[Nfbf-l] Fw: [Nfbnet-master-list] We Need Your Videos

[Sherri]

Just in case you haven't seen this, if you are able, please send a video. 
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Danielsen, Chris (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)
To: nfbnet-master-list at nfbnet.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:36 PM
Subject: [Nfbnet-master-list] We Need Your Videos


Dear Friends,

In less than two weeks, representatives of almost two hundred countries will 
meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, to consider adopting a treaty that will make it 
legally possible for printed copyrighted materials­like books, magazines, 
textbooks, and job training courses­to be converted to formats that the 
blind and print disabled can use AND, critically, for those accessible 
materials to be easily shared across national boundaries for the first time 
in history.   Successfully negotiating this treaty is, therefore, vital to 
every blind and print-disabled person, their families, friends, and 
employers the world over.   For tens of millions around the world 
desperately trying to learn and earn themselves out of crushing poverty, it 
may actually mean the difference between a life of hope and opportunity or 
one of misery and despair.

Unfortunately, enormously powerful corporations­mostly in the United States 
and the European Union­recently have made clear their intention to block 
adoption of the treaty, or to make it so complicated and burdensome for the 
providers of accessible materials that the treaty's goal of ending the 
worldwide "book famine" for the blind will be thwarted.  You have the power 
to stop them.

            Please, take just a few minutes today to sit down in front of a 
video camera and tell us about yourself, your struggles to obtain books and 
other materials and what the treaty would mean to you or someone you care 
about.  Just follow the few easy steps below and we will work to be sure 
that your video is seen by scores of journalists, hundreds of delegates to 
the treaty conference in Marrakesh, and by millions of internet users around 
the globe.

            Tell the chairmen and CEOs of some of the world's biggest 
companies to drop their opposition to a treaty that doesn't legally affect 
them but means everything to you.  Please do it today!  Here's how . . .

            ***MARRAKESH TREATY APPEAL VIDEO STEP-BY-STEP***

Your video absolutely should be in your own words!  Please follow these easy 
step-by step suggestions and brief outline for your comments, however, so 
that we can effectively merge your video story with others' for the highest 
impact:

1.  Find a quiet place to record so we can hear everything you say. 
Outdoors is fine, but windy or noisy locations should be avoided;

2.  Stand or sit as far from the camera as it takes for just your head and 
body above the waist to be seen on camera.  Closer or further won't be as 
helpful;

3.  Start with this exact "lead-in," please:  "My name is _______ and I live 
in ___(City) & ____(State).  I strongly support the Books Without Borders 
copyright treaty."

4.  Then, please tell us what kind of print disability you (or the family 
member or friend you're speaking about) have;

5.  Briefly explain what kind of books or other materials you (or they) 
would like to be able to get but can't, and what having those materials 
would mean to you. Anything important to you­education, job training, 
hobbies­ is important to us!

6. Finally, to end your video, please record exactly as written below all 
three of the brief personal appeals to the powerful chief executives whose 
companies are leading sophisticated coalition efforts to block the Marrakesh 
treaty.  (No need to read the a), b) c) headings of course!)  We will work 
to have your voice echo around the world:

a)  General Electric [CEO name pronounced "Im" like image + "melt"]

"Mr. Immelt, I need a strong Marrakesh copyright treaty to get books I can 
read.  Almost 300 million people around the world need it even more. 
General Electric­the company you run­is blocking books for the blind in 
Marrakesh.  As CEO, you can stop that.  Please stop it NOW!"

b)  Adobe [CEO name pronounced "Na - rye - in"]

"Mr. Narayen, I need a strong Marrakesh copyright treaty to get books I can 
read.  Almost 300 million people around the world need it even more. 
Adobe­the company you run­is blocking books for the blind in Marrakesh.  As 
CEO, you can stop that.  Please stop it NOW!"

c)  Exxon Mobil

"Mr. Tillerson, I need a strong Marrakesh copyright treaty to get books I 
can read.  Almost 300 million people around the world need it even more. 
Exxon Mobil­the company you run­is blocking books for the blind in 
Marrakesh.  As CEO, you can stop that.  Please stop it NOW!"

Please send your video to Jessica Freeh, Public Relations Specialist, 
National Federation of the Blind, at jfreeh at nfb.org. If you have any 
questions, please contact Jessica or me. Thank you.

Chris Danielsen
CDanielsen at nfb.org



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