[Linganth] NYTimes: The MAGA War on Speech

Wed Mar 5 00:08:40 UTC 2025

Thank you all for these resources and efforts and for keeping the
conversation going on matters related to social justice.

The LSJ is currently working on a number of initiatives including on the
topic of surveillance/freedom of speech but none so far specifically
targeted at issuing a statement for the making English as official
language. However, this is something we can certainly add to our efforts of
public outreach and it would certainly be helpful to continue to receive
recommendations on how to do this or word this, as some of you have been
doing — we appreciate it. Feel free to get in touch with us personally, the
co-chairs of the LSJ Steering Committee: Nadxieli (toledobustamante at csus.edu)
or myself (krm2144 at tc.columbia.edu/ katherineravenna at gmail.com).

We are currently working on a document that summarizes some of our
discussions from our previous February General meeting, including
discussions around our initiatives, which we hope to share with you in the
incoming days.

Thank you all for this.

Kind regards,
Katherine

Katherine Morales, Ph.D.
Linguistics lecturer and researcher

Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States

https://sites.google.com/view/katherinemoralesphd/

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM 'Schwartz, Adam' via AAA Task Group on
Language and Social Justice <
aaa-task-group-on-language-and-social-justice at googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Hey all—we might consider connecting with Dan Olson-- professor of Span
> and Ling at Purdue-- who has just put out a great piece for The
> Conversation worth circulating:
> https://theconversation.com/making-english-the-official-us-language-cant-erase-the-fact-that-the-us-has-millions-of-spanish-speakers-and-a-long-multilingual-history-250030
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> Dan’s a friend and colleague, and I’m sure would be eager to support if
> not assist in these efforts.
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> *From: *'Susan Blum' via AAA Task Group on Language and Social Justice <
> aaa-task-group-on-language-and-social-justice at googlegroups.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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> *Cc: *Zukosky, Michael <mzukosky at ewu.edu>, lang and social justice <
> aaa-task-group-on-language-and-social-justice at googlegroups.com>, Alicia
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> Rodolfo Mata <matar at wwu.edu>, ricardo otheguy <rotheguygc at gmail.com>,
> Adam Schwartz <adamschwrtz at gmail.com>, Bon Casa <burciuol at hamilton.edu>,
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> *Subject: *Re: [Linganth] NYTimes: The MAGA War on Speech
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> This is our moment. We need to get a statement into newspapers, substacks,
> ASAP. We all teach about this. We can take AC's statement as a foundation
> and try to get it published widely.
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM Ana Zentella <ana.zentella at gmail.com>
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> I citculated a statement for all to mail or email to white house but am
> traveling out of country now..limited wifi. Hope someone sends it to you?
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> On Sat, Mar 1, 2025, 11:00 AM Zukosky, Michael <mzukosky at ewu.edu> wrote:
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> Is there a plan for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology or Language &
> Social Justice group to release a response statement to Trump’s move to
> make English the official language of the U.S.?
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> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-executive-order-making-english-official-us-language-wsj-reports-2025-02-28/
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> *From: *Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf
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> *Date: *Friday, February 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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> *Subject: *[Linganth] NYTimes: The MAGA War on Speech
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> The MAGA War on Speech
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/free-speech-trump-maga.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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