Detroit 2012: ReImagine the World, Transform Ourselves, Fight
for the Future!
8:00 a.m. (Eastern) Monday, July 2, 2012 – Noon Saturday,
July 14, 2012, Detroit, Michigan
From Boggs Center announcement and links
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
Why now?
Why Detroit?
Since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, the world has seen a sustained
period of political protest. In the United States, the Wisconsin labor
protests, Occupy Wall Street, and the ‘99 percent Spring’ represent an upsurge
in protest not seen in many years.
However, despite the progressive nature of the increased
grassroots political involvement in the United States, the protests lack “a
clear vision for a new way of doing things and a new way of thinking.” Many
of us feel “something is missing.”
Massive protests and demanding new
policies fail to sufficiently address the crisis we face.
They may demonstrate that we are on the
right side politically but they are not transformative
enough.
They do not change the cultural images
or the symbols that play such a pivotal role in shaping who we are.
2012 is the time to move beyond protest, provide a clear
vision for alternative ways of living.
Detroit’s unique setting in historical context is “a space where growing numbers
of people have been able to break free of old ideas and undergo a paradigm
shift” — torn by crisis ‘Makes a Way out
of No Way’ — whereby “organizers and activists have moved beyond protest
and toward visionary organizing, building alternative institutions and parallel
structures.”
Detroit 2012:
Re-imagine the World, Transform Ourselves, Fight for the Future is a national
gathering, a two-week meeting to which participants may come and take part as
their time permits.
Tune in to measures of transformation
Detroit 2012:
Re-imagine the World, Transform Ourselves, Fight for the Future (July 2-15)
is a setting in which people learn from one another, transform in ways that aid
clearer vision of the idea of “beloved community”; and see how using “beloved
community” principles can transform individuals, groups, and institutions.
Assembling people from around the United States, Detroit 2012 aims at building “a national
network of visionary organizers” working toward individual and world transformation.
- What are the qualities of leadership we need to explore?
- Why is the movement of the twenty-first century different from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’?
- How do we energize the movement for revolution locally and nationally?
 |
| "IMAGINE" |
Arts
Community
Education
Food
and agriculture
Health
Justice,
Restorative justice
Leadership
Neighborhoods
Politics,
political action and engagement
Public
safety
Technology
Work
 |
| "MUTUALITY" |
Sources and notes
“Detroit 2012: ReImagine the World, Fight for the Future!” Monday,
July 2, 2012 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 12:00 AM (ET), http://detroit2012.org/
Detroit, MIwww.detroit2012.org
www.boggscenter.org
http://detroit2012.org/vision
tawana.detroit2012@gmail.com
“Martin Luther King’s Vision of the Beloved Community” (Kenneth
L. Smith and Ira G. Zepp Jr.), an article appearing in the Christian Century,
April 3, 1974, pp. 361-363; based on the authors’ book Search for the Beloved community: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.
Images
Boggs Center, Grace and James Boggs
Detroit 2012
__________________________________Detroit 2012
Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire http://www.facebook.com/#!/bennetts2ndstudy
__________________________________
No comments:
Post a Comment