Peter Beadle on why he joined in founding CQuID:

"Our current system discourages people from becoming involved in their own governance. Institutions that exist and should be making it possible for everyone to have a voice and participate fully in how our society is

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governed, instead have turned inwards and focus on how those already in power can keep and grow that power. This perpetuates long existing social, economic and racial inequalities and holds all of us back. That needs to change and it will require new political

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infrastructure so that people become educated in how the system works and how they can effect change. CQuID is part of that new infrastructure. The goal is not to make its members more influential or powerful, the goal is to make everyone more influential and powerful.

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To ensure that everyone, especially those historically disenfranchised have a voice so that we can attain greater economic and racial justice in our society, which will lift everyone up."

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