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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m sorry to be responding so late – what a
good cause. I won’t be able to participate since, obviously, the event has
already taken place! If another event is planned, I will participate if the temperature
is lower (a lot lower) than it is now. I am not faring very well in this awful
heat.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Chikako</st1:PersonName>
Mochizuki<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 25, 2011 4:30
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> jayhawk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Jayhawk-chapter] Fw:
[Home-on-the-range] Blind Kansans to picketSen. Roberts Wichita office</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Tom Page
<topage@swbell.net><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> topage@swbell.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 25, 2011 2:48
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Home-on-the-range] Blind
Kansans to picket Sen. Roberts Wichita office<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Members of the National Federation of the Blind of
Kansas will stage an informational picket on Tuesday July 26<sup>th</sup> at
10:00am at the offices of Senator Pat Roberts in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wichita</st1:place></st1:City> (155 N. Market). See below
for more information about the issue. At this time Senator Roberts
office has not released a statement.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Calibri'>In <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wichita</st1:place></st1:City>:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Tom Page </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>1<sup>st</sup> Vice President </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>National Federation of the Blind of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Kansas</st1:place></st1:State></span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>316-734-4839</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Calibri'>316</span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'>-267-7868</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:topage@swbell.net" target="_blank"><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>topage@swbell.
net</span></font></a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Calibri'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>national contact:</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Chris Danielsen</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Director of Public Relations</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>National Federation of the Blind</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>(410) 659-9314, extension 2330</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>(410) 262-1281 (Cell)</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>cdanielsen@nfb.org</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Calibri'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Blind Americans to Protest Subminimum Wages</span></font>
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font-family:Calibri'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Members of National Federation of the Blind Plan</span></font>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> Informational Pickets Across <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Baltimore, Maryland (July 20, 2011): The National
Federation of the Blind, the oldest and largest nationwide organization of
blind people, announced today that its members will conduct informational
protests across the United States to raise awareness about the practice of
paying wages below the federal minimum wage to Americans with disabilities.
The protests will take place at the primary district office locations of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Senators serving on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
(the HELP Committee). The HELP Committee is currently considering
legislationthe Workforce Investment Actwhich would reauthorize the payment
of subminimum wages to disabled workers.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of
the Blind, said: “Unequal pay for equal work on the basis of disability is
unfair, discriminatory, and immoral. The senators who serve on the HELP
Committee must decide whether they stand for the outrageous exploitation of
disabled workers, or for true equality for Americans with disabilities.”</span></font>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>On Wednesday, August 3, the HELP Committee is scheduled
to vote on the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which contains language
reauthorizing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. The
Rehabilitation Act is supposed to provide services to disabled Americans so
that they can obtain competitive employment, but Title V, Section 511 of the
proposed Rehabilitation Act language references Section 14(c) of the 1938
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which allows certain entities holding
special wage certificates to pay workers with disabilities less than the
federal minimum wage. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>For more information on the National Federation of the
Blind and fair wages for workers with disabilities, please visit www.nfb.org.
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation
of the Blind is the largest and most influential membership organization of
blind people in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The NFB improves blind
people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and
programs encouraging independence and self-confidence. It is the
leading force in the blindness field today and the voice of the nation's
blind. In January 2004 the NFB opened the National Federation of the
Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and training center in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
for the blind led by the blind.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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