The
Gillespie-Senter
Memorial Community Breakfast
January 2021 session
Linguistic Justice with
Application to Louisiana
Panelist:
Robert Desmarais Sullivan MA, MEd
SATURDAY JANUARY 9, 2021
10:50am - 12:30pm
10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions
11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation
12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements
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Linguistic justice is a specific area of social justice in that it
is a reflection of social, economic and political inequities. In the
United Nations, diversity in culture and languages is viewed as a right
and advantage of stable society, In the European Union, communities have
a right to education and media in their historic languages.
In
Louisiana, the Constitution of 1974 guarantees the right of citizens to
their cultural heritages. As a Louisiana-Creole francophone, Robert
Desmarais Sullivan will look at how that has worked in Louisiana and how
cultural and linguistic policies can be implemented by citizen action.
OUR SPEAKER-- Robert Desmarais Sullivan
(MA, MEd) is Cajun Creole from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was a
teacher in French, German, Latin and English in various private schools
in New Orleans before joining the faculty of Benjamin Franklin High
School, where he retired. He was the creator of the first French-music
show in New Orleans on WWNO, "L'Heure acadienne", in the early Eighties,
and he led the creation of the first French-immersion program at
Audubon Montessori at the same time.
His
graduate and educational work were interrupted by near-death from AIDS
in the late Eighties, and he spent many years transferring his aptitude
for research to questions of healthy living.
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The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a
project of
the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social
Justice Team since May 1983
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