[Ct-nfb] Global Impact

[Justin Salisbury]

This is so excellent!

Thank you for posting!

Justin M. Salisbury
Class of 2012
B.A. in Mathematics
East Carolina University
president at alumni.ecu.edu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD
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From: ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org [ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Trevor Attenberg [tattenberg at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 10:56 AM
To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List
Subject: [Ct-nfb] Global Impact

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-kindle-deal/.
   Trevor A