[nfb-talk] ACB members in NFB

[David Evans]

Dear All,

I am a NFB Chapter president and past state board member for Florida.
We faced this issue a few years back and this is how to handle it.
Duel membership is to be discouraged, but not prohibited except as follows.
A person can be a member of both, but they can not be an officer or board 
member of a chapter or state affiliate.
This places them in a conflict of interest.
They , in order to be an officer or board member, must not be a member in 
the other organization nor regularly attend it's meetings and functions. 
This would be considered tasset membership.
Anyone who violates this policy could be ejected for conduct un-becoming a 
member.
We take people at their word until there is evidence to doubt their word.
These policy exist in both the NFB and ACB and has for years.  I know and 
have talked with both National Presidents of the organizations at one time 
or another about it.
We want people to experiment with the groups.  This is the way that we are 
able to show them the benefits of the NFB philosophy of independence verses 
" find a sighted person who can do it for you."
As I think I know as much, and likely more , about the law than Joe, I know 
that he has a mis-shapen view of the letter, meaning and spirit of the laws 
he is trying to threaten us with.
If he can prove  we have violated his civil rights, then let him sue us.
It is his behavior, on the list, that he must watch out for and not his 
politica ideology.

Now let us all simmer down and use our delete key a little more often.

David Evans, NFBF
Nuclear/Aerospace Materials Engineer
Builder of the Lunar Rovers and the IF-117 Stealth Fighter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] ACB members in NFB


>I would take this question up with your state president in Arizona.  It
> would depend on what this person did or continues to do in support of the
> ACB, particularly regarding areas where the NFB and ACB don't agree on the
> national or local level.  We have our policy against dual memberships, and 
> I
> believe it is a sound policy.  On the other hand, we need to be a 
> welcoming
> organization, not treating everybody with suspicion.  The important thing 
> is
> that we have a huge amount of work in front of us to change what it means 
> to
> be blind.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of S Farwaneh
>> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:51 PM
>> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nfb-talk] ACB members in NFB
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I have a question about how to best accommodate active ACB members who 
>> try
>> to join the NFB. My understanding is that NFB policies prohibit ACB/NFB
>> dual membership. We have an ACB member in our midst who was informed 
>> about
>> the policy, whereupon she denied her affiliation with ACB. We have
>> philosophical differences concerning this issue: Some members believe 
>> that
>> we should take her word for it and allow her to participate fully in NFB
>> activities in the hopes that she will ultimately become a functional
>> member; others request that her terminated affiliation with ACB be
>> verified
>> to  ensure that our chapters are not infiltrated by ACB members who
>> believe
>> that their mission is to 'reform' the NFB.
>>
>> I wonder if you have a similar experience to report, and what the best
>> strategy is to expand our membership without jeopardizing our philosophy
>> and policies.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Samira Farwaneh
>> Tucson Chapter, NFBA
>>
>>
>> Samira Farwaneh
>> Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics
>> Department of Near Eastern Studies
>> Department of Linguistics
>> Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program
>> Louise Foucar Marshall Building
>> 845 N Park Avenue, Room 440
>> PO BOX 210158B
>> University of Arizona
>> Tucson, Arizona  85721-0158B
>> Phone: (520) 621-8629 Or 621-8012
>> Fax: (520) 621-2333
>
>
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