When Adrean Clark created a petition on the White House website, she wrote from her heart. She believed that ASL deserves recognition. Then a funny thing happened. The petition got more than 27,000 signatures from people like you who shared the same belief.
Your support made the petition a success! And more than that, it inspired the creation of ASL for America website and team, which will watch the petition and follow up with other actions to support ASL. But which actions should this new organization pursue?
Before ASL for America goes forward, it wants YOUR ideas!
A few examples of actions it will consider are:
- ASL on the US Census 2020
- “ASL for US!” National PSA Campaign
- Free ASL Classes for Congress
- ASL School Curriculum Task Force
Do you have more ideas to add to the list? Please comment here or email takeaction@aslfor.us
ASL for America will consider all of the ideas before deciding which goals to start with. There are many goals, and with your help we can find the right one to achieve our dream of equality for American Sign Language!
If you want to volunteer, mailing list, FB/Twitter, etc., let us know!
my vote:
1. “ASL for US!” National PSA Campaign
do that and the rest will follow
2. an ASL parade
Pride parades have gone a long way for getting LGBTQ folks out of the closet and for shining a light on the fact that its good to be LGBTQ
Many cultural groups have annual parades. ASL has been in the dark for too long. its too pretty to be kept behind closed classroom doors – lets bring her out and have some fun
we can invite Obama, Michelle, Malia and Sasha and even Bo
3. also producing some basic ASL videos for parents of Deaf children – maybe team up with ASLized – see if they can get a grant for that and ASLforUs can help promote / share the good stuff
census – NAD should lead and ASLforUS can support
free classes for congress & curriculum – ASLTA should lead and ASLforUS can support
whatever u decide – i know ill be glad cuz u r DOING
thank u
peace
patti
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