The Modify Movement

08/06/2024

This is the original posting of the letter for the campaign.

Note to all, but especially of The Modify Movement, the following letter is a template campaign letter that is being publicly distributed via the comment section of government owned pages of Ohio's elected officials, candidates, and government agencies, in order to initiate publicly transparent communications in a text format via this Facebook post between followers of The Modify Movement and ultimately to the ends of obtaining telephonic communications access in a texting format ♿⚙️🗨️ over at least 1 phone number with all of the various offices of elected officials, and government agencies, of Ohio. The template campaign letter of the is as follows....
The following is only a copy of the original posting of the letter for the campaign posted on the page of The Modify Movement.

To : ###, the office staff, and all the elected officials and government agencies carbon copied at the bottom of this letter,

Why do the various offices of our Ohio government, in all three branches, executive, judicial and legislative refuse to provide at least 1, just 1, phone number that is capable of communicating in a texting format?

Why are Ohio elected offices and governmental agencies refusing to increase telephonic access ♿ by not ensuring that there is at least 1, at least 1, government owned phone in every one of those elected offices, and every government agencies, that is capable of communicating in a texting format?

Isn't there even a division specifically responsible for addressing matters of disability based accessibility ♿ in many of these offices and agencies?

Do those divisions have at least one phone number capable of texting?

Aside from any obvious disability based need for texting also consider that the only access to telephonic communications that many impoverished, and homeless, people possess is a cell phone with Lifeline service, which limits calling minutes to as few as 500 minutes per month but allows unlimited texting per month. Also the fact that anyone that can text a message has the ability to deliver any number of documents, as pics via texting, that may be needed by a government agency, like veteran's services, housing authorities, mental health programs, addiction treatment centers, fraud reporting, voter registration, motor vehicles, courts, workforce development for job seekers, and a very long list of other agencies or programs that aren't listed here.

How many phone numbers does our Ohio government own that are accessible to communications in a spoken format?

Then why isn't there at least 1 phone number accessible ♿ for communications in a texting format at every agency, and office of every elected official, when there are countless phone numbers accessible to communications in a spoken format?

Why is our Ohio government fighting against providing communications access to the most frequently used mode of telephonic communications?

We, meaning the The Modify Movement's followers, are hereby requesting a text based reply as a disability based reasonable request for special communications accommodations, and or modifications to policies, delivered via the comment section of the original posting of the letter above on the page of The Modify Movement in order to initiate further communications regarding the matters of telephonic communication accessibility between Ohio's constituency and the various elected offices and government agencies of the Ohio government.

By Providing 1, just 1, text messaging capable phone number for your office in the comment section of the original posting of the letter above, which is on the page of The Modify Movement, as your very first comment response would be a magnificent start, especially considering that no one should ever have to go to the extent of creating a multi-year campaign just to obtain the phone numbers needed in order to communicate with the offices of our Ohio elected officials and our Ohio government agencies.

Sincerely,

Administration for The Modify Movement

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CC'd AND REFUSING TO RESPOND
Ohio Governor Mike Dewine
Ohio Lieutenant Governor John Husted
Ohio Attorney General David Yost
Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber
Ohio Secretary of State Frank Larose
Ohio Treasurer of State Robert Sprague
US Senator Sherrod Brown
US Senator James Vance
US Representative 1st Greg Landsman
US Representative 2nd Brad Wenstrup
US Representative 3rd Joyce Beatty
US Representative 4th Jim Jordan
US Representative 5th Bob Latta
US Representative 6th Michael Rulli
US Representative 7th Max Miller
US Representative 8th Warren Davidson
US Representative 9th Marcy Kaptur
US Representative 10th Michael Turner
US Representative 11th Shontel Brown
US Representative 12th Troy Balderson
US Representative 13th Emilia Sykes
US Representative 14th David Joyce
US Representative 15th Michael Carey
Ohio State Senator 1st Rob McColley
Ohio State Senator 2nd Theresa Gavarone
Ohio State Senator 3rd Michele Reynolds
Ohio State Senator 4th George Lang
Ohio State Senator 5th Stephen A. Huffman
Ohio State Senator 6th Niraj Antani
Ohio State Senator 7th Steve Wilson
Ohio State Senator 8th Louis Blessing
Ohio State Senator 9th Catherine Ingram
Ohio State Senator 10th Bob Hackett
Ohio State Senator 11th Paula Hicks-Hudson
Ohio State Senator 12th Matt Huffman
Ohio State Senator 13th Nathan Manning
Ohio State Senator 14th Terry Johnson
Ohio State Senator 15th Hearcel Craig
Ohio State Senator 16th Stephanie Kunze
Ohio State Senator 17th Shane Wilkin
Ohio State Senator 18th Jerry Cirino
Ohio State Senator 19th Andrew Brenner
Ohio State Senator 20th Tim Schaffer
Ohio State Senator 21st Kent Smith
Ohio State Senator 22nd Mark Romanchuk
Ohio State Senator 23rd Nickie Antonio
Ohio State Senator 24th Matt Dolan
Ohio State Senator 25th William DeMora
Ohio State Senator 26th Bill Reineke
Ohio State Senator 27th Kristina Roegner
Ohio State Senator 28th (See the next CC'd section below)
Ohio State Senator 29th Kirk Schuring
Ohio State Senator 30th Brian Chavez
Ohio State Senator 31st Al Landis
Ohio State Senator 32nd Sandra O'Brien
Ohio State Senator 33rd Al Cutrona
Ohio State Representatives 1st thru 99th will be cc’d very soon as well.
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CC'd, RESPONDED AND REFUSED TO PROVIDE TEXTING PHONE NUMBER THEN GHOSTED
Ohio State Senator 28th Vernon Sykes (Democrat)
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P.S. Everyone interested in replying, or otherwise participating in the ♿⚙️🗨️ campaign, which is an online campaign to ensure telephonic communications access in a texting format over at least 1 phone number with every Ohio elected office, and every government agency, is encouraged to message, and follow the page of The Modify Movement...

04/14/2024

The following is a comment pasted under a post on the page for Benefits.gov...

Hello Benefits.gov !

My family has been repeatedly denied a multitude of requests for state hearings at the Ohio Department of Job and Families starting more than a couple of years ago. ODJFS workers even committed multiple felonies more than 2 years ago in order to terminate my family's benefits then began refusing to provide those requested state hearings along with destroying government records, tampering with evidence, refusing a subpoena of a transcript of texting communications between my family and a state worker's government assigned mobile phone and refusing to process a report alleging fraud because the allegation was against a state ODJFS worker. My family has been without SNAP benefits for over two years despite Ohio Administrative Code that states benefits must continue until the conclusion of a state hearing when requested and the fact that ODJFS received a request from my family to continue paying benefits until the conclusion of the requested state hearing that was submitted the same day and time as the request for the state hearing. Fortunately, well kind of fortunately, my family has been able to keep feeding ourselves by dumpster diving.

My family has contacted numerous, and I do mean numerous, advocacy agencies, government offices, elected officials, news agencies, etc... and none of them are doing any of the things that any of those entities claim to be responsible for doing.

So is benefits.gov going to do the same thing as everybody else or are you going to start by replying here so we can have that conversation in full public view for everyone to review?

Sincerely,

Bryan Patrick McMonagle

10/22/2023

Hello All!

Anyone with a Housing Choice Voucher, or also referred to as a Section 8 voucher, can also use the voucher in conjunction with a program at Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA, that is a homeownership program. This particular NACA program is called Home Ownership Through Public Housing Assistance, or HOT-PHA, and the following is a quote from the NACA web page regarding the HOT-PHA program.

"The Payment Standard approved by the PHA, which is currently paid to the landlord, goes to the lender to pay the homebuyer’s monthly mortgage payment. This enables homebuyers to own their home mortgage debt free in 20 years or less, ensuring long-term financial independence."

The link to the NACA's web page for information about the HOT-PHA program is...

https://www.naca.com/the-naca-hot-pha-program/

If anyone reading this isn't familiar with us, meaning The Modify Movement, we hope you will take this opportunity to become more familiar with who we are and the goals of some of our web based campaigns, like our current campaign called the , which is to obtain all the Ohio government owned phone numbers that are capable of text messaging for every Ohio government department, every Ohio office of an elected officials, and every Ohio judicial system court's administrative office, on behalf of any person, but especially on behalf of any persons with a disability based communication need and/or persons with a language barrier, who needs telephonic communications in a texting format.

To join The Modify Movement simply like our page and stay tuned to help these fights for our rights.

The Homeownership Through Public Housing Assistance (“HOT-PHA”) is a transformative program developed by NACA for public housing authority Housing Choice Voucher (“HCV”) recipients (“Participants”). This innovative initiative allows Participants who seek to become homeowners to combine t...

10/21/2023

The post is to start publicly documenting issues regarding some current issues with relay calling services, like IP Relay, or Ohio Relay, 711, etc...

-legal requirements that a person must be deaf, hearing impaired and or speech impaired to register or use these services and possible criminal charges, like fraud for using these services if a person with a communications related impairment that is not regarded as deaf, hearing impaired and/or speech impaired, uses these services. Note the scope of people with "communications related disabilities" who may need modes of text based communications is much broader than people who are deaf, hearing, and/or speech impaired and their use of a relay service could lead to criminal charges

- relay services are not accessibile for texting

- relay services are useless in communications that need to be secure and private, like conversations with attorneys, doctors, and financial institutions.

- relay services are useless in conference call communications which includes multiple participants, like a hearing, or a business meeting

- relay services are incapable of transmitting files like pdfs and jpgs

- relay service communications are rife with human miscommunication errors because of relying on a person to translate text to speech and speech to text with any number of subjective interpretations that can misrepresent the intended communications, which, if recognized, can require additional conversing and, if unrecognized during a call, can lead to much more significant issues at a later time, like say a court date, direct deposit information, an inquiry about a much needed medical procedure, etc...

So...

In this era of such an abundance of much better communications technologies, why is our government subsidizing this antiquated telephone technology and simultaneously intentionally refusing to allow access to communications technologies that allow for much more effective modes of written conversational messaging styled communications, like texting, FB Messenger messaging, Twitter Direct Messaging, RTT calling, Skype messaging, and all that are totally free?

All are welcome to comment and share additional issues which can be added to the list above.

The Modify Movement please share this post at least once if you support The Modify Movement's campaign

10/07/2023

The Modify Movement is fighting for our right to text our government agencies and offices of elected officials.

We believe that We the People should be able to independently telephonically-navigate our government agencies and offices via text messaging, especially for those that have a disability based need for telephonic communications in a texting format.

Did you know this is only the first of The Modify Movement's campaigns?

Did you know the hashtag for our first campaign is ?

Do you understand why We the People need to make this happen?

Do you understand how we are fighting to make this happen?

Did you know that our government agencies and offices already use phone numbers capable of texting?

Did you know that many of our government agencies and offices of elected officials are hiding their texting capable numbers from us?

Did you know that even when we find, or otherwise obtain, government owned phone numbers capable of texting that our public servants will just either outright ignore, or initially reply only to later ghost, our text messages when sending formal requests, or file complaints, that legally require a response, such as, but not limited to, requests for public records, fair housing complaints, reporting fraud, inquiries about Equal Employment Opportunities being offered by our government, or requesting administrative reviews, mediation, or agency based hearings?

If we the people can telephonically-navigate these agencies and offices in a language that is spoken then why can't we do the same in a language that is written, like texting?

Did you know The Modify Movement doesn't want your money now or ever?

Did you know The Modify Movement Administration has sworn to be publicly transparent about any funds received from monetization of social media platforms and to use any money received to keep fighting for our rights?

Did you know we don't need to march in the streets to drive the changes that need to be made to the relationship between our government and We the People?

Did you know we want you to start fighting for your rights here in the cloud?

Are you willing to start fighting by doing something as simple as pressing a button to follow The Modify Movement or, even more simple, by pressing a retweet button once?

Are you going to join the rest of us in the movement and start fighting for our rights?

One button click to share and you can advance our movement many steps in our web march campaigning to advance all of our rights.

So do you genuinely support, and fight, for disability rights?

If you do is there any good reason for not sharing this post and joining The Modify Movement right now?

Sincerely,

The Administration of The Modify Movement

10/02/2023

Legal Aid BLOCKS family in need of help!

Community Legal Aid Services of NE Ohio also blocked The Modify Movement on FB for a publicly posted letter to their leadership and Board of Directors!

Read the letter on FB page post at...

https://www.facebook.com/themodifymovement/posts/285614917590401

09/30/2023

We got BLOCKED by Community Legal Aid Services of Northeastern Ohio after posting the following letter to their leadership and Board of Directors...

To the Community Legal Aid Services leadership and the Board of Directors,

The link at the bottom of this letter is publicly posted content about a family that lives in Trumbull County, their many legal challenges, and, in part, their experience with Community Legal Aid Services.

Before getting to the publicly posted post at that link below, this particular family's primary advocate needs, and has previously needed, telephonic communications in a texting format to communicate with Community Legal Aid Services but to the best of our knowledge, and theirs, Community Legal Aid Services doesn't have, or maybe just doesn't publicly share, and apparently even wouldn't share upon a request, a phone number capable of texting, despite many factors that would make any reasonable person question if Community Legal Aid Services actually even attempts to uphold the virtues lauded in their own mission statement of "Through legal advocacy, we transform the lives of those in poverty to increase opportunities, fairness, and stability, for a stronger community and justice for all."

How can Community Legal Aid Services effectively offer legal assistance to those is poverty when Community Legal Aid Services does not provide a phone number capable of texting while, simultaneously, many of the family's that may need legal assistance only have government subsidized Lifeline mobile phone services that are limited to as few as 500 calling minutes per month but unlimited texting?

Why isn't the Community Legal Aid Services toll free phone number enabled to allow texting when every toll free phone number is fully capable of texting communications according to Somos Inc, the Federal Communications Commission's duly appointed Toll Free Phone Number System Administrator who oversees the companies that provide toll free phone number service?

How many cell phone numbers are owned by Community Legal Aid Services, and used daily, that are not transparently publicly posted online for all to see, especially so those phone numbers are accessible to people who need texting to communicate, or communicate effectively, in languages that are written and not spoken?

Isn’t Community Legal Aid Services a quasi-governmental entity that is already subject to Ohio’s public records laws and Freedom of Information Act?

If so, then why is any phone number being hidden from public view?

How many phone numbers are owned by Community Legal Aid Services?

How many of those phone numbers are cell phones capable of texting, and/or Real Time Text calls, especially since the Federal Communications mandated that all mobile phones manufactured after 2018 must include the newest TTY technology of Real Time Text, or RTT?

How can Community Legal Aid Services own “TTY machines” that fit in a pocket and simultaneously not share any of those RTT phone numbers?

Does Community Legal Aid Services even provide 1 phone number capable of texting?

Does Community Legal Aid Services even provide 1 phone number capable of participating in an RTT call?

Does Community Legal Aid Services even provide 1 fax phone number capable of receiving a text messaged image file since there are modern fax machines, and software technologies, capable of sending and receiving texted image files?

If not, why not, especially since most poor family’s that Community Legal Aid Services is supposedly intended to serve are family’s that most likely do not own a fax machine, or a land line phone number, but probably owns at least 1 mobile device capable of sending a fax via texting?

Even if Community Legal Aid Services doesn’t own a texting capable faxing number, why would Community Legal Aid Services deny a poor family’s access to texting a document as an image file by sending a pic?

If there are any publicly posted phone numbers owned by Community Legal Aid Services capable of texting, or RTT calling, are any of those phone numbers even labeled to demonstrate that a particular number is accessible to communications in texting, or RTT calling, in the same way that a fax phone number, a TTY phone number, or a video phone number, is labeled?

Why aren’t the phone numbers labeled on your website to demonstrate the accessibility of the phone numbers?

Why aren't the Community Legal Aid Services owned cell phone numbers publicly posted online, especially since those phone numbers provide a virtual kind of wheel chair ramp of communications accessibility to those people in need of texting and/or RTT calling?

How many phone numbers owned by Community Legal Aid Services can be telephonically, and independently, communications-navigated by people who can communicate effectively via spoken language?

How many phone numbers owned by Community Legal Aid Services can be telephonically, and independently, communications-navigated by people who can NOT, repeating NOT, communicate effectively via spoken language?

Is a person who needs texting to communicate effectively able to independently communications-navigate the various subdivisions, and offices, of the Community Legal Aid Services at a comparably equal level of access to independently communications-navigate as a person capable of communicating effectively in languages that are spoken when navigating the phone system of the Community Legal Aid Services? Why not?

How long must people with communications related impairments wait for Community Legal Aid Services to provide telephonic communications in a texting format that is comparably equal to the levels of telephonic access already provided to people who can communicate effectively in a language that is spoken?

With texting being commonly known as one of the most accessible, and most widely used, modes of telephonic communications, then why is the Community Legal Aid Services taking so many actions to intentionally prevent access to one of the most, if not the actual most, accessible widely, used modes of telephonic communications when the people you are supposed to serve are people that may need telephonic communications in a texting or RTT calling format?

What if the person was a homeless veteran with a communications related disability? Does that make any difference? Will we ever know?

Are you able to HEAR us now?

Back to that family...

The family's primary advocate, who served in the National Gaurd and has been homeless at many points in his life, was blocked from the Community Legal Aid Services page a long time ago after filing a grievance with Community Legal Aid Services. The reason, or reasons, for blocking the Facebook profile of that family's primary advocate were never provided and the family never received any kind of communication warning that they might be blocked. They just got blocked. Even further, the first time the family’s primary advocate received services legal services from Community Legal Aid Services, the assigned attorney to represent the family, abandoned the family a few days prior to the family's first ODJFS hearing.

If this is how the leadership of Community Legal Aid Services uses legal advocacy, to transform the lives of those in poverty to increase opportunities, fairness, and stability, for a stronger community and justice for all then maybe we need to ask a new questions.

Who is accountable?

Will this message be delivered to the Board?

Will those leaders take ownership?

Will those leaders start to right this wrong this time around?

Will Community Legal Aid Services even go read the post, a post which is on The Modify Movement’s page about this family’s legal challenges and the multiple denials of access our Ohio Judicial system?

Will the leadership of Community Legal Aid Services initiate publicly transparent text based communications via this post’s comment section with The Modify Movement’s members, some of whom have communications related disabilities and need responses to this post to be included in, participate in, and read along, in this multi-party communications technology platform of a Facebook post, so Community Legal Aid Services can start addressing these injustices?

Will the leadership of Community Legal Aid Services even take enough action, and this opportunity, to start righting the list of wrongs by publicly sharing just 1 phone number capable of texting in a comment response to this post so that not just this family, but any family that needs texting, can start getting the legal assistance and access to the justice system that all of us should have the right to access?

The link to the publicly posted post about the challenges that the family has faced, and is still facing, is also in the comment section of the original post on The Modify Movement's page.

Sincerely,

The Administration of The Modify Movement

09/27/2023

Welcome to The Modify Movement!

Who are we?

The Modify Movement is a nonpartisan collaboration of people uniting to fight for our rights and ultimately towards a government that is of the people, for the people, and by the people.

The Modify Movement Followers are uniting by organizing themselves into an organizational structure with certain roles that range in responsibility from very, very, simplistic responsibilities to much more complex responsibilities in roles such as followers, subscribers, supporters, retweeters, fb post sharers, novice advocates, professional champion advocates, content creators, content managers, moderators, page admins, group admins, movement administrators, registered voter groups, etc...

One of the more interesting roles is that of members who are real world registered voters that congregate into voting district Facebook groups for their township's specific real world voting district so that the township's registered voters can "vote" via Facebook polls on real world agenda items that are to be presented during an upcoming township's town council meeting to be voted upon by their township's elected officials. In this way, the registered voters of any particular township have a specific township voting district Facebook group they can join to communicate their collective will via yays, nays, or abstains, in a Facebook poll to their township's elected officials about any particular upcoming agenda item being voted upon by their elected officials during an upcoming township's council meeting. These township voting district groups are not discussion groups. These township voting district groups are only for confirmed registered voters of a particular township to vote via Facebook polls of agenda items that parallel an actual real world town council meeting's voting on actual real township agenda items.

The Modify Movement Members willing to fight for our rights can choose a role, or roles, within the The Modify Movement to accept a particular role's responsibilities, and some of the roles, are, again, very, very, simple roles with very, very, simple tasks that can be performed at any time a member is already online with the click of a single button. Anyone, and everyone, interested in joining The Modify Movement in any role more significant than simply following The Modify Movement's page, or Twitter Profile, is welcome, and encouraged, to Messenger message, Direct Message, or even text message (330) 647-6874‬, for further details. Even people that want, or maybe need, to remain anonymous in messaging communications with The Modify Movement are welcome to join The Modify Movement and anyone is welcome to message us anytime.

The Modify Movement Administration publicly hosts specific advocacy campaigns around which Modify Movement followers, subscribers, supporters, retweeters, fb post sharers, novice advocates, and professional champion advocates, can congregate to fight for a particular advocacy campaign's goal. As one example of a specific advocacy campaigns, consider the , in which The Modify Movement is fighting for the right to telephonically communicate in a texting format with our government agencies and/or an elected official's public office, which is especially significant to any person, or family, that may need telephonic communications in a texting format due to circumstances such as a disability based communication need, a person that needs to text a document because they don't own a fax machine, or families that use a government subsidized Lifeline phone service which can be limited to as few as 500 calling minutes per month but allows unlimited texting. The campaign fight began after many months of an exhausting effort to request phone numbers capable of telephonic communications in a texting format from government agencies, and elected public officials, that were being repeatedly denied, or outright ignored, at every level of government in Ohio, where The Modify Movement began, and has now escalated into a fight with the Offices of the Ohio Supreme Court ADA Accessibility Team, who is now ghosting multiple text messaged formal requests sent to the only confirmed texting messaging capable phone number that is known to be an officially government owned phone number in use by the Offices of the Ohio Supreme Court. One of the ignored requests was to provide a texting capable phone number for the Ohio Court of Claims because there are Modify Movement Members that need telephonic texting communications to file public records request complaints against the various government agencies, and the offices of elected public officials, of Ohio, that have repeatedly refused to provide, or otherwise ignored, public records requests to ultimately obtain... phone numbers already owned, and in use by, a government agency, or the offices of an elected official. The Modify Movement fully recognizes the absurdity of needing to submit public records requests, or even more so, create an advocacy campaign, just to obtain something as simple as phone numbers from a government agency, or the office of an elected official, but "here we are" and in this particular campaign's fight for phone numbers we will be relentless until We The People can independently, and telephonically communications-navigate, the various subdivisions, sections, and departments, of our government agencies and elected officials public offices. This is only one example of the kinds of advocacy campaigns around which The Modify Movement followers, subscribers, supporters, retweeters, fb post sharers, novice advocates, and professional champion advocates, can congregate to fight for a particular advocacy campaign's goals. If this particular campaign's fight interests you then join us by liking The Modify Movement’s page, and/or Following our Twitter Profile, and stay tuned, because The Modify Movement members web-march campaign fights have only begun and our forthcoming fights will most certainly be much more interesting than anything we have shared thus far.

In short, The Modify Movement is a particular group of us, all of us that are willing to unite, and fight, for a country that belongs to all of us by any legal nonviolent means necessary. The Modify Movement is a uniting force to fight for our rights using unique strategies, and various accessible modes of modern communications technologies, to propel, create, and initiate, web-march campaigns to fight for our rights until We the People claim a government that is, and always has been, rightfully all of ours. We the People can claim this country, our country, by growing stronger with every follower, every subscriber, every supporter, every message, every retweet, every share, every ingenious idea, and with every example behind us being one step forward in our web-marching campaigns to the ends of ensuring that our government, is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. When we are one, we are won. This is who we are.

We don't want your money now, or ever. We also want you to know that if The Modify Movement ever starts receiving income from any social media platforms, we promise to make our financial statements publicly transparent and only spend those funds to the benefit of further advancing the advocacy campaigns and might even develop a structured voting system to allow our more involved supporters, volunteers, advocates, and administrators to vote on the allocation of any funds received. This is our promise to those that are willing to join us in the fight for our rights.

So all we want to know for now, are you are willing to join us in this fight for our rights until we are won?

If this is you then click the like button on our page to follow and join with the rest of us in taking all of us one step closer in our web marching campaigns.

Sincerely,

Administration of The Modify Movement

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