<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-weight:normal">Greetings all,</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">For your convenience and

participation pasted below are the Affiliate Committee, Group and Events being

held this month. Please save this email for future reference. <span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Warmly,<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Linda Melendez, President<br>

National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey<br>

<span style="color:rgb(49,49,49)">908-590-1747</span><br>

<a href="mailto:president@nfbnj.org" target="_blank">president@nfbnj.org</a><br>

<a href="http://www.nfbnj.org/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.nfbnj.org</span></i></a><span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></p></h1><h1><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">NFBNJ

June Zoom Meetings and Events<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">Diabetic Group<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Ed Godfrey, Facilitator<br>

<span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:edgodfrey1957@gmail.com">edgodfrey1957@gmail.com</a></span><span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Date; Thursday, June 6, 2024<br>

Time:  7 PM Eastern Time<span></span></font></span></p></h1><h1 style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">Technology Committee<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Janie Degenshein, Chair<br>

<u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:jdegen16@comcast.net">jdegen16@comcast.net</a></span></u><span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Date: Monday, June 10, 2024<br>

Time: 7 PM Eastern Time<span></span></font></span></p></h1><h1 style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">Braille Group<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Mary Jo Partyka, Facilitator<br>

<span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:choirnfb@gmail.com">choirnfb@gmail.com</a></span><span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Date: Wednesday, June 19, ,

2024<br>

Time: 7 PM Eastern Time<span></span></font></span></p></h1><h1 style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">NJABS Movie Night<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after:avoid;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Natasha Ishaq, Chair<br>

<span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:nfbnjabs@gmail.com">nfbnjabs@gmail.com</a></span><span class="gmail-None"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><br>

</span>Topic: Crip Camp; audio described<br>

Date: Sunday, June 23, 2024<br>

Time: 6 to 8 PM<span></span></font></span></p><p class="gmail-Body" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">The New Jersey Association of Blind Students (NJABS)

invites you to its first ever virtual movie night with the underlying theme of

comparing disability rights in the 1960s and now. This documentary, released in

2020 and co-produced by former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle

Obama, outlines the true story of a group of teenagers with physical

disabilities who come together in the wake of the disability rights movement

some 50 years ago.<span></span></font></span></p><p class="gmail-Body" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="color:black">Join

us to learn about the ordinary people who made extraordinary strides to

advocate for disability rights. Together, we will watch history unfold. As

described by Netflix, this documentary features “a groundbreaking summer camp

for teens with disabilities proves so inspiring that a group of its alumni join

the disability rights movement to advocate for historic legislation changes”.

View the trailer </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrIs22plz0"><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0">here</span></a></span><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0"> </span><span class="gmail-None"><span style="color:black">The film is audio-described and has

closed c</span></span><span></span></font></span></p></h1><h1 style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">Senior Committee Book Club<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Janie Degenshein, Chair<br>

<u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:degen16@comcast.net">degen16@comcast.net</a></span></u><span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Date: Monday, June 24, 2024<br>

Time: 10 AM Eastern Time<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Book Details:<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB114586" target="_blank">No two persons DB114586</a><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Bauermeister,

Erica Reading time: 8 hours, 57 minutes.<br>

Braden Wright; Cassandra Campbell; Jesse Vilinsky; George Newbern; Stephen

Graybill; Gabra Zackman; Barrie Kreinik; Rachel L. Jacobs; Carol Jacobanis; Max

Meyers; Psychological Fiction<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">"Alice has always wanted

to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached,

until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning

debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a

teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond

endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of

love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each

one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents

new pathways forward for their lives. Together, their stories reveal how books

can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all

more closely connected to one another than we might think." -- Provided by

publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.<span></span></font></span></p></h1><h1 style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">Senior Committee<span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h1><h1 style="line-height:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Janie

Degenshein, Chair<br>

<u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:jdegen16@comcast.net">jdegen16@comcast.net</a></span></u> <span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Date: Monday, <span style="color:black">June 24<br>

Time: 7 PM Eastern Time<br>

<br>

</span><span class="gmail-None"><span></span></span></font></span></p></h1><h1><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4" style="">Join

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