Inside the NDP: Controlled Convention
Blueprints of Disruption · Rabble Rousers' Cooperative
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Show Notes
Political Conventions aren't for everyone. Literally.
Hosts Jessa McLean, Jay Woodruff and Santiago Helou Quintero talk about the orchestrated and controlled ways in which the NDP gather (some of) their members every two years.
Once you understand the purpose of Conventions, you start to get a picture of what political partisanship really is.
Most people will be suprised at the accounts from NDP federal council member Kristine Wickner and former BCNDP member Chris, who give first hand accounts of authoritarian and undemocratic practices that exist in Canada's 'workers' party.