At this time on the clock of the planet, of the world, our country and our city, I cannot get out of my mind The Second Coming, the famous “Things fall apart” poem written by William Butler Yeats nearly one hundred years ago --1919 in the wake of the First World War and the 1917 Russian Revolution.

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction,

While the worst

Are full of passionate intensity

By contrast, in the U.S.A. today, and especially in Detroit, we are shaking the world with a new dream. This is because

- Detroit’s devastation by deindustrialization has provided us with the Space and Place to begin anew.

- We are bringing the Country back into the City, growing our own food instead of worsening global warming by trucking it in from distant factory farms.

- We are making a radical revolution of values, a cultural revolution as profound as the transition from Agriculture to Industry 500 years ago.

- With passionate conviction we are Re-Imagining Work and Education.

- Our goal is to create MLK’s Beloved Communities!