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| Affiliation | Democratic Reform BC |
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| Name | Jennifer Fisher-Bradley |
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Victoria, British Columbia , Canada |
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| Info | Jen is a traditional and digital artist, computer animator and human rights defender of Irish, English and Burmese heritage. She has considered the Albeni-Qualicum area her home since coming here at age 16 in 1971. Her partner died at sea, and the first of her three children was born near Ahousaht. Her deep respect for First Nations, our fishing, forest and mining heritage, and the magnificence of wilderness, all began in this era.
Jen’s grandfather Doc Fenn, public health physician, was a hero of World War II, infiltrating behind Japanese lines in Burma, with Gurkha guards, to study malarial mosquitoes.
Her parents fled the civil war in Burma, separately, with their families, and married in England where her father joined the RCAF. Born in the UK in 1954, she and the family came to Canada when she was two.
A wise elder at age 50, Jen’s experiences as a single mom raising her three children on income assistance, after fleeing an abusive relationship, educating and healing herself, have given her practical problem-solving skills, as well as a broad understanding of the historic and psychological forces that underlie our current difficulties. She is particularly wary of “performance orientation” which values people only for what they produce, leading to; dehumanisation - the prerequisite for cruelty, persons incapacitated by low self-esteem, the undervaluing of human dignity and the minimisation of inherent worth of all people.
At CDIS in Burnaby, Jen studied 3-D computer animation. She has experience running small business and claims to;” love technology” which she is very comfortable with.
A member of the Vancouver Burma Roundtable, she campaigned against Canadian complicity in human rights atrocities in Burma, co-ordinating the visit of Prime Minister-in-Exile, Dr. Sein Win to BC, and helping to get Motion 61 passed in the BC legislature. In 1999 the motion was passed unanimously, recognising the elected status of imprisoned MPs inside Burma and banning BC provincial government trade with the military regime.
In 2002 she married her partner Stephen, a marine navigator of Metis heritage, they live in Port Alberni. In 2003, Jen served on the organizing committee of the Assembly to End Poverty in Victoria. Fisher-Bradley supports locally controlled resource and secondary industry, sustainable, selective cutting in the community’s forests, and value-added. In 2003 she squared of with US corporate giant Weyerhaeuser in the Walbran Valley, blocking further massive clear-cuts of 1000 year old Red Cedar and destruction of the watersheds, for which she served 51 days in prison.
While opposed to the sell-out of our real prosperity to corporate rule, Jen is a strong defender of Community Wellness which includes healthy capitalism – a free and fair market of diverse locally-owned small and medium-sized business, protected from corporate monopolization by an aware citizenry, a responsive government and an integral judiciary. Jen knows the heroic history and sees the continuing need for strong Labour Unions as one part of that aware citizenry and challenges them to greater solidarity with the unemployed, underemployed and unpaid in our society. Fisher-Bradley is a strong supporter of YES to STV, the Single Transferable Vote, and fairness for First Nations as well as certainty in business, which can only be achieved by promoting social and economic justice for everyone.
Jen Fisher-Bradley is a proud mother and grandmother. She enjoys sharing art, music, and nature with loved ones and her community. She has often been quoted, saying, “There is no us and them, there is only us.” With the support of the aware voters in Alberni-Qualicum, she hopes to serve us, by representation, as a member of the Democratic Reform Party of British Columbia.
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