NOT A CHURCH AND NOT A SCHOOL
Language for Liberation presents
FREE Community ENGLISH Classes
These English classes are held Wednesday nights 6-8:30 at the Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice (672 E. Broadway). Everyone is welcome.
Bring your needs and interests and you’ll:
- Practice English for everyday situations at work, at the doctor, in the family, with friends, etc.
- Talk about issues facing the community: immigration, work, sexism and women’s rights, unemployment, culture, racism.
- Teach and learn about current events in Canada and around the world
- Study grammar as needed with games and exercises.
- Share ideas and strategies on how to assert our rights and social and economic justice.
- Meet new people and have fun practicing English!
Language for Liberation promotes multi-lingualism and social and economic justice as solutions to the language barrier and discrimination experienced by many immigrants, migrants and refugees who speak languages other than English, while offering concrete English skills and practice.
Classes are led by participants and a trained ESL instructor. Childcare is available. Classes are free and funded by a participant-led fundraisers.
New session starts February 2nd, 2011 but you are welcome to join any time. To register or for more information, email languageliberation@gmail.com or phone 604-215-2775.
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The Language for Liberation Project is English classes run by and for the community. Participants shape the topics of the class, with a focus on the English needed to defend our rights and participate more fully in the social, political and economic life of the city.
The need for the Language for Liberation Project stems from the reality that most immigrant and migrant people need English to assert our rights with employers, welfare workers, landlords, and government officials; yet many of us cannot access English classes due to immigration status, no money to pay for classes, lack of childcare, and other barriers.
We want Language for Liberation because we want to develop the liberatory ideas in our communities and expand our capacity to defend our rights. At the same time, we want to create a culture of multi-lingualism that asserts people’s right to speak, teach and learn their maternal languages. English classes are a venue for sharing values, ideas, and information. These can reinforce the racist, sexist, class oppressive ideas of the majority, or can be an opportunity to express and develop our anti-racist, anti-sexist class consciousness.
The classes are run by the Language for Liberation Project Committee, which is made up of a teacher, learners and volunteers. The Committee puts the power in the learners’ hands and recognizes that teachers and volunteers are learning just as much as the “language learners”.
If you are interested in participating in the Language for Liberation Project as a language learner, volunteer, or the Project Committee, please contact Beth at 604-215-2775 or beth.grayer@gmail.com.
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