DCOH http://www.dcoh.org Detroit Communities (formerly City) of Hope Fri, 17 May 2013 17:40:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 DETROIT 2013: Making a Way Out of No Way Towards the Next American Revolution http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/detroit-2013-making-a-way-out-of-no-way-towards-the-next-american-revolution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=detroit-2013-making-a-way-out-of-no-way-towards-the-next-american-revolution http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/detroit-2013-making-a-way-out-of-no-way-towards-the-next-american-revolution/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:43 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2122 In our quest for humane responses to gentrification, foreclosures, school closures, joblessness, emergency managers, transportation cuts, and police brutality, people are working diligently every day to re-imagine everything from democracy to public safety, education and work. This year, as we commemorate the 50th Anniversaries of Malcolm X’s Message to the Grassroots at the historic King [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/detroit-2013-making-a-way-out-of-no-way-towards-the-next-american-revolution/feed/ 0 What Matters: Week 7 of the Occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/what-matters-week-7-of-the-occupation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-matters-week-7-of-the-occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/what-matters-week-7-of-the-occupation/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 22:16:23 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2118 By Shea Howell May 12th, 2013 Sometimes the earth slows you down. It is planting time in Detroit. There is a rhythm and focus brought by the turning of the seasons. At long last the weariness of winter is falling away. Soil must be prepared. Soon seedlings will find their way into the thousands of [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/what-matters-week-7-of-the-occupation/feed/ 0 Honoring Malcolm in the 21st Century http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/honoring-malcolm-in-the-21st-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=honoring-malcolm-in-the-21st-century http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/honoring-malcolm-in-the-21st-century/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 22:08:11 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2115 By Grace Lee Boggs May 12th, 2013 Over the May 18-19 weekend the Detroit Museum of African American History (MAAH ) will be celebrating the 88th birthday of Malcolm X who was born May 19, 1925 and killed February 21, 1965. On Saturday the film Make it Plain will be shown, and my old friend [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/honoring-malcolm-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 Democracy in Detroit?: Week 6 of the Occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/democracy-in-detroit-week-6-of-the-occupation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democracy-in-detroit-week-6-of-the-occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/democracy-in-detroit-week-6-of-the-occupation/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 20:04:59 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2112 By Shea Howell May 5th, 2013 The questions being raised in Detroit are important for the whole country. Over the last few years we have seen an assault on our shared values, conventions, and civic assumptions unlike anything previously experienced in this country. Except for brief, extreme periods of Marshall Law, declared in emergency situations, [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/democracy-in-detroit-week-6-of-the-occupation/feed/ 0 Once Again, Korea! http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/once-again-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=once-again-korea http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/once-again-korea/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 19:54:22 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2109 By Professor/Baba Charles Simmons May 5th, 2013 Since most of the world’s population was not around at the beginning of this conflict, it is important for people everywhere to know the history of this 60-year old struggle between the Western Powers led by the U.S. on one hand, and the peoples of Asia on the [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/05/once-again-korea/feed/ 0 New Public Trust: Week 5 of the Occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/new-public-trust-week-5-of-the-occupation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-public-trust-week-5-of-the-occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/new-public-trust-week-5-of-the-occupation/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:00:48 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2104 By Shea Howell April 28th, 2013 It is past time for the Detroit City Council to rethink its role under occupation. Their most recent vote to approve the no-bid contract for the Jones Day law firm is one more indication that the Council has no moral compass. Even Detroit’s most consistent voice of the business [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/new-public-trust-week-5-of-the-occupation/feed/ 0 The Future: Part 2 http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/the-future-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-future-part-2 http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/the-future-part-2/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:43:39 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2100 By Grace Lee Boggs April 28th, 2013 (This article was originally published 20 years ago in The Future: Images for the 21st Century, edited by University of Michigan Professor Bunyan Bryant).  Read Part 1 here. “Rebeginnings” The American family must be redeñned. reinvented, and re­created because today’s nuclear families are caricatures of what families have [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/the-future-part-2/feed/ 0 The Future: Images for the 21st Century http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/the-future-images-for-the-21st-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-future-images-for-the-21st-century http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/the-future-images-for-the-21st-century/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:31:53 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2096 We’re reading Bunyan Bryant’s introduction to “The Future: Images for the 21st Century.”  READ IT HERE.

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/the-future-images-for-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 From Domination to Shared Community: Week Four of the Occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/from-domination-to-shared-community-week-four-of-the-occupation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-domination-to-shared-community-week-four-of-the-occupation http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/from-domination-to-shared-community-week-four-of-the-occupation/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:04:17 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2092 By Shea Howell April 21st, 2013 These are unprecedented times in Detroit. One man has the absolute power to make every decision about the public life of our city. The Emergency Manager has complete authority over every single aspect of civic responsibility. The Mayor and City Council serve at his pleasure. They have no independent [...]

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]]> http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/from-domination-to-shared-community-week-four-of-the-occupation/feed/ 0 Redefining the American Family http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/redefining-the-american-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=redefining-the-american-family http://www.dcoh.org/2013/04/redefining-the-american-family/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:56:30 +0000 admin http://www.dcoh.org/?p=2089 By Grace Lee Boggs April 21st, 2013 (This article was originally published 20 years ago in The Future: Images for the 21st Century, edited by University of Michigan Professor Bunyan Bryant). American families today are so unlike those in which human beings have traditionally raised children that it is questionable whether they should be called [...]

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