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Matthew C. Whitaker, Ph.D. always brings a thoughtful and compelling perspective to the table. Check out this article highlighting the work he's doing at the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center. 👇 #ArizonaLeadership #InsightfulVoices"

To all my Canadian followers: Is the Canadian Future Party worth a look? A few weeks ago I met the leader of the Canadian Future Party, Dominic Cardy and the candidate for Lasalle-Emard (in Montreal), Marc Khoury, in an overly-loud bistro on Wellington Street. While I struggled at times to hear what they were saying, the meeting was positive and I came away feeling that perhaps they were onto something. Are they just another party elbowing for space, or have they identified something missing and concerning in Canadian politics? I believe the latter. Some excerpts from a Sept. 18, 2024 article article by Dominic, published in The Hill Times... "We believe in the aggressive defence of democracy both at home and abroad. In a time of toxic division, we bring democrats together: a former Stephen Harper cabinet minister working with a former Jack Layton NDP MP; former Liberal organizers with former sovereigntists. We believe in evidence, and in science." "The CFP believes in a data-driven alternative to the sterile left versus right; in 2024, no sane person believes government should do everything, or that it should do nothing. That fight played out over 200 years. Both left and right lost. Democracy won. Neither offered complete answers: the extremes of the left and right have poisoned and continue to poison our politics as much as their centres made us richer, more equal, and freer. We want to build on that centre." "We know what works. Canada works. We are lucky to be among the small family of free countries where individual rights and collective responsibilities are decided through fair elections... We can solve problems. Whether its building houses, introducing competition in the airline, telecom, and agricultural sectors, supporting Ukraine’s victory over Russia while boosting defence spending to two per cent of the GDP, or recognizing the credentials of foreign-trained doctors, making democracy deliver is at the heart of the CFP’s political project." "No one has ever faced the problems of a post-industrial world, declining birthrates, climate change, aggressive dictators, and amoral algorithms. There is no road map. A government of the people that delivers universal social programs, protects universal human rights—we’re lucky to live in a country with these problems to solve." "As the CFP’s first leader, I am under no illusions about the challenges in front of me, my team, and my country. Equally, I have no doubt this start-up project is essential. In a chaotic world, it’s time to define and then ensure Canada’s place as a big country in every sense, ready to lead." For more on the Canadian Future Party, check https://lnkd.in/eVZtrVJ8

The prequel inheritance of FG/FF/PD, and Labour have had a profound impact on this land of ours, the prerequisites of the parties, prior identity power inheritance and aligned preferences, from the 19th Century to the present, and for much of the latter 19th/20th Century, Ireland's development stood out as a 'sociological oddball' in Western Europe from 1880s-1970s. Oddities infer outliers, and while Development picked up a gear with EU membership in the 1970s to the present, the moulding and shaping of innovation and enervation, in the second fifty years of FG/FF reign, the indexing score cards, for many tracts of territory, clearly manifest distinctly uneven paths of social mobility (CS0 1950s/2021). While the current leader of FG is two decades younger than me, Simon Harris has some appreciation for this legacy history-the presenting past and projected futures for where we are headed. For example, overhang indices of poverty, low social mobility patterning, directly aligned to rebuilding Ireland, still a highly uneven structural scaffold - realisation and actualisation-vectors of time and space, remarkably stubborn and robust, along multi-axial salience recognition, track/trace of different stakes, from the off, through the lifespan-the 'tyranny of merit' where promissory manifests, do not in fact, always reflect the common goods-eg distributive fairness in social scaffolding enacted as fairness and decency, for pathways to get going (eg high quality jobs and onto noticeable legacy issues of age-cohorts, differences in the long term health patterning-A&Es etc). https://lnkd.in/e8eZ_Fcm

The Opportunities Party - A Political Paradox The fallacies in positioning and messaging that expose an eight year sham. Objectivity cannot avoid the facts, which form a brutal narrative lol. Some conversations need to be had. #nzpolitics #newzealand #politicalstrategy #politicalmarketing #nzmedia https://lnkd.in/g4yX363q

My latest article in DPR exploring the likelihood of VP Kamala Harris running for governor is up. Give it a read! https://lnkd.in/gtuMx7QA

The challenges we face today—democratic backsliding, the rise of authoritarianism, deepening polarization, and the failure to secure our most aspirational goals—underscore the urgent need to reinforce the fundamental pillars of our democracy. These institutions are not merely theoretical constructs; they form the bedrock upon which we can build a thriving, inclusive, and resilient nation. https://lnkd.in/gH_b896w

Statement: NCAI President Sharp’s Statement of Support for Juneteenth Statement: NCAI President Sharp’s Statement of Support for Juneteenth NCAI President Sharp’s Statement of Support for Juneteenth: “Today, we honor and celebrate Juneteenth as a national holiday. On June 19th, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas with the news the Civil War ended and slaves were now free. A Civil War continues to this day and it never really ended. Truth be told, we remain sharply divided as a country and, along with our Black brothers and sisters, we have yet to break free from the shackles of centuries of systemic and institutional racism, oppression, and marginalization. Our day of freedom and emancipation will no doubt come. Until then, we will continue to speak our painful truths, demand justice and equality for all, and rise toward God’s perfect glory for each of us, individually, and this great nation, collectively.” ### About the National Congress of American Indians: Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country. NCAI advocates on behalf of tribal governments and communities, promoting strong tribal-federal government-to-government policies, and promoting a better understanding among the general public regarding American Indian and Alaska Native governments, people and rights. For more information, visit www.ncai.org.

Andrew Weaver: David Eby has lost the plot of what it takes to govern Opinion: Since Eby assumed the premier’s chair, radical ideological-driven activism, empty promises with destructive consequences, and out-of-touch hubris embody the hallmarks of his tenure. Andrew closes with this: I’ve had several discussions with Rustad, and while there are still gaps between our views on how to respond to the challenges and opportunities afforded by climate change, they are not as wide as some might imagine. In fact, there were similar gaps in the views held by Horgan and myself in the early days of our minority government. Like Horgan, Rustad’s ability to listen and be open to input are the traits of effective leadership. My conversations with Rustad have given me a very different understanding of his policy proposals when compared to the recent attack messaging advanced by Eby’s government. I remain unsure of how I will vote in the election. Yet I know with certainty that this is the most consequential decision for B.C.’s electorate in a generation, and it warrants careful consideration away from the noise of self-serving political interests

Interesting read!!