[Nfbmd] Nfbmd Digest, Vol 44, Issue 8

[PATRICK GORMLEY]

we were small and mighty in Cumberland.  There were about 8 of us including 
our esteemed state President her sister Mary Ellen Thompson and a couple of 
members from our chapter.  We wre able to persuade a woman who was going to 
donate about 4 or 5 garbage bags full of women's clothing destined for 
goodwill to give the clothing to the Union Rescue Mission which was 
devastated by severe storms that occurred on June 29th.  My wife Tina drove 
them over  because we had a big car with an empty trunk.  The woman was so 
impressed with our industriousness that she gave each of us $5 to buy lunch 
which we weren't expecting.  Tina and I were able to patronize the 
Cumberland lions club chicken barbecue right accross the street.
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>   1. a very successful protest in Baltimore (Chris Nusbaum)
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> Hi fellow Federationists,
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> I am very happy to report, as John Pare did on the NFB of Maryland list,
> that we had a very successful protest at the Goodwill store in downtown
> Baltimore, Maryland. I was very happy to be a part of this protest. We
> handed out many flyers and got the attension of many people who saw us as
> they were passing the Goodwill store, and even convinced some people not 
> to
> shop at the Goodwill when they heard about that company's policy of paying
> workers with disabilities subminimum wages. Although nobody who worked at
> the store actually came out and talked to us, they most definitely saw us
> and were looking at us and our signs. I didn't personally see or get to 
> talk
> to anybody from the local Baltimore media, although I did see a reporter
> from an online publication called Working in These Times and heard most of
> the interview he conducted with our public relations director and our
> Greater Baltimore chapter President Chris Danielsen. We have a lot of
> pictures and updates from our protest which were posted on the NFB 
> Facebook
> page for anybody who is interested; in fact, my profile picture on 
> Facebook
> is a picture of me holding my sign and marching in the protest. All in 
> all,
> it was both a fun and a successful protest, and to top it off, Dr. Maurer
> and some of the national center staff took us all out to dinner at the 
> Green
> Turtle (a bar/restaurant chain exclusive to Maryland) across the street 
> from
> the protest cite afterwards! A good time was had by all!
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> I would be very interested to hear reports of other protests conducted by
> other chapters in Maryland and our other affiliates around the country. 
> Did
> you get the public's attension? Did you convince some people not to shop 
> at
> the Goodwill store at which you were protesting? Did you receive any media
> attension?
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> I look forward to hearing your reports!
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> Chris Nusbaum
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