Special thanks to you all for supporting Deaf Bilingual Coalition.
I am still in Washington DC and will fly home tonight back to Minnesota. Please give me time to get settled down and will get back to you all about DBC’s plans which we, in the DBC, have already discussed, issues such as membership drives, selecting temporary […]

Posted on July 30th, 2007 by egbertpress
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A big demand to to buy the AGBell’s Greatest Irony T-Shirts!
Today, Friday, July 27th at Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia is a historic day in the last 120 years for any Deaf organization or collective group to stand up against Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Auditory Verbal Therapy Group’s ideology that […]

Posted on July 27th, 2007 by egbertpress
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 On Thursday, supporters and contributors of Deaf Bilingual Coalition will meet at Gallaudet SAC near the bookstore in the dining room area anywhere from 9 am to 3 pm. Come anytime to join us on discussions about the protest.
We will have an interpreter from 9 am to 3 pm on Friday and 9 am to […]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by egbertpress
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Dear friend,
Tomorrow morning I fly out to Washington, DC, to join John Egbert’s campaign to have ALL Deaf babies sign. We will be campaigning in front of the Alexander Graham Bell Association convention in Arlington, VA.
Thursday, July 26th- the Deaf Bilingual Coalition gathers at Gallaudet.
Friday & Saturday, July 27th & July 28th- we will […]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by egbertpress
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Dear Friend,
For years, the deaf community has felt the aftereffects of the stunning blow felt in Milan, Italy in 1880. At an educator’s conference there, hearing educators, including Alexander Graham Bell, voted to ban the use of sign language in deaf education. In the decades since then, deaf people have been forced to learn how […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by egbertpress
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