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About Me

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Detroit Summer is a multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit, working to transform ourselves and our communities by using creativity and critical thinking to confront the problems we face. Right now, we organize youth-led media arts projects and community-wide potlucks, speak-outs and parties.

My Interests

freedom schooling, media justice, environmental justice, urban agriculture, community potlucks, community speak-outs, block parties, youth poets, poetry for social change, murals, grassroots economics, self-sufficiency, self-determination, collective action, transformative visions, building networks of radical youth organizations across the U.S. and the world, connecting local and global struggles; building revolutionary community at the grassroots; youth-led transformation of our dying cities; reclaiming public space through art; rebuilding, revitalizing, and respiriting Detroit from the ground up; putting the neighbor back in the 'hood;making the road by walking; being the change we want to see in the world; thinking dialectically; seeing opportunity in crisis; rising from the ashes

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

LIVE ARTS MEDIA PROJECT PRESENTS: RISING UP FROM THE ASHES...CHRONICLES OF A DROPOUT...

Movies:

"Finally Got the News," "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," "The Grace Lee Project," "Detroit Unleaded," "Slingshot Hip-Hop", "Malcom X", "Palante Siempre Palante", "Grain of Sand"

Television:

.. Starlett: In Control --.. FOWL: Gimme All of Dat --.. Young Cha$e: Grave Danger -- .. Youngstarz #1 --.. Cylabul & FOWL: 12 Steps to Oblivion --.. Cylabul poem #1 --.. Youngstarz #2 --.. Starlett: Conscience & blues song --.. Cylabul poem #2 --.. Young Cha$e #2 --

Books:

"Living for Change" (Grace Lee Boggs), "The American Revolution" (James Boggs), "Detroit: I Do Mind Dying," "Autobiography of Malcolm X," "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" (MLK), "This Bridge Called My Back"

My Blog

LAMP in the SOURCE!!!!

CHECK IT OUT FRONT COVER BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER...SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE DETROIT EDUCATION CRISIS...AND ITS GRASSROOTS YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECTS UTILIZING HIPHOP AND MEDIA!!!! BIG ...
Posted by Detroit Summer on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:28:00 PST

MICHIGAN CITIZEN REVIEW OF "...RISING UP FROM THE ASHES"

MICHIGAN CITIZEN ARTICLE LINKChronicles of a DropoutBy J. Nadir OmowaleThe Michigan CitizenIn the controversy over varying interpretations of Detroit Public School graduation rates, or the district's ...
Posted by Detroit Summer on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:34:00 PST

"Broken Classes" L.A.M.P. in the Metro Times this week!!!

Broken classes by Charles Maldonado 6/20/2007 The AMC kicks off Friday at 9 a.m. with an all-day symposium on popular education. Based on a model developed by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in his ...
Posted by Detroit Summer on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:23:00 PST

L.A.M.P. presents: "RISING UP FROM THE ASHES...CHRONICLES OF A DROPOUT" Release Party 6/14!!!

come thru everbody!!!! This is our baby's release into the city...it can only grow if you spread the word!!!! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Jenny Lee | (313) 903-0322 | [email protected], http://...
Posted by Detroit Summer on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:08:00 PST

Detroit Summer Breakin' Bread Potlucks Are Back!

--Thursday January 11th, 6:00 pm in the CCNDC Community Center--In honor of Martin Luther King Day...Detroit Summer Presents:"Not Your Soldier"A Film Screening / Speak-out / Dialogue around the wars b...
Posted by Detroit Summer on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:42:00 PST

Community Potluck 1 yr anniversary this thursday!!!

NOV 9th!!
Posted by Detroit Summer on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:36:00 PST