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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Take the Short Cut:</font></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">For all current WE LEARN News on Calls, Activities, and New Resources, visit our website homepage: <a href="http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html">http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html</a></font></span></b></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Call for Presentation Proposals</font></span></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">6th Annual WE LEARN (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women and Literacy</font></div><div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Stronger Leadership & Literacy: Empowering Women to Action</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b>March 6-7, 2009</b> - </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Thursday, March 5, 2009 / Student Leadership Gathering (tentative)</font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">University of Rhode Island, Providence Campus</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Providence, RI</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">For details and form go to: <a href="http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html">http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b>Deadline: November 30, 2008</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">--------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></div></div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Call for ABE Student Writing</font></b><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Women's Perspectives 2009 - Issue #4 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Theme: </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Transition / Transformation</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">For details, lesson plans & pre-writing activities, go to: <a href="http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html">http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b>Deadline: December 5, 2008</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">----------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Check out our </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">New Resources - </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html">http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html</a></font></span></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">• Women Leading Through Reading Training Manual</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">• 5th Anniversary Celebration Calendar - 16 months of fun Aug. 2008 - Dec. 2009</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">•</font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">, by Lorna Rivera</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">For all current WE LEARN News on Calls, Activities, and New Resources, visit our website homepage: <a href="http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html">http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html</a></font></span></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></i></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">**Please spread the word...we welcome you to pass this news along to your colleagues and friends.**</font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">-----------------</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">WE LEARN promotes women's literacy as a tool for personal growth and social change through networking, education, action, and resource development. WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network) is a participatory organization guided by feminist/womanist principles, formally incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)3 organization in November 2003 in Providence, RI. Through conferences, publications, research, special projects and a website of resources, WE LEARN works to increase awareness and support of women's literacy issues, assists adult literacy teachers to support women's learning, and provides opportunities and resources for literacy learners to engage with women-centered materials.</font></i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">--------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Mev Miller, Ed.D., Director</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="mailto:welearn@litwomen.org">welearn@litwomen.org</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">WE LEARN</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.litwomen.org/welearn.html</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">182 Riverside Ave.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Cranston, RI 02910</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">401-383-4374</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font> <br></div></body></html>