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Climate Champion Naomi Klein Changes the World 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. 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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. 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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. 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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.
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