[il-talk] FW: Article from Braille Monitor Articles Section 2019 03 01

Sat Mar 2 23:51:06 UTC 2019

You go Mary Lou!    Great article!
Linda

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From: Gina Falvo via IL-Talk
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2019 03 01

Very nice Marylou. Gina Falvo

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> On Mar 2, 2019, at 3:50 PM, eileen Truschke via IL-Talk 
> <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Mary Lou is a  true champion for the NFBI and has been since day 1 of the 
> affiliate's charter.  She's one of the hardest working individuals for 
> equality of the blind.  Ken Schad and I are mighty proud of you, Mary Lou.
>    On Saturday, March 2, 2019, 8:32:42 AM CST, Mary lou Grunwald via 
> IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> For those individuals in the NFB of my generation, having an article 
> published in the braille monitor that you had something to do with is 
> quite an honor!
>
> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 2 Mar 2019, at 6:19 AM, Denise Avant via IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> 
>> wrote:
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>> This article features comments by a great federationist.
>>
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>> Denise R. Avant, Esq.
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>> President,
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>> National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
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>> 773-991-8050
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>> Live the life you want.
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>> Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2019 6:09 AM
>> To: Denise Avant <davant1958 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Article from Braille Monitor Articles Section 2019 03 01
>>
>>
>>
>> A Network of Support From the Editor: Longtime NFB of Illinois member 
>> Mary
>> Lou Grunwald delivered the following presentation at the joint luncheon 
>> for
>> vendors and students on October 27, 2018. I'm so excited to be at an 
>> event
>> like this. It's kind of a dream come true for me. I'm up here because I 
>> was
>> asked to speak about one very specific reason why I'm in the NFB. There 
>> are
>> many reasons why I'm involved, but this is a story many of you may not 
>> know.
>> For a little background, one of the early successes of the NFBI was that 
>> we,
>> along with our national office, advocated with the National Labor 
>> Relations
>> Board (NLRB) to reclassify sheltered workshops as factories and not as
>> rehabilitation institutions. As a result, the NLRB took jurisdiction over
>> union organizing efforts at the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind. In 1976 
>> I
>> was in my early twenties. I wasn't able to go to college, so my first 
>> stop
>> in my career journey was the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind. At that 
>> time
>> it was not the place that it is today. They paid subminimum wages, and 
>> they
>> had substandard working conditions. I worked in the factory making big 
>> ones
>> out of little ones, a shorthand for assembling chemistry sets and
>> switchboard plugs. It was tough work for very little money, but my mom 
>> and I
>> needed that money desperately. I had recently gotten to know the NFB and 
>> had
>> become involved with the Chicago chapter. Through our involvement with 
>> the
>> NFB some of us at the Lighthouse started trying to form a union there. We
>> worked very hard on it with the support and the guidance of the chapter 
>> and
>> of the state and national NFB, and also the help of the Teamsters Union.
>> Unfortunately we lost by only a couple of votes because of some ugly 
>> scare
>> tactics that were going on. I'm not at all sorry I did it. It was 
>> wonderful
>> experience that prepared me for things I did later on. But when I got 
>> home,
>> the reality set in. I had done something that I thought was very 
>> important,
>> but now I had no job, and Mom and I had very little money. My mother was
>> very upset with me because I had done all of this advocacy. I started 
>> trying
>> to figure out my next career move. And while I was working on that,
>> something started happening. I started getting envelopes in the mail. 
>> These
>> envelopes had people's names on them, people I didn't recognize. When I
>> opened them I found checks, checks from people, and I didn't know who the
>> heck they were. I thought, who could this be? What is this? Then I
>> recognized a couple of the names, and I realized that these checks came 
>> from
>> Federationists all over the country who were supporting me! People I had
>> never met in my life were sending me money to help support me! That
>> experience solidified my desire to be helpful in this organization at
>> whatever level my talents would allow. That's one of the reasons I'm in 
>> the
>> NFB. Thank you!.
>>
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