[Nfbv-announce] We Need Your Help with the SourceAmerica Protest

[Fredric Schroeder]

Friends:

 

Please try to attend tomorrow's protest of SourceAmerica. It is important to
the over 400,000 blind people and others with disabilities who today are
being paid below the minimum wage. We need as many people from Virginia as
possible. If you are able to attend, please let me know.

 

Best,

 

FKS

 

Fredric K. Schroeder, Ph.D., President

National Federation of the Blind of Virginia

 

 

Make a difference today in the lives of blind children and adults by
donating your used vehicle to the National Federation of the Blind by
calling 1-855-659-9314

 

From: Pare, John [mailto:JPare at nfb.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 9:38 AM
To: Josephson, Kate; awohl at thecpsd.org; Elinor Hiller; Schroeder, Fred;
Jennifer Butler; John Connelly; Kathy West-Evans; Laura Owens; Madeline Will
(mwill at thecpsd.org); Mark Rayder; Maureen McGuire-Kuletz; Jones, Mya;
Patricia Leahy; Rita Martin; Sloan, Rose; Stephen Wooderson; Sue Page
Subject: Disabled Americans to Protest SourceAmerica

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen

Director of Public Relations

National Federation of the Blind

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330

(410) 262-1281 (Cell)

 <mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org> cdanielsen at nfb.org


 


MEDIA ADVISORY


 


National Federation of the Blind Leads Subminimum Wage Protest

 

Disabled Americans to Protest SourceAmerica
Due to Its Discrimination Against Workers with Disabilities

 

Date:              August 28, 2014

 

Time:              11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

 

Place:             SourceAmerica 

8401 Old Courthouse Road
Vienna, VA 22182

 

Interview opportunities: 

.        Workers who have received subminimum wages

.        Parents of children with disabilities

.        Leaders of disability organizations participating in the protest

.        Dr. Fredric K. Schroeder (former commissioner of the Rehabilitation
Services Administration)

 

On Thursday, August 28, members of  <http://www.nfb.org> the National
Federation of the Blind, ADAPT, the Association of People Supporting
Employment First, Little People of America, the National Council on
Independent Living, and TASH will participate in a protest outside of the
headquarters of SourceAmerica. The informational protest will raise
awareness of SourceAmerica's discrimination against workers with
disabilities. SourceAmerica discriminates against workers with disabilities
by permitting its qualified nonprofits to pay workers with disabilities less
than the federal minimum wage-in some cases only pennies per hour. 

 

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About the National Federation of the Blind

 

The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back.

 

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