Local indie bands rock for a cause - Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun wrote a nice article about the Block Party tomorrow. Read up, readers.

Note: The Sun incorrectly refers to the Megaphone vendors as “volunteers.”

Megaphone is a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver by homeless and low-income vendors. The magazine comes out every two weeks. Vendors buy the paper for 50 cents and sell the magazine to customers by donation. All money from the transaction goes into the pocket of the vendor.

Selling the paper gives our vendors a sense of pride and has helped some overcome homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, and their mental of physical illnesses. By giving them a place and a voice in their community it helps raise their self-esteem.