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VanRamblings’ 40+ year history of working on progressive social issues — through our involvements with the co-operative movement, feminist issues, social justice issues, the New Democratic Party and Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors, with work within the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, across the Union movement, as a member of Vancouver’s Board of Variance, as an educator and as a community activist — has been defined always by a commitment to democratic principles, a broad inclusionary, Bakuninist model of citizens’ relationship to the state, a respect for humanity, and an essential belief in morality and human dignity.
Within the context of the previous paragraph, VanRamblings today posts our endorsement of candidates in the 2011 Vancouver civic election.
For the many who know us well, and given our opening statement, the choices made below — for Vancouver City Council, 3 COPE, 3 NPA, 1 Green, 2 independents and 1 Vision — might seem to be counterintuitive. Having attended all-candidates meetings throughout the City, having read the content on the candidate websites, and knowing many of our candidate selections as well as we do, we are confident that our candidate choices would approach their job as a Vancouver City Councillor with deep humility, and a deep and abiding commitment to public service.
The 10 candidates for civic office listed below are also, we believe, not only the most well-intentioned, but also the most well-informed candidates out of the 41 candidates who are seeking a Council seat in the 2011 – 2014 term of representative government at Vancouver City Hall. These 10 candidates would hit the ground running from the day after their election to Vancouver City Hall, possessing as they do a vast knowledge of city governance, covering a broad range of planning, heritage, urban design, land development, economic, arts and culture, youth and justice, seniors’, transit and transportation, civic and regional, and the broad range of issues which Vancouver City Council must rule on meeting in, meeting out.
We believe, as well, that our choices for Council are committed to a thoughtful, inclusionary and collaborative process of decision-making, and the development of City policy that best reflects the interests of those of us who call Vancouver home. Without further ado, then, our democratically-inclined 2011 recommendations for Mayor and Vancouver City Council. For our endorsements, VanRamblings will write in the first person …

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