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| Affiliation | Marxist-Leninist |
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| Name | Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell |
| Address |
, British Columbia , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
January 30, 1951 |
| Died |
February 10, 2021
(70 years) |
| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Aug 22, 2024 07:32pm |
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| Info | Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell is a lawyer and political activist who joined the Marxist-Leninists in 1973. As a youth, she represented Canada at the 1970 World Youth Assembly and was a student senator at the University of British Columbia. She worked in the woods industry, in various industrial jobs and as a school bus driver before becoming a lawyer in 1992. She completed her Masters degree with a thesis on the origins of foster care in British Columbia. In her legal practice she represents parents, marginalized workers and people suffering from welfare cuts. She was the editor of the Lawyers for Social Responsibility newsletter from 1989-1998 and since has edited the Hope and Fraser Valley Movement for Empowerment newsletter. She was counsel for the MLPC as intervenor in Figueroa v Attorney General, the Charter challenge to the Canada Elections Act. She was involved in the opposition in Hope to the threatened closing of the Court House and hospital and was the MLPC candidate in Okanagan-Coquihalla in the 2000 federal election.
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