Election Primer: Platform for a New Canada

In the absence of a radical program to campaign around for the upcoming federal election, Canadian Dimension suggests one.

Feminists and social justice activists should take note of Sam Gindin's "Idea For Popular Assemblies" wherein he poses two questions:

Can popular, community-based assemblies, which would bring various movements together into a democratic and permanent structure, become the first step toward building a larger project?Are popular assemblies the way to link these local structures into social forces of regional and national significance?

Gindin challenges the notion of “mobilizing” which "ignores (and is often even threatened by) building the kind of popular understandings, political capacities and organizational forms that can actually win substantive reforms, let alone change the world. "

Other Campaign Articles:
12-Step Program to Combat Climate Change
Canada and World Order After the Wreckage
An Energy Security Program for Canada
A Democratic Tax Reform for Canada
Toward a New Policy Paradigm for First Peoples
Ideas for Popular Assemblies