MSU Rally Makes The News

Good job, everybody, for all the hard work put into contacting the media and getting them to come to the rally!

MDC members Freida Morrison, Melissa Rich, and Jeannette Johnson were present at the rally with Freida representing MDC, Melissa representing MDA, and Jeannette representing herself.

Here are the links to the media and please let us know if we missed any.

Lansing State Journal, December 4, 2009: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20091204/NEWS06/312030006/-1/correction

The State News, December 4, 2009: http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2009/12/students_faculty_gather_to_show_support_for_deaf_education_program

Detroit Free Press, December 5, 2009: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=45305578@N05&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

WILX.com, video, not captioned: http://www.wilx.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=4359154&flvUri=&partnerclipid=

Melissa & Jeannette were interviewed by Darren Cunningham, WLNS TV channel 6:
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=11623637

closed caption version: http://foxyurl.com/Mv5

Thanks to Bill Creswell for his volunteering to caption the video.

UPDATE: Flint Journal, December 10, 2009: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/12/swartz_creek_fourth_grader_you.html

Additionally, we now have a flickr account for the Michigan Deaf Community and the photos taken by Darren Brown are up for viewing:
MSU Rally – Save Deaf Education/ASL Classes

Please also note that we now have another section for flickr on this page (bottom on the right corner).

Best,
MDC Committee

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