Reportback from Recent NPA Action

Last Sunday the Anti-Poverty Committee disrupted the [right wing, pro-developer] [Non-Partisan Association's] candidacy elections for the city’s mayoral elections to take place in the fall. The NPA, fearing an APC monkey wrench in their circus, moved the election time in an effort to avoid the APC. However, the only result was that the numbers of NPA voters were measured in the tens instead of the hundreds. Outside, members of the APC sang, chanted, hollered and heckled the bourgeoisie and their apparatchiks in their farcical political system. The APC presented Mayor Sam Sullivan with a golden shopping cart filled with golden pop cans, as a gift for being the best Mayor ever. No other Mayor has been so successful as Sam at breaking promises for the poor, shutting down hotels and foodbanks, and sacrificing the interests of the poor, homeless, and indigenous in favour of the yuppies and construction companies salivating at their [2010 Winter] Olympics prospects. Good for you Sam! APC members were heard chanting: “We didn’t vote for you, but we sure hope you win, for your victory will drive ever more people away from the NPA and towards the APC!”

While the APC was creating havoc for the hotel security outside by chanting and handing out propaganda, one APC member – everyone’s favourite Mary Claremount – managed to sneak inside past the pigs, and pundits, the suits, and the security guards. Mary grabbed a pitcher of pop and walked, with revolutionary poise and serenity, over to the Mayor. Raising her voice she declared, “Here’s to Civil City!” and promptly poured the pitcher over Sam Sullivan’s head… In the forty seconds that ensued Mary handed out some literature to startled members of the petit bourgeoisie until the cops arrived and arrested her.

Mary spent a cold night in Vancouver’s finest [jail], and was met Monday morning upon her release by supporters and comrades. Mary has been charged with assault, though Sam is, for the time being, declining to press charges.

The press covered the event widely.

The Sun:
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/citystates/...

The Victoria Times:
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?...

The Tyee: http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/06/09/LadnerCrowned/