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<font size=2>Hi all,<br>
Charlie Brown, a lawyer who works for the American
Action fund is helping a lawyer in Hawaii with a discrimination
case. The case involves a woman from AZ who was vacationing in HI
and scheduled to take a swim with the dolphins. When she arrived at
the event, she was apparently not allowed to participate because she was
blind and the activity was thought to be too risky for her. In any
case, this lawyer is collecting information to show that blind people can
and do participate in these kinds of activities and even show other
typically "risky" activities in which other blind people have
participated to demonstrate how this company discriminated against
her. So, I am asking any of you out there who have participated in
this kind of activity before to contact Charlie Brown with your
situations. He can be reached at the National office at
410.659.9314 ext. 2206 or via email at <br>
<a href="mailto:cbrown@actionfund.org">cbrown@actionfund.org</a> He
is looking for stories from blind people who may have: <br>
--swam with dolphins or participated in other similar marine life swims
or excursions in the water <br>
--SCUBA divers <br>
--sky divers <br>
--Para sailors<br>
--any other "risky" type activities of this nature <br>
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<font size=2> If you can be of help to him, please
contact him ASAP. <br>
Thanks,<br>
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<font face="Georgia" size=2><b><a name="OLE_LINK42"></a>Mary
<a name="OLE_LINK42"></a><i>Jo T. Hartle<br><br>
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<font face="Georgia" size=2>Mary Jo Thorpe-Hartle, MEd, NOMC<br><br>
Director of Education <br>
Jernigan Institute <br>
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND <br>
200 East Wells Street <br>
Baltimore, MD 21230<br>
Phone: (410)659-9314 ext. 2407<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:mhartle@nfb.org">mhartle@nfb.org</a> <br>
</font>Fax: (410) 659-5129<br>
Visit <a href="http://www.nfb.org/">www.nfb.org</a> <br>
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