[nabs-l] Protests on College Campuses

Tue Jan 20 20:30:55 UTC 2015

Hello Arielle,

Thank you for this clarification. IT looks as though I misunderstood Justin's email. However, I do not believe there were any announcements regarding the protest the NFB put together this past Labor Day, or at least I never saw any announcements regarding the Labor Day protest until after it took place.

Warm regards,
Elizabeth

-----Original Message-----
From: Arielle Silverman [mailto:arielle71 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:25 PM
To: Elizabeth Mohnke; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Protests on College Campuses

I'm about 98% sure this was a hypothetical event. If there were a real national protest of this magnitude, we would have been getting emails from David Andrews about it for weeks beforehand on this list. Also, Justin is suggesting a nationwide college protest in the future; if something like that were already happening he wouldn't have suggested it.
Arielle

On 1/20/15, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Kurt,
>
> Justin's email states, " For example: Today, students at Harvard, 
> Yale, Louisiana Tech, and four other universities protested the 
> outdated practice of paying wages like three cents per hour to workers with disabilities."
>
> Unless I am reading Justin's email incorrectly, this sounds to me like 
> an event that actually took place today. I would greatly appreciate 
> any clarification if I am somehow reading this wrong. If this event 
> did indeed did take place today, it would seem as though not too many 
> people knew about it.
>
> Warm regards,
> Elizabeth
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirt [mailto:kirt.crazydude at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:08 PM
> To: Elizabeth Mohnke; National Association of Blind Students mailing 
> list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Protests on College Campuses
>
> Elizabeth,
> I'm sure Justin can clarify, but I understood him to be speaking 
> hypothetically.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Justin,
>>
>> I am not sure who planned the protest for today, but it would have 
>> been great to have known about it before it actually took place. The 
>> more people know about it, the more people who can take part in it.
>> But perhaps you just need to be a part of a certain clique within the 
>> NFB to receive this kind of information. I did not see any 
>> information on today's protest besides hearing you mention it in this email.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Justin 
>> Salisbury via nabs-l
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:36 PM
>> To: 'nabs-l at nfbnet.org'
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Protests on College Campuses
>>
>> Fellow Federationists:
>>
>> I've been thinking about an idea for how NABS can contribute to the 
>> legislative work of the National Federation of the Blind, and I have 
>> talked with a few friends about it. Now, I want to ask what the NABS 
>> membership thinks of it.
>>
>> We could coordinate protests on college campuses and do it 
>> strategically to raise awareness to our legislative causes. I bet 
>> there are a lot of college students who would stand up and protest 
>> subminimum wages if they only knew about it. We could do it with our 
>> other bills, too,
>>
>> Another dimension we could add is If we coordinated them to be all on 
>> the same day, or at least multiple ones on the same day. This could 
>> help us get national media attention. For example: Today, students at 
>> Harvard, Yale, Louisiana Tech, and four other universities protested 
>> the outdated practice of paying wages like three cents per hour to 
>> workers
> with disabilities.
>>
>> This would require heavy involvement of local students, but the 
>> returns could be amazing.
>>
>> What do people think of this idea?
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> Justin Salisbury - Running Thunder Phoenix Graduate Student 
>> Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness 
>> Louisiana Tech University
>> Email: jms132 at latech.edu<mailto:jms132 at latech.edu>
>> Twitter: @SalisburyJustin
>>
>> But, of course, we will not fail. We will continue to climb. Our 
>> heritage demands it; our faith confirms it; our humanity requires it.
>> Whatever the sacrifice, we will make it. Whatever the price, we will 
>> pay it. Seen from this perspective, the hostility and backlash (the 
>> challenges and
>> confrontations) are hardly worth noticing. They are only an irritant.
>> My brothers and my sisters, the future is ours. Come! Join me on the 
>> stairs, and we will finish the journey.
>> -          Dr. Kenneth Jernigan
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