Educating because Our Lives and Futures Are in the Balance

There is no afterlife so one life to give is our only option: educate, agitate, infiltrate, regenerate!

by Paul Haeder

Yes. I think that what is more important in Mexico is education. It’s for the children to be able to go to school. Of course, hunger is also a very big problem. But the one that really, really, really for me is very painful is education. And there’s very little money spent on education, on good teachers, on schools, on even rooms where children can go and work. And I think this is the worst problem in Mexico that has to be taken care of. And it has not been taken care of. I remember when I came to Mexico as a little girl, I loved my teacher, La Seño Velázquez. I loved her, and she was a very good teacher. And now I don’t know what happens with the teachers, because I haven’t been in school, but I think that children need education, especially in the country, in el campo, I mean, in wherever. They need to eat, and they need to be educated.
— Elena Poniatowska, Mexican writer

( January 18, 2016, Texas, Sri Lanka Guardian) Yes, indeed. We all could be Zapatistas … we all should be. Harmony in communities – poverty of the shiny stuff, poverty of the newest junk, but a wealth above all else: a right to housing, food, health, recreation, life, cultural attribution, the right to grow, the tools to do, and, of course, EDUCATION, from cradle to cradle! Justice and freedom prevail under that parcel of anti-capitalism because it is a project of building up and seeking harmony with environment and peace gathering.

I have been substitute teaching, subbing to use the vernacular, the past few years, ramping it up the past few months (to have current work under my belt why I compete in this Portland-Vancouver hell-hole job market looking for FT work), PK through 12 grade, in Washington, the state, where Gates and Bezos and Paul Allen live, and all those Zionists and criminals seeking to lobotomize sentient beings who might be a few dozen degrees left of their neoliberal project of total subjugation of soul and sanity for their economic chess game that has led to this carved up world, this PR-spinning fascism – the state with a billionaire class, akin to the uninitiated sorts like MD Ben Carson, or cold and calculating like a Chelsea Goldman Sachs Clinton, or just downright mean like a Tra-la-la bunch of near-millionaire libertarian coders and app creators and felonious biotech sorts all sipping boutique moonshine and flailing in their polyamorous beds.
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