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Showing posts with label CIVIL RIGHTS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CIVIL RIGHTS. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
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Saturday, May 10, 2014
NEWSLETTER: CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: THE OPPORTUNITY GAP
Newsletter - Children's Defense Fund
The Opportunity Gap
In the spring of 1954, like so many Black families, mine waited anxiously for the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. My father and I talked about it and what it would mean for my future and the future of millions of other Black children who were attending segregated but unequal Black schools. He died the week before Brown was decided. But I and many other children were able, in later years, to walk through the new and heavy doors that Brown slowly and painfully opened.
It was a transforming time that set into motion a spate of other challenges to Jim Crow laws and yet sixty years after that historic May decision the doors to true educational equality have never fully opened wide enough for millions of American children to walk through especially those living in poverty. The most recent findings from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), called the “richest, fullest” collection so far measuring education access and equity in our nation’s public schools, show many children are still receiving an unequal education.
This is the unfinished work of the Civil Rights Movement.
The new Office for Civil Rights data cover the 2011-2012 school year and are the first universal data collection since 2000, with information about all 97,000 schools in the nation’s 16,500 school districts serving 49 million students. Some information was collected for the first time, including one of the most startling findings: new data on preschool suspensions that show Black preschoolers are 18 percent of children enrolled in preschool programs in public schools, but 48 percent of children suspended more than once. While the data show only six percent of the districts offering preschool in public schools reported that they had suspended preschoolers, there is something terribly wrong when we are suspending any children from preschool in the first place. We now know Black children are more likely to be pushed out of school before they’ve even made it to kindergarten, and other numbers in the recent OCR release confirm those disparities do not go away.
Overall, Black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than White students. Boys receive more than two out of three suspensions, but Black girls are suspended at higher rates than girls of any other race or ethnicity and higher rates than most boys. Students with disabilities (those served by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) also are more than twice as likely to receive an out-of-school suspension as students without disabilities. And inequities in school discipline continue right up through the most consequential responses: Black students represent 16 percent of student enrollment but make up 27 percent of students referred to law enforcement and 31 percent of school-related arrests.
These differences in discipline can’t be explained simply by differences in student behavior. The Equity Project at Indiana University has reviewed the research on the role of student behavior and characteristics in disparate suspension rates and found that in fact schools and districts that have taken seriously their responsibility to educate all of their students have seen significant improvements by adjusting the policies and practices of adults. Both Buffalo, New York Public Schools and Denver, Colorado Public Schools are heralded as examples of school systems’ ability to change to better serve students. The Children’s Defense Fund and AASA, the School Superintendents Association, have been funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies to work with ten school districts from Texas to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania whose leaders are committed to reforming their school discipline policies to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline and address racial disparities.
Children’s unequal chances in school go well beyond discipline. Black, Latino, American Indian, and Native Alaskan students have less access to experienced teachers than White students. While most teachers are certified, nearly half a million students nationwide attend schools where 60 percent or fewer teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements, and racial disparities are particularly acute in schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated. Black students are more than four times as likely and Latino students are twice as likely as White students to attend schools where 80 percent or fewer teachers meet these requirements. There are also teacher salary disparities: Nearly one in four districts with two or more high schools reports a teacher salary gap of more than $5,000 between high schools with the highest and the lowest Black and Latino student enrollments.
All students don’t have equal opportunities to take the most challenging courses to prepare them for college and career. While 81 percent of Asian American and 71 percent of White high school students attend high schools where the full range of math and science courses are offered (Algebra I, geometry, Algebra II, calculus, biology, chemistry, and physics), fewer than half of American Indian and Native Alaskan high school students have access to the full range in their schools, and Black students, Latino students, students with disabilities, and English language learner students also all have less access. Black and Latino students are also disproportionately less likely to be enrolled in at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course. The new data also show students with disabilities, English learners, and Black students are all more likely to be held back each year. Twelve percent of Black students were retained in ninth grade— about double the overall rate.
Six decades into the “post-Brown” era, will the doors of opportunity finally open wide or continue to stay half shut on our watch? Most students know the phrase “knowledge is power.” CDF is happy that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is taking new steps to expand the range of data about inequalities that still exist in our nation’s schools. But now that we have more knowledge—what are we going to do with it? If you are interested in learning more and taking action, you can find out how the schools in your community are treating their students at the Civil Rights Data Collection’s website, and you can find new guidance on school discipline and positive alternatives to suspensions and other exclusionary discipline practices at the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments’ website. It’s time to close the opportunity gap and fulfill the promise of education as a great equalizer and a strong pathway to opportunity for all of our nation’s children
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
NEWSLETTER: CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: ELLA BAKER: MY CIVIL RIGHTS GENERATION'S "FUNDI"
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a White mother’s son—we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
--Ella Baker
--Ella Baker
During this last week of Women’s History Month I wanted you to learn about Ella Baker, a transforming but too little known woman and overpowering justice warrior for my generation of civil rights activists. The quote above is from Ella Baker 50 years ago, and like so much about this visionary civil rights leader it is still just as relevant today. She was talking about the murders of civil rights movement workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who disappeared together in Mississippi in June 1964, and reacting to the fact that searchers sent to comb local rivers and swamps to find the bodies of Chaney, who was Black, and Goodman and Schwerner, who were White, also found the bodies of other missing Black men for whom authorities had not bothered to search. Ella Baker was an outspoken warrior against injustice and inequality her entire life, and always, always unwilling to rest. Her words continue to be a rallying cry for all of us who believe our nation still does not see and value Black and White children’s lives the same way.
Sweet Honey in the Rock’s Bernice Johnson Reagon featured these words in the stirring “Ella’s Song.” She was one of hundreds of young people Ella Baker mentored during the civil rights movement. I was one of them who first met Mrs. Baker during my senior year at Spelman College in Atlanta. She was a staff member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and was often a powerful behind-the-scenes advisor to close colleagues like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ella Baker believed in servant leadership and shared leadership rather than charismatic leadership and encouraged young people like me to find and lift our own voices and join them with others. She was instrumental in founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and fought to make sure we retained our own independent organization as students rather than simply becoming the youth arm of the Dr. King-led SCLC. Julian Bond, Diane Nash, Bob Moses, and many other fellow student activists and young activists were all influenced by her example, counsel and convening and share a special debt of reverence and gratitude. Ella Baker was tough and disciplined and demanded the best of the young and older adults around her. She understood that movement building was about more than protests and meetings and speeches—it was hard, daily, persistent, and sacrificial behind-the-scenes work. She was an institution builder and stressed the importance of strong institutions that could last over time rather than reliance on a single strong leader.
Ella Baker was born in 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia. She had a strict mother, a warm and caring father, and a large extended family of grandparents, uncles, and aunts who shared what they had with the poor. She was a fighter and as a child beat up White children who called her names. Since there was no schooling for Black children beyond elementary years in her area, she went off to boarding school at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was valedictorian of her high school and college graduating classes. She moved to Harlem, got caught up in its excitement, and went everywhere to hear lectures and speeches and read in libraries to learn everything she could. After working as a domestic and as a waitress, she got a job with the Negro National News published by George Schuyler who later recommended her for a job at the NAACP. She rapidly rose through NAACP ranks. “Wherever she went,” her biographer and friend Joanne Grant wrote in Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, “she created a whirlwind, leaving a scatter of papers, notes, leaflets, church programs, and phone numbers in her wake. . . She never let up her struggle to increase the role of the rank and file.”
Ella Baker pushed for organizational structure and rules in the NAACP just as she did later at SCLC and SNCC. Ella Baker was the one who sat down with Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levinson to discuss how to create a continuing movement out of the Montgomery bus boycott, which led to SCLC’s formation. As the first staff member hired for SCLC, it was Ella Baker who tried to put the new organization in operating order so that Dr. King was not just a leader who reacted to and jumped from one event to the next. She worked to give SCLC the capacity to plan and implement action. And Ella Baker convinced Dr. King to bring me and about 200 other Black college students who had been arrested for engaging in sit-in protests to open up lunch counters around the South to a meeting at her alma mater, Shaw University. My first plane ride ever was from Atlanta to Raleigh for that meeting. SNCC was the meeting’s result.
Ella Baker was fully aware of but unintimidated by the men she worked with who devalued the advice of women and sometimes resented her forcefulness, prodding, and “mothering.” She made no special effort to be ingratiating. She labored at SCLC as she had at the NAACP to raise money, conduct voter registration drives, speak to citizens groups (sometimes ten times a day), and travel to community after community to help people help themselves. She warned against SCLC becoming “a cult of personality” for Dr. King rather than a means of empowering others, and she eventually left SCLC after deciding that movement building was more important than the specific organization and personalities involved—another of her lessons that is so relevant today.
At a gathering celebrating Ella Baker’s seventy-fifth birthday, Bob Moses called her the “Fundi,” the person in the community who masters a craft with the help of the community and teaches it to other people. Fundi became the title of a film on her extraordinary life and work. Ella Baker died in 1986 on her 83rd birthday. I remember her counsel as I think about sustaining and strengthening the Children's Defense Fund’s mission today and future tomorrow for the long haul struggle to create and maintain a level playing field for every child. I learned from her the crucial importance of training a successor generation of young servant-leaders which has been a strong priority of CDF’s since its inception. Policies are no better than the people who are implementing them and their commitment to just treatment of children and the poor. I am so proud that over 13,000 college students have gone through training at CDF’s Ella Baker Child Policy Institute at the former Alex Haley Farm, that more than 113,000 children have gone through the CDF Freedom Schools® program with a sense of commitment to something beyond themselves, and that many CDF alumni are doing wonderful public service across the country. This is one way CDF honors her legacy along with other great unsung women justice warriors like Fannie Lou Hamer, Unita Blackwell, and Septima Clark who too few ever hear of but we all owe a great debt of gratitude.
We also all honor Ella Baker by keeping her belief in freedom and equality alive until it becomes reality for every mother’s child. In a nation where Black children are more than three times as likely to be poor as White children; where Black babies are more than twice as likely as White babies to die before their first birthdays and Black children are twice as likely to die before their 18th birthdays as White children; where more than 80 percent of fourth and eighth grade Black public school students cannot read or compute at grade level and Black children are more than twice as likely to drop out as White children; where gun violence is the leading cause of death among Black children ages 1-19 and Black children and teens are nearly five times more likely to die from gun violence than White children and teens; and where Black mothers’ sons can be seen and treated as lethal threats for wearing hoodies in the rain or refusing to turn their car radios down, we who believe in freedom still cannot rest.
Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children's Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
Newsletter from the National Black MBA Association:
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
ARE YOU A VICTIM OF "COLOR OF LAW" ABUSES?
On August 23, 2013, I sent an email to the Maple Heights council president, and in that email I made the following statement "Considering that I had to take out a loan to pay my
current property taxes, I want to know where every penny is going, and
how it's being used. This is more than a hint on how I'm going to vote
on the levy in November.". [Full text] *see my other comments at the bottom of this post
Well I didn't get a response to that email or an email of concern and wanting to help in some way to ease my tax burdens. What did happen after the 2013 tax levy was defeated ... I received a letter (dated 12/3/2013) from my mortgage company stating "A recent review of tax records has revealed delinquent taxes on the property securing the above referenced loan." It referenced $221.05, and a threat was made that if "I don't pay the $221.05, my mortgage company may exercise the option to pay those taxes, and the amount of the payment will be deducted from my escrow account and if I don't have an escrow account, one will be set up for me." Well folks, months ago, I set up payment arrangements with "Cuyahoga County" and presently only owe $37 which will be deducted from my checking account per that agreement. I also have monies deducted from my checking account to pay for taxes due in January.
Note: Actually I may have been eligible for hardship assistance (due to excessive medical bills, etc); but chose a payment plan for the entire amount instead.
Additional Note: Around the same time, I also got a letter from the IRS saying I owed them $149.17. A simple misunderstanding and luckily that problem was solved quickly.
Now I'm not sure if my email caused someone in Maple Heights government to inquire about my tax affairs to cause problems for me, but the letters and their timing sure seemed damn suspicious. See, I'm a senior citizen who criticizes Maple Heights government and asks questions ... questions that from responses I've received or lack of response, indicate to me that the leadership in Maple Heights is not happy with my criticisms or questions or requests.
What I had uncovered previously was that the company mentioned in the letter I received, a company called Corelogic (2), I've seen in public records dealing with Maple Heights government, and whose tentacles in the mortgage (property) business, etc are spread throughout Ohio and across the United States.
More troubling:
In 2012, I asked for public records related to salaries, benefits, ethnic code, etc of Maple Heights public employees. I was completely ignored until I started posting my "public records request" emails on this blog.
***I must have rattled some cages with those requests and other questions and concerns because one day in July 2012 while I was in the drive-thru line at Wendy's, several cop cars pulled into the Wendy's parking lot. The officers parked their cars, got out and approached my car and hung around my car until I picked up my cell phone and called my mother (to tell her about those officers) .. the officers then got back into their patrol cars and drove out of that parking lot. I jotted down the tag on one of the police cars, and when I got home I called and emailed a number of people to let them know what had happened, and gave them the number on the tag.
This year:
At the end of June, Channel 3 did a story about a former Maple Heights officer accused of excessive force. I had a link to that story posted on this blog around July 3rd or 4th. On July 5th, within minutes of putting out my trash, my video relay camera on my home captured a white male in (what appeared to be) a bullet proof vest walking up my drive way, past my side door. In that person's hand looked like a gun. It was raised while he walked up my driveway, and then pointed in front of him (toward the ground) when he walked by my side door.
I sent the video and photo to a number of people to get their opinion because I didn't want to overreact. I even called the electric, gas, water companies to see if they were in the area reading meters (they said no). Most of the people I sent the video and photo to said the white male was holding a gun.
Days later I called my attorney and Channel 3 because I wanted to know what this person (who appeared to be law enforcement) was doing on my property. It was a deadly serious issue, because aside from questions related to my safety, I actually could have been shot because I was behind my home dealing with the trash for 10 minutes or so (before the incident), and if you saw how he moved past my side door into my back yard, it would have been very likely that I could have been killed/murdered.
I eventually obtained police service records (which, by the way, took a call from the NAACP to obtain) for the day in July (2012), and July 5, 2013. Both times the police were in the vicinity on a call, but it appeared to me that both times they decided to take a side trip (if you know what I mean) that had nothing to do with the business at hand, but may have been an attempt to intimidate or worse.
What you may not know is the leadership in Maple Heights is predominantly white and the police force (at that time) had only one African American officer (I believe we now have 2). The city of Maple Heights is suffering financially, and over 68% of the population is African American; and if you know the history of blacks in this country, especially the history surrounding white law enforcement and the criminal justice system (see below), you know that for many black folk, to have to deal with people who can and have murdered blacks with impunity is especially daunting and sickening; and the fact most of their (predominantly white [male] Maple Heights police) salary is paid by the predominantly African American community (and we only have 1 or 2 blacks on the force) is insulting and offensive.
So why did I tell you my story? Because I want to (with a new year approaching) still let people know what's going on in Maple Heights; and because it is a story told by thousands of African American and Hispanic individuals, and nothing is done. The police force remains predominantly white in predominantly African American communities, and they continue to intimidate, harass and murder African Americans and Hispanics with impunity. If you want to change these things, you have to change the leadership in your community, and you must file a federal complaint (and/or call the NAACP) if you think you're the target of a "color of law abuse" or a government employee is trying to intimidate/frighten you. Make sure you back up everything you do and keep good records and keep copies of everything related to the incident. Also tell friends and family about suspicious incidents, etc., give them copies of things related to the incident, and watch out for each other. Finally, be very careful and obey the law, because the "color of law" abuser will probably try to deflect (and/or cover up) his/her/their behavior and try to embarrass or discredit or create problems for the complainant or whistle blower (that's why, if you're an African American, you need to get the NAACP involved and if necessary the "ColorofChange"). If you're a senior citizen, there are additional laws to protect you against various kinds of abuse and you may want to include filing a complaint on that level too.
I also think the African American community needs to see if there is a pattern of abuse and intimidation against African Americans who run for public office or serve in a public office, and a pattern of abuse and intimidation against African Americans who speak out and ask questions, complain, or request information that they are entitled to receive.
We also need (more money going to) community/neighborhood (paid) policing by people who actually live in our communities, and there should be regular public meetings with those who "protect and serve" and residents.
Do try to remember:
It's your community ... you can design whatever kind of police/security presence you want (public or private), with advisory boards (under federal purview), and policies that protect you from abuse and protect your constitutional rights.
Deprivation of Rights
Retired Police Officer Gets Choked Up Reflecting On The Injustices
The Year the Prison System Changed?
[BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLER] Jonathan Ferrell: Supposed to Die?
Black Codes
Black Holocaust in America
Black Skin, White Justice: Race Matters in the Criminal Justice System by Gary Highsmith
Police addicted to drug money: Column
Save the Dream Ohio Programs
*After you read the full text of the email I sent the council president ...... I want you to guess who swore the council president in at the "swearing in ceremony" in January. Yes, ... the law director (who answers to the mayor, who also serves as safety director - see Maple Heights City Charter,
The Department of Safety shall be under the direct charge of the Mayor, who shall be the Director of Safety.
The Department of Safety shall consist of a Division of Police and a Division of Fire. The Safety Director shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the government of these Divisions and shall be charged with the duty of enforcing within the limits of the City all police, sanitary and safety regulations that are prescribed by ordinance or by the general laws of the State. Each division shall be composed of such officers and employees as may be provided by ordinance or resolution of the Council, unless otherwise provided for in this Charter. The Safety Director shall keep a detailed and complete record of all activities of these Divisions, and shall cause each employee of the Department to make report of his or her activities.
The Director of Safety shall have the authority to suspend any employee of this Department for incompetency, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by the proper authorities, or for any just and reasonable cause. Any employee may appeal from such decision to the Civil Service Commission. In such event the Mayor shall forthwith transmit a copy of the charges and proceedings and the Commission shall hear such appeal and may affirm, disaffirm or modify the judgment, and its judgment in the matter shall be final.)."
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Now go over to the public records request page on this blog, and you'll understand my growing concern.
Additional background information:
Maple Heights population has been in steady decline since at least 2007 (remember the mortgage crisis). A number of us questioned the salary of the mayor given that decline and looking at other cities and mayors who were facing financial crisis. Anyway, Maple Heights council in 2012 did a brave thing and reduced the mayor's salary (to take effect in 2016 (?) ).
The mayor vetoed the resolution. ***On the day of the police incident at Wendy's restaurant (mentioned above), I emailed the council president and asked if council could override the mayor's veto. The council president answered my email and said "yes". That night at council meeting, they voted and override the mayor's veto. [awesome]
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
NEWSLETTER: NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, DECEMBER 18, 2013
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Monday, September 30, 2013
ON THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS
Thought for the day:
[Freedom of Speech] Opinions, conjecture, complaints, observations, / legal redress, voting are
rights that citizens have.
Surveillance, invasions of privacy, intimidation, excessive
force, misconduct, and acts of
retaliation by public officials/public employees because a citizen exercises their rights is called abuse of
power/position and there should and must be legal consequences for the person/persons who abuse their power/position. (See also "Color of Law")
Related:
Color of Law Abuses
DOJ - Color of Law
Filing Complaints for Color of Law Abuses:
To file a color of law complaint, contact your local FBI office by telephone, in writing, or in person. The following information should be provided:
Related:
Color of Law Abuses
DOJ - Color of Law
Filing Complaints for Color of Law Abuses:
To file a color of law complaint, contact your local FBI office by telephone, in writing, or in person. The following information should be provided:
- All identifying information for the victim(s);
- As much identifying information as possible for the subject(s), including position, rank, and agency employed;
- Date and time of incident;
- Location of incident;
- Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of any witness(es);
- A complete chronology of events; and
- Any report numbers and charges with respect to the incident.
You may also contact the United States Attorney’s Office in your district or send a written complaint to:
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
Criminal Section
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NorthwestWashington, DC 20530
Civil Rights Division
Criminal Section
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NorthwestWashington, DC 20530
Monday, September 23, 2013
NAACP TO HOST MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT RECEPTION, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
The Cleveland NAACP Membership Committee is hosting a Membership Recruitment Reception. The reception will take place at 6:30pm on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at Minority Business Solutions, 16400 Miles Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44128. If you are not a member, or have friends or family who are not members, we encourage you all to come out to hear what the NAACP is doing in the community as well as upcoming initiatives.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
EDUCATOR, COURAGEOUS AND INFLUENTIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY, JULIUS CHAMBERS, DEAD AT 76
On Saturday, August 3rd, esteemed civil rights attorney Julius Chambers, who had been in ill health, passed away.
For his courageous and successful efforts in fighting discrimination in Charlotte, North Carolina, his car was firebombed, his home bombed, and his office torched and destroyed. Yet, this never stopped Chambers from fighting employment discrimination, capital punishment, and other civil rights cases.
See his impressive bio at:
Monday, May 27, 2013
CLEVELAND NAACP TO HOLD 54TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER JUNE 14, 2013
DATE/DAY: FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
TIME: 6:30PM
PLACE: CLEVELAND RENAISSANCE HOTEL, 24 PUBLIC SQUARE, CLEVELAND, OH
Guest Speaker: William Pickard, former director of the Cleveland NAACP and now Detroit entrepreneur
Awards will be given for work in fostering the principles of the civil rights organization.
Arnold Pinkney
Rev. Ken Chalker
Shayla King
Devon White
U.S. Rep Marcia Fudge
Scholarship Awards will be given to students recognized for academic achievement
Contact (for tix and info): NAACP 216.231.6260
Thursday, January 24, 2013
REGINA BRETT ON EQUALITY FOR ALL, AND THE ROAD AHEAD
Love this article
Obama's inauguration underscores equality for all: Regina Brett
By
on January 22, 2013 at 6:00 PM
"America the beautiful.
Yes, it was.
From James Taylor singing, "Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies," to Beyonce belting out the National Anthem."
Friday, January 6, 2012
Does Maple Heights Government Really Care About Your Rights?
While we believe that the actions of the Mayor, Maple Heights City Council, and the law director violate the constitutional rights of the residents of District 5 (not allowing them to vote for their council representative), why is it that this group has also decided not to robocall the residents of District 5, telling them that their council representative has died, and that they are taking applications (until January 9th?) for that position (and that Maple Heights City Council will decide who their representative will be)?
Instead they posted the announcement of "taking applications" for the position in the Call and Post, etc.
There's quite a lot of seniors in District 5 who don't read newspapers or have access to a computer, or go to the Maple Heights Senior Center, or Maple Heights City Hall.
The Mayor has no problem robocalling Maple Heights residents about "Extreme Makeover"; or is it that this mayor, the law director, and the Maple Heights City Council don't give that much importance to the constitutional and other rights of certain residents?
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