[nabs-l] Important

[Ryan Silveira]

Hello,

Thank you for your e-mail.  I am currently on vacation and will return on the 7th of September, 2015.  I will periodically check my e-mail, but please do not expect an immediate response.  Thank you very much.


Ryan L. Silveira
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On Aug 20, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Chris Nusbaum via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ben Fulton via
> nabs-l
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 8:39 AM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Ben Fulton
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Important
> 
> 
> 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>
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> 	<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Important
> Message-ID: <4E10FB61-9599-4D5E-8B8D-286A033A9A13 at asu.edu>
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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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