Fwd: FW: Workshop on Linguistic Rights in the Americas

[Susan Penfield]

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

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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.

Department of English (Primary)
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
Second Language Acquisition & Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)
Department of Language,Reading and Culture(LRC)
Department of Linguistics
The Southwest Center (Research)
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an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

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