The Next American Revolution Book

The Next American Revolution

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LFC – A JAMES BOGGS READER By Grace Lee Boggs

A JAMES BOGGS READER By Grace Lee Boggs Special to The Michigan Citizen Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook, a James Boggs Reader, compiled and edited with a 34 page introduction by University of Michigan historian Stephen M. Ward, will be released in February by Wayne State University Press. The Reader is part of the [...]

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Boggs Center, Changing Concepts Of Revolution, Retreat 6/25/05 by GLB

Boggs Center, Changing Concepts Of Revolution, Retreat 6/25/05 What time is it? No longer American Century. Warfare State has replaced Welfare State. U.S. facing defeat in Iraq/ worsening conditions at home/protests growing. Classic characteristics of revolutionary situation (Lenin) or Counter-revolutionary situation (Germany in 1930s) Yet radical groups only exposing, protesting. WHY? Is it because we [...]

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REMEMBERING MALCOLM by Bill Strickland

REMEMBERING MALCOLM: A Personal Critique of Manning Marable’s Non-Definitive Biography of Malcolm X by Bill Strickland At the outset, I want to “make it plain” that my critique of Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X is political, historical, and personal—personal because I was born in Boston and grew up in the same Roxbury that Malcolm [...]

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The High Cost of Higher Education By Grace Lee Boggs

The High Cost of Higher Education By Grace Lee Boggs May 12-19-2012 At Oakland University’s commencement ceremony on April 28, I was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa “as a distinguished political activist, agent of social change, writer and speaker” who “has had a lasting, positive impact on communities in the Detroit [...]

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Reimaging Education By Shea Howell

Thinking for ourselves Reimaging Education By Shea Howell May 12-19, 2012 The walkout of students from Western International High School is continuing to reverberate through the city. Emergency Financial Manger (EFM) Roy Roberts has vigorously denied charges this week that he intends to disband the elected school board because some members supported the walk out. [...]

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BOOK REVIEW • The Next American Revolution Reviewed by Greg Smith

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/restrict.asp?path=archive/25_04/25_04_review.shtml BOOK REVIEW • The Next American Revolution Reviewed by Greg Smith Few, if any, U.S. leaders can match the long-term and sustained commitment to civil rights, social justice, and grassroots democracy of 95-year-old Detroit activist and intellectual Grace Lee Boggs. A friend of Malcolm X as well as Martin Luther King Jr., Boggs blends [...]

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Remembering Malcolm X By Yusef Bunchy Shakur

  Remembering Malcolm X  By Yusef Bunchy Shakur Formerly-incarcerated Community Organizer & Author              The life of Malcolm X, who was born on May 19, 1925,  has become the topic of conversations across the country, partly because Manning Marable’s book  “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” is being celebrated.                 Missing in many of these conversations [...]

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Malcolm X at the Dec. 1964 Oxford Union Debate

LFC by Grace Lee Boggs Malcolm X at the Dec. 1964 Oxford Union Debate In the current issue of RACE & CLASS, published quarterly in the UK since the early 1970s, the article by Lehigh University Professor Saladin Ambar reveals how Malcolm’s ideas on Race, Revolution and Liberalism were evolving in the last months of [...]

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New spirit emerging By Shea Howell

Thinking for ourselves New spirit emerging By Shea Howell May 1, 2012 There is a new spirit of resistance emerging in Detroit. It began quietly in the response to the widely despised Public Act 4 that has set in place Emergency Managers in the cities of Flint, Pontiac, and Benton Harbor as well as in [...]

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Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs’ Call for Visionary Organizing By: Matthew Birkhold

Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs’ Call for Visionary Organizing By: Matthew Birkhold Date Published:  April 17, 2012 In response to a question regarding advice for young activists, 96 year old movement veteran Grace Lee Boggs recently told Hyphen Magazine that activists should turn our backs on protest organizing because it “leads [...]

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