La pandemia de COVID-19 ha puesto en relieve la necesidad de difundir la información necesaria para el bienestar de las personas en sus lenguas depreferencia. Esto es particularmente importante para los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas y sus familias a quienes la pandemia a afectado demanera desmesurada. En una muestra de 300 trabajadores agrícolas, el Estudio de trabajadores agrícolas COVID-19 de Oregón encontró hablantes de 26 lenguas indígenas mesoamericanas de Guatemala y México. Los programas de apoyo patrocinados por el estado que se ofrecen en español no siempre son lo suficientemente accesibles para los trabajadores agrícolas que hablan estos idiomas.

Este evento en línea y gratuito de un día está diseñado para que las agencias gubernamentales y las organizaciones no gubernamentales consede en Oregón se familiaricen con prácticas adecuadas en justicia y servicios lingüísticos. Los participantes escucharán a miembros de lacomunidad y a defensores que respondieron durante la pandemia y participarán en un taller práctico diseñado para mejorar las prácticas deaccesibilidad lingüística en Oregón. El evento será mayormente enespañol con interpretación profesional al inglés y a lenguas mesoamericanas según las necesidades del público.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to deliver information critical for the well being of individuals in linguistically appropriate methods. This is particularly important for Indigenous farmworkers and their families facing an already disproportionate pandemic impact. In a sample of 300 farmworkers, the Oregon COVID-19 Farmworker Study found speakers of 26 distinct Indigenous Mesoamerican languages from Guatemala and Mexico. State-sponsored support programs offered in Spanish are not always sufficiently accessible to farmworkers who are speakers of these languages.

This one-day, free, online event is designed for Oregon-based government agencies and non-governmental organizations to learn best practices in language justice and language services. Participants will hear from community members and advocates that responded during the pandemic and engage in a hands-on workshop designed to improve language accessibility practices in Oregon. The event will be held mostly in Spanish with professional interpretation into English and into Mesoamerican languages as requested by attendees.

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CONFERENCIA DE UN DIA /ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
LENGUAS MESOAMERICANAS EN OREGON  /
MESOAMERICAN LANGUAGES IN OREGONENSCRIBIRSE/REGISTER: TINYURL.COM/ORMESOAMERICANLANGUAGES 
16 JUNIO/JUNE 16, 2021, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
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The UO Latinx Strategies Group is a dynamic alliance of students, staff, and faculty that works to address issues of importance to Latinx members of the University and the greater Eugene-Springfield community. In all that we do, we recognize our limitations and strive to do better.

Joining our voices to the resounding cry, the UO Latinx Strategies Group also believes that
BLACK. LIVES. MATTER:

• As members from the UO community, we stand in solidarity with our colleagues in the Black Strategies Group, Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center, and the Black Academic Excellence Team.

• As a fellow Strategies Group, we pledge to listen more attentively and actively seek
collaboration with and support the activities of the Black Strategies Group.

• We support the list of demands the Black Student Collective has put forward and believe seeing these demands come to fruition will make great strides to making our campus a more equitable and inclusive space.

• As part of working against anti-Blackness on a larger scale, we recognize that our Latinx
community has often displayed hatred and systemic anti-Blackness towards Afro-Latinx
members within our own community. Building upon available resources, we are engaging in a series of activities to teach ourselves about this situation and will design activities to address these issues on a larger scale in the UO community next year.

Being supportive of the BLM movement means listening to Black voices without speaking for them. As the Black Strategies Group reminded us, this conversation has long existed and will continue. We are listening and want to partner in the positive change that needs to come. We call upon the administration to take the necessary steps to do the same.

In solidarity,
Latinx Strategies Group

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In collaboration with DEI leadership, we are reaching out to invite you and members of your strategy and/or working groups to join an informal, BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch) Strategy Group Community Gathering on November 22^nd from 11:30-1pm in the EMU Miller Room.

This will be an agenda-free lunch with simple goals: meeting each other, creating opportunity for grassroots collaboration, and gauging folks’ interest in future connection opportunities. We hope to hold a community gathering next term as well, shaped by the interests that arise during the November 22nd lunch.

To RSVP and/or provide input electronically regarding future connection opportunities please click this link:  https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1QVNsCu0X1GcMxT

For accommodation requests, please contact Sara sclark6@uoregon.edu 541-346-0848.