by Patricia Terrell | Jul 11, 2015 | Current Events, Politics, Podcast
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Attorney A. Dwight Pettit talks about why your vote matters, especially during what’s called “off-season” elections. During off-season elections, citizens can cast their votes for mayors, states attorneys, sheriffs, senators, congressmen, and other important offices and citizen initiatives in their states.
When it comes to the recent incidents of police brutality that people of color and lower socio-economic class have experienced with police across the nation, the election that will take place on November 3, 2015 will allow citizens to vote for new Mayors, Prosecutors, and States Attorneys. Why is this important? Here’s why:
1. Chiefs are appointed by a government entity such as the mayor, city manager. However, it is the city officials (mayor, city manager, etc.) who have the ultimate say in what each police department (Chief) does.
2. Sheriffs on the other hand are elected — appointed by the voters of their counties.
It is important to know and understand the initiatives of your mayors, prosecutors, states attorneys, sheriffs, etc. because this is where you can initiate change in the community where you live. If police brutality is an issue in your community, then you must vote!
Be sure to Google the “Board of Elections” for your state and county for the details specific to where you live.
by Patricia Terrell | May 16, 2015 | Podcast
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The month of May is recognized as “Older Americans Month.”
Guests Karren Pope-Onwukwe, prominent Elder Law and Disability Rights Attorney and Daniel Rutherford Wilson, the National and Federal Programs Director of the Denver-based nonprofit, Compassion & Choices talks about how to plan and prepare for the challenges that face older Americans.
Some of the topics in this segment include:
- End of Life Issues, such as Wills, Trusts, and Legal Guardianship
- Planning for incapacity, such as preparing your home to be livable during times of disability
- Why long term care insurance for individuals is as important as auto insurance for automobiles
- Death with Dignity laws
- Where to go for end-of-life consultations
- The need to have aging conversations with your doctor
- Where to get resource information about long term care facilities
- Much more…
by Patricia Terrell | Dec 6, 2014 | Current Events, Politics, Podcast
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Alvin Dwight Pettit, famed civil rights, constitutional, and criminal lawyer, history maker, and author of the phenomenal book “Under Color of Law” will share information that will have you question law as we know it and ask, in terms of racism and prejudice in America, “Has anything really changed?”
Is it possible that we are in an era of the new Jim Crow? Is it possible that many will lose their civil rights fought so hard by our civil rights leaders? Learn about the new forms of civil rights violations that we should be paying attention to and what dangers lay ahead if the nation sleeps in a fog of complacency created by past accomplishments.