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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)
@uxmark@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I’m an old man! That means that the @avilewis campaign has released a long recording of a recent live stream that features Avi and several inspiring guests. But the guest that makes me feel old as well, importantly, as young is noted musician, author, and activist Billy Bragg. (There are other amazing people like Leah Gazan in the video, of course). Between the two of them they cover the ways in which the current moment reveals hope as more people have become energized and activated to push back against the capitalist forces that harm us all.

The conversation with Bragg starts at around 3:46:39 (Yes, it's a long video! All worth watching 😀❤️)

#CanPol #NDP #NDP2026 #BillyBragg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRTgCrP_Ow

A screenshot showing Billy, a white man with white hair, a white beard, and glasses, and a green shirt. He’s looking at the camera/viewer. Text at the top of the screen rads “JOIN THE NDP BY 11:59PM PT TONIGHT, JANUARY 28, TO VOTE IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE! LEWISFORLEADER.CA/JOIN” and “PREVIOUSLY RECORDED - JANUARY 25”
A screenshot showing Billy, a white man with white hair, a white beard, and glasses, and a green shirt. He’s looking at the camera/viewer. Text at the top of the screen rads “JOIN THE NDP BY 11:59PM PT TONIGHT, JANUARY 28, TO VOTE IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE! LEWISFORLEADER.CA/JOIN” and “PREVIOUSLY RECORDED - JANUARY 25”
A screenshot showing Billy, a white man with white hair, a white beard, and glasses, and a green shirt. He’s looking at the camera/viewer. Text at the top of the screen rads “JOIN THE NDP BY 11:59PM PT TONIGHT, JANUARY 28, TO VOTE IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE! LEWISFORLEADER.CA/JOIN” and “PREVIOUSLY RECORDED - JANUARY 25”
A screenshot showing Avi Lewis, a white man with short hair, glasses, and a blue shirt. He’s looking at the camera/viewer. Text at the top of the screen rads “JOIN THE NDP BY 11:59PM PT TONIGHT, JANUARY 28, TO VOTE IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE! LEWISFORLEADER.CA/JOIN” and “PREVIOUSLY RECORDED - JANUARY 25”
A screenshot showing Avi Lewis, a white man with short hair, glasses, and a blue shirt. He’s looking at the camera/viewer. Text at the top of the screen rads “JOIN THE NDP BY 11:59PM PT TONIGHT, JANUARY 28, TO VOTE IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE! LEWISFORLEADER.CA/JOIN” and “PREVIOUSLY RECORDED - JANUARY 25”
A screenshot showing Avi Lewis, a white man with short hair, glasses, and a blue shirt. He’s looking at the camera/viewer. Text at the top of the screen rads “JOIN THE NDP BY 11:59PM PT TONIGHT, JANUARY 28, TO VOTE IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE! LEWISFORLEADER.CA/JOIN” and “PREVIOUSLY RECORDED - JANUARY 25”
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A Flock of Beagles
@burnitdown@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@uxmark @avilewis@mstdn.ca

Bill Bragg will sing about never crossing a picket line

the NDP will co-opt a picket line.

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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)
@uxmark@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@burnitdown The thing that gives me hope with Lewis is that he wants to build a movement that's always active and working, not just engaging members — and everyone else — during election campaigns. And he does seems to recognize that the current NDP has been ineffective and failed *many* groups.

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A Flock of Beagles
@burnitdown@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@uxmark there isn't really a time when the NDP wasn't ineffective and failing the people who expected better from them. they are a party of social democrats, reform is all they can offer, and there is no reforming capitalism, only reputation laundering. the way forward has never been with political parties because abolition is not among their plans. i don't trust that any new leader will be all that much different from the old. it's not an accident that the NDP consistently offers No Difference.

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