So, I had a wonderful experience today in publicly performing politics and idealism.
As some of you may know, I'm on the board of my kid's pre-school, a historically progressive, cross-class/cross-race place up in the hills of EP.
Because of continued budget cuts by the city and state, the school has to do fund-raising to support its mission- keeping in economic diversity (ie. fundraising makes up the gap that poor people can't make in payment). So as a boardmember, I have to speak about a few things- donating labor, thanking x person and y person.
But seeing the need for some dynamic energy, I start off with a story that leads into why Christina and I are at the school. I start going in to the progressive and radical history of the school and why what this means today- its not like I was doing any firebrand speech (the director of the school kind of offhandedly explained why we are called the People's playgroup, what a damn treat to be a part of such a wonderful linguistic time-warp), its just that it was about ideals and values. And I'm thinking, damn, so I guess this room full of near strangers is kind of in agreement with what we are hear for, social justice and non-violence.
To be a part of the verbal actualization of the community was pretty damn cool.
As some of you may know, I'm on the board of my kid's pre-school, a historically progressive, cross-class/cross-race place up in the hills of EP.
Because of continued budget cuts by the city and state, the school has to do fund-raising to support its mission- keeping in economic diversity (ie. fundraising makes up the gap that poor people can't make in payment). So as a boardmember, I have to speak about a few things- donating labor, thanking x person and y person.
But seeing the need for some dynamic energy, I start off with a story that leads into why Christina and I are at the school. I start going in to the progressive and radical history of the school and why what this means today- its not like I was doing any firebrand speech (the director of the school kind of offhandedly explained why we are called the People's playgroup, what a damn treat to be a part of such a wonderful linguistic time-warp), its just that it was about ideals and values. And I'm thinking, damn, so I guess this room full of near strangers is kind of in agreement with what we are hear for, social justice and non-violence.
To be a part of the verbal actualization of the community was pretty damn cool.
