{"id":77305,"date":"2022-03-25T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77305"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:52:20","slug":"panel-to-examine-progressive-politics-michael-manleys-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/panel-to-examine-progressive-politics-michael-manleys-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel to examine progressive politics, Michael Manley\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/canada-caribbean-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canada-Caribbean Institute<\/a> will host a virtual event next week to mark the 50th anniversary of the election of Michael Manley and the People\u2019s National Party to government in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter Must Come: The Past and Promise of Progressive Politics\u201d will feature:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Michael Witter, University of the West Indies<\/li>\n<li>Ambassador Aloun Assamba, former Member of Parliament and Senator for the People&#8217;s National Party in Jamaica<\/li>\n<li>New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Niki Ashton, and<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor Simon Black, Brock\u2019s Department of Labour Studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn the name of democratic socialism, the Manley government\u00a0pioneered a program of progressive social and economic reforms that sought to reduce inequality and advance social justice,\u201d says Black.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that Manley was a figure of \u201cenormous consequence for world politics\u201d who defended the sovereignty of ex-colonial countries and confronted racial oppression, including apartheid in South Africa, as a statesperson.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to reflecting on the Manley government\u2019s legacy, the panelists will confront issues of North-South solidarity and the state of progressive politics today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, we have seen a new generation of young people gravitating toward progressive and socialist politics, from the Bernie Sanders phenomenon in the U.S. to the global movement for Black lives to the resurgence of the Left in Latin America,\u201d says Black. \u201cIn a time of increasing global inequality and climate and vaccine apartheid, it&#8217;s important to reflect on the legacies of progressive political figures like Manley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The public webinar takes places Thursday, March 31 at noon (EDT). Anyone interested in attending can <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScYXgMLmOYkjM_3PMmHGF0-rawpGactak9FoVoo9ehgAA94jg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada-Caribbean Institute will host a virtual event next week to mark the 50th anniversary of the election of Michael Manley and the People\u2019s National Party to government in Jamaica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":77306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[10947,110,522,3856,7944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77308,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77305\/revisions\/77308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}