[nabs-l] Important

[Chris Nusbaum]

Ben:

Our national office is asking those of us who cannot attend in-person to
spread the word about this issue on social media. Before and during the
protest, there will be a number of tweets, Facebook statuses, and other
social media posts which will seek to expose the issues in question and put
pressure on the school system to cancel their plans to deploy inaccessible
Kindle readers in their classrooms. We would love for you to be part of this
chorus of opposition which will put the blind at the forefront of the school
system's timeline. For more information including the appropriate hashtag to
use and the Twitter handles of the organizations at issue, please see the
blog post which was posted yesterday by our PR staff:
https://nfb.org/blog/vonb-blog/we-must-stop-amazon-fail. I will monitor the
hashtag on our division's Twitter account and will try to retweet as many
relevant tweets as possible.

Regarding your question about a petition, there are certainly online
platforms out there which allow you to create a petition and garner support
for it. In the past we have used change.org to circulate a petition calling
on Congress to pass the TIME Act, which was then known as the Fair Wages for
Workers with Disabilities Act. However, I'm not sure whether our advocacy
staff would be in favor of individual members creating and circulating
petitions on this issue. My guess is that they would advise against it, as
they would probably maintain that it is best to concert all our effort in a
single collective campaign. I would encourage you, however, to contact our
national office and bring up your idea with someone in our governmental
affairs team. Perhaps they will like it and will help you distribute the
petition.

Hope this helps,

Chris Nusbaum, NABS Board Member and Social Media Coordinator

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Hi Kathryn,
 
I would like to do something but cannot be there in person.
Is there some way of starting an online petition to let the schools know
about this accessibility issue?
 
 
 
 
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:51:51 -0700
> From: Bryan Duarte <bjduarte at asu.edu>
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> 	<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Important
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> Wish i could go!
> 
> Go Devils!
> Sent from my iPhone 6
> 
> > On Aug 19, 2015, at 6:56 PM, Kathryn Webster via nabs-l
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > All,
> >  Once again, Amazon, Inc. is trying to push its inaccessible technology
into public schools, despite our years of advocacy and clear warnings
against the adoption of inaccessible technology by the United States
Departments of Education and Justice. In this case, blind students
throughout the New York City public school system will be denied an equal
education if the city goes through with a proposed $30 million deal that
will make Amazon the exclusive provider of e-textbooks and other materials
for students. We have one chance to stop this deal from going through. The
school system?s Panel for Educational Policy, which has the final say on the
deal, will meet next Wednesday, August 26, to vote on it, and blind people
must be there in force to let the panel members and the public  know that
this is a bad deal for blind students and, therefore, for New York City
schools.
> > Join us, next week, at 4:30 pm at 100  Hester Street, New York, ny
10002, to fight for what's right!
> > Kathryn
> > 
> > 
> > Kathryn C. Webster
> > (203) 273-8463
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > _______________________________________________

 		 	   		  
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