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<div>\<br><br><br>> From: <a href="mailto:mikegasser@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">mikegasser@sbcglobal.net</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:mike@tuswecatiospaye.org" target="_blank">mike@tuswecatiospaye.org</a>; <a href="mailto:aila@ailanyc.org" target="_blank">aila@ailanyc.org</a>; <a href="mailto:lwhiteduck@afn.ca" target="_blank">lwhiteduck@afn.ca</a>; <a href="mailto:Evangeline.Parsons-Yazzie@nau.edu" target="_blank">Evangeline.Parsons-Yazzie@nau.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:janellemjohnson@hotmail.com" target="_blank">janellemjohnson@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:hmkahn@temple.edu" target="_blank">hmkahn@temple.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:hinton@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">hinton@berkeley.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:teresa.mccarty@asu.edu" target="_blank">teresa.mccarty@asu.edu</a><br>
> Subject: Workshop on Linguistic Rights in the Americas<br>> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:32:13 -0400<br>> CC: <a href="mailto:scoronel@indiana.edu" target="_blank">scoronel@indiana.edu</a><br>> <br>> Greetings.<br>
> <br>> We're professors of informatics and education at Indiana University. <br>> We're organizing a workshop on language rights at the 3rd Americas <br>> Social Forum, which will take place in Guatemala City, October 7-12, <br>
> 2008.<br>> <br>> The Americas Social Forum < <a href="http://www.forosocialamericas.org/" target="_blank">http://www.forosocialamericas.org</a> > has <br>> its origin in the World Social Forums < <a href="http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2" target="_blank">http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2</a> <br>
> >. Since 2001, the WSFs (Puerto Alegre, Brazil: 2001, 2002, 2003, <br>> 2005; Mumbai, India: 2004; Caracas/Bamako/Karachi: 2006; Nairobi, <br>> Kenya: 2007) have offered a challenge to the neoliberal policies that <br>
> are behind much of what we call 'globalization'. The first Americas <br>> Social Forum was held in Quito, Ecuador in 2004; the second in <br>> Caracas, Venezuela in 2006.<br>> <br>> Social forums are quite unlike academic conferences; the emphasis is <br>
> on discussion that leads to concrete actions, where possible. Topics <br>> of workshops and other events range from war and peace to women's <br>> rights to alternative media to solidarity economics to immigration to <br>
> food sovereignty to indigenous rights. For our workshop we are looking <br>> for language activists as well as scholars, people from across the <br>> hemisphere with a commitment to people's right to use and develop <br>
> their own language. You can find out more on our website:<br>> <a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~gasser/FSA/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~gasser/FSA/</a><br>> <br>> We hope that you will be able to participate in the workshop, and if <br>
> not, that you can recommend others that you know.<br>> <br>> We look forward to hearing from you.<br>> <br>> Sincerely,<br>> Michael Gasser<br>> Serafin Coronel-Molina<br>> Indiana University<br>
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<br>-- <br>____________________________________________________________<br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br><br>Department of English (Primary) <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>Second Language Acquisition & Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)<br>
Department of Language,Reading and Culture(LRC)<br>Department of Linguistics<br>The Southwest Center (Research)<br>Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836<br><br><br>"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities." <br>
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