[nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed. June 22, 8:00 pm EDT

Josh Gregory joshkart12 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 00:20:16 UTC 2011


Can you explain offlist, please? I'm afraid we might be getting 
too offtopic if we keep it on.
Best,
Josh

sent from my Apex
Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:59:55 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes 
interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 
22, 8:00 pm EDT

Yeah, but looktell is better.

On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
 Oh, so that's the one I heard about.  The pay one, that is.  So
 EyeNote's free.  Thanks Jessica!
 Best,
 Josh

 sent from my Apex
 Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

  ----- Original Message -----
 From: Jessica <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
 <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:36:04 -0700
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
 interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
 22, 8:00 pm EDT

 Josh, eyeNote is free.  The other I speak of is looktell money
 reader.  It is 2 dollars.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com
 wrote:

  Hi, Jessica.  There's another one? EyeNote is what I was 
talking
 about, but I didn't know there was another one.  Do you by any
 chance know it's name?
  Best,
  Josh
  PS: Eyenote's free? Thought you had to pay for it.  Well, we
 learn something new every day.  (smile)

  sent from my Apex
  Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jessica Silva <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
  To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:59:27 -0700 (PDT)
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
 interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
 22, 8:00 pm EDT

  actually there is the one he speaks of but also there is the 
one
 made by the US treasury.  it's called eyeNote and it's free.

  On Wed Jun 22nd, 2011 3:39 PM MDT Josh Gregory wrote:

  They've got an ap to help with identifying money for I O S
 devices, that was mentioned on this list before I think.  I have
 heard it's only 2 bucks but that it works well.  It might be in
 the ap store, but not having a device to check on, I'm not sure.
  Best,
  Josh

  sent from my Apex
  Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
  To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
 <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:11:10 -0700
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
 interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
 22, 8:00 pm EDT

  Hello, but what happens if I have a bill in my hand and I want
 to know what
  it is, but there is not a single sighted soul to tell me what 
it
 is? I know
  is a free alternative but, is it truly worth it? And, what if
 that sighted
  person lies about the amount of money that is on the bill?
  I would probably support ideas like the KNFB reader and the
 iBill identifier
  if they were even cheaper.  If they were so, I would buy one or
 the other,
  but so far, I can not afford either one.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
 [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
  Of Kirt Manwaring
  Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:01 PM
  To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
 interview, Ride
  into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm EDT

  Joshua,
  Valid points.  I've got a solution for you that doesn't cost a
  thing.  Get a sighted person you trust to tell you what your
 bills are
  when you get them, and fold them so you can identify them in 
the
  future.  Inconvenient, maybe...but hey, if we're going to fit 
in
 to
  the world we've got to put up with some annoyances.
  BTW, what's wrong with a 20 cell display?  Not ideal maybe but,
 hey,
  maybe a rehab counselor would be more willing to get something
 with
  that much of a price reduction as compared to a 40 cell.  I 
used
 a
  20-cell PAC mate all through High School, an 18-cell Apex for 
my
 first
  year of college, and the shorter displays work fine.
  Best,
  Kirt

  On 6/22/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
 wrote:
  This is what Allan Ramos told me.
  He was a trainee at LWSB, when I was there.
  He's a member of the CCB, (California Council of the Blind,)
 (not to
  be confused with Colorado Center for the Blind.)
  I'm going on what he said.
  Paper currency in the US, started with Andrew Jackson.
  Glenn Beck talks about this in great deal, in his book,
 "Growth."
  I've heard, that the debit cards are an alternative, but we
 don't have
  such a system, that is accessible to us, in my small town.
  It's either what I suggested, or we should ask the NFB to push
 the
  companies that make accessible technologies, to make their
 technology
  affordable for all blind citizens, that need it.
  That's my problem with the Blind Driver Challenge, (for
 example.)
  They will make this car, but they have to charge an obseen
 amount of
  money, for it.
  I'm not going to be able to afford it.
  I can't afford a Pac Mate, with a 32 cell Braille display, and
 my
  state won't purchase it, for my schooling.
  I'm bringing this up, because, (back to the currency,) the 
IBill
 costs
  $100.
  The IBill, (I felt of one at convention last year,) is as small
 as a
  giga-pet.
  I got one of those, for $5, when I was a child!
  Why would I pay $100 for something that small?
  Make it affordable!
  Blessings, Joshua

  On 6/22/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Josh,
  Your idea to have only coins is a good idea, but not realistic.
 Can you
  see
  a 50 dollar coin or even 20 dollar coin? Paper currency has 
been
 and will
  always be a fabric of this country as it is in every country.
 Which
  country
  has only coins and know paper currency?
  I do not believe, but I could be wrong and please correct me,
 but I do
  not
  think that ACB is advocating only braille notes.  From my
 understanding
  they
  have been advocating a form of paper currency which is
 accessible  and
  afordable.  Ovisily braille is not the most afordable means to
 make paper
  currency accessible.

  Anmol
  I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me 
sad.
 Perhaps
  there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague,
 like a
  breeze
  among flowers.
  Hellen Keller


  --- On Wed, 6/22/11, Joshua Lester
 <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
  wrote:

  From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
 interview,
  Ride
  into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm EDT
  To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 1:51 PM
  Anmol, it's amazing that you bring up
  accessible currency.
  What the ACB wants, is Brailled currency.
  That isn't going to work.
  I have the answer to the problem.
  First of all, it's political.
  I'm tired of people saying that the conservatives aren't on
  the side
  of the blind.
  When it comes to currency, they are.
  Remember, when Reagan mentioned a return to the gold
  standard?
  Coins are the answer to the problem.
  We can identify the coins, by their texture.
  We can't do this with paper currency.
  That solves the problems with our currency.
  This would help everyone, including us.
  #1.  You can't inflate, or deflate coins.
  #2.  You can't counterfeit coins.
  #3, (Here's the thing that will help blind people,) We can
  identify
  coins by their texture.
  Would there have to be alot of changes made?
  Yes, but is it worth it?
  Yes!
  Blessings, Joshua

  On 6/22/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
  wrote:
  Jessica,
  Good point.  In addition, I would much rather a blind
  person to feel mobil
  even if they don't have good mobility skills and
  frankly I would rather have
  audible street lights then to see a blind person get
  killed because they
  could not figure out how the traffic goes.
  Anmol
  I seldom think about my limitations, and they never
  make me sad.  Perhaps
  there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is
  vague, like a breeze
  among flowers.
  Hellen Keller


  --- On Wed, 6/22/11, Jessica <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
  wrote:

  From: Jessica <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw
  Our Eyes interview, Ride
  into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 22,
  8:00 pm EDT
  To: "National Association of Blind Students
  mailing list"
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 1:01 PM
  There are certain types of
  intersections where no matter how long you stand
  there and
  listen to traffic you will never hear a good cycle
  so in
  those cases I actually support aps.  Just keep that
  in mind
  when someone talks about every intersection being
  crossable
  by listening to traffic.

  Sent from my iPhone

  On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Kirt Manwaring
  <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
  wrote:

  Anmol,
  It's a nice thought.  Maybe it'll
  be
  possible, some day.  Never say
  never, ri9ght?
  But here's the thing.  The two
  organizations have evolved two
  separate philosophies and mindsets.  I'm
  doing
  something really bad
  and generalizing.  If anyone who knows
  more than
  I do wants to correct
  me here, feel free.
  The stance the ACB seems to take more
  often than
  not is to make the
  environment more accessible for us.
  This is
  evidenced by their
  support for audible street signals (which
  make a lot
  of sense to me,
  I'm not really convinced one way or the other
  on that
  one yet),
  tactile currency, descriptive movies, the
  provisions
  in the ADA to
  make ATMs accessible, the 21st century
  communications
  act, their
  support for Randolph-Shepherd, universal
  design in
  technology, etc.
  They also use lots of their resources to
  fight
  descrimination, at
  least it seems that way to me.
  The NFB, on the other hand, seems to
  more often
  than not advocate us
  adapting to the environment.  This is
  evidenced
  by the strict
  standards of training centers, pushing
  braille,
  opposition to the
  tactile currency idea, advocacy of relying on
  traffic
  rather than
  audible signals (which makes a lot of sense
  to me),
  our philosophy
  that with the right training and opportunity
  we can
  compete on an
  equal footing, the idea of the blind driver
  challenge,
  etc.  Of course
  the NFB sometimes pushes making changes in
  the
  environment (technology
  bill of rights, Help America Vote Act, and
  the ADA
  which we also
  supported), and the ACB does advocate for
  quality
  independence
  training/O&M.  But, those are the
  rough
  philosophies of the two
  organizations, if we're going by their
  records.
  Is the ACB wrong?
  No, I don't think so, but the NFB is more of
  a fit
  with my vision of
  blindness.  I just think thee two
  separate
  methodoligies willkeep us
  from ever uniting as one group...and that's
  ok.
  We all have the
  right, even the obligation to advocate for
  ourselves
  and those we
  represent.  The ACB does it their way,
  we do it
  ours.  Sometimes there
  is overlap, lots of times our philosophies
  take us in
  different
  directions and put us on opposite sides of
  important
  issues.  When our
  aims are the same (or similar), we need to
  work
  together and present a
  united front.  When we are at odds
  (which we
  often are, the two
  organizations really are very different), we
  both have
  the right to
  push our separate agendas and attempt to get
  our
  policies implimented.
  Sometimes they win, sometimes we win, that's
  politics.  We don't have
  to be bitter about it and, on the personal
  level, we
  can still be good
  friends even when our politics are at odds.
  Just my thoughts,
  Kirt

  On 6/22/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
  wrote:
  Kirt,
  You bring some vary valid points, and yes
  we have
  beaten the
  democrats/republicans analogy  to
  death but
  it keeps coming up as a
  comparison, so I will just say one thing
  about
  this.  I may have already said
  this before on the list, but please
  furgive me if
  I have.  The blind
  community is a to small of a community to
  be
  divided on partizen lines like
  democrats and republicans, and our
  challenges are
  to great to be divided
  like democrats and republicans.  Sure
  there will be
  differences between
  members of the ACB and members of the NFB
  on how
  business should be
  conducted, but honestly there differences
  between
  members of each
  organization on how their organization
  should do
  business.
  True there were disagreement on how
  business
  should and leadership issues
  causing the split between the NFB and
  ACB, I
  consider the leadership issues
  to be pitty differences.  Often when one
  candidate
  loses, they and their
  supporters go and form their on
  organization or
  chapter.  This happened at my
  local NFB chapter and as a result we have
  two NFB
  chapters in a small town.
  Now some may consider this to be a good
  thing, but
  think about how much more
  we can achieve if we were one NFB chapter
  in
  Fayetteville in recruiting,
  fund raising and my volunteers for
  events.  In
  addition, these types of
  childish arguements causes many blind
  people who
  otherwise may be involved
  in a blind organization to be a "fense
  sitters".
  Now using this analogy  to
  NFB ACB, ACB does not have near the funds
  that NFB
  has, but they are not
  poor eather.  Their attendence is not as
  large at
  the conventions, but it is
  not small eather.  Think if both of these
  organizations were together how
  much more money we would have to do
  policy that
  each organization does or
  the advocacy work that each
  organization
  does, and think about how much
  larger the convention would be.  We would
  pack two
  hotels full or near full.
  In addition, think about how much venders
  would be
  giving out in prizes
  because now insteading having to spend
  money to
  send their workers to two
  convention, they will only have to send
  their
  workers to one convention.  In
  addition, most venders give out big
  prizes at each
  convention and if there
  was only one convention, they can give
  two
  prizes.
  However, you are right in that
  realistically the
  two organizations will not
  merge any time soon.

  best wishes,
  Anmol
  I seldom think about my limitations, and
  they
  never make me sad.  Perhaps
  there is just a touch of yearning at
  times; but it
  is vague, like a breeze
  among flowers.
  Hellen Keller


  --- On Tue, 6/21/11, Kirt Manwaring
  <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
  wrote:

  From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l]
  [Nfbnet-members-list]
  Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride
  into History, Race for Independence,
  Wed.  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT
  To: "National Association of Blind
  Students
  mailing list"
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 2:51
  PM
  Anmol,
  I don't really see a
  merger
  happening any time soon,
  nor would I
  want it to.  We've all beaten
  the
  democrat/republican
  analogy to
  death...but imagine Barack Obama and
  Mitt
  Romney in the
  same political
  party.  It just wouldn't work.
  There are huge
  differences.  It
  doesn't make the NFB better for
  everyone, but
  it makes the
  NFB better
  for me.  I have lots of respect
  for my
  friends in the
  ACB who stand up
  and fight for their agenda.
  Lots of the
  times, it's
  the same as mine.
  When it's not, we can talk without
  being
  jackasses to each
  other and,
  in a lot of cases, the disagreement
  actually
  strengthens
  our
  friendship.
  I say diversity is
  good,
  competition is good, we
  need a free market
  of ideas.  I respect ACB and the
  sincere
  people there
  trying to make
  the lives of blind people
  better.  I
  happen to find
  the Federation
  philosophy and method more meaningful
  for
  me.  I want
  to understand
  the split.  From the little bit
  of
  studying I've done,
  I don't really
  think it was petty personal
  differences but
  rather
  differing
  philosophies about methodology and
  leadership
  that drove
  the two
  groups to separate.  We can be
  different
  without being
  petty.  We can
  disagree without being bigots.
  When our
  two
  organizations come down
  on opposite sides of important
  issues, as we
  often do, we
  need not be
  arrogant or self-rightious because we
  think
  we're
  right.  The fact is,
  we disagree.  And I think the
  disagreements are too
  central to our
  respective organizations for us to
  ever become
  one.
  But that doesn't
  mean we can't be friends, especially
  on a
  personal level.
  Best,
  Kirt

  On 6/21/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
  wrote:
  Kirt,
  You are bringing up some vary
  good
  points...
  Understanding the history of
  the NFB and ACB is an import part
  in the
  history in
  the blind movement and
  an important part in the history
  of two
  organizations.
  Frankly in it is just
  my oppinion both organizations
  bring value
  and have
  and continue to make a
  difference for blind people
  across America
  on a daily
  bases.  It is a shame
  that this split happened and just
  maybe
  the next
  generation of blind
  individuals our generation or
  those who
  are younger
  then can bring the two
  organizations together once
  again.  Now
  this is just my
  translation and my
  oppinion, but  it seems to
  me that
  the NFB ACB
  split happened over pitty
  differences and two individuals
  with
  different ideas
  fighting for power.  It
  seems to me that the hate the
  two
  organizations have
  towards each other is
  not as strong amongest this
  generation.
  Infact many
  members of NABS of ACB
  and NABS of NFB are friends in
  life and
  attack on the
  other organization is
  usually not
  allow on each
  organization's mailing
  list.
  Dave, you are right that ACB does
  not have
  the same
  amount of people
  attending its' convention, but
  their
  attendence is not
  small eather.  I would
  guess 1500 attend the ACB
  convention and
  all the major
  venders who attend
  the NFB convention attend the
  ACB
  convention.  There
  are also quite a few
  young people who attend the ACB
  convention.
  Yes ACB does its' business
  different then
  NFB, but
  thats why they are a
  different organization.  However,
  this does
  not make
  them any worse or better
  then the NFB.
  Just my thoughts and it would be
  great if
  we keep the
  attacks on each
  organization to as less as
  possible.

  Anmol


  I seldom think about my
  limitations, and
  they never
  make me sad.  Perhaps
  there is just a touch of yearning
  at
  times; but it is
  vague, like a breeze
  among flowers.
  Hellen Keller


  --- On Tue, 6/21/11, Kirt
  Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
  wrote:

  From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l]
  [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw
  Our Eyes interview, Ride
  into History, Race for
  Independence,
  Wed.  June 22,
  8:00 pm EDT
  To: "National Association of
  Blind
  Students
  mailing list"
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011,
  12:25
  PM
  Dave,
  How long ago
  was
  this?  Things could've
  changed
  since you last went
  if it's been a while, maybe?
  And, with respect,
  this
  is a big deal to
  a lot of us.  I know for
  me it's
  a lot more than
  a
  "small
  consideration", I like to
  know the
  past as much as
  I can
  because it
  shaped the here and
  now.  I can
  read the books
  put out
  by each
  organization-they probably
  both have
  lots of the
  truth
  intermingled
  with their respective
  agendas.
  But nothing
  beats
  talking to people
  who have studied the issues
  or,
  preferably, people
  who were
  actually
  there.
  All the
  best,
  Kirt

  On 6/21/11, David Andrews
  <dandrews at visi.com
  wrote:
  The two biggest things I
  noticed
  at an ACB
  national
  convention were
  that the crowd was
  considerably
  smaller than
  that at a
  NFB convention
  -- less exhibits etc.
  too.
  The second
  things was
  that there were few
  young persons -- some
  but
  noticeably not
  very
  many.  One of the major
  things that the ACB has
  pushed in
  the past is
  that it
  is different
  from the NFB, it does
  things
  differently
  etc.
  This doesn't really
  matter to younger people
  though,
  so they have
  little
  reason to join, so
  don't.

  You guys can spend lots
  of time on
  the
  history, and
  differences if
  you want -- but what is
  the
  point.  It
  happened,
  it is over with and
  done.  Yes we can
  and should
  learn from our
  history, but it is just
  one small consideration.

  Dave

  At 11:32 AM 6/20/2011,
  you wrote:
  Dave,
   I do see
  your
  point.  Those
  alive at the time are not,
  and will
  probabluy never be
  friends.  Heck,
  getting
  them to actually talk in
  peace would be the
  achievement
  of the
  century!   if
  such a
  call were
  to hypothetically
  happen, how
  could we
  keep it from
  opening old wounds
  and stoking old
  fires?
   Best,
  Kirt

  On 6/20/11, Chris
  Nusbaum
  <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
  wrote:
  Dave,

  Our joint
  conference call
  isn't
  associated
  whatsoever with the
  proposition of a
  change in
  the NFB
  bylaw.  If I'm setting
  this
  up, which it
  appears I am,
  I didn't
  even have
  the intention of
  mentioning that
  proposition on the
  call.  The call's
  purpose is
  to learn the
  history of
  the NFB/ACB,
  with a
  little emphasis on
  the "civil war"
  period,
  from both
  sides so we
  are informed.  I
  also want this
  call to
  start a
  discussion on
  the history of our
  movement and what
  we can
  learn from
  it, not
  only as
  Federationists,
  but as
  blind
  students.
  Jorge and I have found
  some ways that we
  can hold
  the call
  without
  making it a NABS
  membership call,
  if it is
  entirely
  necessary.  And as to
  your
  comments about
  them not
  being our
  friends,
  then using your
  argument, the
  Republicans
  should not
  hear the
  Democrats point of
  view in meetings
  of
  Congress, but
  the two
  parties should be
  separated from
  each other
  for fear
  of their
  own side being
  attacked.
  We can
  keep our same
  opinions, and probably many
  Federationists
  and Council
  members
  who attend
  this call will.
  This is just a
  way that we
  can be
  more
  informed when forming
  these opinions.


  Chris

  "A loss of sight,
  never a
  loss of
  vision!"
  (Camp Abilities motto)
  To learn more
  about Camp
  Abilities
  and find a
  local camp near
  you, just click
  on this
  link to
  their
  national Web site:

  www.campabilities.org.

  The I C.A.N.
  Foundation helps
  visually
  impaired youth in
  Maryland have the
  ability
  to
  confidently say
  "I can!" How? Click
  on this link to
  learn more
  and to
  contribute:

  www.icanfoundation.info.


  Sent from
  my BrailleNote


  -----
  Original Message -----
  From: David
  Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
  To: National
  Association
  of Blind
  Students
  mailing list
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date sent: Sun,
  19 Jun
  2011 20:39:01
  -0500
  Subject: Re:
  [nabs-l]
  [Nfbnet-members-list]
  Threw Our Eyes
  interview,Ride
  into
  History, Race
  for
  Independence, Wed.
  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT

  Chris:

  I don't want to
  friend
  anyone -- but
  I think
  this is a terrible
  idea!
  Remember the
  ACB split off
  from
  the NFB because they
  thought
  that we were all
  wrong,
  did our
  business in
  the wrong way etc.  I
  am
  not going to say
  that we
  can't learn
  anything
  from the ACB, but
  not a
  history
  lesson.  I
  was at a ACb
  National
  Convention a few years
  ago
  -- and heard the
  NFB
  attacked openly
  and
  indirectly.  These
  folks
  are
  not our
  friends.  We
  can work
  jointly at
  times, and should, and I
  don't think we
  should be
  against
  them, for
  the sake of it, as
  some of
  my old-timer
  friends are
  -- but a
  joint
  conference call on
  consideration of
  a change
  to a NFB
  division
  bylaw is going to
  far!

  Dave

  At 12:53 PM
  6/19/2011, you
  wrote:
  Kirt,

  I have a friend
  in the
  Council that
  I will
  see Monday night, so I
  plan to give this
  idea to
  him and
  ask if he
  knows someone in the
  Council that
  would be
  knowledgeable
  enough
  and willing to attend
  this call on
  behalf of the
  Council
  as an
  expert on their history.
  Maybe it would be
  better
  if someone
  like me
  moderated.  Keep in
  mind
  that I did
  volunteer, but
  I'm not
  degrading
  anyone else, I'm just
  using myself as
  an example
  here.
  I'm a
  member of the Federation,
  but I'm not a
  hard-line
  "NFB is
  good, ACB
  bad" person, so I
  wouldn't
  show any bias to
  NFB or
  ACB.  I
  also am
  not currently a
  contributing
  (due-paying)
  member of
  NABS, so I'm
  not a
  leader in it of
  course.
  That way, we
  wouldn't have
  any
  bias.
  I think it would
  be easy
  to have it
  jointly
  attended even if it's
  an
  official NABS
  call.
  If we have a
  representative of ACB on the
  call,
  we could probably
  easily
  get other
  members of
  ACB on the call to
  kind of back up
  or add to
  that
  guest
  speaker's information.
  Thoughts?

  Chris

  "A loss of sight,
  never a
  loss of
  vision!"
  (Camp Abilities motto)
  To learn more
  about Camp
  Abilities
  and find a
  local camp near
  you,
  just click on
  this link to
  their
  national Web
  site:

  www.campabilities.org.

  The I C.A.N.
  Foundation helps
  visually
  impaired youth in
  Maryland
  have the ability
  to
  confidently say
  "I can!"
  How? Click on this
  link
  to learn more and
  to
  contribute:
  www.icanfoundation.info.

  Sent from my
  BrailleNote

  ----- Original
  Message
  -----
  From: Kirt
  Manwaring
  <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
  To: National
  Association
  of Blind
  Students
  mailing list
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date sent: Sun,
  19 Jun
  2011 00:45:08
  -0600
  Subject: Re:
  [nabs-l]
  [Nfbnet-members-list]
  Threw Our Eyes
  interview,Ride
  into
  History, Race
  for
  Independence, Wed.
  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT

  Carley,
   The
  two
  organizations don't
  really claim to be "friends"
  as
  such-it
  seems like now
  they just
  mostly
  ignore each
  other, work jointly
  when
  their agendas
  converge and
  play
  politics when
  they don't.  Maybe
  they
  aren't enemies,
  but the
  official
  organizations don't really
  advertise
  themselves as
  friends.

  While it
  would be great to
  have people from both
  organizations
  participate in a
  joint
  call, I don't
  see it
  happening.  Here's
  hoping
  though, I
  guess  It's
  certainly a
  nice
  thought-although, if the
  call
  were to have
  presentations
  from
  members of
  both organizations, it
  probably should
  be jointly
  moderated
  and
  attended.  The NFB (or
  probably even
  NABS) would,
  I'm
  betting, not
  be inclined to go
  there.
  So maybe we'll
  have better
  luck
  going through
  unnoficial channels
  and
  setting this up
  on our
  own?  No
  need to
  make it an official event
  for
  either the
  Federation or
  the
  Council-I think
  it's safe to say
  that
  idea was doomed
  to fail
  before it
  was brought
  up.

  Best,
  Kirt

  On 6/18/11, Chris
  Nusbaum
  <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
  wrote:
  And, as I said
  before, I
  would be
  very
  willing to moderate this
  call.
  Please keep me
  posted!


  Chris

  "A loss of sight,
  never a
  loss of
  vision!"
  (Camp Abilities motto)
  To learn more
  about Camp
  Abilities
  and find a
  local camp near
  you, just click
  on this
  link to
  their
  national Web site:

  www.campabilities.org.

  The I C.A.N.
  Foundation helps
  visually
  impaired youth in
  Maryland have the
  ability
  to
  confidently say
  "I can!" How? Click
  on this link to
  learn more
  and to
  contribute:

  www.icanfoundation.info.

   Sent
  from my
  BrailleNote


  -----
  Original Message
  -----
  From: Ignasi
  Cambra <ignasicambra at gmail.com
  To: National
  Association
  of Blind
  Students
  mailing list
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date sent: Sat,
  18 Jun
  2011 18:51:04
  -0400
  Subject: Re:
  [nabs-l]
  [Nfbnet-members-list]
  Threw Our Eyes
  interview,Ride
  into
  History, Race
  for
  Independence, Wed.
  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT

  This call would
  be very
  interesting
  indeed.  If
  representatives
  from both
  organizations
  are willing
  to
  participate, it can really
  be productive in
  many
  ways.
  On Jun 18, 2011,
  at 1:46
  PM, Carly
  Mihalakis
  wrote:



   Good
  morning,
  list,

   A
  few days
  ago, someone on
  the NABS list  suggested
  a
  conference
  call bringing
  clarity to a
  younger
  generation.  What,
  exactly, is
  the history of
  the
  ideological
  parting of
  ways, between the
  Federation and
  the
  Council? Does
  anybody know
  today, the history
  of this division
  or is it
  a product
  of sheer
  habit as is the case
  with Republicans
  and
  Democrats? If
  such a
  meeting of both
  entities were to
  take
  place, There
  ought to
  be representation of
  both
  organizations
  so that a
  wholistic
  portrait of this issue
  can be
  exercised.

   and
  its split
  from the
  ACB.  This seems like a
  productive and
  enlightening
  discussion
  but I
  wonder, if the
  Federation and the
  council claim to
  be
  friends, should
  there not
  be representation
  from
  both   sides, identifying
  their position and
  whereabouts
  they stand, in
  this? At
   ----
  Original
  Message
  ------

  From: "Joe
  Ruffalo" <nfbnj at yahoo.com
  (by way of David
  Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)

  Subject:
  [Nfbnet-members-list] Thru
  Our Eyes
  interview,
  Ride
  into History,Race
  for
  Independence,
  Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm
  EDT
   Date
  sent:
  Fri, 17 Jun 2011
  19:26:45 -0500


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