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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We are writing to seek volunteers to
serve as a core committee member on the SLA Committee for Language and Social
Justice (LSJ). The LSJ committee was created in 2009 out of the Task Group on
Language and Social Justice and is a standing committee within SLA. There are
currently four core committee members, two of whom will be leaving the
committee at the end of the year. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The LSJ
committee works to increase awareness, both within the AAA and among the
general public, of the ways in which language is implicated in social
discrimination; and, where appropriate, to respond to specific instances of
language-related discrimination and injustice. To these ends, the committee
seeks to collect and disseminate knowledge concerning language and social
justice; to identify problems and issues in which linguistic anthropologists
can and should intervene, and to which linguistic anthropological knowledge can
and should be applied; to organize, lead, and facilitate such interventions and
applications; and to advise the AAA Committee on Human Rights, the AAA
Executive Board, and other AAA bodies on how the AAA as a whole should respond
to issues concerning language and social justice.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you are interested in serving as a LSJ
core committee member, or participating on the committee in any way, please contact
Becky Schulthies <a href="mailto:becky.schulthies@rutgers.edu">becky.schulthies@rutgers.edu</a>
or Janet McIntosh <a href="mailto:janetmc@brandeis.edu">janetmc@brandeis.edu</a>
by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">November 25, 2015</b>. The SLA Executive Board appoints core members of
the LSJ committee after the SLA nominations committee has forwarded the names
of those interested. We hope you will share this announcement, urge colleagues
and consider participating yourself on this important committee.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We also want to thank Daniel
Suslak & Patricia Baquedano-Lopez for their service on the LSJ committee. They have helped make the work we do more
visible and relevant to current debates and issues of social discrimination. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We
look forward to hearing from you,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SLA Nominations Committee</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Becky Schulthies</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:becky.schulthies@rutgers.edu">becky.schulthies@rutgers.edu</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Janet McIntosh</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:janetmc@brandeis.edu">janetmc@brandeis.edu</a></span></p>

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