{"id":3825,"date":"2009-08-26T12:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/08\/dont-cut-off-our-tongues-felicity-meakins\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"dont-cut-off-our-tongues-felicity-meakins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/08\/dont-cut-off-our-tongues-felicity-meakins\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Cut Off Our Tongues &#8211; Felicity Meakins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>From Felicity Meakins<\/em>]<br \/>\nHi all,<br \/>\nI have just made and ordered new &#8216;Don&#8217;t Cut Off Our Tongues&#8217; postcards. They<br \/>\nhave been ordered to coincide with a Four Corners documentary on the<br \/>\nLajamanu Two-way language program which will be one of the bilingual<br \/>\nprograms to be axed soon. This program will air on  14the or maybe 18 September. The<br \/>\npostcards will be some follow-up lobbying, so please send some out!<br \/>\nThe postcards exist in two forms:<br \/>\n1. The first has &#8216;Don&#8217;t cut off our tongues&#8217; on the front and is addressed<br \/>\nto Paul Henderson.<br \/>\n2. The second has &#8216;Reinstate bilingual education&#8217; on the front and is<br \/>\naddressed to Julia Gillard.<br \/>\nThe image on the front isn&#8217;t the greatest quality, but the point is still<br \/>\nmade. They will be ready in a couple of weeks.<br \/>\nIf you are interested in getting your hands on some, send an email to Greg<br \/>\nDickson (greg.dickson AT  batchelor.edu.au). Let him know which postcards you<br \/>\nwant and how many. Get them out bush, get them to your friends, family and<br \/>\nstudents. But please make sure they are sent!<br \/>\nAlternatively, you could send Greg a return self-addressed envelope:<br \/>\nGreg Dickson<br \/>\nCentre for Australian Languages and Linguistics<br \/>\nBatchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education<br \/>\nKatherine Annexe<br \/>\nPO Box 1896<br \/>\nKatherine NT 0851<br \/>\nE-mail me for any other questions: felicity.meakins AT manchester.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From Felicity Meakins] Hi all, I have just made and ordered new &#8216;Don&#8217;t Cut Off Our Tongues&#8217; postcards. They have been ordered to coincide with a Four Corners documentary on the Lajamanu Two-way language program which will be one of the bilingual programs to be axed soon. This program will air on 14the or maybe &#8230; <a title=\"Don&#8217;t Cut Off Our Tongues &#8211; Felicity Meakins\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/08\/dont-cut-off-our-tongues-felicity-meakins\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Don&#8217;t Cut Off Our Tongues &#8211; Felicity Meakins\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-language-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}