4TheRcrd Mag.

Above: Jacob Amoah (7) Asebu, Ghana It’s 6:30 am in Asebu, a rural community in central Ghana. All of the orphans at Asebu’s Home of Hope are fetching water for their morning baths, all of them except Jacob. ‘Jo’ as he is sometimes called, is hiding in the bushes behind his home with feces running [...]

Duncan McNicholl, a friend of 4TheRcrd’s at Engineers without Borders (EWB) is heading to Malawi in southern Africa with Engineers Without Borders working in the agriculture sector. These good people featured LUGZ COFFEE LOUNGE on their site for getting involved in importing fairly traded coffee’s into Vancouver and featuring them in our stores in Vancouver.  [...]

A little over two years ago, ForestEthics was delighted to share one of the biggest moments in our history with the world — the announcement of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements in British Columbia. After a decade-long struggle to save the Great Bear Rainforest, BC Premier Gordon Campbell and his government agreed to protect 5 [...]

Usually when it comes to sex, people don’t really bother considering it in terms of the law – needless to say it’s a very personal thing. I was surfing the net and reading articles about prostitution in Vancouver and decided I wanted to take a look at the legal side of it. I discovered that [...]

If you’re twenty-something, a college student, live in an urban city, or any combination of the three, you’ve probably seen keffiyehs adorned by countless young hipsters, activists and fashion-minded folk in the last couple of years. The keffiyeh began its career as a political statement in Occupied Palestine in the 1930’s, as a symbol of [...]

Z-Day has come and gone. March 15th was the official date for world wide events, based around the viewing of the movie Zeitgeist. Multiple venues around Vancouver were involved in housing viewings. If you haven’t watched this monumental think-piece of a movie, you are missing out. Whether you decide to take Zeitgeist as verbatim truth [...]

“[During the Hippie Movement]…You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t [...]

Unfortunately not all International Women’s Day celebrations were as fun-filled as the ones here on 4TheRcrd. In Iran, the containment of women’s gatherings in the past kept women from celebrating publicly and this year, many women confined themselves to gatherings in their private homes. Last year, 10 women were arrested on International Women’s Day at [...]

EYES OF THE UPRISING: VOICES WHO LISTEN – A fundraiser for the Surrey Urban Youth Project THURSDAY MARCH 13 QUEEN ELIZABETH HIGH SCHOOL 9457 – 136th Street Surrey Tickets $3.00-$300.00 at the door No one will be turned away for lack of funds An All-Ages Event Featuring Surrey’s Freshest Youth Performers Including: Hip-hop Dance Crews [...]

In the horrific struggle between Palestine and Israel which periodically splashes its way onto our newspapers and television and computer screens, it’s often all-too easy for the media to ignore issues of women’s health. It’s clear that the unjust treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli Occupation has a direct impact on women’s lives. [...]