CHANGE THAT WORKS | NOVEMBER 2015

CLIMATE CHAMPION NAOMI KLEIN CHANGES THE WORLD

FREE WRAPPING PAPER INSIDE FIND WHERE AND Contents # Out front 6 WHEN YOUR VENDOR B.C.’s lifetime income-assistance ban for people convicted of criminal welfare fraud is lifted. Critics worry about the lack of public awareness of the change. In Vancouver’s SELLS MEGAPHONE historic Chinatown, a coalition of young activists is working to protect low-income housing for seniors.

FIND.MEGAPHONEMAGAZINE.COM Vendor of the Year 2015 8 177 Megaphone’s annual Vendor of the Year FIND A VENDOR APP DESIGNED BY DENIM & STEEL award celebrates a vendor whose extraordinary dedication is a bright light in the community. This year, it’s Eric, a beloved daily presence at Commercial Drive and 1st Avenue in Vancouver.

Dance dance revolution 10 Meet Lorelei Williams, the founder of Butterflies in Spirit, a Vancouver-based MEGAPHONEMAGAZINE.COM dance troupe comprising friends and family members of the more than 1,200 missing FACEBOOK.COM/MEGAPHONEMAGAZINE and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. @ Dancing together, Lorelei says, provides an MEGAPHONEMAG opportunity to heal. INSTAGRAM.COM/MEGAPHONEMAG YOUTUBE.COM/MEGAPHONEMAG Electronic arts 18 In a musical genre dominated by men, Soledad Muñoz has founded a record label This changes everything 24 Cover Photography exclusively for women-identified electronic By Kourosh Keshiri

music artists. “Unlike other labels, this one If climate-change science is failing to About the photo was created on the basis of feminist theory,” move the people it needs to persuade, Legendary Canadian journalist and author what to do? Radically change the public Naomi Klein has worked tirelessly to change she tells writer Aurora Tejeida. public attitudes about consumer culture, conversation, says author and journalist the environment, and how capitalism is the Naomi Klein. “If we can tell another story chief architect of global inequality. She’s pictured on this page in a still from This about who humans are and what we're Is blood thicker than water? 20 Changes Everything, her latest documentary THANK YOU SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS Like many Victoria residents, Quinn capable of,” she tells writer Michael Stewart, about the fight for climate justice. MacDonald often jokes about the city’s “then maybe we can look at this issue from progressive community—polite and which so many of us are averting our eyes.” MEGAPHONE IS SOLD IN inclusive to a fault. But the joke turned VANCOUVER AND VICTORIA sinister this summer when a trip “up island” The Beast 28 for a family wedding resulted in a broken Downtown Eastside poet and longtime BY HOMELESS AND LOW- jaw, spurring MacDonald to question Megaphone friend Jim Ryder is no INCOME VENDORS. VENDORS whether blood truly runs thicker than stranger to the ravages of mental illness. BUY THE MAGAZINE FOR 75¢ water, and whether it’s possible to bridge His poem, “The Beast,” tracks the political divides among family. experience of hospitalization, of psychosis, AN ISSUE AND SELL IT TO and of the beasts inside our heads. CUSTOMERS FOR $2. Kathryn Calder finds peace 22 Our goal is to provide a voice She’s best known for her membership in and an economic opportunity to Vancouver indie-pop supergroup The New homeless and low-income people Pornographers, but in the decade since she’s while building grassroots support joined the band, singer-songwriter Kathryn to end poverty. Calder has walked a hard road. For years, she was a caregiver for her mother, who battled ALS until she died in 2009. Her solo work, which has tracked the tangled experience of loss and grief for years, marks bold new steps forward in healing, happiness, and peace.

2 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 3 Contributors Director’s Corner

Andrea Warner Executive Director Writer Sean Condon Andrea Warner was born and raised in Vancouver, B.C., Operations Manager where she spent childhood weeknights penning soapy teen Jessica Hannon novels by the light of streetlamps when she should have been sleeping. Today, she is a writer whose work appears Vendor Coordinator in such places as CBC Music, Pitchfork, Exclaim!, The Misha Golston Georgia Straight, and other publications. Feminism, art and pop culture make her happy. She can be found online at Vendor Field Managers TheAndreaWarner.com or or @_AndreaWarner. Allegra Costigan (Vancouver) Savanna Bazuik (Victoria)

Editor Jackie Wong

Art Director Harry Olson Emi Sasagawa Writer Editorial Support In 26 years Emi has lived in four continents and seven Geoff D’Auria countries from Tokyo to Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro. Her interests include social movements, environmental politics Photographers and indigenous rights. She started writing short features for Jackie Dives, Adam Gilmer, Megaphone in 2014. She recently spent a year reporting on Sarah Race mental heath initiatives in low resource regions around the world. Emi is a Lego fanatic. Her favorite brick is #4618537. Project Coordinator Jade Bacchus We have a special gift for you in the them for printing. The next two winning Writing Workshop Facilitators Wrap up November and December issues of designs will be in the December issue. Surya Govender, Blythe Hutchcroft, Megaphone. Inside you’ll find wrapping The two wrapping paper designs you Julia Kochuk, Helen Polychronakos, paper designed by Megaphone vendors. see in this issue are from Carmen and Shannon Rayne, Yvonne Robertson Michael Stewart We hope you can use it to wrap this Stephen. Carmen, who designed wrapping Hope with season’s holiday gifts—or, even better, paper featuring a Dr. Seuss-style string Writer Board of Directors a Hope in Shadows calendar. of Christmas tree baubles, says it was a Nezihe Aquino, Bob Dennis, Michael Stewart is a freelance writer and editor based The holiday season is intended to be lot of fun getting into the holiday spirit. David Lee, Kevin Hollett, in Victoria, B.C., focusing on B.C. politics, housing and Megaphone a time to celebrate what’s important to Stephen, who illustrated candy canes Michael Roberts, Jo Shin culture. He is also the blogs and promotions coordinator us: our families, friends and community. in heart shapes, was Megaphone’s 2014 at Rabble.ca, Canada's largest independent news But amidst the pressure and stress of Vendor of the Year and is one of the Volunteers publication, where most of his writing appears. Michael is this the season, it’s easy to get swept up in cheeriest people you’ll ever meet. Brit Bachmann, Katharine Bleinis, a bad editor, a PhD dropout, and a union thug who enjoys the bustle and forget why, and who, Wrap Up Hope is also part of our Eliza Christie, Monique Dillon, fishing, gardening, and throwing his two kids up in the we’re celebrating. And it can be hard to holiday fundraising campaign. This Hanna Fazio, Mawuena Mallett, air. Follow him on Twitter @m_r_stewart. convey our feelings in the gifts we give. winter we’re working to raise $20,000 Jenn McDermid, Scott Neufeld, holiday Megaphone’s wrapping paper is part so we can continue to support the Becky Price,Elizabeth Rostad, of our Wrap Up Hope campaign, which Megaphone and Hope in Shadows vendors Shane Sharma, Sarah Sheridan, gives people an opportunity to give gifts in Vancouver and Victoria and make Caroline Wong season with meaning this holiday season. When sure this employment opportunity is you give someone a Hope in Shadows available to more people experiencing Editorial Contributors This Issue calendar and use Megaphone’s wrapping poverty and homelessness in our cities. Bob Dennis, Alex Hudson, paper (for the calendar or for any present), “Selling Megaphone has helped me Katie Hyslop, Quinn MacDonald, Michael Roberts you’re directly supporting an individual have a job and have something stable,” Jim Ryder, Emi Sasagawa, Board member experiencing poverty or homelessness. says Carmen, who works at Main and Michael Stewart, Aurora Tejeida, We got the idea to make holiday 26th. “[It also means] I can afford better Andrea Warner Michael is a human resources executive with extensive wrapping paper for the magazine from our food. You have the extra couple bucks to experience leading and managing in the high-tech sector. sister paper in Nashville, The Contributor. go get whatever it is that will help you.” His particular expertise is in developing HR structure and They ran the project last year and it was a When you make a donation to programs to support corporate goals, strategy, and growth. big hit with both vendors and customers. Megaphone, you’re supporting vendors Michael is currently the President of Caliessen Consulting Sean Condon Many customers loved the wrapping paper like Carmen and ensuring that Megaphone Megaphone is published Inc., an HR consulting firm focused on providing strategic HR Executive Director so much that they bought multiple copies. and Hope in Shadows are giving homeless guidance and advice to small- and medium-sized firms. He every month by Street Corner Megaphone Magazine We kicked off Wrap Up Hope by holding and low-income people in Vancouver and Media Foundation. is also a founder and partner at The Stratfour Group, which a contest this fall with Megaphone Victoria an opportunity for hope. provides comprehensive people management solutions to vendors to submit holiday wrapping 121 Heatley Avenue companies undergoing transition. paper designs. We chose the first two Enjoy your holiday wrapping Vancouver, B.C. designs submitted for the November paper and please go to page 31 and V6A 3E9 m Carmen created one of the holiday wrapping issue. Longtime Megaphone contributor make a donation today. [email protected] paper designs in this issue. Photo: Jackie Dives. and designer Will Brown help prepare

4 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 5 Out Front Out Front

A big change, but no bang Direct action gets intergenerational Province quietly drops income-assistance ban Youth rally for Chinatown seniors

By Katie Hyslop Story and photo by Katie Hyslop

Thirteen years ago, the provincial The ban was lifted after government government introduced, with great fanfare, received repeated requests to do so during a lifetime income-assistance ban for people public consultations, according to a A convicted of criminal fraud. While geared spokesperson for the Ministry of Social towards stopping crimes like welfare fraud, Development in an email to Megaphone. research by the Canadian Centre for Policy The Ministry held those consultations, Alternatives (CCPA) suggests this approach called Accessibility 2024, with people is misguided. The CCPA’s research indicates with disabilities and disability advocacy that people living below the poverty line organizations in 2013 and 2014. (people on assistance are below the line in The ministry added the change was B.C.) resort to crimes like theft and survival originally announced in a Mar. 23, sex work in their struggle to make ends 2015, press release about Bill 23, the meet—welfare fraud is less common. The Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act. government lifted the ban this summer with Frontline staff, agencies, and advocates the bureaucratic equivalent of a whimper. were told about the change over the “We were tipped off that there was summer. Letters were also sent out to the some proposed legislation to remove 70 people receiving hardship assistance. Last April the Downtown Eastside’s Carnegie Community m Members of the Youth Collaborative for Chinatown, including local it—we hadn’t heard anything about it,” But there were 185 people convicted of Action Project organized Chinese seniors against neighbourhood visual artist Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, are working with Chinatown’s says Zoe MacMillan, federal disability criminal fraud and banned from receiving condo developments and rezoning applications. They low-income, Chinese-speaking seniors to speak out against Chinatown advocacy project coordinator with income assistance since 2002. That leaves protested the Keefer Block and proposals to build more condos development that threatens to push them out. Victoria’s Together Against Poverty Society 115 people potentially unaware they’re and commercial spaces as measures to defend Chinatown's (TAPS), which has helped people under eligible to receive income assistance again. most vulnerable residents from getting priced out. the ban apply for hardship assistance “We’re happy it’s been lifted because it Today, Chinese youth are taking up the cause in an Last month, the Chinatown Action Group and the Chinatown from government. Hardship assistance should never have been introduced in the effort to protect both Chinatown’s low-income residents Youth Collaborative brought their concerns to the City of is designed as a last resort for people first place,” says MacMillan of TAPS, adding and their own connection to culture and heritage. Vancouver’s open house for Beedie Living’s 105 Keefer Street denied income assistance, and the amount they’d like government to make more of an “What you’ll hear from a lot of [youth] is for them Chinatown rezoning application. Although Beedie’s proposal reserves 25 of money received is at government’s effort to let people know the ban is over. brings back memories of their grandparents,” says artist Kathryn of the 137 housing units for low-income seniors, it still requires discretion. Government isn’t legally In place of the ban, the ministry will Gwun-Yeen Lennon. She moved to Vancouver from Edmonton two a yet-to-be announced non-profit to run the housing. obliged to provide hardship, however, deduct $100 per month from individuals years ago and immediately got involved in Chinatown advocacy The remaining 112 units will arguably bring in outside and recipients must reapply monthly. caught with welfare fraud. Currently efforts following her work with youth in Edmonton’s Chinatown. residents with higher incomes, increasing the number The ban, applicable to both people the estimated amount fraudsters owe Her mother is from Hong Kong. “For me it’s more like a connection of higher priced businesses to serve them, pushing out receiving income and provincial disability the ministry has reached $4 million. to the grandparents that are on the other side of the world.” things like affordable groceries and pharmacies. assistance, was introduced by the newly That's 0.02 per cent of the $1.68 billion A member of the Youth Collaborative for Chinatown, Lennon Lennon says 105 Keefer is a stand-in for larger elected BC Liberal government in 2002 as assistance budget in 2014/15. is helping establish stronger intergenerational connections in neighbourhood gentrification issues. a way to curb income-assistance fraud. On average, the Ministry has recorded the neighbourhood through events like Mah Jong tournaments “I think the community and the city has the responsibility to Anyone convicted of income-assistance 15 to 20 cases of income-assistance fraud held in public spaces during the summer and fall. ensure that development is done in a way that doesn’t displace,” fraud would receive a lifetime ban. Those annually since 2002. That’s less than one But the Collaborative and other organizations like the she says. She isn’t personally against development, but adds condo convicted could apply for hardship per cent of all people accessing income Chinatown Action Group are also interested in helping development should be treated like an application for a new mine assistance from government, which requires assistance in B.C. each year. Last year, Chinatown’s largely low-income, Chinese-speaking and require a social and environmental impact assessment. users to frequently reapply for assistance. 175,000 people received income assistance seniors population speak out against condo developments “We need more oversight because it’s such a sensitive, Seventy British Columbians were from the provincial government. threatening to push them out of the neighbourhood. special, and unique neighbourhood,” she says. receiving hardship assistance because of welfare fraud convictions when the ban was lifted on August 1, 2015.

6 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 7 Vendor Profile Vendor Voicesces

MEGAPHONE VENDOR OF THE YEAR 2015 Bob looks back VANCOUVER on years of change in the Cambie Village

The first thing I remember about Cambie temporary era. I stood outside Produce his Cambie General Store. He was always Eric finds community Village was its great number of grocery City in 1997 to 2004 part-time. I’ve been very pleasant and very kind to people on stores in 1997, the year I started working as selling papers in front of Choices Market low incomes. He was a very understanding a street paper vendor there. I sold papers since 2004. The Choices staff has been man. I also miss the owners of a sushi in front of Produce City—now condos and a good to me. They supported me on the restaurant on the west side of the street on Commercial Drive Shoppers Drug Mart. Where Choices Market loss of my beloved father, James, in the between 18th and 19th Avenue, and the is now at 19th and Cambie (and where I sell spring of 2012. I’ll never forget that. owner of a second-hand clothing store who I’ve got a roof over my head now. I felt Megaphone) was another grocery store run A restaurant called Biercraft opened bought Megaphone and gave me deals on Editor’s note: This year for the second year “Before I started as a vendor, I was down better under my own roof, though. by a nice family. At the northwest corner where the old Tomato was. The people clothing. I miss Ali, the hairdresser. He was in a row, Megaphone is proud to celebrate a here in the Downtown Eastside, it was “Sub-standard and unsafe housing of 18th Avenue and Cambie was the Cambie were friendly. Some have passed away, another one that was good to me; very nice, hard-working vendor with its annual Vendor 2010, and I was mostly picking empties is a daily concern. It definitely adds General Store, run by a nice guy called Gary moved away with families. Many students a sense of humour. He was from Africa. He of the Year award. The award, determined for deposits. That’s when I noticed the stress and worry every day and night, and his wife. His wife then went to manage are now living in East Vancouver due was right next door and was forced to move through surveys from Megaphone customers, Hope in Shadows ads go up in the fall whether I’m indoors or outdoors, just an A & W Restaurant on Broadway next to to cheaper rents. As for the people who because Gary’s and his rent was jacked up. board members, and staff, was unveiled at of 2010. I probably saw the first ad at because of uncertainties and dealing the Bank of Montreal. They had two kids stay in Cambie Village, I think they I miss my many customers and people I the annual Megaphone breakfast fundraiser the Carnegie. The Carnegie Community with challenges on the city streets. who quickly grew up. Gary’s store is now the stay because they have friends in the know who have moved away or passed on. on November 3. For 2015, we’re proud to Centre is a special place in the Downtown “Being a Megaphone vendor is a huge JJ Bean Cofee Shop. The staff there are good neighbourhood. I’ve been to a number of To my customers, thank you for your celebrate Eric as Vancouver’s Vendor of the Eastside. I can’t say enough about how improvement over what I was doing before, to me and I sometimes sell papers out front. block parties. Some have inherited their support. Year, and John as Victoria’s. Here’s what Eric important the meals and the facilities binning and that sort of thing. It definitely Produce City—at the time across elderly parents’ homes. People seem to has to say about the distinction. are, and the practical hours that they’re adds stability to my days. Emotionally, it’s a from the barber and a restaurant called look out for each other in Douglas Park, Bob sells Megaphone in front open. I go there just about every day. lot more positive to be connecting with the Tomato—closed in 2004. That’s where in Riley Park, and the Cambie Village. of Choices Market at 19th and “I was extremely surprised to hear that I “Starting work as a vendor was an community. That makes a big difference. I sold my papers part-time until that Some families have stayed and I’ve Cambie. Photo: Jackie Wong. had won the Vendor of the Year Award. It eye-opener. I’ve never been in sales. “If I’m having a rough morning or the year. I started at Choices Market in 2001. seen their little ones grow to respectable was great hearing the news. I knew I was I’ve done customer service work before, weather’s wet, I always look forward to Capers went up there, with condos, teens. They respect me and a few buy on the final list, but it barely occurred to but not selling anything, and certainly getting up on the Drive. Sure enough, in 2005. Capers closed in 2010. And Megaphone. I get a lot of people giving me me that I could actually win in this group not out on the street like that. there’s somebody that’s able to lift my then Shoppers Drug Mart moved in. donations—they care about me and they’ve of accomplished vendors. It’s great to get “I have many loyal customers. They mean spirits, even just have a chat or get a ‘good Tomato restaurant closed due to the seen me around for years. When I worked the recognition and to hear the kind words everything. Without them, it wouldn’t morning’ or a smile from somebody who’s Canada Line being constructed. I remember for the street paper back in 2003, I was from customers, staff, and other vendors. work. I watch the world turn there on the never acknowledged me there before. An the Canada Line construction. It was very hospitalized. Every day around Choices “Thank you so much to all of my Drive. I see the whole spectrum; I sell unexpected wave from a child or a cyclist is busy on the street with construction. As Market, people were asking about me. I customers and friends on the Drive. I look near a clinic so I often hear of people’s always appreciated. It’s a good place to be. some restaurants and clothing stores closed was very touched. Whenever I’m in Cambie forward every day to meeting up with you. medical concerns, including cancers “I hope people support Megaphone due to the Canada Line construction, other Village, I see familiar faces and I feel like Making sales isn’t even the most important and tumours and people going through because the street paper movement is so businesses suffered, like the bakery next to I belong. It’s nice to go down the street to thing. The conversations and the hellos serious health crises in their lives. I also important for vendors all over the world. Starbucks. I remember a 40 per cent drop Kino Cafe, talk to the owner, talk to Katie and smiles are what I enjoy the most. watch children growing up, teenagers There’s so much opportunity for it to get in my business as a Megaphone vendor. the bartender, and talk to patrons there. Grandview is such a unique and vibrant growing up, and young families growing. bigger and better and involve many more I ended up doing light housekeeping Lately, there’s been an extension of community. The residents and visitors “The income’s helped me tremendously. vendors, especially in Vancouver and for a senior friend of mine to make ends Choices Market; the grocery store is a lot mean everything to me. Thank you. It allows me to purchase good meals Victoria. It needs to grow and involve even meet. A lot of businesses were forced to bigger. They knocked out the walls in UPS “I’ve been selling Megaphone and and maintain my health. It helps me more people, and to help more people.” close. Some of the young people renting and Flying Wedge Pizza and added on. It’s Hope in Shadows for about four years. I keep myself going in the outdoors basement suites also moved away. much busier and it’s helped my business. started selling Megaphone after selling with clothing, gear, and my bike for m Eric sells Megaphone on Commercial Drive Canada Line construction marked the As good as it can be these days, I still miss the Hope in Shadows calendar. I’m all of my transportation needs. and 1st Avenue in Vancouver. Photo: Jackie end of what I think of as the grocery stores people from the old days. I miss Gary and out there selling six days a week. “I was living outdoors until recently. Wong.

8 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 9 Heartbeats Heartbeats “There are 1,200 missing and murdered women. They’re human beings. Canada can spend millions of dollars on Canada’s The birthday, for fireworks and all that stuff, but they can’t put money into a national inquiry.” healing -Lorelei Williams dance Lorelei Williams was born into a t-shirts, raising awareness for MMIW Harper. Our history was so bad and that was Lorelei Williams’ void and she grew into a ghost. and, hopefully, getting some answers. so traumatizing in itself. There’s a lot of She was just a little kid when family But there’s also a side benefit, Lorelei trauma in our people.” Butterflies in Spirit moves members began to say, “You look just like says, something she never anticipated your auntie Belinda.” Over and over she when she came up with the concept of MP: You have some answers with your through colonial trauma heard this, a mixture of joy and pain in their Butterflies in Spirit: an opportunity to heal. cousin Tanya, but still no answers about eyes. It was a hollow comfort to Belinda’s Lorelei spoke with Megaphone on a Belinda. Story and photos by Andrea Warner siblings and parents: she’d vanished in gorgeous fall day at Crab Park in the 1977, just 12 years old. The picture on her Downtown Eastside, sitting in front of the LW: “This has happened to my family “missing” poster looks like a school picture memorial rock commemorating murdered twice, so I know this all too well. It destroys and shows a tiny figure with shy smile and missing women and girls. We talked families. It’s one thing when somebody and eyes glancing down as if too self- about loss, violence, abuse, her mother, passes away, you don’t want to celebrate conscious to meet the camera head-on. She’s Beyonce, Stephen Harper, and the power Christmas, birthdays, anything like that. a child who has been missing for almost and beauty of Butterflies in Spirit. When you have a person who’s gone 40 years and there are still no answers. missing or been murdered, it’s that much The nightmare happened again when Megaphone (MP): Your aunt Belinda more painful. Especially when you don’t Lorelei was just 16 and her cousin, 19-year- disappeared before you were born. I can’t know where this person is or especially old Tanya Holyk, disappeared. Williams had imagine the toll that took on your family. when they died a horrific death. The looked up to the bright, beautiful older girl. circle is broken, the family is broken. A few years later, Holyk’s DNA was found Lorelei Williams (LW): “I was born into “I feel like I am healing. Ever since I on serial killer Robert Pickton’s farm. this [MMIW]. I can’t imagine all the stresses started Butterflies in Spirit, I feel like I The fate of Williams’ aunt and my mom was going through, even pregnant become stronger and stronger each year. cousin is part of the terribly invisible with me. I see the pain. It’s still the same I have become close with other family violence inflicted daily upon indigenous as when it was when I first started realizing members of missing and murdered women. women across Canada. Pickton’s what was going on with my family. When my Us coming together is healing itself. Us crimes are part of a national tragedy, mom or my aunts talked or talk—my mom coming together and raising awareness of an internationally recognized crisis, passed away, that’s why I say talked—about this issue is making us stronger, We don’t and a recent election issue. my missing aunt, their voices shake. They want this to happen to any other families.” Yet murdered and missing indigenous want to know where their sister is.” women (MMIW) are blamed for the violence MP: You’ve mentioned before that of men and the sickness of their attackers. MP: Can you talk about how Canada got Beyonce and her “Who Runs the MMIW are targeted, taken, and preyed to this point? World” inspired Butterflies in Spirit’s upon, all of which are consequences of beginnings. Were you a dancer? colonialism, racism, misogyny, residential LW: “It starts with our history: colonization, schools, patriarchy, political inaction and residential schools, our women and LW: “No, I don’t even know why [I dance]! a litany of other factors. There are more men were thrown into residential (laughs) I really wanted to catch people’s than 1,200 MMIW in Canada—research schools as children and that made attention and to get my missing aunt’s suggests that number is likely much them vulnerable. We grew up like this, picture out there. For some reason I higher—and there’s no sense of urgency trying to cope with all of that, we’ve just thought of dance. Beyonce’s song, ‘Who on the part of the federal government become targets because of our history. Runs the World,’ was popular at the time. to stop it. They don’t mourn and they “Back then our government was trying I would watch the dance over and over. don’t seek justice, but Williams does. to take the Indian out of us, putting us That would get people’s attention! I put In 2011, she founded Butterflies in down as people, as human beings. We’ve my idea out there, I started speaking Spirit, a dance troupe of friends and been fighting this for so long, just trying at events, talking about my vision. family members of murdered and to be a human being in this country, and “Dancing is healing. I learned that. That missing indigenous women. They dance even to this day, we’re still fighting hard wasn’t a part of my plan, but the very with big pictures of their loved ones on with the government. Especially Stephen first performance that we did, my mom

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“Our government was trying to take the Indian out of us, putting us down as people, as human beings. We’ve been fighting this for so long, just trying to be a human being in this country… there’s a lot of trauma in our people.” -Lorelei Williams

had passed away five days before. I was performing, it went away. It was all gone. As why he doesn’t care for our women. Why for bringing this issue out. I had a an alcoholic, I talk about that. m Butterflies in debating if I even wanted to go on with the soon as we were done, it came right back. So he doesn’t think this is a problem. These good talk with her, we have some “I feel like I’m strong enough to Spirit's (L-R) Lorelei performance. My mom passed away April I really believe dancing is healing.” are 1,200 missing and murdered women. similarities in growing up, our past talk about it. But I did an interview Williams, Maranda 25, 2012, and we performed April 30. They’re human beings. Canada can spend with sexual abuse and physical with CBC and I came out publicly Johnson, Billie “My mom was an alcoholic. Her liver was MP: The government has refused to millions of dollars on Canada’s birthday, for abuse. The more I talk about it, the with it. It just came out, and I didn’t Jean Sinclair, and damaged and that’s why she ended up in do a national inquiry on missing and fireworks and all that stuff, but they can’t more I’m healing.” really think anything of it, but when choreographer the hospital. She escaped the hospital once. murdered indigenous women. [Editor’s put money into a national inquiry. We need I saw it online and I read it, I was Madelaine McCallum She got out. I don’t know how she got out note: this interview took place before the Oct. a national inquiry, but we also need action MP: When people tell me they like, ‘Oh my god, what did I just do?’ take five during a (laughs) but the hospital called me and I was 19 federal election. Prime Minster Justin now.” feel ashamed that something The shame came back. I felt guilty, recent music video shoot in Vancouver. like, Oh my god. My sister lived with her and Trudeau has committed to a national inquiry traumatic has happened to them, I felt gross. Did I do the right thing? she went home and she was there, drinking. on MMIW.] MP: Were you in court for any of the I understand and it breaks my And what are people going to think “She was a residential school survivor, Pickton trial? heart, but I get so mad at the of me now that they know this? this was her path, she was sexually abused, LW: “He [Stephen Harper] says it’s not culture that we live in wherein we “But then Mrs. Universe came physically abused, and she used drinking to high on his radar, him and his government, LW: “I wasn’t in court for any of it, I didn’t let people feel that shame instead out, Ashley Callingbull, when she numb the pain. This is a part of our history. even though we have international bodies attend the trial. I was in court for the of putting the blame where it won the title, she came out with her When my mom escaped the hospital, we saying this is an issue in Canada. He doesn’t inquiry. I couldn’t. I just couldn’t. I’ve belongs. sexual abuse. I realized, no, I am were doing sneak peeks, we’d posted a few want to look at it because he doesn’t care. never been to the farm, I couldn’t do that. ok. We do need to talk about this. on YouTube, to invite people to come to I kind of get it. You see it in the news My auntie Dixie, the families they were on LW: “Yes, and that’s something I’ve It’s our history. This is what I had to our main performance. I told my sister, and what you get in the news isn’t the the farm. When Pickton was arrested, the been recently dealing with. For my grow up with as an aboriginal girl. ‘Show mom the sneak peeks and my sister same as what you get from actual family families were gathering there. To this day, job, at the Vancouver Aboriginal People need to know what happened was able to show her and she said she just members talking about it. This is what I couldn’t go. I can’t. It’s just something I Community Policing Centre, part to us and we need to heal.” cried. All of the girls, at the time, we were Butterflies in Spirit does, we put feeling can’t bring myself to do. It’s traumatic. of my job is to go in and talk to wearing my missing aunt’s picture only. I behind it. People see what it’s doing to us. “We’re all coming together, it’s making police cadets in training, and my think it was the only t-shirt we could get “In the media, Native women are us stronger. This issue is coming out, it’s part is to speak about residential really fast or something, so when my mom portrayed as ‘bad’ or there’s so many things. being brought out, finally. There’s a lot of school and the link between passed away and we were due to perform, I They say they’re sex workers, they put attention about this issue, especially with murdered and missing women. I was like, I have to do this for her, too. I know themselves there, they’re always drinking, Mrs. Universe [Editor’s note: In August, talk about my history, my mom my mom wouldn’t want me to cancel this. they’re putting themselves at risk, as if Ashley Burnam was crowned Mrs. Universe being a residential school survivor, “When my mom passed away, I had we deserve this. So, okay, what if some 2015. She was the first Canadian and first how I grew up with sexual abuse anxiety straight for two weeks. I didn’t women drink? Don’t a lot of people drink? aboriginal woman to win the title. Burnam and physical abuse, my mom being even know what that was, I never knew Oh, then it’s okay they’re being murdered is a member of the Enoch Cree Nation in what anxiety was. I’d had a brother who or going missing. Somebody said, wallets Alberta. The theme of the pageant this passed away a few years before that, but go missing, glasses go missing, women year: domestic violence and reflection over when my mom passed away, it was just this don’t go missing. They’re taken. They’re children]. She did a fashion show for missing anxiety I’d never felt. Then all of a sudden taken. This is a person. They’re stolen. and murdered women up in Kamloops and I had this bad feeling and it was hard, but “I would like to meet Harper one day she was the keynote speaker and we got to when we performed, in that 15 minutes of and talk to him and ask him why. Ask him perform right after her and I thanked her

12 MegaphoneMagazine.com 13 Theatre Preview Theatre Preview

“I've met a lot of people who think it's just laziness that people end up on the street. They Death in a don't understand why you can't just get a job. They don't understand Dumpster all of the reasons why people become homeless.” New musical shows A tale of many Ford uses the example of the young Firth is especially proud of how much actor playing the role of the cop in the -Trinity Firth what life is like for the cast and crew, many of whom have production. Initially he was very skeptical experienced life on the streets, have of the musical and resisted becoming a homeless youth invested in this production. From day one part of the project. He reluctantly agreed, Firth told the youth to take ownership of only after he was promised his role would By Emi Sasagawa their roles and speak up whenever they be small. But without being pushed or felt the script didn’t reflect what life prodded, he eventually began to take on Sitting on the floor of a small room in is like for a homeless young person. more responsibility, making suggestions the Roundhouse Community Centre in Through the production she hopes and showing up to rehearsal early. Yaletown, a group of young artists run to challenge misconceptions about “There are life skills that you learn lines between mouthfuls of chips and homelessness. “I've met a lot of people with a production like this: how to engage pop. “Let’s try that again,” says Trinity who think it's just laziness that people with other people, how to be part of a Firth, the production’s youth director, end up on the street. They don't collective, how to listen to other people's as the piano fades into the chatter. understand why you can't just get a ideas, how to respect choices that other They are rehearsing Death in a Dumpster, job. They don't understand all of the people are making,” Hinks says. a musical production about Danny, a reasons why people become homeless.” young man who becomes homeless after “With all of the characters being A model for future projects hitchhiking through the Maritimes to find completely different, it helps the Ford has spent the last 10 years working his long-lost mother, eventually winding audience understand how poverty and at Directions, where he provides low-barrier up in B.C. The story follows Danny as he homelessness can affect anybody— opportunities in the media arts for at-risk befriends a colourful group on the streets of people of different genders, races or street-involved youth. The projects Vancouver—Daisy, a woman battling mental and backgrounds,” Firth adds. he leads range from playing the guitar illness, Jack, a man with addiction problems One of the production’s main goals to writing poetry to producing hip hop and Josie, a transgender sex worker. is to inform. “We want to make them videos. Any idea can be explored, he says. The idea for the musical production uncomfortable. This production is not “A byproduct of this type of offering came to Firth when she met anti-poverty gentle. We're not holding any punches,” is exactly what happened with o The cast and activist Sheila Baxter at Directions Youth says Ford, who sees the musical as a call Trinity. She walked in to the centre crew of Death in Services, a non-profit organization that to action. “I hope the audience goes home with this script, and an idea turned a Dumpster have offers a range of programs to support shocked and crying, wondering what into the project that it is today.” spent months the homeless and at-risk youth. “She gave me they can do to help organizations like This is the first time the organization has rewriting lines and the script and told me that I should put Directions Youth Services,” he adds. been involved in a production of this scale. composing songs it on with some other youth. I thought it The model has been a success so far, with for their big debut would be a fun thing to do,” she adds. Self-belief through art many participants interested in making at the Waterfront Firth went to Colin Ford, the Joe Hinks, who joined the team later this an annual project. Access to Music Theatre. Photos organization’s programs coordinator, and as a directional mentor, says projects Foundation and the current cast and crew courtesy of Colin Ford together they set out to recruit young people like this are very important for the are already planning next year’s production. / Directions Youth for the production. “It started off as just young people involved. “You're not just Services Society. me and Colin sitting in the media room teaching them how to sing, how to act, with a bowl of chips and pop trying to bribe how to dance. You're teaching them self- Death in a Dumpster will debut on people to come in and do a read-through.” confidence, self-belief is such a huge Nov. 7 at 8:00 p.m. at the Waterfront The production, which eventually notion that they need—everyone needs Theatre on Granville Island, with two received the support of the Access to Music to be able to believe in themselves.” additional showings on November 11 Foundation, began with no intention of a big Ford and Hinks attest to how much the and 14. For more information or to buy audience. In fact, at the start it was difficult cast and crew have grown since the first tickets, visit DeathInADumpster.ca. to get traction, with many actors coming read-through, both in their ability and and going. Eventually the core group gelled. attitude. Through arts-based programs Now, Firth and Ford expect a full house Directions Youth Services hopes to provide when the musical debuts on Nov. 7 at the the youth with tools to build confidence Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. and make positive choices in their lives.

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Megaphone breakfast a showcase of community

By Jackie Wong 3 4 Photos by Carlos Tello

We were up at the crack of dawn on Nov. 3 to host Megaphone's second-annual breakfast fundraiser at the Vancouver Public Library downtown. As we watched Megaphone's amazing supporters, vendors, partners, and volunteers fill the Alice MacKay room, we were reminded how much this event is worth getting up for. Over a meal prepared by the Potluck Cafe, we celebrated and reflected upon the power of solidarity, community, and what we can achieve when we work together to give a direct hand up to our city's most marginalized residents. The morning, hosted by the wonderful Pat Kelly of CBC's This is That, featured a special keynote by Judy Graves, best known for her decades of work as the City of Vancouver's former advocate for the homeless. The breakfast also marked a special moment to commemorate a vendor whose extraordinary 1 dedication and service earned him the annual Vendor of the Year Award. This year we're so proud to give the award to Eric, a beloved presence at 5 6 Commercial Drive and 1st Avenue, where he sells Megaphone almost every day. Victoria’s Vendor of the Year Award goes to John, a 14-year vendor who sells in downtown Victoria at Douglas and Fort. Presenting sponsor Leadership sponsors We exceeded our expectations for this year's fundraiser and raised $30,760. Thanks so much to Megaphone's event sponsors and all the attendees. Your support will go a long way in helping support Megaphone vendors like Eric make positive change in their lives. See a special Vendor of the Year video by Colin Askey at www.vimeo.com/143319822. Community sponsors Media sponsor

1 Vendor of the Year Eric D. accepts his award. 2 City councillor Geoff Meggs (L) and friend Kurt Heinrich (R). 3 Executive director Sean Condon (L) interviews Judy Grave (R). 4 Vendor Peter Thompson celebrated his birthday that morning! 5 (L-R): Judy McFarlane, Jim McFarlane, and Ron Pearson. 2 eclipse awards.com 6 The sold-out breakfast crowd packed the floor. HAPPINESS DELIVERED

16 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 17 Arts feature Local News Arts feature Challenging “I don't understand why, but society seems to think the binary that men like machinery Soledad Muñoz helms a new record and women don't like label for women to get their hands dirty.

By Aurora Tejeida What genero is doing is proving that's a lie.” When Soledad Muñoz was a kid growing be the only woman there, and she was (making it clear) that I'm not the boss. I up in Chile, she was always the only girl often treated in a patronizing way. “I had don't like ordering people around. I think - Soledad Muñoz at skate parks. This only made her feel the to change my name to a gender neutral that falls under the patriarchal system. need to prove that she was better than the one, especially for online forums because I'd rather work communally so that it's boys. Doing so made her feel less invisible. I would receive such terrible responses if I more of a collaboration,” she explains. “At the time I just thought girls wouldn't posted anything as a woman,” she explains. go because they weren't good at skating. More than a music label Because our bodies weren't built for it or A feminist music label So far, she hasn’t had any issues signing whatever,” she told me from across the table “That's how it's always been. I don't artists. “There are so many of them! And at a Main Street Vietnamese restaurant. understand why, but society seems to they're not being listened to, so we need Muñoz has dark curly hair, big brown eyes think that men like machinery and women to get together in order to be heard.” and a big smile. The 29-year-old Chilean- don't like to get their hands dirty. What Muñoz says that she had the advantage of Canadian is a triple threat; she’s a visual genero is doing is proving that's a lie,” already having one foot in the electronic artist, a musician, and she’s well versed said Muñoz. The label’s name, genero, music scene. So, even before starting the in critical and feminist theory. On top of has four meanings. It’s what people call label, she already had an artist to work that, she launched genero, an electronic fabric in Chile (Muñoz used to work with. The second one came before she music label, a little over a year ago. as a knitter). It also has widespread was done with the first, and on and on. She started playing piano when she was meanings in Spanish: “to generate The only thing Muñoz wants from the five, after her family moved back to Chile something,” “gender,” and “genre.” artists she’s signing is a shared interest — her parents originally came to Canada “Unlike other labels, this one was created in changing the world. And minimal as refugees escaping the coup and military on the basis of feminist theory. We're not violence, a duo that describes their music government of Pinochet. When she was interested in having lots of DJs play our as something between house and techno, to play electronic music gives us a sense mSoledad Muñoz is the founder of genero, older, she moved back to Canada to study music. We produce cassettes, not vinyls understood the concept right away. I met of empowerment. And having someone an electronic music label that celebrates the fine art. She currently lives in Vancouver. — in part because it's cheaper. But mostly with Ashlee and Lida, two members of the like Sol (Muñoz) backing us and giving work of women-identified artists working Seven years ago she started playing because we're more interested in creating band (they chose not to share their last us the opportunity to perform has been in a genre dominated by men. Photo: Brit electronic music. “One day I decided as much music as possible,” says Muñoz. All names), at a coffee shop near Main Street very helpful in navigating the pathways Bachmann / VIVO Media Arts Centre. I wanted to make one of my (visual songs produced are also available online. to talk about their experience with Muñoz. between critical theory, visual arts and art) pieces make a sound, and from But what most sets genero apart from “We tracked her down, just noticed music,” Lida explains. “Genero is more there I started building circuits so that other labels is that Muñoz only signs what she was doing,” says Lida. Muñoz than a record label because it's trying to vibrations would make things move. female artists. And the women who are had already heard their music and accomplish something more than music.” And from there I started building in the label have to learn to produce their weirdly enough, she had met them For Muñoz the entire pursuit is about synthesizers. And then I stopped liking own music. “We live in a society where on the same table where we held our making a difference. She’s not even keys, since synths are all about knobs.” the pop music industry heavily objectifies interview that day. “Initially, just reading making money from it, as all the money Electronic music is an art form for women's bodies,” Muñoz says, “so we need the concept of the project looked really invested into the label and used to produce Muñoz. She loves making new sounds more women who take a leadership role cool. Once we met with her we were music has come from her pocket. from machines. She started building her and produce their own material.” Women sold on her. She had a lot of really good “I do what I do because I like it, own equipment, circuits and modular represent fewer than five per cent of music ideas. It fit what we wanted to do.” it's my ideology and I know I'm not synthesizers because she didn’t want to producers and engineers. So while Muñoz Ashlee and Lida have only been going to make money from it. But now create the same sounds as everybody else. wants to make sure more women produce making music together for under a there are five women with records, But when it came to joining the electronic music, she also wants to make sure she’s year but already feel things are shifting who didn't used to have that.” music scene, she realized it would be not repeating the same power dynamic. in the electronic music scene. It’s just like the skate parks in Chile — male “It's not about telling women whether still an uphill battle that can still feel dominated. Just like she did in Chile, they should show their bodies or not. I intimidating, so it always helps to have Muñoz started going to modular synthesizer want to create something new and empower someone like Muñoz helping you out. symposiums even though she would always women. One of the big challenges is “Just being females that use hardware

18 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 19 Viewpoints Viewpoints

“We’re told not to give up on family, and that blood is thicker The politics of than water. But water’s a lot easier to drink. Or at least that’s shattered jaws how it seemed as I watched the person I love the most puke up My partner left a family wedding with a broken jaw. How can we bridge political the blood he swallowed in an differences without injury? emergency room at 3 a.m.” By Quinn MacDonald Illustrations by Heidi Nagtegaal

I didn’t plan on making Victoria my home; members ran along the lines of, “well you “Six ways to keep the pipeline debate “and my little Facebook politics aren’t a stepping stone in their journey to it just kind of happened. I was going to move must have said something pretty stupid.” on track,” about how to talk about the going to change anything,” whatever that becoming a better person. A few drinks to a bigger city once I was done school, but I Whether due to alcohol or shock, he contentious Northern Gateway Pipeline means. I cry when I get frustrated or angry, and a fiery temper aren’t justifications love the Island too much. The sea is always doesn’t remember what he said or anything over Christmas dinner. This fall, CBC so there have been a lot of tears. This for losing control and becoming verbally close here, and I can walk everywhere. that happened. But it doesn’t matter: published an online “Tool kit for when tends to make everything more awkward and physically abusive (something I Political candidates fight over who’s more there is nothing anyone could say that Thanksgiving dinner turns into election and “embarrassing” for others. I don’t must remember as well). We are adults. “green.” Whenever a bus pulls up to the would make beating him up an acceptable talk.” The list goes on. What these articles want to paint myself as a victim, and I I was told that they are not evil people, stop, there’s often a polite standoff; no response. He’s also not a fighter, while the also make clear is that progressives are haven’t always acted admirably, but it’s that they just did a bad thing. When one wants to board first, and everyone others have histories of violence that we’ve often struggling to find a way to talk frustrating, it’s exhausting, and in the the action fits a pattern of behaviour says “thank you” when they get off. always written off as “boys will be boys” with their stereotypically older and more end it didn’t seem to have meant much. and worldview, however, it’s hard for I often joke about how living in Victoria or something about having a temper. conservative relatives. But for many, it’s But should we just swallow the world me to see them as necessarily good. is like living in a bubble. Anyone who There were three of them, and only just not worth it (see the wiki on “How to whole, as-is? I am told to respect other The idea of withdrawing from my lives downtown, walks its streets, or one of him. The fight only stopped Avoid Politics with Stubborn Relatives"). peoples’ opinions, but I think it shows more family isn’t an easy option for me; it’s struggles to pay rent knows we have because I showed up and stopped it. One If we don’t learn how to have hard respect to challenge them to refine their devastating. I had a pretty ideal childhood, problems, but citizens are engaged. We of them seemed more upset about my conversations and challenge each other in position than immediately dismiss it as and now all those memories are tainted. speak extensively about civic issues and boyfriend exiting the situation with “his a respectful way, what’s at stake could be flawed. And by this I do not mean playing We spent so many family dinners and try to work together to find solutions. The cousin” (well, me) than he was about much worse as things simmer below the the classic devil’s advocate by discounting camping trips together, and now that joke that we live in a progressive political severely injuring his cousin’s partner. surface. I have had disagreements with someone’s personal experience or arguing will never happen again. They will never bubble here in the capital city became my relatives that hadn’t always gone well. them into the ground—all of which usually know my children. I won’t know theirs. a little too serious for me in August. A stranger in my hometown It’s hard not to think about how some involves verbally abusive behaviour. In some ways, I wish I could return to I had taken my boyfriend Matt “up Growing up “up island,” I never felt of the animosity and unresolved issues We’re entitled to our opinions. But when that time when we were kids camping, island”—or, what people from Victoria like I belonged. The scenery is beautiful, arising from those conversations could your opinion comes from a sexist and racist sitting down to family dinners together. referred to everywhere north of the Malahat but at times it feels like the mountain have contributed to Matt’s broken jaw. worldview that harms others, we need Encouraging critical thinking and as was when I was growing up—to meet my walls surrounding the picturesque valleys to talk. When we retreat into entrenched respectful disagreement can begin when extended family at a wedding. He tried to mirror those hemming in their residents’ Beyond devil’s advocate partisan positions and see challenges as we’re very young; I see this in the young get to know a couple of my relatives. But worldviews. Trucks outnumber cars. Nearly It’s difficult to talk about these things personal attacks, we all lose the opportunity people I coach in roller derby and in some a tense conversation went downhill, and everyone has a friend or family member who and not sound like you think you’re to grow personally and as a society. of my friends who now have kids. People he came home with a jaw broken in four works, or worked, in oil and gas in Alberta. better than people. But when it comes to who lash out usually feel trapped. Give places. He needed a two-hour surgery and Everyone plays or watches hockey. The distancing yourself from sexism, racism, Is blood thicker than water? people the words to express themselves four metal plates to put it back together. As Tim Horton’s drive-thrus are always busy and regressive politics, what’s wrong with We’re told not to give up on family, and they often will. I’m still struggling to we came out onto the open part of Highway with who some may refer to as “old stock being better than that? I’ve learned a lot and that blood is thicker than water. But help them and myself to see how larger One that looks over View Royal and offers Canadians.” For 15 years my hometown in the almost 10 years since I left that my water’s a lot easier to drink. Or at least webs of oppression affect us all. the first glimpse of the Victoria harbour, I riding was represented by a Conservative hometown, but more important and more that’s how it seemed as I watched the heard myself say, “let’s never leave again.” MP who denies both climate change and difficult is all the unlearning I’ve had to person I love the most puke up the blood Nearly every person I told in Victoria evolution. Most people don’t talk about do, which has positively affected not only he swallowed in an emergency room at 3 reacted with shock at the incident that led politics much, except to offer some refrain the way I see the world and its problems, a.m. Family is important, but it’s hard to to his injury. Nearly every health worker we about how certain political parties pledge but also how I see myself in the world. understand what that means when they encountered through the three days in and to protect jobs, while more progressive (And this process is certainly ongoing.) do harmful things that your friends would out of hospitals asked if we were going to ones supposedly threaten their livelihood. Equally, in the last several years never consider. Why do we have to stay press charges. But where I’m from, fights It used to be considered rude to talk I have felt increasingly isolated at attached to people that cause us harm? were a normal occurrence at school and politics in polite company. But it’s clearly family get-togethers. My efforts to I don’t want to give up on people I grew at parties. Mouth off and you might get something people are struggling with across confront racism and problematic ways up with, but at the same time I don’t beat down. For his part, Matt is from an the province. Kai Nagata, the Dogwood of thinking have devolved into battles know if I will ever even be able to look the increasingly rough part of the mainland, Initiative’s energy and democracy director, with devil’s advocates and me in tears. people who hurt Matt in the eye again. and reactions from some of his family penned a December 2013 article titled I’ve been told to shut up, and that me My boyfriend’s face shouldn’t be

20 Change that Works MegaphoneMagazine.com 21 Arts Feature Arts Feature

Kathryn Calder finds a home Inside a New Pornographer’s hard-won peace Story Alex Hudson Photo by Tristan Shouldice

Throughout most of the decade From turbulence, quiet Facing grief directly since Kathryn Calder joined Vancouver It’s ironic, given her newfound freedom to Even though it can be emotionally supergroup the New Pornographers in make a racket, that the songwriter’s latest draining to share her family’s most 2005, the Victoria-born songwriter has solo album is her softest, most delicately private struggles with the world, she finds led a hectic, disjointed life. Spending pretty work to date. The self-titled Kathryn it therapeutic to face her grief directly much of her time on the road or traversing Calder, which came out back in April, is and make a productive impact. “It’s this back and forth between Victoria and filled with sweetly atmospheric ballads helpful and healthy process,” she says Vancouver, she has often felt out of based largely around gossamer guitars, about her willingness to talk about her touch with her local community. twinkling electronic ambience and the mother’s illness. “It definitely was very “I started travelling a lot,” she vocalist’s reverent, angelic singing. With helpful and also pretty hard, because who tells Megaphone over Skype while in the exception of the hypnotic synth grooves wants to be crying in public all the time?” France on vacation. “I wasn’t playing of “Take a Little Time” and “My Armour,” As heart-wrenching as this comment Vancouver as much or being there it’s a record of lullaby-like softness. is, Calder chuckles when she says it. as much, so I felt there was a period “I was in a very contemplative mood After so much grief, she now finally of a few years where I was a little bit during the recording of a lot of this record,” seems to have achieved a sense of peace disconnected from what was going on.” she reflects. “I was out in the woods in and closure. This emotional journey can be Her personal life also went through my house, just hanging out there and traced through her three albums: 2010’s Are some major shakeups: she acted as a recording music. I’m naturally a brainy You My Mother? was a homemade maternal caregiver when her mother battled the person more than an active person — I’m tribute, 2011’s Bright and Vivid was colourful motor neuron disease ALS before dying very much in my brain. Those things and emotionally scattershot, while Kathryn in 2009, and she had a long-distance made it a quiet, contemplative record.” Calder offers level-headed resolution. relationship with Vancouver-based In addition to pressing forward with “This is the end of the healing process producer Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan, her career and home life, Calder has been of that whole period of time that spanned Yukon Blonde, Black Mountain), with using her public platform as a musician those three records,” she reflects. “I’m still whom she tied the knot in 2011. to channel her tragic family experiences writing about grief and coming to terms “I went on tour and I did all this stuff into a positive cause. She spoke about with all this stuff and thinking about what’s and my mom died,” she remembers. “I ALS at TEDxVictoria in 2013, and she going on in this crazy world. How could was really trying to fill a lot of space with is the star of a new documentary about this cruel disease even exist? How is that touring and being busy. I got exhausted the disease called A Matter of Time. possible? How can I approach life so that I’m without realizing that’s what I was doing Directed by Casey Cohen and spearheaded not just drowning in this dark place? This “This is the end of the healing process of that to myself. I was trying to write and record by the charitable organization Yellow last record was the culmination of all of my and trying to keep going and it just wasn’t Bird Project, it offers an intimate glimpse thoughts about what had gone on. I think whole period of time that spanned…three happening because I was too tired.” into the Calder family’s battle with the I’ve gotten to a place where I’ve processed— These days, however, everything illness that is known colloquially as Lou now, five years or six years later—what records…I’m still writing about grief… has changed. Stewart closed up his Gehrig’s Disease. The film was funded happened over the course of those years.” Vancouver recording facility the Hive with a successful Kickstarter campaign How could this cruel disease even exist? in 2013, and the couple now lives a that raised $66,130, and it recently made 30-minute drive outside of Victoria. its premiere at a festival in Britain. More “We’re in Saanich, so we’re in a rural, worldwide screenings will follow. How can I approach life so that I’m not just forested nook on the Island,” Calder “I feel compelled to do something,” the explains. “Our house is a very peaceful singer says of her sudden status as an ALS drowning in this dark place?” place. There’s lots of trees, there’s lots of spokesperson. “If I am somebody who makes nature. I feel that I have space and time, music and has this voice in the world that and I can be as loud as I want. That’s one could do good, that could bring awareness of the things I really prize about where we to this illness, then I have to do it.” live—if I want to yell, I feel like I can.”

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Change the story, “This Changes Everything calls for nothing short of a revolutionary upheaval of our energy sector, our economy, our culture on such a scale it would make change everything Emma Goldman blush—and yet as a nation, our conversation can't progress beyond whether or not Inside Naomi Klein’s fight for climate justice an elephant looks like a turtle.” By Michael Stewart

One thing that is becoming more and more clear in the fight against climate change is that the science doesn't matter. Not in the sense that it isn't true (it is) or its conclusions are debatable (they aren't), but in the sense that the science is not persuading the people it needs to persuade to do the things they need to be persuaded to do. With almost all—97 per cent—of the world’s climate experts agreeing that humans are causing global warming, we can't ask much more of science. We know that surface warming beyond two degrees centigrade of pre-industrial global average temperatures will be catastrophic and likely irreversible. And unless the planet, collectively, agrees to wholesale changes to our consumption habits and economic system, we will exceed the two-degree threshold within 30 years. I know you've heard this before. It's one of the reasons Naomi Klein confesses at the beginning of her new film, This Changes Everything, that she has “always kinda hated films about climate change.” We get it, it's bleak. And yet nothing has changed. Climate ennui is the new climate denial. Klein's film, co-created with Avi Lewis and based on her 2014 book of the same name, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It's undeniably a climate change film, but it attempts a different tack. “What if the real problem,” Klein's voiceover asks, “is a story? One we've been telling ourselves for 400 years.” That story, according to Klein's film, is that climate change is inextricably tied to human nature. We can't help ourselves, goes the argument. Humans, as a species, are individualist, present-oriented and self-interested. But what if that's not true? Or, to put it another way, what if that story doesn't have to be true?

24 m In this still from Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, a sugar cane field burns in El Salvador. Photo courtesy GAT PR. 25 Cover story Cover story

“As we transition to “What's the core problem?” Klein asks. surprising the whole sort-of U.S political who use it are going to be forced out.” “Do you want me to state it on pundit class that Bernie Sanders is surging And, she adds, in a colonial state like a green economy, camera?” Christianou is almost ahead of Hillary Clinton in the polls or that Canada, climate change is frequently squirming in discomfort. Jeremy Corbyn just won the leadership responsible for forcing people off as we transition to “Yeah, I would say it is the economic of the [British] Labour party. You know, their land in the first place. “A lot of system,” the activist says. A long they get it wrong a lot, these so-called people in the Downtown Eastside are renewable energy, we beat. Then: “Capitalism, I guess.” experts on what the public is capable of.” Indigenous and come from places where It's the first time the word is uttered This Changes Everything shows that the the land has become unlivable.” [want to] do it in a way in the film, and the effect is clear: we public is capable of quite a lot. It documents This holistic, interconnected philosophy all know that this is the story that needs a series of local movements on a global is the driving force behind Klein's work— changing, but it is both obvious and scale. Communities, sometimes as small when she says “everything,” she means it. that is most effective incredibly difficult to even say aloud. as a single family, take on oil companies, In September, Klein launched The Leap “That was very deliberate on our part,” mining conglomerates and massive Manifesto, an unabashed crie du coeur and also solves Klein tells me. “Our hope is that by the BioTech firms in Alberta's Cold Lake, calling for nothing less than a 100 per cent time the word ‘capitalism’ is said, people Montana, Greece, India and elsewhere. clean economy by 2050, open borders and multiple problems have seen enough and felt enough and And these local struggles are collectively an utterly transformed relationship with come to their own conclusions.” pushing their governments to do more: Canada's First Nations. The document at once, including Klein's 2014 book was subtitled the stand-out example in the film is was authored by 60 people over two days “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” but the Germany's renewable energy transition, in the spring and co-signed by activists, income inequality. majority of those readers would have driven by communities converting local scholars, artists, Indigenous leaders, been bred on her earlier work in The power grids from carbon-based energy to journalists and scientists across Canada. Or begins to.” Shock Doctrine and No Logo, searing solar and wind. One-quarter of Germany's The Leap Manifesto, like This mNaomi Klein at Chicheley Hall in the UK in a still from This indictments of an economic system that electricity came from renewable energy Changes Everything, aims not just to Changes Everything. Photo courtesy GAT PR. seeks out disorder, rewards sociopathy and sources in 2013, much of it locally owned. reduce emissions or footprints, but to turns human catastrophe into economic You could say that the public depicted tell a different story. One that “must “If we can tell another story about who climate change saturates our lives now. It’s distanced itself from her comments. opportunity. The film is likely to reach in the film is collectively gathering begin by respecting the inherent rights humans are and what we're capable of,” in our weather reports and our economic Never mind that the scientific consensus a far broader and far different audience the courage to join Christianou in and title of the original caretakers of Klein tells me over the phone, “then maybe coverage. Canada's economy might as well estimates we can only afford to burn not as primed for such an assessment. chorus: “Capitalism, I guess.” this land” and let local communities we can look at this issue from which so be synonymous with its fossil fuel exports one-fifth of the world's proven fossil fuel American writer John Dos Passos “collectively control these new energy many of us are averting our eyes right now.” and its reach can even be felt in our national reserves before global warming exceeds was asked if he believed that capitalism “Transition is inevitable, justice is not” systems” whenever possible. It's a compelling plan. Change the story, game. Brantford, Ontario—the home of two degrees Celsius. Never mind that the would lead to inevitable failure and Klein was born in Montreal but her “As we transition to a green economy, change everything. But can it be that the Great One—no longer gets cold enough Alberta tar sands comprise 13 per cent of collapse. “Sure,” he answered. “But family in Vancouver and the Sunshine as we transition to renewable energy,” simple? “Stories are wondrous things,” to maintain a backyard ice rink like the the world’s oil supply. Never mind that it is the question is when. We've got the Coast has kept her close to British Klein tells me, “we [want to] do it in a Thomas King warned in his 2003 Massey kind Walter Gretzky built for his son. physically impossible to squeeze every drop failure, at least from my point of view. Columbia. Her son, Toma, was born way that is most effective and also solves Lectures. “And they are dangerous.” As This Changes Everything points out, of bitumen from the Athabasca basin. In the What I don't see is the collapse.” in B.C. in 2012. She spoke at a 2011 multiple problems at once, including And stories are not easy to change. we are so addicted to the story of fossil national discourse of fossil fuel extraction, Or, as Klein might say, failure isn't demonstration against the Pantages Theatre income inequality. Or begins to.” She fuels that governments and industry no quarter will be asked—and none given. a bug in the system; it's a feature. We demolition in the Downtown Eastside and cites the slogan from the Oakland- Not inevitability, but tyranny are willing to entertain Paul Crutzen's This is the narrow space Klein's theory could look at the 2008 stock market enjoys close ties with many Vancouver based collective Movement Generation: The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates recently geoengineering solution to global warming: of change needs to hipcheck its way into. crash that ended up enriching those activists and advocacy organizations. “Transition is inevitable, justice is not.” mused about the historical comparison inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere This Changes Everything calls for nothing responsible for the disaster. Or we could During her Vancouver book launch This is the key message of the film, of the between the fossil fuel industry today in the hopes it will reflect the sun's short of a revolutionary upheaval of our look at the way the IMF first facilitated last year, Klein made special mention book and certainly of the Leap Manifesto— and the antebellum American slave- rays and lower global temperatures. energy sector, our economy, our culture the collapse of the Greek economy and of Vancouver's proud activist history and, arguably, of Klein's life's work. Her based economy. He was making the case “In other words,” Klein narrates in on such a scale it would make Emma then exploited the crisis to humiliate a and cited the city’s perennial fight book No Logo turned 15 years old last year, of the virtual impossibility for white This Changes Everything, “let's solve the Goldman blush—and yet as a nation, our left-wing government and privatize the against gentrification as a front-line a book almost synonymous with the anti- people to disentangle ourselves from the problem of pollution with more pollution.” conversation can't progress beyond whether country's resources and institutions. battle against climate change. globalization movement. And the shift in moral implications of the slave trade. But that's only half the problem. During or not an elephant looks like a turtle. But capitalism's biggest failure is “When people in the Downtown strategy is evident in the titles of the two He's right, of course. But the other side our interminable election campaign, author You see how hard it is to change a story? also its greatest success: we're not Eastside fight against gentrification that groundbreaking works that bookend her of the coin is equally true: fossil fuel and and NDP candidate for Toronto Centre Linda permitted to acknowledge that it exists. pushes transit users out of downtown career: from resistance to revolution. extraction industries are destroying our McQuaig let slip on CBC's Power and Politics The C-word “I thought it was really revealing and moves in people who drive their “The truth is, is that after eight years of planet, displacing and impoverishing the indisputable fact that if Canada were to There's a moment roughly halfway that something as powerful as the BMWs everywhere,” she told an audience Harper, however long it's been— and even hundreds of millions of vulnerable people. meet its emissions targets, “a lot of the oil through This Changes Everything where economic system that dominates our at UBC's Chan Centre at the time, “they before that, in the whole neoliberal era, This is an indisputable fact. And yet, no sands oil may have to stay in the ground.” Klein is interviewing a courageous young globe is seen as unsayable,” Klein are climate activists whether they are because it's not like things were wonderful matter who you are and where you live, you The usually levelheaded Rosemary Greek activist fighting a Canadian- says. “That's just weird, right?” talking about climate change or not.” under the Liberals—this has been a period cannot opt out. Fossil fuel will find you. Barton was the first to pounce upon owned copper and gold mine in her “I think it really makes our jobs I asked her about these comments and of defensive action, by and large, saying A favourite ploy of oil executives on the her statement: “Are you suggesting community. Mary Christianou from the harder when we can't even describe the for Klein, the struggle for homes and ‘no’ to cutbacks of defending a largely talk radio circuit is to ask climate change that's what should happen?” she Halkidiki Citizens Committee muses system we live under accurately.” dignity in the Downtown Eastside remains unacceptable status quo,” Klein says. activists on the same panel if they took interrupted. McQuaig visibly winced. about the scope of the task before her It's tempting to propose that Christianou's inextricable from the struggle against “And so what this vision statement a gas-powered bus to the station, then But if Barton sensed a scoop, Conservative and her allies: stopping Eldorado Gold hesitation stands in as a metaphor climate change. Every green-focused is about is the ‘yes.’ It's actually trying chuckle at their own joke. It's always MP Michelle Rempel smelled blood. She from clear-cutting old growth forest and for our own historical moment. After activist needs to keep one thing foremost to map an economy that is inspiring, a struck me that this is not an argument could scarcely contain herself: “Listen to reengineering the local water systems decades of neoliberal dominance, popular in their mind: put justice at the centre. society that is one we would fight for, in the oil industry's favour: the carbon what you just heard,” she crowed. “Instead to build a giant open pit mine. movements unafraid to specifically “That was something that I learned as opposed to just fighting against.” economy is so pervasive and so coercive of standing up for the energy sector or But she also worries that even if they name capitalism as the chief architect of from climate activists in the Bay area,” Well, it's a lovely story. But that even those who are dedicating their Canada's economy, you're hearing I want to are successful at stopping the mine this inequality are entering the mainstream. Klein told me. “If you aren't fighting for it has its work cut out. lives to stopping it cannot escape it. tax this or I want this oil left in the ground.” time, it won't be enough. She is unsure “People are ready to talk about the affordable housing, then you can build as That's not inevitability, that's tyranny. McQuaig backpedalled immediately whether it will address the “core problem.” system,” Klein says. “And that's why it's much transit as you want but the people It's hard to overstate the extent to which and Mulcair's campaign team instantly Sensing something more, Klein presses her.

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The Cultch and Diwali Fest co-present The Beast Nirbhaya, a play based on real-life experiences that shook Dehli and the world. Playwright and By Jim Ryder director Yaël l Farber’s production is based on The Beast has me the nightmarish day on December 16, 2012, I’m being dragged, backwards, when 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey boarded Down the street a bus in Dehli bound for home. Six attackers By something that has ten times gang raped and tortured her so brutally that she A hundred times died only a few weeks later from her injuries. A thousand times Farber’s play, heralded by critics as one of the My strength most urgent pieces of human rights theatre Everything is rushing by ever made, hits home for Heather Redfern, In a blur executive director of The Cultch. “I am bringing And all I hear Nirbhaya to the York Theatre because I believe Is a ringing in my ears we are all responsible for breaking the silence,” Sometimes the Beast tears she says. “Seeing this play together is one At its clothes and threatens action we can take to make change for girls and women in our neighbourhoods and around the To kill people world.” Photo (above): William Burdett-Coutts. Sometimes the Beast spews The vilest, most offensive, Profoundly disturbing, Racist, sexist, Homophobic, misogynistic Hate imaginable Sometimes the Beast is beaten And tasered by police The Great Climate Race Vancouver // Sun. Circle Craft Market // Nov. 11-15, Wed-Fri Dalannah and Owen in Concert // Sat. Nov. But it’s me, alone Nov. 9 // Start times: 9am, (2.5k); 10am (10k) 10am-9pm; Sat 10am-7pm; Sun 10am-5pm // 14, 8:30pm // Djavad Mowafaghian World Art That resurfaces in a secure room // Stanley Park and Lost Lagoon (starts Vancouver Convention Centre (1055 Canada Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. At V.G.H. at Second Beach) // Tickets from $28.30 // Place) // Tickets from $7-$12 // Vancouver Hastings) // Tickets $15 // Vancouver At St. Paul’s Vancouver The 42nd annual Christmas Craft Market Longtime Megaphone friend and powerhouse At Riverview Fight climate change one New Balance-clad showcases local artistans and their work. Meet performer Dalannah Gail Bowen is celebrating a Where they tell me: step at a time. The Great Climate Race is part wood-turners, glassblowers, sculptors, potters, landmark year. Last month, she turned 70, and “There is no beast!” of a running series that enables participants to jewelry designers, and textile artists, including after singing blues, jazz, and gospel for 49 years, That I’m off my meds, again crowdfund for local renewable energy projects. 79-year-old Sola Fielder, whose outsized she was recently inducted in the Blues Hall of That I’m psychotic, again A portion of the entry fee for every participant, tapestries of urban and natural landscapes have Fame as a master blues artist. One of her most And even though I’m confused plus all money they crowdfund for the event, gained her international acclaim and a nod in recent collaborators, bassist Owen Owen Owen, Doped up on Loxapine goes to The Great Climate Race Renewable Megaphone last summer. Sola will exhibit her performs alongside her in an intimate night of And breathing through Energy Fund, a non-profit. The family friendly latest art piece at Circle Craft, a 15’ x 16’ tapestry blues and jazz. Cracked ribs running event welcomes people of all ages, of three-dimensional flowers woven from I am sure althetic abilities, and walks of life. Costumes upcycled clothing and fabrics. Of one thing: encouraged! Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships Where-ever it is, // Sun. Nov. 22, 12:30pm-5pm-ish, with events Ghostly Dinner at Camille’s // Fri. Nov. 13, Fri.-Sun., Nov. 20-22 // Western Speedway (2207 The Beast is laughing. Rodriguez // Tues. and Wed., Nov. 10 & 11, 6-9pm // Camille’s (45 Bastion Square) // Millstream Rd.) // Victoria 8pm // The Vogue Theatre (918 Granville) // Tickets $65 // Victoria A ridiculous event dedicated to cyclists insane Tickets $60 // Vancouver Noted historian and storyteller John Adams enough to tackle cross-country terrain on Eight years ago, a bout of The enigmatic folk musician from Detroit, shares legends and ghost stories from Victoria’s single-speed bikes, the Single Speed Cyclocross pneumonia and a series of serious Michigan and subject of the acclaimed Ghostly Walks Tour, the walking tour series World Championships (SSCXWC to those in the health complications left Jim documentary Searching for Sugar Man performs he founded that uncovers the spooky stories know) spans an entire weekend of debauchery Ryder in a coma. Following his two shows in Vancouver. Sixto Diaz Rodriguez underscoring Victoria’s old-world charm. in Victoria, with the races themselves near-fatal stint in the hospital, recorded two albums in the early 1970s and Adams’ tales of murder, hangings, heroism, culminating on Sunday afternoon. Participants Jim became serious about pursuing embarked on two concert tours in Australia. intrigue, eccentricity, and love are the product must abide by two rules: race a bike with only his passion for writing. Since he From there, he sunk into relative obscurity until of more than five hundred collected tales of one gear; they must get “the tattoo” if they win. started writing in 2008, Jim has fans in South Africa resurrected his career in ghostly encounters in the capital city. They To sum up: the smell of burning rubber and been published in Megaphone, the 1990s. Then, in 2012, he was the subject of tell the twisted truth behind many of Victoria’s mini donuts will unite in a devilish matrimony Voices of the Street, and Geist. He an Academy Award-winning documentary and, most gruesome events. Adams tells his stories Sunday afternoon at the Western Speedway, also publishes his own chapbooks the following year, he received an honorary while audiences enjoy a locally sourced three- where spectators will gater on the bleachers to including his most recent title, Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Wayne course meal from Camille’s, known for its watch the action play out on the cross track. Cygnet. Contact Megaphone to State University, his alma mater. charming West Coast cuisine. purchase a chapbook through Jim: [email protected].

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