[nfb-talk] ACB Strikes Back Against NFB, Let us Strike Back:

Sun Dec 17 16:56:19 CST 2006

Hi this is Kenneth Chrane.
Correction:
The phone number to the National Office to Marc Maurer is:
(410) 659-9314.
My mistake sorry.
Kenneth Chrane
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From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
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> To answer your questions, please write to President Marc Maurer,
> 1800 Johnson Street,
> Baltimore, Maryland 21230
>
> Telephone:
>
> (410) 486-1569
>
> Kenneth Chrane
>
>
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> From: "Corey Cook" <ccook55 at sc.rr.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] ACB Strikes Back Against NFB, Let us Strike Back:
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>> What can we do to make our voice heard to the powers that be at the nfb
>>
>> Corey Cook
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
>> To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet NFB-Talk Mailing List"
>> <NFB-Talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: <CSDB-ALUMNI at googlegroups.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:07 PM
>> Subject: [nfb-talk] ACB Strikes Back Against NFB, Let us Strike Back:
>>
>>
>> I strongly agree with the ACB's efforts to make United
>> States paper currency accessible.
>> I resent the NFB's efforts to sabotage this
>> accessibility.
>> Not everyone in NFB agrees with Mr. Maurer's opinion.
>> Besides, he claims to have only fifty thousand
>> members, a small minority of the millions of blind and
>> visually impaired Americans.
>> If he received nine dollars change, how could he
>> independently find out which is the five dollar bill?
>> The more accessible bills would help people who are
>> not wearing their glasses or in dim light.
>> Such bills would even help people with normal vision,
>> to recognize bills from a distance or in dim light.
>> The cost would be small, since the treasury is
>> redesigning the currency periodically to fight
>> counterfeiting.
>> ACB, keep up the good work!!
>> Sincerely,
>> James R. Slagle
>>
>> --- Jennifer Thomas <jen at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>>                  AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND (ACB)
>>> PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE
>>> 1055 E. Flamingo Rd., Ste. 404, Las Vegas, NV 89119
>>> (702) 735-2484  Fax (702) 733-7570
>>> rsanders at acb.org
>>>
>> **********************************************************
>>>
>>> December 12, 2006
>>>
>>> American Council of the Blind Vows to Continue the
>>> Battle for Accessible
>>> Paper Currency in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals
>>>
>>> For Immediate Release
>>>
>>> For additional information contact Ralph Sanders.
>>>
>>> The American Council of the Blind (ACB) has made
>>> clear its intention to
>>> continue the court battle for accessible currency
>>> pursuant to the ruling
>>> in its favor by the Federal District Court in the
>>> District of Columbia
>>> and despite
>>> opposition by the Bush Administration.
>>>
>>> "We anticipated that the U.S. Department of the
>>> Treasury would appeal the
>>> DC District Court ruling and were not surprised when
>>> The Department of
>>> Justice filed an appeal today on behalf of
>>> Treasury," said Christopher
>>> Gray, ACB's President.
>>>
>>> "Treasury complains about the costs of making
>>> currency accessible," Gray
>>> added "but they are not at all concerned about the
>>> cost of litigation."
>>>
>>> "We are committed to this fight even to the Supreme
>>> Court, if necessary,
>>> because it is the right thing to do, and because it
>>> is the law of the
>>> United States," Gray said.
>>>
>>> Melanie Brunson, American Council of the Blind's
>>> Executive Director was
>>> not immediately available for comment. She is
>>> finishing up a week long
>>> trip to Tokyo, Japan where she was a featured
>>> speaker addressing an
>>> international conference on accessibility to audio
>>> and video programming
>>> for the blind and visually impaired.
>>>
>>> Estimates of the numbers of blind and visually
>>> impaired Americans who
>>> will benefit from accessible paper currency range
>>> from 3.3 million to 10
>>> million. This estimate, however, does not take into
>>> account the tens of
>>> millions of Americans who are beginning to
>>> experience sight loss because
>>> of age. The senior citizens are often not included
>>> in the visually
>>> impaired category, but many of them express problems
>>> with reading
>>> currency in dim light, particularly at night in gas
>>> stations and
>>> convenience stores.
>>>
>>> "It seems to us that the argument of those groups
>>> opposing our position
>>> is poorly founded since no specific method of making
>>> the currency
>>> accessible has been put forward," Gray said.
>>> "Estimates of potential
>>> costs to vending machine operators and to cash
>>> register changes are
>>> simply unfounded at this time."
>>>
>>> In reaching his ruling in the Federal District
>>> Court, Judge James
>>> Robertson noted that of 180 nations printing paper
>>> currency only the
>>> United States makes no effort to make the currency
>>> accessible without
>>> vision.
>>>
>>> As for small elements within the blind community who
>>> have voiced
>>> opposition Gray said that it is hard to find
>>> unanimity within any sector
>>> of the American society on any issue. "The blind
>>> community would not
>>> have succeeded in moving into active participation
>>> in any sector of our
>>> society without steps to make material generated in
>>> print accessible in
>>> some way from printed books to computer screens,"
>>> Gray said.
>>> "We still have a long way to go to level the playing
>>> field and the
>>> currency suit is merely one effort among many
>>> sponsored by the American
>>> Council of the Blind," he said.
>>>
>>> The American Council of the Blind is the largest
>>> consumer based
>>> organization of blind and visually impaired
>>> Americans advocating for the
>>> rights of blind Americans. Organized through more
>>> than seventy
>>> affiliates in every community in the United States,
>>> the organization is
>>> dedicated to making it possible for blind and
>>> visually impaired Americans
>>> to participate fully in every aspect of American
>>> society. For more
>>> information on the American Council of the Blind,
>>> and the issues it
>>> supports visit www.acb.org.
>>
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