Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Rebekah blog - for real this time

On this December 4 anniversary of Chairman Fred's vicious murder by FBI-backed police thugs - i will finally put aside my notebook and write into this blog. Just in case there is anyone out there who is as frustrated and inspired as i. who loves to dance and study about resistance. who lives for the laughter of children yet knows the divinity of solitude. i am a teacher of young children by trade who is taking a break this year. and by teaching i mean: teaching them to read their world and write their world - despite my being a part of a hateful machine - i operate behind enemy lines to create a little socialist democracy in my class every year. it is natural, since true justice makes inherent sense to any of us who are awake. so now that i have time on my hands, i am (finally!!!) reading the books on my long long to read list and studying up on political history as well as current activism, especially here, in the 5 college river valley of western Massachusetts. am just now making connections in the art/activism worlds, outside of the people i know from teacher activism for justice in the NYC public schools. i am just now putting my own song ideas into form, being an artist myself. Peace