[Ag-eq] Do I fight or just find some other way

Sun Jul 4 03:09:01 UTC 2010

Peg:

I currently don't belong to either the ACB or NFB, but agree that it is 
important.  I always suggest to my clients that they join an advocacy group.

I think it is important to be able to talk with other blind people.  There 
are some things that only my blind friends can completely understand. 
They've had many of the same experiences and can give me ideas.  I have 
wonderful sighted friends and a great boyfriend, but they can't identify 
with some of the discrimination issues I've faced.  They are sympathetic and 
often even angry, but they don't completely understand.

I think once I'm no longer working in the blindness field I will be more 
involved with NFB, but I didn't want my whole life to be about blindness, so 
haven't participated for the last few years.

Does anyone know if the agriculture division will have a meeting at the 
national convention?

If so will there be a recording of it?

Nella

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peg Brandt" <hazer100 at hotmail.com>
To: "NFB Equine" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Do I fight or just find some other way

>
> Hi, Barb!  This group is a branch of the National Federation of the 
> Blind's Agriculture and Equine division.  It is open to anyone and there 
> are people who regularly contribute to this list who belong to both the 
> National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind. 
> And those who belong to neither group!  It is open to everyone and anyone 
> interested in agriculture and the equine world!  N.F.B. is notorious for 
> fighting for the rights of blind individuals in such predicaments with 
> many successful outcomes!  Contact your local state chapter of the N.F.B. 
> and get started.  N.F.B. seems to be in a neverending loop of being in 
> litigation for the rights of ALL blind people!  I'm N.F.B. and I have a 
> veery close friend who is A.C.B. We neever talk politics when together but 
> there is one thing that we both agree on and that is that you need to 
> belong to one or the other as a blind person coz you never know when the 
> time will come when you will need them to help fight for your rights down 
> the road!  This person has confided in me saying that N.F.B. does a much 
> better job of this!  Good examples of this is Newsline for the Blind, 
> thanks to the N.F.B.; book reading device, thanks to the N.F.B in 
> collaberation with major companies; K-N.F.B. cellphone readeer, thanks to 
> the N.F.B. and Kurszweihll company; and had I been in Dallas for the 
> national convention, I may have had a chance to drive, yes, I said drive 
> the first driveable car for the blind which in a few short years will be 
> available for blind people to be independantly able to drive a car!  Once 
> agdain, thanks to the N.F.B. and those working in creating and finalizing 
> this car!  Many don't feel belonging to a blind consumer group is for 
> them, I beg to differ and am gled that I belong to such a wonderful 
> organization!  Peg in Iowa
>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 02:49:47 +0000
>> From: barbandzoe at comcast.net
>> To: ag-eq at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Ag-eq] Do I fight or just find some other way
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi you guys, I am in my first quoter of the vet tech program up here and 
>> it is kind of clear by a  couple of people that they are not happy with 
>> me and don't really want to help.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I first looked into the vet tech program I went to the school and 
>> talked to the head of the department and ask what things that they did 
>> that could give me a bit of trouble.  I told her  I needed to know so I 
>> could see if I can find a way to make it work for me.  the only thing she 
>> said was that if I could not do microscope work then I can not be a vet 
>> tech and going to school would not be worth it.   OK, I asked her about 
>> the high power microscopes and if they would be OK for me to get.  I made 
>> it clear that the school would not be hold responsible for the cost.  She 
>> just said, if you can't do the microscope work then you can't be a vet 
>> tech.
>>
>> We are still  looking into   the microscope part, that has not caused me 
>> any trouble let.
>>
>>
>>
>> But the two people who are the pain are the head of the department, she 
>> also teaches classes, so I will have her as a student.  the other one is 
>> a lab teacher that I have for two class this quoter.  If I ask her 
>> something she will say things like well you should know that and sorry I 
>> can't help you.  I do notice that the students who show the most promise 
>> are the ones that get the most attention.  I have seen both of them acted 
>> with impatience with a couple of girls that are all so not at the top of 
>> the class.  She is the kind of person gets mad at me for doing something 
>> and then doesn't say anything to the next one that does it.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I fight it, I will have them as teachers all the time I am their, and 
>> do I want to go thought that.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> I just wanted to work with and around animals and these guys are making 
>> it so hard.  I just will have to try a nother way to do it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Barb
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