That's a great idea! Now, the question is how to do that?  Call the NY Times?  Maybe the LA Times (since the destination is LA). I wonder what proof we need... I'm sure the young man involved would be happy to help out. I also have his TSA-TRIP redress number and an email from him asking for help.

Right now we are working on getting his privacy waiver paperwork to Diane Feinstein before 5 pm tonight.  

 

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From: Scale-planning <scale-planning-bounces@lists.linuxfests.org> on behalf of Sean McCabe <mccabester@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 4:17:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [Scale-planning] Volunteer with ADHD denied visa waiver to attend SCaLE and help with the olpc2.0 booth!

 

So, if this is true and you have proof. The NY Times, among every news outlet in the world would love to write a story on this.

Sean

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi folks... 

We may have lost one of our booth volunteers who was to fly in from England next week. It seems that his visa waiver was denied because he marked on his application that he has ADHD!

Can you imagine! How many programmers, hackers, etc have ADHD???!!!  We are trying to get Sen. Diane Feinstein to help with this, but he may not be able to come. I wonder if others from outside the US will run into similar hitches???

Caryl

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