Step Up, Renew and Rebuild
NDP Renewal Online Engagement Forum
Sunday November 9th at 1 PM Pacific / 4PM Eastern Time
Register for Forum, HERE
What to Expect
This will be a fast paced 60-minute online engagement forum with multiple ways for you to both listen to others and share your ideas on how to renew and rebuild our Party.
The forum will be co-host by Peter Julian, former MP for New Westminster–Burnaby, Leah Gazan, MP for Winnipeg Centre, and Matthew Green, former MP for Hamilton Centre. They will share some of their ideas, but most of the forum will be dedicated to hearing from you.
During the 60 minute forum we will have two 15 minute discussion sessions with 10 speakers for one minute each. Speakers will be given a warning when their one minute is about to end and will be muted after one minute to respect the time for other speakers.
While folks are speaking we encourage you to comment and communicate with each other in the Chat. Zoom chat will be fully enabled, but folks who are not speaking will be mute.
We will also be introducing an engagement tool called Polis during the forum which will allow everyone to weigh in on whether they agree or disagree with a number of policy statements … or share their own perspective for the group to agree or disagree on.
At the end of the forum we will also be launching an extensive online Policy Survey as the first phase of an engagement process to create and build consensus for a series of resolutions for our NDP National Convention in Winnipeg next March. We will also be conducting a number of in person forums across the country and will be looking for volunteers to help us make this happen.
Link to volunteer for NDP Renewal
We will make this forum a safe space for public discourse. Discrimination and Harassment will not be tolerated.
The NDP Renewal Initiative as a Third Party does not support or oppose any NDP leadership candidate. Please refrain from promoting or opposing any leadership candidate in this forum in the chat, on pol.is, when you speak or visually.
Like the NDP Renewal Initiative, and our Policy Survey, this forum is inspired by the 1995 NDP Renewal Report and Resolutions that helped renew and rebuild our Party after we lost Official Party status in 1993.
The 1995 NDP Renewal Report was grouped into three main areas:
- Party Principles and Mission
- Party Structure and Relations
- Party Policy - Globalization, The Economy, Social Policy
We highly encourage you to review this document online before the forum Sunday.
Join us as we chart a bold new course for the NDP, together, from the grassroots up.
The NDP belongs to all of us. Together, we can renew and rebuild.