Dear Grégoire and Judith,

we're always struggling with the language issues and the interpretation in
particular.  After 10 years of World, Regional and local social forums,
where are we at?  What progress and what challenges do we face?  How can we
make it a central issue - a political one as well, since the Forum stands
for inclusion and participation at all levels - so it is not considered just
a logistical / organisational matter?

It is unfortunate that neither of you can be at the IC meeting in Mexico,
but I and hopefully others will pose those questions and ask for a real
debate to take place.  It probably would be useful if you could write a few
paragraphs with Babels experience up to date.

cheers,
Jason

2010/4/29 Grégoire Seither <gregoire@...>

> le 29/04/10 13:49, hitchman@...  <hitchman@...
> > a
> écrit :
> > My question is the following: interpretation is a key issue for
> successful
> > communication. This is why Bables is (at least theoretically) attached to
> the
> > Communication Commission. (....)
> > How can we all work together to make this part of the communication a
> success?
> > Neither Gergoire nor I shall be in Mexico, but Nico Haeringer, who is
> close to
> > Babels will be there, even if he has a different specific fund-raising
> > mission...
>
> Hello all
>
> I will THEORETICALLY be in Mexico, if the IC meeting is held sometime
> around
> the US Social Forum... Since the only way for me to get into the border is
> to cross illegally, with the help of our friends from United Farm Workers.
>
> So I will be flying in via Mexico-City and can attend a meeting there,
> before going on to El Paso.
>
> But I am not sure that the CI is still very convinced of the "key issue"
> aspect of linguistic diversity in social forums. The Belem Forum has shown
> that they do not care about it....
>
> Greg
>
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