LIVING FOR CHANGE

Changing Consciousn ess

By Grace Lee Boggs

Michigan Citizen, Feb. 7-13, 2010

Last week I was involved in some important consciousness changing discussions.

On Wednesday and Thursday, January 27-28, I participated in an intimate Retreat focused on the role of informal leadership in individual and community transformation.

The Retreat was at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a center committed to creating a world based on Love. Forgiveness and Compassion. This commitment calls upon us to relate to one another and to the world with our hearts and not just with our heads. I view it as an important step toward embracing a new philosophy that frees us from the scientific rationalism of the industrial epoch and therefore empowers us to create a more human post-industrial civilization.

At the Wednesday night gathering I told the story of how grassroots leaders in Detroit, believing in our hearts and minds that another world is both necessary and possible, have been transforming our city from a national and international symbol of the devastation of de-industrialization into a 21st century City of Hope. One result is that the 2nd USSF is bringing 15,-20,000 people to Detroit in June.read more

THINKING FOR OURSELVES

Beyond Budgets and Speeches

By Shea Howell

Michigan Citizen, Feb. 7-13, 2010

After a year of little progress and a White House strangely out of touch with the concerns of most Americans, President Obama has demonstrated a new energy for addressing our economy.

His State of the Union address combined a more sober but determined tone to pursue his agenda. Acknowledging that this first year had not produced much, he said candidly, "I campaigned on the promise of Change. 'Change you can believe in,' the slogan went. And right now there are many Americans who aren't sure if they still believe we can change-or that I can deliver it."

President Obama then added, "But remember this, I never suggested change would be easy, or that I could do it alone. Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That's just how it is." read more

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 "Nobody Knows Better than Me" by Sharon (Shea) Howell

  The Power of Ideas   by Carl Edwards

 We are all “Works in Progress” by Larry Sparks

 Call to Detroit Summer by Julia Pointer-Putnam

 "The Outsiders" Practicing Transformation by Jeanette Lee

 The Next American Revolution by Rich Feldman

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