On Missing the BC NDP Provincial Executive
So the election today was disappointing, getting only 140 votes for one of the 6 Vice-President positions. The “Unity Slate” swept everyone into power that they stood for election. Great thanks go to all the people talking about the ideas I was running on, particularly the viral champions who were spreading word widely. 140 was [...]
On Carole James Being a Woman
On Monday and Tuesday I wrote about reasons I had been hearing from people about why they think we lost the election. It was a list of reasons I had heard, presented in no particular order. The only order jigging I did was to put my belief at the end, the one about engaging with [...]
Gary Mason’s Advice Fits with Think Forward BC NDP
Gary Mason’s Friday piece in the Globe and Mail has some recommendations for the BC NDP to improve its effectiveness. When you review the 7 main points in the Think Forward BC NDP consensus document, there is some strong convergence. Read them here, then review some of Mason’s points: 1. Talk about the economy more [...]
Live Blogging at Convention
My live blogging items will show up, not so much live, but on the website. Sean Holman of Public Eye Online, however, is live blogging in real time. You can read his impressions here. Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg LinkedIn StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Buzz
BC NDP Convention: 2 Hours to the Call to Order
The sun was up today in a cloudless Vancouver sky to welcome the BC NDP Convention. It has been an inspiring morning checking in with developments with the YND convention and the Women’s Caucus meeting. Delegates are starting to arrive and buzz about while I’m finalizing the ideas for my video message as candidate for [...]
BC NDP Convention Opening: Building Relationships
Convention starts in 8 hours. During these next hours, I will be at the Bayshore speaking to people about how to mobilize their vision for the party. I have some ideas I’ve been working through since 8:35 pm on May 12, 2009. Then the Think Forward BC NDP dialogue sprouted from Vancouver-Kensington’s planning to help frame [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 1 Day: Defining Ourselves as a Party
11.26.09 Defining Ourselves as a Party With convention starting tomorrow, we are on the eve of defining a new culture of the BC NDP. Lots of people think everything is find in the party, that people calling for reform are navel gazers who don’t understand that the real enemy is the Liberal party. Working against [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 2 Days: Improving Internal Party Democracy
Internal party democracy matters. Despite the fact that it exists in the constitution, it is not functioning well. And if democracy isn’t working, it doesn’t really matter that there are democratic structures in the party. A core idea in the Think Forward BC NDP dialogue over the last few months has been about enhancing democracy [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 3 Days: How Do We Fix the Party?
Yesterday I wrote about a number of popular reasons why people believe the NDP isn’t government right now. Here they are again. Below are my ideas about how to address these things, my goals in running for a Vice-President position in the BC NDP. Carole James – bad leader, woman, not inspiring, lacks vision or [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 4 Days: Why We Lost the Election
We didn’t lose the election. The Liberals didn’t win it either. We failed to win it. There are a great many explanations for why we failed to win, but I have spent a great deal of time since about 8:30pm on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 talking to dozens of people about what is systemically wrong [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 5 Days: Why We’re the Natural Governing Party of BC
I had this amazing daydream a few weeks after we failed to win the election last May. The NDP is the naturally governing party of BC, so when the legislature was to open earlier this fall/summer, the NDP MLAs should stroll in there and behave as if we actually represent the poorest 95% of British [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 6 Days: Defining the Party as “The Electoral Wing of a Progressive Social Movement”
There was a profound summer lightning storm on Saturday, July 25, 2009, about 10 weeks after the election. Starting late in the afternoon Vancouver got soaked by a torrent of rain and a storm that circled the lower mainland counter-clockwise and competed with the fireworks that night. Here is my highlight reel. That day was [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 7 Days: My Journey Towards the Executive
Since 8:35pm on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, I’ve been thinking hard about the state of the BC NDP. By that time of evening on election day, it was clear that there were profound problems in with the party. So I spent the following months talking to dozens of people about what is broken and how [...]
Media Release: Stephen Elliott-Buckley Runs for BC NDP Vice-President to Lead Party Renewal
The BC NDP needs to be the electoral wing of a progressive social movement throughout BC. In the 21st century it’s not politicians and parties that get elected but clear values and active communities. The BC NDP has been losing more than elections; in recent months, it has been losing core supporters in droves. Members [...]
Agents Provocateurs Launch Olympic Torch Relay?
Agents provocateurs were outed at the FTAA protest in Montebello in August 2007. I expect they’re at it again in BC on the first day of the Olympic torch relay, this time with marbles. The huge contingent of police officers watched as the group blocked traffic in several major intersections and even threw marbles at [...]
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