Grace Lee Boggs: ‘We Are Shaking the World With a New Dream’ While austerity-pushers press for Detroit bankruptcy, Boggs says city “providing a model for change in the world”
As Detroit faces possible bankruptcy and more calls for safety-net shredding austerity, 98-year-old activist, author and visionary organizer Grace Lee Boggs offers a powerful counter-narrative to the system that rewards banks with bailouts and discards residents of the nation’s cities as victims of free market ideology.