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COPE’s 2013 Annual General Meeting in Vancouver
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Date: April 7th, 2013
Time: Registration at 1:30pm, Meeting begins at 2:00pm
Location: Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver, BCVolunteers |COPE’s Annual General Meeting is one of our most important and most attended. To ensure that things run smoothly, we need many volunteers! If you are interested in helping, please contact our Executive Director, Sean Antrim at sean@cope.bc.ca or 604-600-2731. Volunteers will still be able to take part in all of the meeting activities, whether voting or otherwise. Some particular attributes we are looking for are:– First Aid
– Drivers with a vehicle
– Registration
– Set-upExecutive Elections |
We will be electing people to six positions on our Executive Committee. Those positions are:
– Internal Co-Chair
– Treasurer
– Corresponding Secretary
– 3 Member-at-Large positionsThose who wish to run must be nominated from the floor of the meeting. Nominators will receive 1 minute to introduce their nominees. Candidates for the Executive will each receive 3 minutes to introduce themselves to the COPE membership.
Refreshments |
Water, coffee, and tea will be served at the meeting. Please bring your own mug or water container to prevent unnecessary waste.
Accessibility |
The Maritime Labour Centre is fully accessible. The wheelchair accessible entrance is the main entrance, on the North side of the building, off Triumph Street (there is a ramp on the sidewalk near Victoria Drive). If you have any other questions about accessibility, please give us a call at 604-255-0400.
Childminding |
If you need childminding for the afternoon, we will do our best to accommodate you. Please let us know, so that we can make sure to have an appropriate number of childminders and materials.
How to get there/Directions |
Public Transit
The Maritime Labour Centre is one block South of Powell Street, which is a bus route. Buses that travel
Eastward: #4 Powell and the #7 Nanaimo
Westward: #4 UBC and the #7 DunbarMLC is also two blocks North of Hastings Street, which is also a bus route. Buses that run down Hastings Street are:
Eastward: #14 Hastings and the #16 29th Ave Station
Westward: #14 Downtown and the #16 Arbutus
On either routes, get off at Victoria Drive.Bicycle
The Maritime Labour Centre is a few blocks north of the Adanac Bike-way. Take Adanac in either direction, and head north the Lakewood Bike route. Turn West on Triumph Street to get to Victoria Drive.
There are bike racks outside the venue’s entrance.
Car
The Maritime Labour Centre has a reasonably sized parking lot and there is parking on the street.
COPE’s 2012 Summer Barbeque at Vancouver Rowing Club
As always, this year’s COPE‘s Summer BBQ will be hosted by the Vancouver Rowing Club in Stanley Park. There will be local music, a speaker, a silent auction, and a cash bar to go along with your barbecued meal.
It’s a great way to get in touch with your COPE Executive and other progressives from around the city!
We will be host to a speaker who will be focusing on the Kinder-Morgan pipelines planned for Vancouver and the movement that is building to oppose them.
Our musical guest will be local East Vancouver jug band “The Creaking Planks”. There will be a performance at 8:30pm.
About our speaker
Ben West has been an environmental activist in Vancouver for over a decade. Currently the Healthy Communities Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee, Ben is responsible for organizing grassroots campaigns related to fighting climate change and reducing toxic pollution. Recently, Ben has focused on trying to stop oil tankers from exporting heavy crude oil through the BC coast. In all his work Ben is driven by his passion for environmental justice, and ecological literacy.
Our host is the Vancouver Rowing Club, at the entrance to Stanley Park.
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