Tawana Petty
Organizer, Detroit 2012 & 2013
Phone: 313-433-9882
Email: tawana.detroit2012@gmail.com
Boggs Center
http://www.boggscenter.org
313-923-0797
DETROIT 2013: A Time for Resistance
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June 23rd – 30th
Sunday – June 23 – Church of the Messiah – 231 E. Grand Blvd., Det, MI 48207
Evening: – 5pm – 8pm
- Welcome to Detroit! – Shea Howell
- Networking and Community Dinner – provided (donations requested, but nobody turned away)
Monday, June 24 – Cass Corridor Commons – 4605 Cass Ave., Det, MI 48201
- 830am – Continental breakfast – provided
Morning: – 9am to 12pm
- What time is it on the clock of the world? – Grace Lee Boggs
- Why are we in Detroit? – Boggs Center/National Planning Team
- Lunch – Provided with small donation requested, but nobody turned away
Afternoon: – 1pm – 4pm – Samaritan Center – 5555 Conner St, Detroit, MI 48213
- Site visit – new work – Blair Evans and Professor Frithjof Bergmann
Evening: – 6pm – 9pm – The Hush House Black Community Museum and International Leadership and Training Institute for Human Rights – 6179 Wabash Detroit, MI 48208
- Community Dinner/Cultural Event hosted by At Peace, featuring Detroit’s Brave New Voices Youth Poetry Slam Team, Insite the Riot, and Jim Perkinson with presentation by Rev. Sandra Simmons
Tuesday, June 25th – Cass Corridor Commons – 4605 Cass Ave., Det, MI 48201
830am – Continental breakfast – provided
Morning: – 9am – 12pm
- National report outs – creation of global timeline
- Lunch – Provided with small donation requested, but nobody turned away
Afternoon: – 1pm – 4pm
- Bus Tour with Shea Howell – 3 hours
- Peace Zones report out and 1967 Rebellion Display – Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality/Peace Zones for Life
Evening:
- Dinner – on your own
- 6pm – 8pm – Place Based Education Panel – Bart Eddy (Detroit Community Schools), Elizabeth Whittaker (Nsoroma Institute), Virgil Taylor (Peace Project), Cassidy Rosen and Fernando Abbud (Colorado)
Wednesday, June 26th – Cass Corridor Commons – 4605 Cass Ave., Det, MI 48201
830am – Continental Breakfast – Provided
Morning: – 9am – 12pm
- National report outs continued
- Lunch – Provided with small donation requested, but nobody turned away
Afternoon: – 1pm – 4pm
- Health and Healing – Michelle Puckett (Oakland) and Peggy Hong (Detroit)
- New Work Report Out – Barbara Stachowski and Kim Sherobbi
Evening:
- Dinner – on your own
- 6pm – 8pm – Food Security and land discussions – Myrtle Thompson-Curtis and Wayne Curtis (Feedom Freedom Growers), Phil Jones (Colors), Shane Bernardo (Earthworks and Day Project), Michelle Jackson (Sustainable Community Farms/Small Ville Learning Farms) and Eitan Sussman (Keep Growing Detroit)
Thursday, June 27th – Cass Corridor Commons – 4605 Cass Ave., Det, MI 48201
830am – Continental Breakfast – Provided
Morning: – 9am – 12pm
- National report outs continued
- Lunch – Provided with small donation requested, but nobody turned away
Afternoon: – 1pm – 4pm
- From War Zones to Peace Zones Panel featuring Screening of Detroit’s Native Son – Panelists include: Charity Hicks (EMEAC), Harry Weaver III, Ron Scott (Coalition Against Police Brutality/Peace Zones for Life and Yusef Bunchy Shakur (Urban Network and Black Souljahs)
5pm – Dinner – on your own
- 6pm until – Album release party with Will See – David Blair Theater – 4605 Cass Ave., Det, MI 48201 at 7pm
Friday, June 28th – Cass Corridor Commons – 4605 Cass Ave., Det, MI 48201
830am – Continental Breakfast – Provided
Origami with Pablo
Morning: – 9am – 12pm
- 50 years forward/50 years back – Looking towards the Future: Creating a Student Movement, Creating a National Newsletter – Kristian Bailey (NY) and Molly Cunningham (Chicago) and Boggs Center
- Lunch – Provided with small donation requested, but nobody turned away
Afternoon: – 1pm – 4pm
- Self-governing councils/communities – Linda Campbell and Charity Hicks
- Creating the Beloved Community
Evening: – 5pm – 8pm
- Dinner – Included (small donation requested, but nobody turned away)
- Reflection Friday – How do we build a movement committed to Resistance and alternatives in 2013 & 2014 in our cities and in our country?
Saturday, June 29th – Church of the Messiah – 231 E. Grand Blvd., Det, MI 48207
Morning:
- Peace Rally and Celebration
Afternoon:
- 3pm – 6pm – Grace Lee Boggs’ documentary and 98th birthday celebration at the Detroit Institute of Arts – 5200 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI 48202
Evening:
Sunday, June 30th – Boggs Center – 3061 Field St., Det, MI
- 10am – 1pm – brunch/closing reflections
(close of Detroit 2013)
Other topics to be discussed, but not limited to: new forms of resistance, race and class, reimagining education and conversations with Grace.
Original origami and art by Pablo.
THANK YOU!