[NABS-L] Legislative & Self-Advocacy Committee One Week Reminder

[Justin Salisbury]

Hi Carly,

Thank you for sharing that. I think I share the same sentiment. 

I cannot live in a world where the National Federation of the Blind has not influenced the way we think and feel about blindness. Such a world does not exist. I cannot properly put myself in a frame of mind to say what life would be like without the Federation because the reality is that our lives have all been touched by the Federation, as have the systems with which we interact. 

What is a tangible difference, though, is the way I feel when I hear the stories of other blind people, and I realize that I'm not the only one. Additionally, I am glad that I can call a fellow Federationist when something terrible happens and get a reminder that I didn't deserve to be treated a certain way, or that something doesn't have to stay the way that it is. 

Keep the faith, and stay close!

Aloha,

Justin


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From: NABS-L <nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Carly Mihalakis via NABS-L
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:28 PM
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Cc: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Legislative & Self-Advocacy Committee One Week Reminder

Good morning, Justin and everyone,

For me, it has always been really helpful to learn about people whom have had to fight the same struggle for person hood as we do. It was always really helpful to me to learn about how those whom have gone before us did it, what worked and what didn't and that body of lived experience has always lighted my way, not that I've reached anything grandiose but in little incidentals it is from my predessors in that familiar struggle for person hood that I draw emotional strength and courage to consider not just myself in this fight but others of our group since of course, their person hood is important, too. All of us, all of blind people.
  At 10:11 AM 4/11/2021, Justin Young via NABS-L wrote:
>Hi All,
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>Hoping this message finds you all well! Please join us next Sunday, 
>April 18 at 8pm eastern for the next Legislative & Self-Advocacy 
>Committee (LSAC) meeting. For this month's conversation, we will be 
>discussing strategies how to keep our cool in the moment of advocating 
>for ourselves. At times I'm sure we all have faced stressful or as some 
>may also call them blood boiling moments while trying to advocate for 
>our rights as blind people. This might happen with professors, in 
>social gatherings, traveling in airports, train stations, etc. So we 
>would like you to consider these stressful situations & how you dealt 
>with them in the moment while they were happening and be willing to share the techniques that worked best for you to resolve them.
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>It's our hope by holding this conversation during this month's LSAC 
>call, we all can learn a new strategy to help us become greater 
>self-advocates ensuring we as blind people have the same rights as others!
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>The Zoom information to join us is the following:
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>Join Zoom Link:
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>https://zoom.us/j/4678833687
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>Thanks & look forward to chatting with you all next Sunday at 8pm eastern!
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>Justin Young
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>Co-Chair, Legislative & Self-Advocacy Committee, National Association 
>of Blind Students
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>Treasurer, National Federation of the Blind of New York State.
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>Vice President, National Federation of the Blind of New York State, 
>Rochester Chapter
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