Many governments will claim that they 'can't afford' to respect people's language rights, but then they can always afford to engage in violent multilingualism when it suits them.

New Zealand's recently-elected government has set about systematically undermining Māori language rights. So far it has removed te reo Māori from all government departments 😡
abc.net.au/news/2023-12-1…

EU Council potential vote on official status for Catalan Basque and Galician, set for today (12th December), will now be postponed with Spain promising to work at all levels to ensure future official status. #GalEusCatEUOfficial #ELEN2023 #EU2023ES
ccma.cat/324/sajorna-la…

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention regards with dismay and sorrow the inaction and apparent powerlessness of the “international community” towards the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the #WestBank . In complete darkness, without food and water, sheltering from falling bombs and

Your participation is crucial in spreading the message of language rights. Find out how you can get involved in Global Language Advocacy Day in February 2024 👇
coalitionforlanguagerights.org/post/announcin…

AI's exclusion of Indigenous voices is history repeating itself.
mashable.com/article/ai-bia…

Language rights include the rights of Deaf people to communicate in sign language. When those rights are denied, a host of problems ensue, including the exclusion of Deaf people from political conversations and processes. Real democracy includes language rights.

I'll be running an online reading group about language rights starting next week on Sept 5. The group is open to all (including access to PDFs of the articles). Details at the link below. Feel free to join and share.
docs.google.com/document/d/1w9…

😃 We're excited!!! 😃

GCLR member Irene Gotera is launching a new Spanish language pilot initiative, helping us grow to become a more inclusive coalition, and spread awareness of language rights even further. Read more 👇👇👇
coalitionforlanguagerights.org/post/launching…

Bilinguals might have a memory advantage. Learning a language might improve your income. Multilingualism might prevent dementia. But the best reason to support multilingualism is that people have language rights. They just have them.

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