[Centralok] Fwd: [NFBOK-Talk] URGENT! call to action! NFBOK Blind Push Back!

Sun Feb 26 00:47:51 UTC 2017

Hello everyone.

Please see below about our activities at the Capitol on Wednesday. This 
is very important!!! The blind are under attack. The Legislature is 
attempting to pass measures that would reduce the quality of services 
available to the blind in Oklahoma and put blind merchants out of work. 
We cannot let this happen. In addition to meeting at the Capitol on 
Wednesday, we need you to keep calling and emailing your legislators to 
oppose HB 1861, HB 2230 and SB 733. We will have a full page ad in the 
Sunday Oklahoman and we will be starting a social media opposition 
campaign tomorrow in conjunction with the ad. If you are on Twitter 
and/or Facebook, please retweet and share. We need volume to implement a 
successful social media campaign. These issues are truly urgent. It will 
take all of us to defeat these bills. It's time to let the Oklahoma 
Legislature know that they can't make policy about us, without us. 
Please help in any way you can. We, the blind of Oklahoma, must push back.

Audrey T. Farnum

First Vice President

National Federation of the Blind Oklahoma.

405-590-6110

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Subject: 	[NFBOK-Talk] URGENT! call to action! NFBOK Blind Push Back!
Date: 	Sat, 25 Feb 2017 18:19:31 -0600
From: 	Jeannie Massay via NFBOK-Talk <nfbok-talk at nfbnet.org>
Reply-To: 	NFB of Oklahoma Internet Mailing List <nfbok-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: 	'President, National Federation of the Blind' 
<OfficeOfThePresident at nfb.org>
CC: 	Jeannie Massay <jmassay1 at cox.net>

*The Blind Push Back in Oklahoma!*

*_CALL TO ACTION!_*

*Wednesday, March 1^st !*

*If you are Blind, know or love someone who is blind, you need to be at 
the Oklahoma State Capitol on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, to let our 
legislators  know that we, the blind of Oklahoma, are not OK with 
legislation being written  about us without our input, expertise and 
experience of living as blind people. Further, that we do not want or 
need either of the bills currently in question. *

*We need everyone to show up in opposition to HB 1861 and HB 2230. Make 
the day about showing Oklahoma that the Blind community is alive and 
well in Oklahoma. How can you help?  See how below:*

*Come to the Oklahoma State Capitol and stay all day!*

*1.**The House Municipal & County Committee will vote on HB 2230 at 9:00 
a.m. in Room 412 C. *

*2.**We, the blind, and our friends and family members will rally at 
1:00 on the South Plaza to oppose the legislation and demonstrate our 
capacity through collective action. *

*3.**The House Appropriations Committee will meet at 3:30 in Room 206 to 
vote on HB 1861.*

*4.**Share and Like our Facebook and Twitter posts.*

*If you are able to stay for the entire day, please plan to do so. If 
you are able to attend part of the day please come to the Blind Push 
Back Rally and the House Municipal & County Committee meeting in the 
morning or the House Appropriations Committee meeting in the afternoon. *

*Tired of being pushed around? *

*We can and must do something about it! *

*_HB1861 Regarding the Older Blind program _*

This bill will effectively remove the management and services to the 
older blind from the Department of Rehabilitation and its employees to 
other possible organizations or private agencies. This legislation will 
take dollars away from Visual Services and afford it to outside 
interests. This bill seeks to provide a solution to a problem that does 
not exist. The Older Blind program needs to stay where it is!

*_HB2230 Regarding the exemption of county jail commissaries from 
priority to licensed blind managers_*

This bill will effectively remove a blind manager from the job that he 
does well and will set precedent for other locations to be removed for 
exemption in the future. The bill, in its current form, will remove all 
county jails from prioritization. Further, in the future other 
facilities are quite likely to be targeted as well. Last year, the 
legislature exempted the Capitol from priority and claimed that they 
would not pursue further locations in the future.

*It's time to tell the Oklahoma Legislature they can’t make policy about 
us, without us. Please join us Wednesday to be a part of the blind push 
back.*

Jeannie M. Massay, President

National Federation of theBlind

Of Oklahoma

505 Baker Street

Norman, OK 73072

Phone: 405-600-0695

Jeannie.massay at nfbok.org <mailto:Jeannie.massay at nfbok.org>

Live the life you want!

The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the 
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day, we raise 
expectations of the blind because low expectations create obstacles 
between blind people and our dreams. Blindness is not what holds you 
back. You can live the life you want.!.

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