[nfb-talk] Youth Empowerment

[Judy Jones]

Hi, Mike,

Your insightful message makes me wonder something:  Do the states that have 
really active parent divisions with the NFB see more young people coming 
into leadership positions?  In other words, if kids grow up around the 
movement, are they likely to stay with the movement?

Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Youth Empowerment


> Lest we be accused of being the pot that called the kettle black (and I
> know Judy did not do this), if we are honest with ourselves, we will
> realize that, at least in this neck of the woods, it's getting
> increasingly difficult to turn out droves of blind persons for
> legislative hearings and such, no matter how important they may be. WE
> who are older have incurred many obligations which we cannot or are
> unwilling to get out of for last-minute NFB tasks and the young have
> their MP3 players, the Internet and the like which they judge to be far
> more interesting than having to sit thru some boring appropriations
> hearing or even a hearing on something about which they care if the NFB
> testimony is about eighth in or worse of the bills being considered. For
> what it is worth, I don't think *any* of us, given the Internet and all
> the information coming at us, feel the sense of community, comeraderie
> and being in the same foxhole with brothers and sisters that we did
> when, say, we were fighting for the various White Cane Laws, the right
> of blind persons to serve on juries or, to make things local to my
> state, struggling to break the School for the Blind out of the welfare
> department.
>
> So aside from the truism that we must make friends with the young and
> show some interest in what they're doing, we face the task of making
> activism fun again and showing the young that they have a real stake in
> the future -- not an easy task when, for the first time, young people ma
> end up with a lesser standard of living than we have.
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Judy Jones wrote:
>
>> Very well put.  Who ever heard of Disabled Student Services when we went
>> through school in the sixties and seventies?
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ryan O." <rosentowski at neb.rr.com>
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>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Youth Empowerment
>>
>>
>>> The blindness world is still rife with youth. The problem is that 
>>> they've
>>> had a good deal handed to them through legislation, technology and
>>> monetary
>>> advantage that wasn't available to previous generations.
>>>
>>>
>>> RyanO
>>>
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