[Colorado-talk] books and NLS shutdown

[Beth Taurasi]

Dear NFBCO members,
I would encourage all of us to contact our representative and voice your 
disappointment in the Republican leadership in the House of 
Representatives.  They have stolen our rights from us.  We, as blind 
people, treasure the right to read and write.  We have Braille, and we 
have it for a reason.  As we fight on to read books, we have discovered 
taht when the government shuts down, our websites, the NLS ones, have 
been shut down.  I contacted my local Congresswoman DeGette, and she 
will somehow get the message about the right to read.  Because of 
Boener's inability to lead a House of Representatives, we as blind 
people are suffering.  We have a major access burier, the right to 
read.  We sometimes can't afford to buy books, so what do we do?  We 
download them from the Bard site, but this time, the Bard site is shut 
down.  To all NFB Coloradans, please contact your local Congressperson 
and tell them, "Make John Boener listen.  Tell the rest of your 
Representatives to reopen the government and encourage protections for 
us blind people who want to read books."
Beth