delegation of two dozen Detroit growers/farmers who traveled to Milwaukee over the September 10-12 weekend to attend the
Good Food {R}evolution" Conference sponsored by Will Allen.
The son of a sharecropper and a former professional basketball player, Will is now a farmer, not just any farmer but the principal farmer and
CEO of Grower Power Inc.
There are many things to learn from and about this man who is behind the Milwaukee urban agriculture movement. Through Growing Power Inc.
Will Allen maintains a sustainable farm and community center which ensures that all Milwaukee residents, regardless of their economic circumstances, have access to fresh, nutritious food. In 2008 he was
awarded the prestigious "Genius" award by the MacArthur Foundation for his work, only the second farmer ever to be so honored. In February 2010 he joined Michelle Obama in launching "Let's Move," her
signature program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. In May 2010 TIME magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. read more
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
LIVING FOR CHANGE
Our 21st Century Growing Pains
By Larry Sparks, Guest Columnist
Michigan Citizen, August 29- Sept. 4. 2010
In these times of troubles, most Americans are unaware of the potential in our
everyday decisions. The challenges we face are the consequences of the courage or cowardice shown in the everyday choices made by our ancestors and elders. Our everyday decisions and choices are our gifts to our children and friends.
We are now in a very puzzling and historic time of doubt and questioning of all our values.
Millions of us are cultural creatives who have come to realize that what exists is based on choices that value things more than people. read more
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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