[fse-esf] About the choice of languages in Frankfurt

[Graziela Schneider]

I completely agree with Anastasia. What European Social Forum are we talking about? What Europe?
   
  Graziela
  

Anastasia Lampropoulous <anla_75 at yahoo.gr> escreveu:
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  During the organization of the 4th ESF in Athens, Babels assisted by ALIS group strived to provide passive –at least- interpretation in more than 20 languages. This choice was not a luxury that the Greek Organizing Committee could afford to offer to the participants. It was a conscious political decision; both Babels-el and the Organizing Committee knew that not so many languages were “strictly” needed for carrying out the 4th ESF. However, at the expense of organizing the EL booth in a better way, Babels-el and the Organizing Committee decided that it was politically important to send the participants the message that we are doing our best to make everyone’s voice heard. 
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  I was extremely surprised to find out that our effort to break the barrier of the widely spoken languages and to include Eastern European ones was not noticed by anyone. In the first EPA for the 5th ESF, there will be interpretation only in English, French and German. There was not even a thought or a discussion about including an Eastern European language such as Polish.
  
Today I –I know it’s a bit late but I lost track of the developments because I faced health problems lately- read the message of Hugo Braun about the topics that will be discussed in the EPA. The first topic is the evaluation of the 4th ESF and how we are going to proceed. However, so as to hold this discussion and make the most of it, you should at least consider to provide simultaneous interpretation from and into Greek since a number of Greeks are going to travel to Frankfurt to talk about their experience and discuss about the process. Some of them speak neither English nor French nor German and others although might speak one of the above-mentioned languages, they are anything but fluent. 
  Anastasia Lampropoulou
Babels-el
    
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