If we are lucky enough to live long enough,
we are all going to get old someday.
I spent the last 25 years of my working life, at the intersection of law and aging; advocating for supports and services that protect and improve the quality of life for adults as we age.
I retired almost two years ago, as Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. The Commission has spent decades doing research, policy development and education on critical issues and providing technical assistance to professionals.
Unfortunately the American Bar Association is under attack by the current administration, accused of being a bastion of liberal ideas and Wokeness. We are being attacked for advocating for Due Process Rights, the independence of the Judiciary and the Rule of Law. The very core ideals that have shaped this country since colonial times.
This has resulting an unprecedented loss of funding for programs across the country that supported important work, including the work of the Commission on Law and Aging. When I retired indirect federal funding was about 40% of the Commission's budget, and that critical part of the funding is gone, or at risk of being gone when the Federal government returns to work.
Today is the annual American Bar Association Giving Day.
Hence my rare ask.
If you can, and you feel comfortable doing so, please make a contribution, large or small, to the ABA Commission on Law and Aging at this link. https://givingday.americanbar.org/campaigns/commission-on-law-and-aging-1
I don't think there is anything safe these days that the administration is attacking. I also can't believe it's two years already since you retired. Time flew, didn't it? And you were worried about it.
ReplyDeletePs- thanks for the thoughtful greeting! Boo! And yes no tricks...just treats!