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2008
Grace and Shea write a weekly column for Michigan Citizen.
"Living for Change" and "Thinking for Ourselves."

Grace July 5, 2008 Another Amazing Allied Media Conference

"The evolutionary/revolutionary energy at last weekend’s Allied Media Conference was amazing. For three days 700 activists from all over the U.S. and even Canada, representing 22 youth organizations but also intergenerational, mostly women and mostly people of color, shared experiences and strategies and laughed, danced and sang together. The theme of AMC08 was “Evolution Beyond Survival.” read more

Shea We have come to connect

"During the primary campaign we heard a lot about “change comes from the bottom up.” Rarely do we get to see this kind of change actually happening. But last weekend at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, I saw the world shift toward a much more hopeful direction." read more


Grace June 28,2008 A (NEARLY) CARFREE SOCIETY IS POSSIBLE

"A lot of people are angry these days about the high price of gas. But one hundred years from now our posterity may bless this period when soaring gas prices finally forced Americans to bike or take public transportation to work and to start dreaming of neighborhood stores within walking distance." read more

Shea A New Politics

"Barack Obama’s June 16th rally in Detroit brought a message of hope, faith and vision. It was a Motown moment that showed how much this country is changing. It resonated with a new kind of politics, asking us to recognize the “core value” that “change comes from the bottom up."
“If we are honest, we know our problems are not just the result of one person or one party but go back decades.”
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Grace June 21, 2008 SEEING DETROIT WITH YOUR HEART

"Recently the Boggs Center hosted a tour of doctoral students participating in a social, justice/community-building weekend seminar at Wayne State University. The tour began with a welcome by me. We also showed Shapeshifters , the exciting new album featuring rappers Invincible and Finale.* On Sunday, June 15, at 3 p.m. we will be celebrating this album AND my 93rd birthday at Club Technology, 8200 E. Forest." read more

Shea An Extraordinary Moment

"We are living in an extraordinary moment. Barack Obama has secured the nomination for the presidency of the United States. Only a year ago such an achievement seemed impossible. Much of this moment belongs to the magnificent gifts of the Senator from Illinois who has managed to project a new vision for our country, captivate the best of our youth and unleash an energy unseen since the 1960s." read more
REBUILDING DETROIT: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CASINO GAMBLING

By James Boggs Public Speakout, 1st Unitarian-Universalist Church Friday, June 24, 1988

"Monday night I went to the graduation for one of my grandsons in Ford Auditorium at which Mayor Young was the main speaker. The student who introduced Young said, with a smile, that he was the only Mayor she had ever known. Young then said in the same joking vein that maybe some students should come back in ten years and run for Mayor because by then he would probably have retired. Everyone laughed, but it is no joking matter. The sad truth is that his honor has been Mayor for so long he thinks he owns the town and seems to have forgotten that the people elected him and may one day retire him before his vision of Detroit leads us into even deeper chaos." read more
Scott Kurashige The Future is Now: California's Multiracial Challenge to America

"Sixty years ago, Carey McWilliams, the well-traveled writer/activist and soon to be editor of The Nation, described California as "our nation's racial frontier." As the West Coast's multiracial makeup posed new problems and challenges, it also offered America "one more chance, perhaps a last chance, to establish the principle of racial equality." In this regard, it blessed California's residents and observers with "a ringside seat in the great theatre of the future." In stunning fashion, the California Democratic primary signaled that the future has arrived with dramatic implications for the entire nation. There has never been an important election like this where a candidate failed to win African Americans and whites but won overall-as Clinton did in California." Read More


The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans
in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles by Scott Kurashige
Now available Book Review: Nation Magazine

Burning Times Dreaming The Dark - STARHAWK

" We still survive, in the culture of estrangement, for how much longer no one knows. Yet to change that culture intelligently, we must understand it, trace its roots, know its history - not because estrangement is the lineal descendent of one particular historical event or time, but because the past is still alive in the present."

Ron Scott: 12/15 Beyond Jena

More Columns - Grace - Shea

THINKING/ACTING DIALECTICALLY: C.L.R. JAMES,
THE AMERICAN YEARS By Grace Lee Boggs Monthly Review, October 1993





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Detroit is A Spiritual City
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Living For Change
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Grace - Happy 91st. Birthday June 27, 2006

Celebrating my 91st Birthday
By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, July 9-15, 2006


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