[BlindTlk] The Big Guns!

[pmdonahue2 at gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

	Let's remember that we now have technology and other means to expose agencies that do us wrong such as guide dog schools that take dogs away from their blind handlers without just cause or due process. Technology gives us ways to expose this practice to the World and push these organizations to either abolish these custodial practices or they will be replaced by new and forward-thinking guide dog training programs. 

	If you have a video doorbell, Smartphone, body cam or other device capable of shooting video and a guide dog school shows up to take your dog turn them on and capture the   episode on video and upload it to You Tube or some other Website for all the World to see. A Website could also be created to explain the issue to the general public and videos of dogs being removed unfarely could be posted online to further combat this oud-dated practice. If this doesn't get the attention of guide dog programs that engage in this practice and those who fund them the World will know and understand what is going on and a national conversation will get started.

	How many new stories were created using home-grown video from those with the technology at the scene of the event. We learned about police brutality thanks to someone with a smartphone who was there when George Floyde was suffocated by that Minnesota Police officer or when a mother of several children that entered the country illegally was picked up by ICE and taken away to a detention center. We never heard if she was deported but the incident generated a national conversation concerning the need for immigration reform.

	Why not use these same tactics to expose the behavior of guide dog programs that remove dogs from their blind owners without a thorough investigation or due process. Let's put the technological "Big guns" to work for us to combat custodial and repressive treatment of the blind by agencies such as many guide dog schools.

Peter Donahue

-----Original Message-----
From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Ericka via BlindTlk
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:38 AM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Southeastern Stoops to an All-Time Low!

Yes. Florida ‘s disability rights organization should be able to help as well.

Ericka Nelson

> On Mar 10, 2021, at 10:23 PM, Peter Donahue via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Marion and everyone,
> 
>    She should save copies of the post(s) and seek the help of an 
> attorney.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Marion 
> Gwizdala, via BlindTlk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:12 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>; blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Marion Gwizdala, <blind411 at verizon.net>
> Subject: [BlindTlk] Southeastern Stoops to an All-Time Low!
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> 
> 
>                Southeastern has stooped to an all-time low. Because a 
> concerned individual posted their comments to Southeastern's Facebook 
> page, Southeastern has posted private, privileged, and confidential 
> information in reply. If you thought removing a dog without warning, 
> without due process, and with no offer to remediate the issue was 
> inexcusable, immoral, and unethical, how much more immoral and 
> unethical is posting private, privileged, and confidential 
> information. Even Rev. Blake had not heard this information until it 
> was posted for the world to see!Southeastern Guide Dogs should be ashamed of themselves but, sadly, they are not!
> 
> 
> 
> Rev. Blake has demanded the post be removed; however, as of this 
> writing it is still publicly available!
> 
> 
> 
> Marion Gwizdala egfregious, how much more post that this concerned 
> individual posted to their page; rather, they do this!
> 
> 
> 
> Marion Gwizdala
> 
> (813) 626-2789
> 
> Marion.Gwizdala at verizon.net <mailto:Marion.Gwizdala at verizon.net>
> 
> 
> 
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