[Antiracism] Clases de Ingles- Volunteer Meeting Sun 2/17 at 6pm

[cjbSS at hampshire.edu]

>Hello Everyone:
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>As some of you know, I'm involved in a volunteer
>effort to offer English classes to Spanish-speaking
>members of our community.
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>This past Sunday, we had an initial meeting with
>people interested in taking English classes and found
>that there is great interest in this effort. Most
>people want to learn English for daily use:
>communicating with doctors, teachers, landlords,
>employers; helping their children with homework; and
>finding better paying work.
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>INFORMATIONAL MEETING FOR VOLUNTEERS
>Sunday, Feb 17th at 6pm
>Food For Thought Books
>Downtown Amherst
>(we will pool money to buy pizza at the meeting)
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>If you are interested in helping out with this effort,
>come to a volunteer informational meeting this Sunday
>at Food For Thought! Spread the word to others who
>might be interested too!
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>We need volunteers to:
>-teach/facilitate classes
>-tutor folks
>-practice conversational English with folks
>-provide child care to kids of participants
>-help with the coordination/administration of this
>project
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>While we need folks who are bilingual in
>Spanish-English, we encourage folks who don't speak
>Spanish to volunteer too! You don't need experience
>teaching English as a second language (ESL), though
>folks who have such experience are strongly encouraged
>to join this effort and share your skills.
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>We will provide some basic training in teaching ESL
>and will be learning together about what the best
>pedogoical approach for this project will be.
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>Volunteers will be asked to commit to volunteer one
>Sunday a month, though if you want to do more, you
>can!
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>If you are interested in learning more, come to the
>volunteer information meeting this Sunday at Food For
>Thought Books and help us spread the word.
>
>Peace,
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>Javiera
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>i am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of
>ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain
>endings- an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check,
>and nihilism at bay
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>-william kentridge