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Welcome to ANI In The Air, Under The Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast
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briefing of all the goings ons, ins and arounds, or at the idea of the Sudbury School.
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So today was the first day of our new JC procedure of having the clerk not
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actually voting or motioning or whatever. I happen to have run it since our
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previous student clerk had stepped down at the beginning of the month so yeah I
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had the experience of how that went and you know well you know it takes a little
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time that you know for the team to sometimes come up with some ideas for
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stuff but hopefully over time they'll get used to the fact of they want the
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thing to to finish then they should be coming up with ideas huh I'm hopeful
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that's a good thing and let's see it's another beautiful day although there's
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some rumbling in the air possibly some storms certainly some storms this
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morning saw some very colorful umbrellas walking around the day which is
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interesting and well I guess that was kind of a day it was we didn't get to
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have article Club there was some business that had to be attended to that
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prevented article Club from eating which is pity because I'd come up with the
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video talking about fitting water ship down the movie to the dark side of the
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moon the Pink Floyd album it's a you know it's a rather famous thing to do
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that with the Wizard of Oz and since at least the mid 90s and someone got
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inspired to try this with water ship down which apparently it worked out
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fairly well so that was what I'd hoped to talk about it article Club today but
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guess we'll push it off to next week
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and then let's see I think that's largely what I've got to say about the
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day oh and there's also a new fort being built in an area where I've never seen a
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fort being built before it's just in front of the arch to the side of the
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parking lot steps in front of the library bunch of our wooden planks and
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stuff being put there and yeah kind of cool neat it's always nice to see
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creative ideas and locations of things all right so this is Thursday so tip of
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the week Thursday continue in line with what I had talked about earlier I think
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I'd do a shout out to a democratically run workplace the the workers here the
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staff are not entirely democratically controlled of them amongst themselves is
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the students and the staff together who are doing this now running the
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community but nevertheless having things decided democratically is extremely nice
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in that you know like you if there are issues with a particular individual you
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know it's really a matter for the community if it's if it's a real problem
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or not it's not like all behind closed doors and single voices and and having
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some particular person who's in charge is making that decision I think that's
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you know when you have to make a decision when you are the one bearing
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the authority it's all very different than when you are joining collectively
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with the community to make a decision and yeah so I highly recommend it if you
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can ever manage to get yourself working in a democratic place there are some
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businesses that are democratically run or one of our staff members Josh had
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created a democratically run bicycle shop called I believe bicycle works
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it's still going on he obviously left it left to join us but you know it's it's a
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very different kind of experience I think a very much more honest and open
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experience and it's a challenging one you don't have to just you know get in
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good with one person you got to getting you know you got to be you know genuine
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only good I would say that's what you know the democratic process is obviously
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you know there are people who speak well in front of others and less well front
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and I think that's the difference of actually being embedded in the community
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that's making a decision it's not you know it's not like our electoral
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politics where it's where that is what's relevant oftentimes rather than you know
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like here everyone can kind of see what you do during the day day in and day out
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you know the whole year and so you know that that that is your whole record and
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they know they know each of us and you know it's a beautiful thing that's all
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I'm going to say about that I think thanks for listening and I will see you
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when I see you