LFC HEALING CIVILIZATION By Grace Lee Boggs Feb. 11-25, 2012 The author of this important book is Dr. Claudio Naranjo, a psychotherapist who was born in Chile in 1932, grew up in a musical family and became a medical doctor in 1959. While he was a medical student, Naranjo gave up music but remained interested [...]

LFC Everyone’s Talking about Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs 1/31-2/4, 2012 Frithjof Bergmann, philosopher and community catalyst for HiTech Self- Providing (HTSP) work, just emailed us from Europe that “ Everyone’ s talking about Detroit.” YES Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions, has just posted The Tale of [...]

LFC Gingrich’s Victory in South Carolina By Grace Lee Boggs Last Saturday’s rout of Mitt Romney by Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina Republican primary is a warning that we are at a critical and very dangerous point in our history . In the states where Republican primaries have taken place, the Republican base is [...]

Thinking for ourselves Accounting for foundations By Shea Howell January 24, 2012 Foundations are playing an increasingly influential role in public life. They are using their enormous power to determine what they think are public problems and how these problems should be solved. While they often demand clear objectives and quantifiable results from the non-profit [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]