[hr-education-na] Welcome to the North American HRE List

Dear List members,

On behalf of HREA, I would like to welcome you to the North American
Human Rights Education listserv! The "hr-education-na" listserv is the
latest in a series of regional listservs HREA has developed to enable
information exchange and networking between individuals working in HRE
in specific areas of the world. This list will allow members based in
Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to focus on topics that have particular
relevance there (e.g. post-September 11 discussion topics, local course
announcements for teachers, region-specific curriculum projects, etc).

Those of you who subscribe to the Global Human Rights Educatio List know
that its growth over the last four years has been remarkable. From a
beginning base of just over 300 subscribers, the Global HRE list is now
used as an information exchange, networking tool and forum for ideas by
over 3000 members worldwide, and the number continues to grow daily. This
growth has resulted in high competition for "on-line time", as we adhere
to the List's principle of posting a small number of quality messages
rather than flooding mailboxes. Regional lists such as the North American
HRE List will enable us to maintain a diverse balance of worldwide
participation on the Global HRE List, while giving regional special
interests and issues their appropriate audience.

In this message I will briefly review some administrative information.

To send a message to the list, please send it to the following e-mail
address: <hr-education-na@hrea.org>. Note that some time might go by
before your message is distributed to all subscribers to the list, since
this is a moderated list, which means all messages have to be read by one
of our team members. As with the Global HRE List, messages posted to the
list will be archived on HREA's web site.

The working language of this list will be English, but recognizing that
Canada, Mexico and the United States have a substantial population of
French and Spanish speakers, we encourage submission of messages in
either of these languages as well. When possible, we will try to
translate particularly relevant messages received in French or Spanish
into English.

If you know of colleagues who do not know about the list yet, please
forward the information about the North American HRE List to them. In
order to subscribe they should send an e-mail message to:

Majordomo@hrea.org

Leave the subject line empty and write in the body of the message:

subscribe hr-education-na

If you have problems subscribing or unsubscribing, please send a message
to <owner-hr-education-na@hrea.org> to reach a 'real' person who will
assist you.

We look forward to a vibrant exchange of information and experiences and
hope that this medium will serve as an additional resource for all those
working in the human rights and education field on the North American
continent.

Yours sincerely,

Felisa Tibbitts


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Felisa Tibbitts, Director
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) - USA office
PO Box 382396
Cambridge, MA 02238
(tel) +1 978-341-0200 (fax) +1 978-341-0201
(e-mail) ftibbitts@hrea.org (Web) http://www.hrea.org



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