Advocacy meeting tomorrow

[Joshua Pennise]

Hi everyone,

 

In case you haven’t seen it, there’s a meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) hosted by the Association of Language Companies meant to discuss some of the federal actions against language access of late and what we can do to respond. 0.1 CEUs PS available for free.

 

Here’s the info if you’d like to attend:

 

 

REGISTER at:  https://www.alcus.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1955056&group=

 

Best,

Josh Pennise, MA, CI and CT, NIC Advanced

[jmiller88]

I missed it, how was it?

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[Stephanie Jo Kent]

I thought it was good and interesting. Several heads of various organizations gave reports, including Star from RID.

Star reported on the flash survey they did on the immediate impacts of administration budget actions. I was driving so couldn't take notes(maybe someone can please correct these #s?) but, per memory...

of the 1200 or so respondents, there's 

• a percent of interpreters who have completely lost employment, 
• another percent (50%?) that has reduced employment, and 
• another percent with increased workloads to cover new gaps.

The main theme was to be motivational and encourage/convince our profession of the need to organize.

To this end the Association of Language Companies announced their "advocacy hub" webpage.  They are asking people to distribute this widely to interpreters and to consumers so that folks can begin to report instances of language access issues. The page also includes several downloadable resources. Many of these are geared to spoken languages but one thing to be aware of is that for the first time spoken language and signed language interpreters are working together. 

We will be stronger and more effective together.

best regards,

steph

[jmiller88]

This is amazing Stephanie, thank you SO much for sharing! I am going to share this website widely!

Jenny

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[Judi]

I’ve wanted this for years…….hopefully I am able to join and assist. 

Judith Rackovitch CI and CT

516.712.8147

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[Rayne Depukat (Coleman)]

I’m also very interested in organizing and have a background in community organizing work. 

IMO, one big barrier to progress in this area is the inability for freelancers and those working for different entities to unionize if they choose. There would have to be a guild approach and that hasn’t gotten enough traction in the past. 

I suspect it might get much more now, especially if combined with spoken language interpreters. The organizing power would be massive. 

Rayne Depukat, NIC
ASL/English Interpreter
LEND Fellow ‘24/‘25
Greater Providence Area
Nationally Certified
Rhode Island Licensed
MA Contracted
(603) 305-4187 voice/text

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