MK. You rock. Please pass along anything else you learn on this. Unfortunately, I don’t have the bandwidth to dig into this very deeply at the moment.
I know the rest of team Praxis is spread pretty thin right now, too. I think our response is going to be a more long-term thing. Maybe I’ll see if we can work this into the interview series.
Man. It’s always something with these Conservative Party clowns. Not much of a fucking Party if you ask me.
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]]>The biggest problem I’m seeing right now is that we’re being characterized as being lazy, completely reliant on government money, and the programs having no accountability (oh yeah, we love all the time we spend on applications and final reports). We need to win this public relations battle, first and foremost.
I’m not sure how to do that, though. I’m trying to track down numbers for similar programs in Australia and New Zealand, both countries that have similar economies to us and who’s federal governments have committed to their artists to different degrees. But it needs to go beyond the economic argument.
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