[nfb-talk] Youth Empowerment

[Alan Wheeler]

I like the thinking...start 'em young. *SMILE*

Seriously, Judy, it makes a lot of sense.  I'll be curious to see the answer 
to your question.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Jones" <nfbwatac at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Youth Empowerment


> 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>
> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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
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>>>
>>>> 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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