I would wonder what is wrong with the already existing channels. the
United nations Trudie for the rights of people with disabilities...which
carries the rule of law, and packs greater punch then say the ADa.
Second, Bookshare is internationalalready now.
While I certainly respect that such issues differ around the world, I
firmly believe that writing about and advocating for those experiencing
sight loss as if they are uniformly the same person simply leads to greater
discrimination.
It is one of the *many* things that is disturbing about the NFB, their
forced state of blindness at their training centers, instead of supporting
the very existence of diversity among the more than 400 million people on
the planet experiencing blindness is not something i would want fortified
internationally to be sure.
Kare
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Pia wrote:
If this is legitimate, then maybe Tomas could provide more details for us,
because threats to and disregard of our basic human rights as blind people is
defiantly an international problem and a problem that should concern us all
as decent human beings.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, John G. Heim wrote:
When we created the International Association of Visually Impaired
Technologists, this kind of thing became a huge issue. Lots of us happen
to live in countries where our rights are better protected than they are
in other parts of the world. Are general discrimination issues relevant to
being a technologist? I maintained that we needed to stick to things
directly related to doing the job of working with computers. But a lot of
people disagreed. I'm afraid we lost some people immediately because of
it.
But I still think what we really need is an international version of the
NFB. Whatever you may think of the NFB, it does have it's good side
especially when it comes to advocacy. I've had enough trouble even getting
people interested in helping with IAVIT and what we have is totally
inadequate for dealing with issues like this. I wish I had the guts to
quit my job and get to work on it. I was just reading up on James Love,
the founder of Knowledge Ecology, and it says that he used to be a
commercial fisherman. Knowledge Ecology is the group that has been
working on getting a treaty through the UN that would essentially allow
bookshare.org to go international.
Anyway, I'd be reluctant to just dismiss stuff like this as spam. I've
contacted Tom. I'll see if we can get more specifics. We'll try to flesh
out the details a little. After that, each of us will have to decide on
our own whether the cause is worthy of our attention.
On 12/04/2014 02:51 AM, Pia wrote:
> Warning this looks like spam. On the website there is no details
about
> the supposed case, just a bunch of requests for money in poorly
written
> English. Also, the website redirects you to a crowdfunding site.
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Tomáš Cerha wrote:
>
> > Dear list members,
> >
> > I am sorry for cross-posting an off topic message, but I believe
this
> > is an important precedence that must be heard.
> >
> > I would like to very kindly ask you for sharing an important
> > information about a case, where a blind man decided to defend his
> > rights and the rights of other blind and visually impaired people
> > against the state. More details at http://DefendTheBlind.com
> > <http://defendtheblind.com/> .
> >
> > It is now really important to get the message across!
> >
> > The possibilities are:
> > 1. Share our Facebook post:
> > https://www.facebook.com/a11yltd/posts/368404846670835
> > <https://www.facebook.com/a11yltd/posts/368404846670835>
> > 2. Re-tweet our message:
> > https://twitter.com/a11yltd/status/540105668636999680
> > <https://twitter.com/a11yltd/status/540105668636999680>
> > 3. Publish a message about DefendTheBlind.com
> > <http://defendtheblind.com/>
> >
> > If you have some other idea how you could help us, please let us
know!
> >
> > Thank you for understanding and apologies for wasting your time
if
> > this doesn’t interest you. If you decide to reply, please do so
> > personally to avoid discussing this off topic message on the
list!
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Tomas Cerha
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