Philosophy. Very much local, very much consensual, neighborhoods, coops, things like that. David grabner, i think thats his name, one of the lead anarchists, worked with occupy wall street. Hes teaching now in england. He was pushed out of yale university, considered too radical. And hes he wrote this book 5,000 years of debt, which is a fairly good best seller. And so when this question was posed to me, i didnt take it as a frivolous question. Its not like were about to abolish the institutions, but we can develop a lot of local selfreliance as Neil Silverman indicated. Local selfreliance as a way of drawing consumer dollars and other energies away from the giant corporations. Its a way of you can regulate them, and they have power. You can litigate. But drawing away for a Community Institution is another good way, and s yes magazine, which is free out there, is a chronicle of Community Businesses that in effect provide goods and services that big business provides, but in much more a
Way we are raised. I am thankful for good parents, good parents in law and a good wife that will help me raise my children and students that way. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is robin. Im the executive director of mikva challenge, d. C. I am really honored to be on the stage with these two amazing educators. I have danced my whole career around the classroom and i have the utmost respect for classroom teachers. They are the real change makers in our society. They get up every day and educate our young people about the world around them and how to make it into what they like to see. I appreciate being a part of this panel. A minute about mikva challenge. We are named after the late judge abner mikva, who just recently passed away. We are founded by a group of people who had worked with judge mikva, a representative from chicago for a number of years on the hill, Circuit Court judge and general counsel to president clinton. When he retired, a group of people decided they wanted to