Turning Over in his Grave?

By Grace Lee Boggs

Michigan Citizen, Jan. 4-10,2009

Dear Brother Gregory,

In your recent Construction Workers News Service article, you identify yourself as an "African American revolutionary communist labor activist in Harlem." You then write that it was "stupid, morally bankrupt" and "dangerous" for me to support Obama's presidential campaign "because of the "hope" that his election supposedly engendered in Black youth." Instead I should have voted, as you did, for a socialist candidate. And you conclude "I'm sure her husband James is turning over in his grave."

Let me begin where you end. read more

Milani 12-12-08

*From Dec, 29-Jan 19, 2009, FLYP, a new interactive multimedia magazine , www.flypmedia.com, features “Welcome to the Future."
Among those interviewed are Grace Lee Boggs (“America’s Soul”) Melissa Harris-Lacewell (“Race and Politics”), Andrew J. Bacevich (“National Values”) .

  I feel blessed that at ninety-three I am still around to tell a new generation of movement activists the story of why James and I wrote Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century in the early 1970s, and why I welcome its present republication by Monthly Review Press with its original contents... read more

Purchase - Revolution and Evolution in Twentieth Century with new 2008 Introduction by Grace Lee Boggs - Send $20.00 to Boggs Center 3061 Field St. Detroit, Mi 48214 - click for paypal

Beyond Opposition and Protest By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Dec. 21-27, 2008

The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership has begun monthly transformational conversations to explore how movement activists are challenged by the obvious inability of the power structure to resolve the concurrent crises of global warming, two wars in the Middle East, and economic meltdown, to develop strategies that go beyond opposition and protest. read more

December 12, 2008 

Dear Friends of the Boggs Center,  We have had a heart-warming response to our Friday evening’s discussion based upon article: 

From Opposition to Alternatives by Brian Milani

1. What questions does this article raise for you about your own understanding of this political moment?

2. Has the article affected how you think about social change?

3. What issues does Milani raise about the distinction between Protest, Resistance, and Alternatives?

Resolving Peace By Shea Howell Michigan Citizen, Jan. 4-10,2009

The coming of the New Year is a time of reflection. Many of us pause to look back over the previous year and to look forward to the changes we resolve to make to enhance our lives in the coming year. read more