As VanRamblings wrote yesterday, tonight at 5pm, the Metro Vancouver Alliance (MVA) — an alliance of faith, educational institutions, non-profits, and union groups located across the Metro Vancouver region — will hold a critically important fundraiser, titled Bridging the Gap, in order that the MVA might raise $15,000 in funds to hire a full-time organizer, matching funding for monies raised last month by member organizations within the MVA.

Today on VanRamblings, we’ll focus on two interviews we conducted yesterday with Deborah Littman, the Metro Vancouver Alliance’s original organizer, and Joey Hartman, the first chairperson of the MVA — both of whom will fill you in on the history of one of Metro Vancouver and our province’s most important, difference making social justice organizations.

Here’s Deborah Littman on the formation of the Metro Vancouver Alliance, issues the MVA addressed during her multi-year tenure, VanRamblings’ interview concluding with Ms. Littman’s insight into an April 2017 leadership debate at the Italian Cultural Centre, organized by the Metro Vancouver Alliance that, perhaps, helped to create the conditions for an “alliance” of two of the leaders on stage that night, subsequently allowing John Horgan and the B.C. New Democratic Party to form government in July 2017.

Metro Vancouver Alliance | Voices on the History of the MVA | Deborah Littman, Organizer, and former MVA Chair, Joey Hartman

Again, please attend tonight’s Metro Vancouver Alliance fundraiser.

Once you register for tonight’s fundraiser, the good folks at the Metro Vancouver Alliance will post a Zoom participant link to your e-mail address. The fundraiser will be online at 4:30pm this evening, with the official fundraiser to get underway at 5pm, the whole event to wrap at 5:45pm, as VanRamblings wrote yesterday, perhaps the best, most selfless and most rewarding activity in which you might engage throughout the entire upcoming holiday season.

The Metro Vancouver Alliance has established a charitable Canada Helps account. Whether you want to make a one time donation to the MVA, or become a sustaining monthly donor, all you have to do is click on this Canada Helps link, click the down arrow on the right-hand side of the page, choose the Metro Vancouver Alliance (MVA) option, and then click on the CONTINUE WITH DONATION “button”.

Click on the graphic above to go to the Canada Helps website, to donate to the Metro Vancouver Alliance’s Bridging the Gap Fundraiser. You’ll be glad you did! Don’t forget to click on the down arrow to choose the Metro Vancouver Alliance option.

Whether you give just once, or wish to become a sustaining MVA donor, your contribution to the Metro Vancouver Alliance will succeed in making a proportional difference of meaning in the lives of a great many people who need our help. As the MVA is designated as a non-profit, charitable organization, any donation you make will be tax deductible — all the more reason to give generously and from your heart. MVA members thank you.

The members of the Metro Vancouver Alliance look forward to meeting you online tonight.

See you then !!!

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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