LFC Visionary Organizing in Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs Jan. 14-21, 2012 Last Saturday’s celebration of Dr. King’s birthday at the Church of the Messiah in Detroit was an instructive example of visionary organizing by members and friends of the Boggs Center. In planning the program we recognized that finding a job is now the [...]
Foundations of public good By Shea Howell
Thinking for ourselves Foundations of public good By Shea Howell January 3, 2012 The Occupy Wall Street movement has opened up the conversation about the control the 1% have over public policy. While we all know that much of this control comes through good old-fashioned campaign contributions and high priced lobbyists, the role of foundations [...]
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Celebrating Dr. King’s birthday in 2012 By Grace Lee Boggs
This week’s LFC Celebrating Dr. King’s birthday in 2012 By Grace Lee Boggs Jan. 7-14, 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Born on January 15, 1929, he was only 39 years old. To honor King’ life Detroit Congressman John Conyers and Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke promptly introduced a [...]
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Lessons from Marathon? By Shea Howell
Thinking for Ourselves Lessons from Marathon? By Shea Howell The refusal of the corporate elite and foundations to acknowledge the failure of Detroit Works is reaching laughable proportions. Last week, Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press and American Black Journal on PBS hosted a show touting the Marathon Petroleum Company’s effort to buy out [...]
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New Work, New Culture An interview with Frithjof Bergmann, by Sarah van Gelder
New Work, New Culture Technology and the shrinking job market could liberate us from meaningless work and allow us to do things we care deeply about. An interview with Frithjof Bergmann, by Sarah van Gelder ?According to philosopher and community catalyst Frithjof Bergmann, we are less free than we think, surrounded as we are by [...]
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Foundations of public good By Shea Howell
Thinking for ourselves Foundations of public good By Shea Howell January 3, 2012 The Occupy Wall Street movement has opened up the conversation about the control the 1% have over public policy. While we all know that much of this control comes through good old-fashioned campaign contributions and high priced lobbyists, the role of foundations [...]
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2011 – A YEAR TO REMEMBER By Grace Lee Boggs
LFC for the January 1 , 2012 issue 2011 – A YEAR TO REMEMBER By Grace Lee Boggs 12-31-2011 – January 7, 2012 2011 opened with the Arab Spring when the people of North Africa decolonized themselves, thrilling the world with their nonviolent gatherings, ousting the dictators the United States has supported to secure its [...]
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Sacred Sacrifices By Shea Howell
Thinking for ourselves Sacred Sacrifices By Shea Howell December 19, 2011 This is a sacred season. Ancient traditions celebrate the turning of the earth and the darkest of nights. For others it is the festival of lights, the beginning of the Christian year, and the celebration of African wisdom. For all of us, this is [...]
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ReImagining Organizing, Movements, and Leadership – 1-2 By Adrienne Maree Brown
ReImagining Organizing, Movements, and Leadership – 1 By Adrienne Maree Brown Over the December 9-10 weekend we hosted ReImagining Organizing, Movements, and Leadership gatherings in Detroit. We had been planning the weekend ever once we heard that Margaret Wheatley author and organizational development consultant, was going to be in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and wanted to come to [...]
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Doing different things By Shea Howell
Thinking for ourselves Doing different things By Shea Howell December 17-24- 2011 Something new is emerging in Detroit. In quiet, patient, persistent ways people in our city are developing a culture of strength and compassion. Far from the media glare and the often cynical notions of elected officials, Detroiters are probing deep questions of our [...]
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