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    30 July

     

     

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    Monday, July 30, 2012 - 12:15am

     

    I have accepted the position of Interim Executive Director of the national independent television network Free Speech TV and have moved to Denver. I plan to close this site in the near future, but it is still enjoying substantial traffic so I am leaving it up for now as a public service.

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    • Author Ron Williams
  • Movement 2012 Partners With NextAid

    8 May

     

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    Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 2:25pm

     

    Bringing it back to where it all began. Movement Electronic Music Festival, May 26-28.

    This year they are partnering with LA-based NextAid:

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    • Tags electronic music, festival, movement, None
    • Author Admin
  • A Post-Job Economy?

    5 May

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    Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 12:34pm

     

    Local visionary Frank Joyce has penned an insightful new piece on AlterNet summarizing the concept of "new work" and challenging the limits of the current mainstream economic debate.

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    • Tags Boggs Center, captialism, debt, Frank Joyce, Frithjof Bergman, job system, jobs, new work, Reimagining Work
    • Author Ron Williams
  • I'm Not Leaving

    24 April

     

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    Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 2:29pm

     

    Great song by The Crystal Method featuring Martha Reeves and the Funk Brothers, part of the Re-Generation Series:

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    • Author Ron Williams
  • With $100M Research Center, Could Detroit Become World Urban Ag Engine?

    22 April

     

     

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    Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 4:24pm

     

    The Freep's John Gallagher recently reported on a blockbuster development that could prove to be a game-changer for Detroit's already world-class urban agriculture movement.

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    • Tags GMO, GMO's, Hantz Farms, MSU, pesticides, Recovery Park, Rick Foster, Urban Agriculture, vertical agriculture, Featured Post
    • Author Ron Williams
  • Place-Based Education: Bringing Students Home to Their Community

    5 May

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    Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 1:21pm

     

    This piece by Julia Pointer Putnam from the venerable Monthly Review was published in the summer of 2011, but in light of continuing developments in DPS and the birth of the Southwest Detroit Freedom School, it has only grown in relevance.

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    • Tags Boggs Educational Center, DPS, education, Grace Boggs, John Dewey, Julia Pointer Putnam, Southwest Detroit Freedom School
    • Author Ron Williams
  • Wisdom From the Garden

    5 May

     

     

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    Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 11:38am

     

    Nice story recently in the Detroit News about the amazing Feedom Freedom Garden and Wayne and Myrtle Curtis.

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    • Author Ron Williams
  • Earth Day 2012: Environmental Movement at a Crossroads

    5 May

     

     

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    Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 12:33pm

     

    Gar Alperovitz, who once served as legislative director for Earth Day founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson, writes a thoughtful piece for AlterNet on the task ahead for the environmental movement:

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    • Tags earth day, environment, environmental stewardship, James Gustave Speth, new economy, None, transformative change
    • Author Ron Williams
  • The Big Fix: Telling the Truth About the BP Oil Spill

    5 May

     

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    Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 12:31pm

     

    Today, Earth Day 2012, marks the second anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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    • Tags BP oil spill, environment, fuel, New orleans, None
    • Author Ron Williams
  • The Challenge: Here is One For You

    24 April

     

     

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    Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 11:35am

     

    Here is the deal: one of our colleagues in the city of Detroit, who is very passionate about education, politics and the city of Detroit, remembers a movie that she once saw, The Super, with Joe Pesci and the lessons he (Joe) learned about being human and living.

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    • Tags abandoned homes, community activism, crime, democracy, Detroit politics, None
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      Detroit Needs a Bold Immigration Initiative Now

      I wanted to share Sylvia Rosales-Fike's insightful post on Shetroit regarding the potential in Detroit renewing its historical role as a place of opportunity for immigrants.
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