[Nfbo-announce] Please ask Senators Merkley and Wyden to ratify Marrakesh treaty

[rjaquiss]

Hello Everyone:

 

     Please as soon as possible contact senators Merkley and Wyden and ask
them to please ratify the Marrakesh treaty. The contact

information for senators Merkley and Wyden is below followed by the
announcement from our national office. Thank you.

 

Regards,

 

Robert

 

Robert Jaquiss

Affiliate Secretary

National Federation of the Blind of Oregon

Email: rjaquiss at earthlink.net 

____ Senators contact information. ____

 

 

Jeff Merkley 

313 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510 

Phone: (202) 224-3753 

Contact website: http://www.merkley.senate.gov/contact/ 

 

Ron Wyden

221 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510 

Phone: (202) 224-5244 

Contact website: http://www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/ 

 

____ Message from our National office. ____

 

From: "Kuhnke, Kristian via Nfbnet-members-list" <nfbnet-members-

list at nfbnet.org> 

Date: February 10, 2016 at 6:33:22 PM PST 

To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org 

Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] National Federation of the Blind Applauds 

Transmission of Marrakesh Treaty for Ratification 

Reply-To: "Kuhnke, Kristian" <KKuhnke at nfb.org>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

 

  

 

CONTACT: 

 

Chris Danielsen 

 

Director of Public Relations 

 

National Federation of the Blind 

 

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330 

 

(410) 262-1281 (Cell) 

 

cdanielsen at nfb.org

National Federation of the Blind 

Applauds Transmission of Marrakesh 

Treaty for Ratification

Urges Senate to Ratify Treaty to End Book Famine 

Immediately

  

 

Baltimore, Maryland (February 10, 2016): The National Federation of the 

Blind today applauded President Obama's transmission of the Marrakesh Treaty


to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually 

Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled to the United States Senate for
ratification, 

and urged the Senate to act immediately to ratify the treaty. 

 

  

 

Mark A. Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said:
"This 

crucial treaty will substantially ease the book famine that currently limits


education and opportunity for the blind of this nation and the world. When
it is 

fully in effect, it will give blind Americans the ability to access books in
Braille, 

audio, and other alternative formats from across the globe, as well as
provide 

more books to the blind of all nations. We strongly urge the United States
Senate 

to ratify it without delay." 

 

  

 

The Marrakesh Treaty was officially proposed in 2009, successfully adopted
in 

June 2013 by the World Intellectual Property Organization, and signed by the


United States in October 2013. For more information on the treaty, please
visit 

https://nfb.org/marrakeshfactsheet. 

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