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Download the Jefferson Center's Spring 2008 Newsletter here With an update from the Jefferson Center Board of Directors and news about rural community projects and grassroots groups that have emerged from the Center's work. Noticias del Centro Jefferson Primavera 2008 Con una actualizacion de la Junta Directiva del Centro Jefferson, asi como noticias de las diferentes iniciativas comunitarias y grupos comunitarios rurales que han emergido del trabajo del Centro Jefferson. Board, staff and community members alike have strived to move through each of these changes thoughtfully and with intention, taking care to keep our ultimate mission front and center. We have worked closely with funders and communities to ensure that the seeds planted through our work can continue to grow, even without the continued involvement of the Jefferson Center as a formal institution. We have also taken time, individually and collectively, to reflect on and articulate what we have learned along the way. In the spirit and praxis of popular education, we are eager to enter into dialogue with allies and friends in the social justice and popular education worlds who may be asking similar questions. Posted here are our initial reflections (all works in progress!). Please take a look. We would love to hear your own thoughts and questions, as we live and learn together in the struggle for justice! Notes on a Conversation with JC Board & Staff Sarah's Reflections In 2004, Lin Nelson and Peter Kardas of The Evergreen State College interviewed Jefferson Center founder, Beverly Brown. In the interview (videotaped by Evergreen faculty member, Anne Fischel), Beverly narrates her life journey and, in particular, her journey as a popular educator. In the first half of the interview, Bev recalls influential childhood experiences, reflects on her involvement in the women’s movement and lesbian community in Oregon, and shares the process for writing the book, In Timber Country. Bev spends the second half of the interview explaining her motivations in starting the Jefferson Center, describing the Center’s work and how it evolved over time, and reflecting on the challenges and successes encountered in the process. Peter Kardas, with help from Sarah K. Loose, has prepared an edited transcript of this interview. They plan to publish it, together with an essay by Beverly (A Matrix of Lies and Revelations) about the difficulties of masking her identity as a lesbian while doing the work of the Jefferson Center; forewords by two of Beverly’s associates from the early days of the Center; an introduction by Lin and Peter (who had known Beverly in her days in Ithaca, NY, in the early 80s, and worked with her until her death); and an afterword by Sarah, who joined Beverly on staff at the Jefferson Center in 2003 and became its director when Beverly was too sick to continue that work. 
On July 19 and 20, 2001, nineteen representatives from worker and non-profit groups in Canada, United States, and Mexico met in a “summit” in Shelton, Washington. We met to learn more about the trade and labor relationships of our three countries through the lens of low-income contract forest workers. The Jefferson Center was asked by summit participants to draft a report that would provide expanded information in topic areas that participants concluded were essential tools to understanding the international relationships of forest workers and sustainability in both communities and ecosystems. In Chapters I through V we provide an expanded overview of topical areas presented at the summit: land tenure, structure of forest work, community forestry, labor law, trade disputes. Chapter VI explores the implications of these forest, labor, and trade realities for environmental restoration, contingent labor, migration, and, in the case of Mexico particularly, militarization. We are pleased to publish this limited edition for review by summit participants and the activist, policy, and academic readers who have requested a workable version sooner than later. We would be pleased to see this project picked up and expanded with a more thorough treatment. And we welcome your comments, corrections and suggestions! 
Non-timber forest workers from SE Asian, Latino, European-American, and Native American backgrounds speak out about issues, contradictions, social and environmental challenges in thirty-two interviews in this 56-page, 8 ½ x 11” booklet that includes over forty pictures, three maps, and a glossary. This booklet is the only source of its kind to include broad non-timber worker/harvester issues and diverse cultural concerns in one publication. We believe the strength of the booklet is the direct personal narratives in which people tackle pivotal issues without backing off from controversy. Download Voces del Bosque Adentro 
From the author: “The purpose of writing this book is to preserve my culture. It is also to help Laotian children who are born outside of Laos and the Laotian community to learn and understand their parents’ culture. Furthermore, it is to help the children know who they are. In addition, it is my hope that other cultures will understand and benefit from this book.” Champa Homeland begins with Souriya Salachit’s autobiography, describing her escape from Laos under Communist control, her stay in the refugee camps of Thailand, and finally her journey to the United States. Subsequent chapters provide an in-depth and personal look at Laotian geography, cultural festivals, religion, history, art, food and society. Includes photos, traditional Laotian recipes and folk songs, and a glossary of many Laotian words. 
Jefferson Center Newsletters provide an informative look at current issues, analysis, and activism on program-related themes. Jefferson Center Bulletins cover single topics in more depth. We are still working on getting all of these uploaded onto our site. But if you want hard copies before then, please contact us at info@jeffctr.org Newsletters Most early volumes of JC newsletters are available upon request in the following languages: English, Spanish, Cambodian, and Laotian. #1 Vol 1 No 1 January 1998 #2 Vol 1 No 2 June 1998 #3 Vol 1 No 3 September 1998 #3 Vol 1 No 3 Septiembre 1998 (Spanish) #4 Vol 1 No 4 December 1998 #5 Vol 2 No 1 May 1999 #6 Vol 2 No 2 October 1999 #6 Vol 2 No 1 Octubre 1999 (Spanish) #7 Vol 3 No 1 April 2000 #8 Vol 3 No 2 Fall 2000 #9 Vol 4 No 1 Spring 2005 #9 Vol 4 No 1 Primavera 2005 (Spanish) #10 Vol 4 No 2 Winter 2005 #10 Vol 4 No 2 Invierno 2005 (Spanish) #11 Vol 5 No 1 December 2006 #11 Vol 5 No 1 Diciembre 2006 (Spanish) Bulletins #1 Harvester/Community-Based Mushroom Monitoring Projects, April 2001 #2 Challenges Facing Community Forestry: The Role of Low-Income Forest Workers, September 2001 #3 Equipment, Logistics & Affordable Strategies for Bilingual and Multilingual Meetings, December 2001 #4 Legal Battle in the Floral Greens Industry, Spring 2002 (English) #4 Batalla legal en la industria de la brocha, primavera 2002 (Spanish) |
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