[nfb-talk] Fwd: [Nfbf-l] Florida Times Union-Jacksonville

Sat Jul 7 12:04:01 CDT 2007

gooogood job did ramona march at all.please let me know.don s


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>Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:34:38 -0500
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>Or, to put it another way, you might land on your asphalt in the parking
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> > Oh me,
> > Wow you have swell balance.
> > I would think going off curbs would make you land on your parking lot.
> > smile,
> >
> > --Dar
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> >>I was one of the three brave rollerbladers. It was a blast and totally
> >>worth
> >> it!
> >> Tai
> >>
> >>
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> >> Now I can hardly stand on my feet,
> >> Wouldn't want to be on the roller glades.
> >>
> >>
> >> --Dar
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> >> Every Sinner has a future
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> >> Subject: [nfb-talk] Fwd: [Nfbf-l] Florida Times Union-Jacksonville
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> >>
> >>>
> >>>>Subject: [Nfbf-l] Florida Times Union-Jacksonville
> >>>>
> >>>>Their "march for
> >>>>
> >>>>Independence" touted jobs and education.
> >>>>
> >>>>By DON SCHANCHE Jr. Associated Press
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>ATLANTA - At sunrise Tuesday, hundreds of people - most tapping the
> >>>>ground with white canes and a few making the trip on roller blades -
> >>>>marched en masse from a downtown hotel to a city park more than half a
> >>>>mile away to make a point:
> >>>>
> >>>>Blind people can do what other people do.  The early morning event,
> >>>>organized by the National Federation of the Blind, was billed as a
> >>>>civil rights march.
> >>>>
> >>>>"We are here to march for independence for blind people across 
>America,"
> >>>>said parade marshal Larry Streeter, a school principal from Raleigh,
> >>>>N.C.
> >>>>"We're here to change what it means to be blind and let the world know
> >>>>we are indeed able people who have many talents."
> >>>>
> >>>>Two of the main goals: jobs and education.
> >>>>
> >>>>"The blind have a 70 percent unemployment rate, and we have a 10
> >>>>percent rate of being taught to read and write Braille in our schools
> >>>>in this country," said NFB President Marc Maurer, a lawyer from
> >>>>Maryland.
> >>>>
> >>>>The NFB also has pushed for accessibility in other areas. In June, the
> >>>>group won an agreement with the nation's largest non-bank owner of
> >>>>automated teller machines to improve access for blind people at ATMs
> >>>>in malls, gas stations and pharmacies.
> >>>>
> >>>>Maurer said the NFB - founded in 1940 and now with more than 50,000
> >>>>members - decided to Incorporate a march into this year's annual
> >>>>convention in Atlanta because the city was the symbolic heart of the
> >>>>Civil rights movement for racial equality in the 1960s, Congressman
> >>>>John Lewis, D-Atlanta, a veteran of that movement, led the march.
> >>>>
> >>>>Organizers said 1,000 or more people look part. The Atlanta police
> >>>>estimate was 700.
> >>>>
> >>>>Al Ella, t3, a computer consultant from Boston, was on hand with his
> >>>>guide dog, Zion. Born with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye
> >>>>disease, Elia said his vision had dropped to a point where he could no
> >>>>longer do his job without retraining.
> >>>>
> >>>>He said his most important issue is access to study materials for
> >>>>advanced degrees. Although educators now are required to provide
> >>>>blind-accessible school books in grades K-12, Elia said, "They still
> >>>>haven't done that for college and advanced degree texts. I can tell
> >>>>you from trying to get study materials to go to law school, it's
> >>>>something
> >> that needs to happen."
> >>>>
> >>>>Picture (not included):
> >>>>
> >>>>U.S. Rep. John Lewis (second from right), D-Ga., leads the
> >>>>
> >>>>National Federation of the Blind march in Atlanta Tuesday.
> >>>>
> >>>>Marching with him were Anil Lewis, president of the Georgia
> >>>>
> >>>>Federation of the Blind, and Thelma Goodwin, a member of the
> >>>>
> >>>>Georgia organization.
> >>>
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