From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Tue Nov 6 01:32:35 2012 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:32:35 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] Fwd: distributing getting out the vote In-Reply-To: <009901cdb710$0a2acfb0$1e806f10$@gmail.com> References: <009901cdb710$0a2acfb0$1e806f10$@gmail.com> Message-ID: For your information. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deepa Goraya Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:32:56 -0700 Subject: distributing getting out the vote To: dsmithnfb at gmail.com Hi Darien, Would you mind distributing this email below and the attached materials to NABS? It's just to Get Out the Vote and making sure people with disabilities, the blind especially, will be at the polls on Election Day. Thanks. Deepa Dear Darien, I am writing to you on behalf of Forward This, a disability grassroots advocacy campaign focused on getting out the vote among people with disabilities. Forward This is creating a way for our generation to make its own mark in history, by showing the power of the younger generation of people with disabilities. While we are a partisan organization, our primary goal is to increase the number of people with disabilities who vote on Election Day. Increasing the voter turn-out among people with disabilities will build our political power as a community, regardless of which political party receives our support. To this end, I have attached a few documents with nonpartisan content, designed to encourage and enable your members to vote. Forward This stresses the importance of early voting for people with disabilities, given the unpredictability of certain aspects of our lives, and the pressing need for our voices to be heard. Nonpartisan Get Out The Vote Flyers: 1. Voting Information flyer, providing information about ballots, polling places, early voting, and voter ID laws; 2. Early Voting flyer, detailing the importance of early voting for people with disabilities; 3. NCD-Approved HAVA Flyer, encouraging people with disabilities to vote; 4. NDRN Flyer, explaining that people with disabilities have the right to vote; and 5. NCD Election Day Accessibility Questionnaire, for people with disabilities who have voted to provide feedback on their experiences. Nonpartisan Early Voting links: http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/absentee-and-early-voti ng.aspx http://www.vote411.org http://apps.npr.org/early-voting-2012/ http://www.canivote.org http://www.eac.gov/voter_resources/contact_your_state.aspx Thank you for your time, and I hope that together we can show the power of the disability vote on election day! Sincerely, Deepa Goraya Blind Outreach Coordinator -- Darian Smith "Let's work together to eliminate Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities" http://www.nfb.org/fairwages "To dream what is possible and to put oneself in service of that dream is the formula for a life well lived." - Dr. Peter Benson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Early Voting Flyer for People with Disabilities.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 127433 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NCD-Approved HAVA Flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 39825 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NDRN Flyer- People with Disabilities have the right to vote Nov 6 2012.d....pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 534026 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Voting_Information_for_People_with_Disabilities.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 72829 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Tue Nov 20 05:21:40 2012 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:21:40 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] The Nabs Membership Call: Music for Non-Music Majors. Message-ID: Do you plan to study music in college? Or perhaps you want to sing in your college choir or play in the marching band. Maybe you want to learn a musical instrument but don't know how to get started taking lessons at your university. If you're wondering about studying any kind of music as a blind student, then you should join the National Association of Blind Students and the Performing Arts Division On Sunday November 25th at 7 p.m. ET, in a call all about music in college. We will hear from Julie McGinnity, NABS member and PAD Secretary, as she gives some advice to those who might want some pointers on how to get more involved in musical pursuits. Call (530) 881-1212 Code: 757 809 541 The Nabs Membership Committee From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Fri Nov 23 17:24:04 2012 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:24:04 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] Reminder: The Nabs Membership Call: Music for Non-Music Majors. Message-ID: On behalf of the National Association of Blind Students, we want to wish you and yours a happy thanksgiving, be the first to wish you a happy holiday season and wishyou happy hunting on black Friday! We also hope that you will join us for our next nabs confrence call-- see below... Do you plan to study music in college? Or perhaps you want to sing in your college choir or play in the marching band. Maybe you want to learn a musical instrument but don't know how to get started taking lessons at your university. If you're wondering about studying any kind of music as a blind student, then you should join the National Association of Blind Students and the Performing Arts Division On Sunday November 25th at 7 p.m. ET, in a call all about music in college. We will hear from Julie McGinnity, NABS member and PAD Secretary, as she gives some advice to those who might want some pointers on how to get more involved in musical pursuits. Call (530) 881-1212 Code: 757 809 541 The Nabs Membership Committee -- Darian Smith Text the word BLIND to 85944 to donate $10 to the NFB Imagination Fund via your phone bill. The time is now to eliminate Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities http://www.nfb.org/fairwages ?We know not of our future, but we know of our past. A past that is made up of our ancestor?s Dreams, their stories and hopes. These sights once seen, sounds heard and emotions felt are now our knowledge. The knowledge that guides us to this very moment?? From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Fri Nov 30 03:25:01 2012 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:25:01 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] Fwd: Student Slate Fall 2012 In-Reply-To: <01db01cdc155$6a762140$3f6263c0$@gmail.com> References: <01db01cdc155$6a762140$3f6263c0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: nabs.president at gmail.com Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:14:43 -0500 Subject: Student Slate Fall 2012 To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org, nabs-presidents at nfbnet.org Good evening, Please find attached the latest edition of NABS quarterly publication, the Student Slate. Thanks to Karen Anderson, Cindy Bennett and Candice Chapman, and happy Reading! Take care, Sean Sean Whalen President, National Association of Blind Students (608) 332-4147 Nabs.president at gmail.com www.nabslink.org -- Darian Smith Text the word BLIND to 85944 to donate $10 to the NFB Imagination Fund via your phone bill. The time is now to eliminate Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities http://www.nfb.org/fairwages ?We know not of our future, but we know of our past. A past that is made up of our ancestor?s Dreams, their stories and hopes. These sights once seen, sounds heard and emotions felt are now our knowledge. The knowledge that guides us to this very moment?? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Complete Slate Fall 2012.doc Type: application/msword Size: 88064 bytes Desc: not available URL: