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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> list-bounces@cfb.ca [mailto:list-bounces@cfb.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mary Ellen<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 22, 2011 2:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> list@cfb.ca<br><b>Subject:</b> [List] FW: NFB Imagineering Our Future: Exploitation or Equality? Special Issue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Riccobono [mailto:JerniganInstitute@nfb.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> July 22, 2011 1:52 PM<br><b>To:</b> gabias@telus.net<br><b>Subject:</b> NFB Imagineering Our Future: Exploitation or Equality? Special Issue</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td width=800 style='width:600.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=700 style='width:525.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=685 style='width:513.75pt'><tr><td colspan=4 valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=c6 align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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Graphic Logo: NFB Jernigan Institute " v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=NCH0QqkH2_puHUXgawWVTw.." title="Link to Imagineering Our Future Issue 36, July 2011"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>View this newsletter as HTML in your browser.</span></a><br><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=nNxZVx5Zz-ci01esxwTHCg.." title="Link to Imagineering Our Future Issue 35, June 2011"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>View previous newsletter.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><h1 align=center style='text-align:center'>Imagineering Our Future<o:p></o:p></h1></td></tr><tr style='height:4.5pt'><td width="10%" valign=top style='width:10.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:4.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=675 style='width:506.25pt;background:#FFA12D'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=c9><span class=c8><b> Special Issue 36—Exploitation or Equality? </b></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span class=c8><b>July 2011 </b></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p> <o:p></o:p></p><h2><span class=headline>Special Message from the Executive Director</span><o:p></o:p></h2><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=c9><strong><i><span style='color:#7A007A'>Dear Friends,</span></i></strong><b><i><span style='color:#7A007A'><br><br></span><strong><span style='color:purple'>Today we are wrapping up the <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=v2D2XMXibE6V1505jahsBQ.." title="Link to Youth Slam page">2011 National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam</a>. For the past week blind mentors, instructors, and others have been working with blind youth from forty-two states and Puerto Rico to inspire and engage them in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Through our work these students will know they have the talent to pursue advanced careers. </span></strong><span style='color:purple'><br><br><strong>Despite our great progress we still face significant barriers. One major barrier is the persistent thought that people with disabilities are less productive, less energetic, and less imaginative than others in the workforce. Students have been asking their mentors why the law permits employers to pay them less than the minimum wage while at the same time we are teaching them that they can compete in advanced STEM careers.</strong><br><br><strong>This afternoon I and another blind driver will be offering these youth rides in our Blind Driver Challenge™ cars on the city streets surrounding the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute. It is our conviction that these youth will enter the workforce at a time when it is no longer permissible under law to pay people with disabilities subminimum wages. The time to act is now! This issue is so important and urgent that we have dedicated this month’s newsletter to providing you information about this antiquated law and current efforts that will further erode the right to equal pay for equal work for blind youth. I encourage you to educate yourself on this issue in order to understand the deep-rooted misconceptions that still place barriers in front of the blind. After observing a week of blind youth doing real science, technology, engineering, and math, I am certain that they will be part of the generation that finally overcomes this outrageous misunderstanding of the capacity of people with disabilities. </strong></span></i></b><i><span style='color:#7A007A'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='color:#7A007A'><br><strong>Thank you,</strong><br></span></i></b><span style='color:#7A007A;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=200 height=200 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Graphic: Signature of Mark Riccobono"></span><span style='color:#7A007A'><br></span><strong><span style='color:black'>Mark A. Riccobono, Executive Director, NFB Jernigan Institute</span></strong><b><span style='color:black'><br><br></span></b><strong><span style='color:purple'>P.S. You can stay up to date on NFB Youth Slam by following <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=r2nl8R9Yzt9tfP-rMsqfEg.." title="Link to follow NFBScience on Twitter">NFBScience</a> on Twitter. </span></strong><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c9 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=450 height=450 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender."></span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><h4><br>Unequal Pay for Equal Work <o:p></o:p></h4><p>On Monday, July 18, the NFB took a half-page of space in the <em>Washington Post</em> to bring to the public’s attention an appalling situation. The U.S. Senate is poised to pass a bill which endorses paying subminimum wages to the blind. This is flagrant exploitation of disabled workers! The blind of the nation are a group that already has a 70 percent unemployment rate. We need greater employment opportunities, not lesser ones. We must keep the pressure on to prevent this bill from becoming law.<o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Washington Post Workforce ad" summary="Photo: Wshington Post half page ad" align=right width=110 style='width:82.5pt;margin-left:11.25pt;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;CAPTION-SIDE: bottom'><tr><td style='border:none;padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt'><p align=center style='text-align:center'><em>Washington Post, July 18, 2011, page A12</em><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=10 style='width:7.5pt;padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=250 height=441 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Washington Post Subminimum Wage article"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p>The informational piece in the <em>Washington Post</em> reads: <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='color:green'>Unequal pay for equal work on the basis of disability is unfair, discriminatory, and immoral. </span></strong><b><span style='color:green'><br><br><strong>Hundreds of thousands of Americans are being exploited. </strong><br><br><strong>They are working in sweatshops.</strong><br><br><strong>They are paid less than the federal minimum wage. </strong><br><br><strong>On August 3rd, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to vote on the Workforce Investment Act. This bill reauthorizes the outrageous practice of paying subminimum wages to Americans with disabilities. </strong><br><br><strong>Will your senator vote for exploitation or equality? </strong><br><br><strong>Call your senator and ask. </strong><br><br><strong>For more information contact the National Federation of the Blind at (410) 659-9314 or <a href="mailto:fairwages@nfb.org" title="Link for fair wages information">fairwages@nfb.org</a>, or visit <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=ncAgmYAd9FRUd-HA35LajQ.." title="Link to NFB home page">www.nfb.org</a>.</strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=125 height=51 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. NFB Logo"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p><span style='color:black'><br>The Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) is set to vote on August 3 on the Workforce Investment Act, which contains language reauthorizing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. The Rehabilitation Act is supposed to provide services to disabled Americans so that they can obtain competitive employment, but Title V, Section 511 of the proposed Rehabilitation Act language references Section 14(c) of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which allows certain entities holding special wage certificates to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage. </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>As President Maurer sums it up, “Unequal pay for equal work on the basis of disability is unfair, discriminatory, and immoral. The senators who serve on the HELP Committee must decide whether they stand for the outrageous exploitation of disabled workers, or for true equality for Americans with disabilities.”</span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'> President Maurer speaks for all of us, “Language endorsing the antiquated practice of paying the blind and other workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, which is based on the fallacious premise that disabled workers cannot be productive and do the same work as their non-disabled peers, has no place in legislation designed to increase competitive work opportunities for workers with disabilities. We believe that this language, in effect if not by design, is a Trojan Horse provision that will inevitably lead to the placing of workers with disabilities in subminimum-wage sweatshops. We demand that the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee either amend this bill to remove Title V, Section 511, or simply vote down the entire bill.” </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'> At the national convention of the NFB just concluded in Orlando, the 2,900 delegates present voted unanimously to demand fair wages for blind workers. Unless the harmful language is removed, we reject Workforce Investment Act reauthorization! The text of the <a href="#2011-17" title="Link to text of Resolution 2011-17">resolution</a> passed on this issue and other <a href="#Background">background information</a> and <a href="#Quote" title="Link to Dr. tenBroek quote">historical perspective</a> are reproduced later in this newsletter. </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>Therefore, we are engaged in a national campaign of public education in order to let everyone know about the antiquated and immoral practice of paying workers with disabilities subminimum wages. </span>Outraged Americans have been calling Senate HELP Committee chairman Tom Harkin and other members’ offices to respectfully express their adamant objection to linking subminimum wage to the Rehabilitation Act, and to insist that Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act be removed from the bill. <span style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>NFB members will also conduct informational protests across the United States to raise awareness about the practice of paying wages below the federal minimum wage to Americans with disabilities. The protests will take place on July 26, the twenty-first anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, at the primary district office locations of United States Senators serving on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the HELP Committee). <br><br>For more resources and information, please write to </span><a href="mailto:fairwages@nfb.org" title="Link to email for fair wages information">fairwages@nfb.org</a>,<span style='color:black'> read the official Web page <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=8aeuh2i3Itm_LUeMGdykIg.." title="Link to Fair Wages Web page">Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities,</a> or visit our home page, <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=LK6kKsAlUq28AULm33C82g.." title="Link to NFB home page">www.nfb.org</a>. If you want future updates on this critically important matter, please sign up to <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=a8BRtKFApo6gIL0QUSZiEg.." title="Link to subscribe to press releases">receive our press releases</a>. You can help us to achieve true equality for Americans with disabilities.</span><strong><i><span style='color:green'> </span></i></strong><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><h4><a name=Background></a><span style='color:black'>Background</span><o:p></o:p></h4><p><span style='color:black'> Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) allows entities holding what are called “special wage certificates” to pay their disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage. These entities are almost always segregated workplaces, sometimes called “sheltered workshops,” that employ workers with various disabilities, including sensory, physical, and cognitive or developmental disabilities. Federal law requires that certain goods and services procured by the federal government be purchased from these sheltered workshops in order to provide workers with disabilities with employment, but these workers do not have the same protections that other American workers have. Most importantly they do not receive the federal minimum wage. In recent times some of these sheltered workshops have begun to pay disabled workers the minimum wage or higher. Because they receive very lucrative federal contracts, even those workshops that are paying workers competitive wages have no trouble maintaining their operations and even being quite profitable. But some shops still claim that they would be unable to continue their operations and would have to fire their workers with disabilities if forced to pay the minimum wage, even though this claim is demonstrably false.</span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>In 1973 Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act, and in 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. Both of these laws are designed to help workers with disabilities obtain competitive employment outside of these sheltered workshops. </span><o:p></o:p></p><h4><span style='color:black'>The Current Issue</span><o:p></o:p></h4><p><span style='color:black'> A bill before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (commonly called the HELP Committee), the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), contains language in Title V reauthorizing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. A new section of this title, Section 511, allows rehabilitation agencies, which are supposed to place workers with disabilities in competitive employment, to place workers in sheltered workshops that pay subminimum wages instead, under certain circumstances. The Rehabilitation Act has never before endorsed or been linked to the payment of subminimum wages, and the National Federation of the Blind and our partners do not want to see such a link established now. We are asking the senators on the HELP Committee to remove Section 511 from the Workforce Investment Act and to support fair wages for all workers with disabilities.</span><o:p></o:p></p><h4><a name=2011-17></a><span style='color:black'>RESOLUTION 2011-17: Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization</span><o:p></o:p></h4><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions has distributed language for the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act including a proposed Section 511 of Title V (the Rehabilitation Act), which would provide for employment of people with significant disabilities at wages below the federally mandated minimum wage; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, the proposed language of Section 511 would be a tacit endorsement of the subminimum wage provision found in Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its antiquated contention that people with disabilities cannot be competitively employed; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, this language links the Rehabilitation Act, which was established to assist people with disabilities in obtaining competitive integrated employment, with Section 14(c) of the FLSA, which is based on the false premise that people with disabilities cannot be competitively employed and therefore can be paid subminimum wages; and</span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, the language in Section 511 that defines what steps a vocational rehabilitation counselor must take before steering a client into subminimum-wage employment is intended to prevent youth with disabilities from being tracked into subminimum-wage jobs, but is likely instead to track clients into subminimum-wage employment; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, language in Section 511 asserts that employers holding a certificate that allows them to pay subminimum wages can also serve as training facilities for people with disabilities, a claim that ignores the fact that job training services provided by an employer holding a special wage certificate are likely to reinforce the low expectation that workers with disabilities cannot be competitively employed, since the incentive is for the employer to continue exploiting their labor rather than prepare workers for other employment; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, the Section 511 documentation and review process, which is meant to provide safeguards against inappropriate use of subminimum-wage employment, does not take into consideration the fact that state Vocational Rehabilitation programs do not have the resources to ensure effective compliance with the various documentation and review requirements, including the six-month review period in the proposed language, creating an opportunity to expand the exploitation caused by Section 14(c) of the FLSA; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, the good intentions motivating the development of Section 511 are likely to result in enormous negative consequences, especially the validation of subminimum-wage employment as a viable outcome for people with disabilities; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>WHEREAS, the language does not provide an effective procedure for workers to challenge improper placement in such employment: Now, therefore, </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention assembled this seventh day of July, 2011, in the city of Orlando, Florida, that this organization call on members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to remove Section 511 of the proposed Rehabilitation Act; and </span><span style='color:green'><br><br></span><span style='color:black'>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call upon all members of Congress, not to address the unjust law of Section 14(c) with ineffective measures, but to take direct action to abolish the reprehensible practice of subminimum-wage employment forever. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c9 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=450 height=450 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender."></span><o:p></o:p></p><h3><a name=Quote></a>Citation<o:p></o:p></h3><p class=c9>July 6th was the 100th anniversary of Dr. Jacobus tenBroek’s birth. It seems only fitting to include a quote from our founder on the practice of paying subminimum wages to blind workers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=c9><strong><span style='color:green'>. . . sheltered workshops have failed to fulfill their responsibility to their employees. Indeed, they have for the most part sought to avoid the normal obligations of employers through exemption from the laws fixing minimum standards of employment and working conditions. Workers in sheltered shops deserve and require the same protection of their rights as do the workers in other industries: specifically, with respect to wages, hours, vacations, sick leave, labor-management relations, and the like. However, blind workshop employees have never received, and do not now receive, such protection. Not only do wages fail to meet the cost of living; they fail to meet the minimum requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, from which sheltered shops have in fact been explicitly exempted. Nor can blind workshop employees hope to improve conditions by their own efforts; for one thing, they are not organized into unions, and for another thing (as noted earlier) they have been denied the collective bargaining protection of the National Labor Relations Act. Finally, many of these employees do not have entitlement to workmen’s compensation or Social Security privileges, and most are denied the benefits of unemployment compensation. In short, blind workers in sheltered employment are virtually in the position of wards, without legal rights or recourse, and reduced to an abject dependency upon the good will and discretion of their employers. In such circumstances, it is conservative understatement to say that sheltered workshops have failed to meet the conditions of employment to which American workers are entitled and accustomed.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c9>—Dr. Jacobus tenBroek, “The Character and Function of Sheltered Workshops,” <a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=Sob0mzoV-I6HFG6zOyQ-vw.." title="Link to Blind American, May 1962"><em>Blind American</em>, May 1962</a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:4.5pt'></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:4.5pt'></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:4.5pt'></td></tr></table></div><p class=c9 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=450 height=450 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender."></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=c29 align=center style='text-align:center'>Thank you for reading the NFB Jernigan Institute’s <em>Imagineering Our Future</em><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="25%" valign=top style='width:25.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Blind young woman performing with flute" summary="Photo: Youth Slam science class" width=60 style='width:45.0pt'><tr><td width=10 style='width:7.5pt;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=75 height=112 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CC48A5.09044420" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Blind student doing STEM work"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=c51 align=center style='text-align:center'>Support the Jernigan Institute through the <em><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=O5yN8Y9kDbb9dfQqVGNo9A.." title="Information about the Imagination Fund">Imagination Fund</a></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Blind girl examining constellations model" summary="Photo: Blind girl examining constellations model"><tr><td width=10 style='width:7.5pt;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Blind girl examining model of constellations"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Teens carry March for Independence banner" summary="Photo: Teens carry March for Independence banner" width="5%" style='width:5.0%'><tr><td width="5%" style='width:5.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Blind Teens Carry the 2007 Youth March for Independence Banner"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Mentor leads hikers along a trail" summary="Photo: Mentor leads hikers along a trail" width="10%" style='width:10.0%'><tr><td width="10%" style='width:10.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Mentor Trevor Attenberg leads campers along the nature trail "></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Group on white water raft" summary="Photo: Group on white water raft" width="10%" style='width:10.0%'><tr><td width="10%" style='width:10.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_12" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Group on white water raft"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><h4 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></h4><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Blind young woman performing with flute" summary="Photo: Blind young woman performing with flute"><tr><td width=10 style='width:7.5pt;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_13" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Young woman playing flute"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><h4 align=center style='text-align:center'><br><br><br><br>Interesting links: <o:p></o:p></h4><p class=c6 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=nUoMlZ3QnKXEGnt-Tu9haA.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=1U87T6xtX7Ne-j1rmOU32g..
Link to Past episodes of Straight Talk about Vision Loss">Archive of Straight Talk about Vision Loss videos</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c6 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=MfAhEcusZxjsG6hjhapT0w.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=YMPHaXubtQocs3g3pEcnUQ..">National Center for Blind Youth in Science</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c6 align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=_LtTWHtV2azROaAHi5YfGQ.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=CG4VgrWmdaS2Vg_x0oRjrg..
Link to Access Technology Tips">Access Technology Tips</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c60 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><br><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=6B-X69QxYc8RvJDk9dV-xA.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=dp_GkcHtvXqp6xY7k3Gt0g..
Link to TeachBlindStudents.org site">TeachBlind Students.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c61 align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Blind youth practicing martial art" summary="Photo: Blind youth practicing martial art" width="10%" style='width:10.0%'><tr><td width="10%" style='width:10.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_14" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Youth practicing martial art"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><h4 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><br><br><o:p></o:p></h4><h4 align=center style='text-align:center'>Blogs:<o:p></o:p></h4><p class=c6 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=SyFCuWht2h1YEPoGYco5kQ.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=uz_FjIUsHvfPnSeb52d38g..
Link to Access Technology blog">Access Technology</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c6 align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=lLOdrw0BFhml_zkOpAr34g.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=xp0Jkduu75ivl1N7d-j_dw..
Link to Voice of the Nation’s Blind blog">Voice of the Nation’s Blind</a><o:p></o:p></p><h4 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></h4><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Senior couple" summary="Photo: Senior couple"><tr><td width=10 style='width:7.5pt;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_15" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Senior couple"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><h4 align=center style='text-align:center'><br><br><br>Publication archives: <o:p></o:p></h4><p class=c6 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><em><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=f6tGSv0VSr69yh2-cooxnQ.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=WIwzYoaFfxCMW13zOkswIQ..
Link to archive of Future Reflections magazine">Future Reflections</a></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c6 align=center style='text-align:center'><em><a href="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=8q3gmo63kMVNKLOzjBqvVw.." target="_blank" title="http://www.raceforindependence.org/site/R?i=pEp_L_WOhbgn8_GC8APSfg..
Link to archive of the Braille Monitor">Braille Monitor</a></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=c66 align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=c51 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=c51 align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 title="Photo: Mom and son take a moment to hug" summary="Photo: Mom and son take a moment to hug" width="10%" style='width:10.0%'><tr><td width="10%" style='width:10.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_16" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Photo: Mom and son take a moment and a hug"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=c6 align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=c51 align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=c6 align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Description: Image removed by sender. Graphic Logo: National Federation of the Blind" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:42.55pt;margin-top:0;width:93.75pt;height:24pt;z-index:251659264;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f" stroked="t" strokeweight="56e-5mm">
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