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Special coverage in the Trump Era
From Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency site: "44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers and their network of political groups, particularly Vice President Mike Pence, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House budget director Mick Mulvaney."
Dark Money author Jane Mayer on The Dangers of President Pence, New Yorker, Oct. 23 issue on-line
Can Time Inc. Survive the Kochs? November 28, 2017 By Jane Mayer
..."This year, among the Kochs’ aims is to spend a projected four hundred million dollars in contributions from themselves and a small group of allied conservative donors they have assembled, to insure Republican victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Ordinarily, political reporters for Time magazine would chronicle this blatant attempt by the Kochs and their allies to buy political influence in the coming election cycle. Will they feel as free to do so now?"...
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" see: our site, and George Monbiot's essay on this key book by historian Nancy MacLean.
Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer March 29, 2017, Democracy Now! about her article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."
Democracy Now! Special Broadcast from the Women's March on Washington
The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version
Local Futures offers a free 19-minute abridged version of its award-winning documentary film The Economics of Happiness. It "brings us voices of hope of in a time of crisis." www.localfutures.org.
What's New?
October 07, 2015
Grace Lee Boggs: 1915-2015
"America -- love it enough to change it" -- Grace Lee Boggs
Legendary Activist Grace Lee Boggs Dies At 100
The final posting by Grace Lee Boggs on the Boggs Center website.
“I want my life to challenge people to think philosophically. I want people to ask themselves and each other what time it is on the clock of the world.”
Remembering Detroit’s Grace Lee Boggs By Zak Rosen
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015):
"We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World"
Democracy Now! October 6, 2015:
Her groundbreaking book, reissued:
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century
"A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. Drawing from seven decades of movement-building experience, Grace Lee Boggs shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. From her home in Detroit, she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities."
See the film: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS
Over the years our website has featured the work, words and wisdom of Grace Lee Boggs:
Grace Lee Boggs: Reports from Detroit
a review of her work, with links, in our Writers and Artists section
LIVING FOR CHANGE: Obama's First 100 Days
A report from May 12, 2009 in our "What's New?" section
Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change
In her weekly newsletter "Living for Change: Evolution or Extinction," Detroit activist, writer and sage Grace Lee Boggs discusses positive signs in a time of crisis.
A report from May 5, 2009 in our "What's New?" section.
How shall we celebrate King’s birthday? Conversations with Vincent Harding
From the Michigan Citizen, January 2006. (On our old website, 2002-2006)
For more on Grace Lee Boggs visit The Boggs Center
* ON BEING with Krista Tippett, August 27, 2015 one hour radio show
Grace Lee Boggs — A Century in the World
"Chinese-American philosopher and civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs turned 100 this summer. She has been at the heart and soul of a largely hidden story inside Detroit’s evolution from economic collapse to rebirth. We traveled in 2011 to meet her and her community of joyful, passionate people reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. They have lessons for us all."
* See the international statement: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Michigan Citizen, Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2005 (2 p. download)