What an outrageous waste of time and money!
----- Original Message ----- From: Don To: blind handy man Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:27 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Off topic one time post. The following message will be a one time o t post for handy man. I don't want a discussion on this topic to get started on this list,. But if you can help read the following. I am passing this along for Marlaina, because I think it may be useful for them to get as many signatures as possible. I just went and signed it's fairly painless , and it could help us all. message follows. regards Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlaina Lieberg on ACB Radio" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:20 PM Subject: Fw: support ACB in its attempt to win on accessible currency > From: Marlaina Lieberg on ACB Radio > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:20 AM > Subject: support ACB in its attempt to win on accessible currency > > > The American Council of the Blind is working hard to ensure that all blind > and partially sighted people using United States currency have the same > level of access to information about that currency as those who are > sighted. > The U S Department of the Treasury is fighting this effort, despite a > victory in the Federal Courts which requires the Treasury to investigate > and > develop methods to make paper currency identifiable by touch. The > Treasury > is appealing the Federal Court decision. > > If this is important to you -- if you agree that people, blind or sighted, > should have access to the same level of information about U S currency > such > as the value of the bill you are about to spend or have just received, -- > now there is something you can do. > > Please show your support for the concept of universally designing our > paper > money so that all who use it may have the same level of information about > their bills by signing the petition at: > http://www.money4all.info > > The American Council of the Blind will be printing out the petition and > using it to demonstrate to Congress the great need to revisit this > country's > paper currency design. If you are not blind, stop and ask yourself how > much > you'd trust a stranger giving you change in a store or taxi to always be > 100% honest with you about the paper currency being given. Ask yourself > if > ever you have almost given somebody a $20 as a tip when you meant to give > a > $5. All we are asking is for equal access to denominational information > through the use of touch. > > Marlaina > http://www.money4all.info > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.2/613 - Release Date: 1/1/2007 2:50 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
