Imagined Futures of the NDP (Harbinger Society ep11)
On a super stoked pre-convention panel housing activist and Etobicoke NDP organizer Bri Gardner and co-president of the Jeunes Néodémocrates du Québec Gabriel Masi join host Andre Goulet to discuss policy priorities, shifting the party to the left, Jagmeet's vibes and the mixed legacy of Thomas Mulcair.
Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown suffers Mulcair nostalgia and places a pensive personal ad, community and political organizer Jessa McLean explains why she's campaigning to bring the NDP back to its roots as a socialist alternative to the mainstream and we pull out a warm welcome for anti-capitalist sketch comedy podcast Work It as new Harbinger community members Janet Mowat and Sam Allemang pitch a variety of questionable new show ideas at the HMN corporate head office in episode opener 'The Big Deal'.
Music on this episode 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) and 'Dwarf Planet' (Gurdonark) is courtesy of Creative Commons. Opening track 'Not Epic Just Light' was composed by Henry Lee. Find Henry's narrative ethnography show ‘Deathnography’ wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen to a full 58 years of Singapore's National Parade Day music at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iYjKazEOmk&list=PLw6GjJYVtN0zxzjSKgxfujBmTNhuNOqnv
Hear Nikki Yanofsky's 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics banger at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v0o27BPIIk
Find out more about next weekend's 4/9-4/11 NDP convention at https://www.ndp.ca/convention2021
This conversation was recorded on April 5th, 2021.