Today, representatives of Cultural Survival, the Guatemalan Community Radio Movement, and several national Indigenous organizations are scheduled to meet with Alvaro Colom (president of Guatemala), Roberto Alejos (president of the Congress), and members of the Supreme Court to discuss how to grant long-promised broadcast licenses to community radio stations. The meeting is the strongest opportunity yet for government support of community radio and is the result of months of intense lobbying by Cultural Survival and our community radio partners.

Educators from the Cherokee, Muckleshoot, Native Hawaiian, Ojibwe, and other tribal language programs across Indian Country met for two days this week in the Senate Dirksen Building and at the U.S. Department of Education to press federal officials to uphold provisions in the 1990 Native American Languages Act (NALA) that have been undermined by No Child Left Behind—particularly, testing requirements that penalize Native language schools and teachers for providing students with Indigenous language instruction across all subject areas. 

Cultural Survival will participate in the 4th annual National Native Language Revitalization Summit in Washington, D.C. July 13-14 organized by the National Alliance to Save Native Languages.  Sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Education Association, and the National Indian Gaming Association, the event will include a keynote address by a newly appointed member of the Commission on U.S. Presidential Scholars, Colin Kippen.