{"id":39628,"date":"2015-01-24T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39628"},"modified":"2015-01-24T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:27:12","slug":"mable-launches-nomination-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/24\/mable-launches-nomination-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Mable launches nomination campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mable-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"mable\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mable.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mable-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMable<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver \u2013 Mable Elmore officially launched on Jan. 17, her campaign to be the NDP\u2019s candidate in Vancouver-East at a campaign rally at the ANZA Club.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a packed room of supporters, Elmore pledged to build on Libby Davies\u2019 extraordinary legacy and through a commitment to grassroots organizing and by fighting for what matters to the people of Vancouver East and to all Canadians. \u201cWhen we organize and when we fight for our values, we win,\u201d said Elmore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today&#8217;s Canada, we have to take that lesson to heart like never before.  Because only if we organize, only if we unite, only if we fight \u2013 together! \u2013 will we win and stop the Harper government,\u201d  she added.<\/p>\n<p>Elmore was joined by community organizer Wendy Lawrence; retired union activist, Marion Pollack; historian and curator, Naveen Green; UNITE HERE! Local 40 President Robert Demand and Hereditary Chief Gordon August.  They said Mable\u2019s unique ability to organize and bring people together for social change made her the right candidate for Vancouver-East. <\/p>\n<p>Before her election as an NDP MLA in 2009, Elmore was a community organizer and activist on many issues including human rights, peace and climate change.  She co-founded the Women\u2019s Rights Committee at the Vancouver and District Labour Council and was a StopWar.ca co-chair.  <\/p>\n<p>Since becoming an MLA, she continues to mobilize and unite people around common issues, regardless of their background. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mable Vancouver \u2013 Mable Elmore officially launched on Jan. 17, her campaign to be the NDP\u2019s candidate in Vancouver-East at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}