[NLA] [Fwd: [NIFL-ESL:7324] COABE plantation tour]

[Freemannola@aol.com]

Dear Sherrie Claiborne:
     I hope I speak for many people in the adult education and literacy field 
when I thank you for your gracious response to our concerns about the 
scheduled plantation tour during the COABE meeting.  
     I suggest that you write an "open letter" to the Charleston tourism 
commission about COABE's decision to cancel the tour -- and why -- and 
publish it in the local newspaper as well as on the literacy lists.  (Take 
advantage of this "teachable moment!")
     Best wishes in your upcoming conference - and especially in the 
roundtable discussion you will be having about institutionalized racism!  
Margery Freeman 
P.S.  I work with a national organization, the People's Institute for 
Survival and Beyond, that sponsors "undoing racism/community organizing" 
workshops across the country.  We have done a great deal of training with the 
literacy community and would be happy to work with COABE members.  Feel free 
to call/email me or visit the Institute's website:  
www.thepeoplesinstitute.org.

Margery Freeman
4635 Banks Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
(504) 482-0334
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