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2023
Are Capitalism and Militarism Really The Hills We Want To Die On? Choosing life over death in the fight for global liberation
On June 27th, 2023, Detroiters and folks across SE Michigan woke up unable to see more than a few yards down the road and to reports that the city had… Read More
Scheming And Dreaming: Public Art As Activism, Advocacy and Youth Actualization
Meet Cover Artist T’onna Clemmons “Koriand'r's love for plants and planets developed with each journey she took. She read up on tips and tricks of growing healthy plants and experimented… Read More
There is NO Climate Justice Without Disability Justice: Centering the Wisdom and Strength of Surviving a World Not Built With You in Mind
At first thought, it may not be obvious how disability justice is critical to climate justice, but once you dig in, there are crucial points of intersection. First of all,… Read More
praise to the dandelion
praise to the dandelion i too am a low thing, refusing. i too am a gentle summer light waking in the season of disbelief. Gentle to my brothers who spring… Read More
‘Nam and After: William E. Langford III
Young, with lead capped molars, his curling fro is close cropped, kept close, like many a revolutionary called up back then for exigent circumstances: to rumble in a jungle… Read More
Global Heating and Climate Destabilization: The Basics in Context
“No transformation without a crisis.” - Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes This year is already the hottest year on record. When I share photos and stories about my work in a… Read More
Time
We are gone in ourselves. One second we try and avoid knocking down the spider’s web, only to walk right through it a minute later, unnoticed. We are cut like… Read More
Lights Out
Darkness. Scamper to the window, Swipe aside the dusty curtain. I am not the only one looking out into the night. I hold one of the sets of eyes straining… Read More
A Story of Hope
Hope was a young girl who lived in the land of Gladness. Hope's hair was made of sunshine; her freckles were bits of stardust. Hope's meals came from the Spring… Read More
Permitting Pollution
Siyo, greetings and good day. Jesse Deer In Water here, organizer and speaker for Citizens’ Resistance At Fermi Two (CRAFT). CRAFT is an Indigenous-led, intergenerational, multi-racial, and cross-cultural grassroots organization… Read More
The Balance of Relationship & Responsibility in the Climate Crisis
By Malu Castro & Michelle Martinez, This paper was adapted from a talk given at Detroit’s 2023 Concert of Colors in 2023 and builds on ideas we are teaching at… Read More
#DefendMassaferYatta! We Will Not Be Erased: Creating Community & Building Resistance One Artwork At a Time.
"Nakba" is the Arabic word for catastrophe. It refers to the violent expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land on May 15, 1948. From May 26 - June 17th… Read More
Art by Nicole Miazgowicz
Artist Statement: These pieces are based on a camping trip I took to Iceland a few years ago. I couldn't believe how varied the landscape was - sometimes even within… Read More
Snapshots of Lila
I still find Lila’s hair pins underneath and between my car seats. I would pick her up at the big, red-trimmed house on Wildemere for meetings. She would always be… Read More
Sacred Spaces “Solvent”
“Solvent” an exhibition by Halima Afi Cassells and Shanna Merola invokes the world between memory, history, collective storytelling, and liberation at the water’s edge. “Mama Lila” Cabbil - October 23rd,… Read More
The Ongoing Presence of Charity Hicks
I fell asleep sheltered by a willow tree that wept for the state of Detroit in 2023. I doze and woke, woke and dozed on a Belle Isle park bench… Read More
Breath
Breathe…Do you feel it? Mother Earth left her soulful whispers in there. You take a deep breath in and feel it. You feel the crud of those who have to… Read More
A Message from Rising Leaders
To many, the climate crisis is not given a thought. And to many, they do not realize that's where you’re caught amidst psychological warfare. A warfare that convinces us that is… Read More
Everyone pays the price when Israel orchestrates the dehumanization of its own people
I will not start by recounting the number of Palestinians Israel has murdered since October 7, nor emphasizing how many of them are women and children. I will not beckon… Read More
End Fossil Fuels! A Photo essay by Valerie Jean
On September 17, 2023, 75,000 concerned people converged on Times Square to demand President Biden declare a climate emergency and end any fossil fuels development and infrastructure projects. We must… Read More
Co-Authored Futures: Youth-led Design-build
On a cloudless summer day in late July, twenty high school students attending Lawrence Tech’s summer architecture camp board a bus from the LTU campus in Southfield bound for Detroit’s… Read More
Mapping Detroit’s Buried Waterways – Part I: Finding the creeks
When I first moved to Detroit in 2014, my orientation to navigate to work, the grocery store, the theater, indeed anywhere I wanted to go, was centered around the freeway… Read More
Where is the Sun? How Climate Change has Changed the Mental Health of Children
On June 26, 2023, the sky did not look right. It was red, full of smoke, and you could not see the sun. There was an alert for high air… Read More
no single path through the mountains
Ali Gali (they/them): I am a queer, non-binary artist, cultural organizer, and space-maker from Antakya, Turkey. In my visual practice and poetry, I trace entanglements of bodies, spirits, and… Read More
A Few Organizations Feeding, Fighting For, Helping to Heal Our Environment & Community
Arboretum Detroit arbdetroit.org Black To The Land Coalition blacktothelandcoalition.com Capuchin Kitchen Earthworks Urban Farm cskdetroit.org/earthworks Clean Water Campaign For Michigan michigancleanwater.org Citizen’s Resistance At Fermi 2 - https://www.shutdownfermi.org Detroit Black… Read More
Coalition Calls for Federal investigation into Detroit Police Use of Excessive Force
The Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability is calling for renewed federal oversight of the Detroit Police Department (DPD) based on a 25 percent rise in incidents of excessive force… Read More
Joy in Community Study
Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia, H In gloomy and despairing times, we who work for liberation generate light and joy.… Read More
Boggs Center Study Circles to Deepen, Grow and Struggle
“The core of our philosophy is that all human beings are capable of change. And that our desire as humans is to be healthy, to be whole, to feel safe… Read More
EDITORIAL: No Borders, No Bars: Abolition Is the Only Way Forward
There are borders all around us. From our declarations of membership in a particular nation, to our identifications with our particular states, cities, or neighborhoods, to our establishment of cliques… Read More
border crosser
my father's story is not singular. he is a border crosser, he crossed the border, the border crossed him. filled with hope that looked like a stormy night. waiting in… Read More
Waawiyaatanong: From The Ashes, She Rises
Hadassah GreenSky is a Anishinaabe (LTBB Odawa) artist and multi-instrumentalist living in Detroit, Michigan. She is a graphic designer and painter, as well as a bead worker, dancer, seamstress, and… Read More
Climate Change Won’t Wait! Neither Should We! The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition Demands Community Led Action for a Healthy and Just Future.
Since it’s founding in 2011, The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) has worked tirelessly to put the needs of community members over those of corporations and front and center in… Read More
Building Pipelines For Peace: Pandemic Perspectives
Over the past two years, the chasm in our society between the “haves” and the “have nots” has grown to glaringly obscene levels. We’ve lost numerous members of our family,… Read More
Self-Care Isn’t Selfish: Implementing Well-Being Practices in Your Organization Benefits The Organization, The Movement, and Recognizes Our Humanity.
After surviving cancer, managing depression, and what feels like a perpetual string of life challenges I currently live my life in a perpetual state of self-reflection, self-awareness, and self-improvement. That… Read More
TURDS AND TURNIPS (A Story-Poem)
A man consistently and intentionally leaves turds in your hands. Day after day, week after week after month after year. The turds stink and stain. They attract flies. Because you… Read More
Walk into the Womb Womxn House Detroit
Womb Artist Jessica DeMuro Graves and Laura Earle“…Where we commune with our first true understandings of self and connection.” Antepasados Artist Rosa Maria Zamarron “…Learning to cook from my… Read More
Editorial
There is a reason that the most inspiring movements, works of art, songs, books, speeches, and actions often feel as though they belong to the future. And it isn’t because… Read More
‘She Safe, We Safe’: A New Focal Point For Black Liberation
‘She Safe, We Safe’: A New Focal Point For Black Liberation by Atinusewakaraiye "Tinu" Roland In the midst of a global pandemic that has forced myself and many others across… Read More
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