[nfb-talk] ACB members in NFB

[Judy Jones]

Hello,

I love your "duel" membership!!  A great play on words.


All kidding aside, your message is very clear-cut and makes perfect sense.

Judy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
To: <lras at sprynet.com>; "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] ACB members in NFB


>
> 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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