[nfbwatlk] Fw: Information--Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Sat Apr 18 17:41:18 UTC 2009

Fellow Federationists:

I received the information below regarding the Federation's 
participation in the Los Angeles Festival of Books to publicize the 
wrong-headed objections of the Authors' Guild to unlimited 
text-to-speech processing of books on Amazon's Kindle 2. We are looking 
for participants; it will be a full-court press event, i.e., we are 
looking for several people to go to L.A. as outlined below.

The NFB of Washington is financially unable to assist with travel and 
other expenses. However, if anyone truly has the time, please let me 
know ASAP; there may be assistance available thru our national office. 
This is short notice and I understand if no one is available. But Jason 
Ewell called me yesterday inquiring if we had anyone who could go. I 
said I didn't think so but would check.

Thanks.

Mike Freeman, President
NFB of Washington

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wilson, Joanne" <JWilson at nfb.org>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:03 AM
Subject: FW: Information--Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Dear State President,

     On April 25 and 26th of 2009, we need 12 to 14 people to work at
our tables at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to educate writers
about the Kindle 2 issue.  We will need energetic, articulate
Federationists who can move around the Festival passing out flyers and
talking to authors.  (See message below from Ann-Marie Laney for
details).

     Do you have anyone from your affiliate that can help?  Please send
me their information.

     Thanks so much.

Joanne Wilson

________________________________

From: Laney, Ann-Marie
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:16 AM
To: Wilson, Joanne; Carranza, Rosy; Ewell, Jason; Maurer, Patricia;
Neubeck, Dawn
Cc: Office Of The President; Wadia, Kristina
Subject: Information--Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Hello:  Below is the information we talked about this morning.

We are looking for volunteers for both days.  When you talk to people,
see if you can get them to commit to a time and date.  Also getting
their e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers will be very helpful.  If
they are willing to do any shift, let me know and I will schedule them
where needed.

Overall we will need people to man the table, hand out flyers, and also
visit authors and deliver our open letter to authors.

There will also be an organizational meeting on Friday afternoon (time
not yet determined) for those who can make it.

Please let me know if there is any other information I can proved.
Thanks in advance, AML

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Dates:

Saturday, April 25

10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 26

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location

UCLA

405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Hotels close by: (listed in the Exhibitors manual)

Hotel Angeleno

170 N. Church Lane

Los Angeles, CA 90049

(310) 476-6411

866-ANGELENO

Luxe Hotel

11461 Sunset Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90049

(310) 476-6571

UCLA Guest House

330 Charles Young Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90095

(310) 825-2923

Ann-Marie Laney, Director

Strategic Initiatives Operations

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

1800 Johnson Street

Baltimore, Maryland 21230

410-659-9314, ext. 2219

410-685-5653 (fax)

alaney at nfb.org (email)

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