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Upcoming Event on Thursday, April 12, 2012
Grace Lee Boggs’  Book Workshop with AAU

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige

WHY READ GRACE LEE BOGGS?
Over the years, Grace’s thinking and writing has helped AAU to put into words the work that we are trying on the ground:
* schooling should educate all children to be able to “govern” society;
* the work of creating a garden or putting on a festival is critical in “respiriting” our cities and reclaiming the fullness of our humanity;
* we protest against injustices but at the same time we need to “grow our souls.”

Grace’s theoretical work helps AAU sharpen the purposefulness of what we do and thus helps us to sustain our focus over years and generations.
Grace’s most recent book pushes us to try on new ideas, shares experiences from her work in Detroit, and inspires us with examples of what others around the world are doing.

For those who don’t know of Grace, her work, and life, this event can serve as an introduction. We’ll kick it off with a short video clip about Grace’s extraordinary life and contributions, then move into a lively discussion of quotes from the first chapter of her book.

TO RSVP: email AAU. We will have light refreshments and we will have our parking lot open. Let us know if you can join us. We can send you study questions, sell you a copy of the book, or share the excerpt (Chapter 1) we will be reading. We hope that folks will want to read, and we will make the discussion lively and accessible to all.

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Monthly AAU Happy Hours
Every 3rd Wednesday at 5pm
at Tazia

Please join us to get together with the many good people we know from our organization, reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, and learn what everyone is doing.

Please email us to let us know if you are coming!

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