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Happy New Year! BWF is excited to honor leaders of all ages who have contributed outstanding work toward racial, gender, economic, and social justice in Greater Boston. Who are the elders, youth, organizers, and changemakers working toward liberation in your community? Nominate them at https://bit.ly/49DGiCr before the nomination form closes on January 31! To submit the Leading Us Toward Liberation nomination form, you’ll need: 1. Contact information – yours and the nominee’s 2. General information about the nominee’s work – location of work and impact; justice categorization; alignment with BWF values 3. Your “why” – Why are you nominating this leader? 4. 2-3 references and their contact information

?? #Survey: Latin America is the next frontier for political leadership. Share the political leadership initiatives you know of in the region:?https://lnkd.in/e5PCzuUp We’re teaming up with Instituto Update to learn more about how we can best connect and support these political leadership organizations. Your responses will help us: ??? Map the ecosystem ?? Increase representation of indigenous, black, and LBTQI+ women in politics, especially in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and México Please spread far and wide!

#politics #nobelprize I had commented on this article from SSIR in 2023 on LinkedIn, but the following is a variation of my earlier comment from about a year ago. There is considerable handwringing, in particular from the Democrats that American democracy is at grave risk, and so is global democracy, and that America must go to war to preserve, protect, and advance the post-World War II legacy of FDR around the world. Who said the West was ever a democracy? Democracy in the West is aspirational. It died in darkness The Washington Post after the city state of Athens lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta and Socrates chose death by hemlock after his trial by the “honorable men” of Athenian democracy over compromise suggested by his aristocratic pupil and benefactor Plato who wrote the dialogs with Socrates as the protagonist. So it has been everywhere around the world. It is a specious argument to make, for example, being made in India by the Hindu far right of prime minister Narendra Modi’s partisan handlers that Gandhi is not a great soul, he was an agent of the British, permitted the most violent partition which killed nearly 2 million Indians, therefore was a very violent man and his assassination by a Hindu fundamentalist, Nathuram Godse with a gun at point blank range was, in fact, patriotism and not a crime. India is now firmly set on the path of geopolitical militancy akin to the West, to grow its economy in support of AUKUS and QUAD. And so is Japan returning to its militant imperialism, getting ready to end its constitutional pacifism which outlaws war, by justifying it as preparation for self-defense against an assertive China. Politics has always been undemocratic because the spectre of the economy has always haunted humanity, feudalism or industrialism, from well before Karl Marx and unresolved by the Greeks before him since antiquity and all others everywhere around the world, held hostage by the strongmen. When we solve the economic problem, we will also solve the democracy problem. War does not preserve, protect, and advance democracy nor do the Cold War and the post-9/11 surveillance states of Harry Truman since 1948. War kills more people than non-violence kills by Henry David Thoreau’s, Mahatma Gandhi’s, MLK Jr.’s and Nelson Mandela’s civil disobedience. Non-violent civil disobedience kills not because the civil disobedient are violent but because the aggressor is violent toward the civil disobedient and is put to shame. It is critical for the future of humanity to think humanity. Not West, East, North, and South. Only then will the world ever have democracy, of the Jeffersonian kind, the compromise Socrates ought to have made with Athens rather than drink hemlock to kill himself https://lnkd.in/eJZn5aGH.

The galvanizing force of a new national story will lie in its vision of the future. It is the easiest part of the story to tell because we need only to look at dynamic equity-driven movements and their leaders for a vision of a truly multiracial democracy. These leaders, among countless others, are creating models for collective action. They are translating the energy of movements into organizations, which can represent the durability and power of the work and sustain long-term action to build a robust multiracial democracy. https://lnkd.in/gCRZpxcx #MultiRacialDemocracy #ReimaginingDemocracy #Leadership

Regardless of politics, it's striking how many were surprised by VP Harris's exceptional debate performance. This underscores the stark reality of how far Black women must go to be acknowledged for their abilities. VP Harris isn’t singular - there are numerous equally talented Black women in politics, unrecognized by most Americans. This issue extends beyond politics to our organizations. The talent for diverse leadership roles already exists internally; we must be bold enough to acknowledge it. #Leadership #DiversityAndInclusion #BlackWomenInLeadership #TalentWithin

Why Kamala Harris's Leadership is a Game-Changer Discover why the prospect of a Harris administration is so exciting and important. Betting on black women pays off, and her victory would demonstrate the viability of black female leadership. Join us in exploring the potential positive impact on the country and the world. #KamalaHarris2024 #BlackFemaleLeadership #GameChanger #LeadershipMatters #LeadershipGoals #EmpoweredWomen #VoteForChange #PoliticalLeadership #WomenInPower #FutureOfPolitics

???Reflections on Black Leadership: Racism in the Modern World?? Yusuf Ibrahim, Assistant Principal at Cardiff and Vale College, examines recent high-profile resignations and proposes solutions. ?? Learn about the Black Leadership Group Wales and its mission to support aspiring leaders. Read his full article here?? https://lnkd.in/e2UJZviW #BlackLeadership #PoliticalDiversity #LeadershipSupport

Check out “Black Women and Their Love,” a thoughtful historical and contemporary perspective on leadership and how we can support Black women leaders.

Mark your calendars and save the date for this upcoming learning opportunity. The realities of Black women in leadership have arrived at the center of discourse across the nation. Black women leaders and their accomplices are driving the effort to unpack and move through shared experiences of harm. In this discussion, four leaders come together for a discussion on black women leadership and the archetypes that enable injustice.

In this third installment of the "Exploring Leadership Diversity in Educator Preparation Programs: An Asian/American Perspective” series, Nicholas Hartlep, Ph.D., and Rachel Endo, Ph.D., discuss the challenges faced by deans in education, highlighting the predominance of white faculty and leadership in educator preparation programs. https://lnkd.in/ewfaGwmr #diversity #inclusion #equity