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		<title>Project 1971</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1971, Lewis Powell, soon to be Supreme Court Judge, wrote a memo with the subject Attack on American Free Enterprise System to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce laying out a strategy for American businesses to counter the growing criticism of capitalism and corporate influence.  This became known, in limit circles, as the Powell Memorandum or &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2025/project-1971/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Project 1971"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kleptocracy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kleptocracy is a term used to describe a system of government or state in which leaders or officials exploit their power to steal resources from the country they govern, often for personal gain. The word comes from the Greek words klepto (meaning theft) and kratos (meaning power or rule). Some characteristic of kleptocracies: Corruption The &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2025/kleptocracy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Kleptocracy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We need a true public space online!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Internet holds a lot of promise for connecting people around the world.  The problem is that it has been taken over by corporations for their benefit, not necessarily ours.  What is needed is a social platform that is owned by the people that use it, without algorithms pushing content that is negative and often &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/we-need-a-true-public-space-online/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "We need a true public space online!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Improving Digital Literacy</title>
		<link>https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/improving-digital-literacy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Digital literacy refers to the ability to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information through digital technologies. Digital literacy is increasingly crucial for protecting democracy in our interconnected world. In the context of protecting democracy, it’s particularly focused on: Information evaluation: Identifying credible sources vs. unreliable ones. Understanding how search algorithms work and can be biased. Recognizing &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/improving-digital-literacy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Improving Digital Literacy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Protecting Democracy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Experts predict a 19.2% four-year likelihood of democratic breakdown in the United States as of 2022.1 When democracy breaks down, it typically takes many years, often decades, to reverse the downward spiral. In the process, violence and corruption typically flourish, and talent and wealth flee to more stable countries, undermining national prosperity. It is not &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/protecting-democracy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Protecting Democracy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who gets to vote and who doesn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/who-gets-to-vote-and-who-doesnt/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As our country approaches a presidential election in 2024, access to voting is changing at the state level.  A 2022 investigation from The Center for Public Integrity found over half the states in the United States of America had made access to voting worse than it had been previously.  Slightly less than half of the &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/who-gets-to-vote-and-who-doesnt/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Who gets to vote and who doesn&#8217;t"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurrection Defined</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Watching the violence of January 6, 2021, I could not believe what I was witnessing in the United States of America.  As I watched and followed the news of this incident, some people called the act an insurrection and some people called it a peaceful protest with people taking a tour of the Capital building! &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/insurrection-defined/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Insurrection Defined"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Election information?</title>
		<link>https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/election-information/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disinformation is false information deliberately spread to deceive people. In contrast, misinformation refers to inaccuracies that stem from inadvertent error.  Disinformation is an managed activity in which people introduce strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to facilitate political, military, or commercial goals. UNESCO and Ipsos did a survey  (August-September 2023), in 16 countries, asking among &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/election-information/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Election information?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can We Keep Our Republic?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Benjamin Franklin left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberations at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he was asked  &#8220;Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?&#8221; to which he responded &#8220;A Republic, if you can keep it.&#8221; These days it sometimes feels like we are in danger &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/can-we-keep-our-republic/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Can We Keep Our Republic?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2023 Denver Democracy Summit</title>
		<link>https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/2023-denver-democracy-summit/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Josef Korbel School of International Studies is pleased to announce that the 3rd Annual Denver Democracy Summit will be held October 25-26, 2023 on the University of Denver campus with proceedings streamed to a worldwide virtual audience. The Denver Democracy Summit will serve as a platform for the DU community and the world’s leading &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/2023-denver-democracy-summit/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "2023 Denver Democracy Summit"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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