[NABS-L] Legislative & Self-Advocacy Committee One Week Reminder

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, Justin and everyone,

For me, it has always been really helpful to learn about people whom 
have had to fight the same struggle for person hood as we do. It was 
always really helpful to me to learn about how those whom have gone 
before us did it, what worked and what didn't and that body of lived 
experience has always lighted my way, not that I've reached anything 
grandiose but in little incidentals it is from my predessors in that 
familiar struggle for person hood that I draw emotional strength and 
courage to consider not just myself in this fight but others of our 
group since of course, their person hood is important, too. All of 
us, all of blind people.
  At 10:11 AM 4/11/2021, Justin Young via NABS-L wrote:
>Hi All,
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>Hoping this message finds you all well! Please join us next Sunday, April 18
>at 8pm eastern for the next Legislative & Self-Advocacy Committee (LSAC)
>meeting. For this month's conversation, we will be discussing strategies how
>to keep our cool in the moment of advocating for ourselves. At times I'm
>sure we all have faced stressful or as some may also call them blood boiling
>moments while trying to advocate for our rights as blind people. This might
>happen with professors, in social gatherings, traveling in airports, train
>stations, etc. So we would like you to consider these stressful situations &
>how you dealt with them in the moment while they were happening and be
>willing to share the techniques that worked best for you to resolve them.
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>It's our hope by holding this conversation during this month's LSAC call, we
>all can learn a new strategy to help us become greater self-advocates
>ensuring we as blind people have the same rights as others!
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>The Zoom information to join us is the following:
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>Join Zoom Link:
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>https://zoom.us/j/4678833687
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>+16468769923,,4678833687#
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>Thanks & look forward to chatting with you all next Sunday at 8pm eastern!
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>Justin Young
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>Co-Chair, Legislative & Self-Advocacy Committee, National Association of
>Blind Students
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>Treasurer, National Federation of the Blind of New York State.
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>Vice President, National Federation of the Blind of New York State,
>Rochester Chapter
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