rabble.ca series - Reinventing democracy. Reclaiming the commons.
rabble.ca series - Reinventing democracy. Reclaiming the commons.
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A progressive dialogue on Canada's future
This is an extended series on the Canadian left -- Reinventing democracy, reclaiming the commons: A progressive dialogue on the future of Canada -- a look at where it stands after the recent federal election, and what the future can hold. The series will run in this, rabble.ca's 10th year, and is curated by journalist Murray Dobbin.
- |December 16, 2011| ByMurray Dobbin|rabble.ca's series, 'Reinventing democracy, reclaiming the commons', ran 32 stories in an incredible year, politically, on the future of progressive political action in Canada and beyond.
- |December 9, 2011| ByDavid Thompson|Conservatives have been winning for the last 30 years. That's because they've been playing to win. Time to use their own strategies to move the conversation -- and power -- leftward.
- |November 30, 2011| ByMel Watkins|It is important to remember the NPI and Waffle, but looking forward this is arguably the time for those on the left to support the NDP and to hold it to the progressive politics of Jack Layton.
- |November 30, 2011| ByMurray Dobbin|Imagine that a New New Politics Initiative reconstituted itself, examined the new political landscape, and perhaps engaged with the new Occupy forces -- or emerged out of it.
- |November 29, 2011| ByJudy Rebick|The NPI was actually just 10 years ahead of its time. In some ways, it was the last try in Canada to bring together social movements and a political party.
- |November 29, 2011| ByMarc Lee|Re-reading the NPI's manifesto, the calls for a more fundamentally democratic society and for a new type of politics still ring true -- and have a huge resonance with the current political moment.
- |November 29, 2011| ByJim Stanford|We argued the success of progressive political parties ultimately depends on whether we are winning that day-to-day battle of ideas in society, and connecting with those fighting for social change.
- |November 28, 2011| ByThe Cofounders of the New Politics Initiative|The original vision statement for NPI, published in June 2001, was comprehensive. It declared: 'Decades of pro-business policies have not delivered better life prospects or a healthier environment.'
- |November 25, 2011| ByAalya Ahmad|I have been energized, above all, by the people supporting the Occupy movement who I would never expect to see at the rallies, people who I felt I would never be able to make common cause.
- |November 18, 2011| ByCharles Dobson|The most remarkable thing about Occupy Wall Street is how fast it spread. What happens now? Here are suggestions for new social movements.
- |November 11, 2011| ByBrigette DePape|There are lessons for Canada in how youth-led uprisings across the world are challenging elites, offering us ideas for re-imagining democracy.
- |November 4, 2011| ByThomas Ponniah|An act of human self-fulfillment: the Bolivarian process espoused by Latin America gives participatory forms of democracy equal weight with representative democracy. The potential is enormous.
- |October 28, 2011| ByMeghan Murphy|Desperation, coupled with the growing influence of neo-liberal discourse, has led mainstream feminism to look for empowerment where there is none.
- |October 21, 2011| ByMurray Dobbin|Reinventing democracy is a complicated process, but as for reclaiming the commons? It is exactly what the Occupy movement has been about. A reinvented democracy rests on a reclaimed commons.
- |October 14, 2011| ByDave Oswald Mitchell|Everywhere you look you'll find capitalism, and everywhere you look you'll find the problems caused by it -- and the seeds of its successor.
- |October 7, 2011| ByJustin Podur|Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be more successful.
- |September 30, 2011| ByCharles Dobson|The simple beauty of grassroots democratic solutions to pressing problems is not lost on those who bring together opposite sides in disputes, handing citizens more control over decision-making.
- |September 23, 2011| ByRosa Kouri|Can the young create a pragmatic but inspiring vision of our contribution to this messy world? This is a question I and my peers should start working on.
- |September 16, 2011| ByJanine Brodie|Neoliberalism cannot speak to questions of redistribution, arguably the essence of political ethics and social justice. Courage in policy-making evokes the responsibility to unsettle this imbalance.
- |September 9, 2011| BySteve D'Arcy|Steve D'Arcy argues that the Left must turn its attention back toward grassroots civil society that can inspire hope.
- |August 5, 2011| ByCathryn Atkinson|Looking for some thought-provoking August reading? Try our stories from the series Reinventing democracy, reclaiming the commons: A progressive dialogue on the future of Canada.
- |July 29, 2011| ByJudy Rebick|In the second of this two-part article, Judy Rebick discusses the importance of multi-generational dialogue in coming up with social change strategies.
- |July 22, 2011| ByJudy Rebick|Part one: After last year's G20, I spent time away from the mad activism that has characterized much of my adult life in order to write my memoir. I discovered I feel more hopeful than ever.
- |July 15, 2011| ByVelcrow Ripper|My journey has been to recognize the life-affirming spirit of our times. I learned that if we treat this earth better, potential disaster could be transformed into the greatest love story ever told.
- |July 8, 2011| ByJamie Biggar|As creeping erosion diminishes our experience of progress through democracy, organizers need to step up their practice to provide it.
