HEALING CIVILIZATION By Grace Lee Boggs

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 [...]

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Style and Substance By Shea Howell

Thinking for Ourselves Style and Substance By Shea Howell February 7,2012 Detroit is bracing for another round of school closings. While lacking the arrogance and of his predecessor, Robert Bobb, Emergency Financial Manager Roy S. Roberts has made it clear more schools will be shut down. Highlighting the difference in management styles, Roy Roberts has [...]

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On Being – Becoming Detroit

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Everyone’s Talking about Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs

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 [...]

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Foundations punishing power By Shea Howell

Thinking for ourselves Foundations punishing power By Shea Howell Feb 4-11, 2012 Foundations wield enormous power in defining problems and determining solutions. In Detroit, as in much of the country, this is especially clear in the education of our children. Gates, Walmart and Broad have been directing educational policies, with little or no public accountability. [...]

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Gingrich’s Victory in South Carolina By Grace Lee Boggs

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 [...]

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Accounting for foundations By Shea Howell

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 [...]

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Visionary Organizing in Detroit By Grace Lee Boggs

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 [...]

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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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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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