[Ct-nfb] Global Impact

[Trevor Attenberg]

Hey guys. The NFB has been fighting to cancel a multibillion dollar State
Department program to distribute thousands of Amazon Kindles (which are
inaccessible for the blind) as part of a global language teaching
initiative. The NFB's argument stresses the imperative of accessible,
non-discriminatory resources in US over-seas philanthropy/culture exchange.
Although perhaps you'd call the language initiative global assimilation.
Anyhow, it seems the NFB is seeing success as the Kindle program's been
shelved for the present. Here's the link the NFB provides-

http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/16/state-department-withdraws-its-amazon-kind
le-deal/.

   Trevor A

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