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By Norma J F (Fox) Harrison

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[re Paul Goodman] (Refuse to grow up into) the abhorrent morally neutral pragmatism of those running the establishment, ......characterized as the top-down, bureaucratized, hierarchical, centralized organization of the state and state-nourished institutions; or into the acquiescent acceptance of powerlessness of those who resign themselves to work within that establishment.

Back Row: 1) Albert Parsons 2) Lucy Parsons 3) Voltairine de Cleyre 4) Tom Mooney 5) Kozmick Ladye 6) Rinaldo Iturrino 7) Tyron Kennan 8) Emmett Grogan 9) Emma Goldman 10) Alexander Berkman Front Row: 11) Bartolomeo Vanzetti 12) Niccola Sacco 13) Enrique Flores Magon 14) Ricardo Flores Magon 15) Julian Beck 16) Judith Malina 17) Paul Goodman 18) Molly Steimer 19) Senya Fleshin 20) Marcus Graham

Let us talk about how to stop punishing ourselves trying to work the present system. Life, we can decide has to oppose churchly teachings, is meant to be enjoyed, now, here, while we're on Earth, in gentle care of Earth, not when we're dead!!! Let's try to work work from that - that we're all FINE, from the moment we come out of our mothers. We don't need improvement. We just want to get together to do what's necessary and what's enjoyable. We all want to know stuff ... to learn stuff .... to do stuff; it's what we are ! human. All of these have been commodified into service for the profiteers, alienating us from the comforts of good work in pleasant surroundings among our friends, families, neighbors. School is the opposite. It's the basic and initial mechanism to create our alienation. Alienation is us not doing human, humane things. Everybody hates school. Sometimes it takes a decade or two before people can realize they do, did. School can't be 'reformed'. First of all, it works just fine as seen from the top, from our Owners' advantage. We serve the capitalist system as necessary. We are the unemployed, or the lowly employed, or the criminals keeping the jails and prisons in business. As well, we are the teachers and doctors and pipe layers and other maintenance workers, keeping the cities and nations going, serving those Owners, the ruling class. There needs to be `embedded' into our city structure, a forum for examining ways out of this oppressive construct, beginning of course, with addressing State and Federal laws that lay the basis for our confinement.

Then we can proceed to discern that in fact, inclusion of us all through our interests, experimentation, love, ability, need, all these reasonable motives, how we can motivate and educate - educe, not indoctrinate, as in fill the empty vessel process - how we can just do what we need and like. Competition, profit, competition for profit ... these are undesirable and unnecessary. Just taking care of ourselves, of us all, and amplifying our lives in the literally innumerable ways possible can give us the substance we all want, that school militates against.