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<P>Dear Margery Freeman! Thanks for speaking out! Hope to see you in Charleston, and to speak with you during our forum! Your resources are important to us all.</P>
<P>Sally Gabb<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: Freemannola@aol.com
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: nla@lists.literacytent.org
<DIV></DIV>>To: claibornes@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us, nla@lists.literacytent.org
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [NLA] [Fwd: [NIFL-ESL:7324] COABE plantation tour]
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:21:16 EST
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<DIV></DIV>>Dear Sherrie Claiborne:
<DIV></DIV>> I hope I speak for many people in the adult education and literacy field
<DIV></DIV>>when I thank you for your gracious response to our concerns about the
<DIV></DIV>>scheduled plantation tour during the COABE meeting.
<DIV></DIV>> I suggest that you write an "open letter" to the Charleston tourism
<DIV></DIV>>commission about COABE's decision to cancel the tour -- and why -- and
<DIV></DIV>>publish it in the local newspaper as well as on the literacy lists. (Take
<DIV></DIV>>advantage of this "teachable moment!")
<DIV></DIV>> Best wishes in your upcoming conference - and especially in the
<DIV></DIV>>roundtable discussion you will be having about institutionalized racism!
<DIV></DIV>>Margery Freeman
<DIV></DIV>>P.S. I work with a national organization, the People's Institute for
<DIV></DIV>>Survival and Beyond, that sponsors "undoing racism/community organizing"
<DIV></DIV>>workshops across the country. We have done a great deal of training with the
<DIV></DIV>>literacy community and would be happy to work with COABE members. Feel free
<DIV></DIV>>to call/email me or visit the Institute's website:
<DIV></DIV>>www.thepeoplesinstitute.org.
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<DIV></DIV>>Margery Freeman
<DIV></DIV>>4635 Banks Street
<DIV></DIV>>New Orleans, LA 70119
<DIV></DIV>>(504) 482-0334
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