journey to the future: a better world is possible

Vancouver, 2032

• Strong democracy

Vancouver, 2032

• Strong democracy• Renewable energy

Vancouver, 2032

• Strong democracy• Renewable energy• Affordable housing

Vancouver, 2032


• The recovery of nature

Vancouver, 2032


• The recovery of nature• A new hope, a new story

Vancouver, 2032



• The climate crisis continues

Vancouver, 2032



• The climate crisis continues• Strong, happy neighbourhoods

Vancouver, 2032



• The climate crisis continues• Strong, happy neighbourhoods

• A cooperative economy, beyond capitalism

Vancouver, 2032

How Did it Happen?

Vancouver, 2032

Guy Dauncey 2011www.earthfuture.com


The Universe took 14 billion years to create the miracle of today’s existence

Resonance Project

We are all made from conscious, self-organizing stardust

Prebiotic Molecules

Conscious, self-organizing stardust

Guy Dauncey 2011www.earthfuture.com Smithore Dreamstime.com

Guy Dauncey 2014 www.earthfuture.com

World Population: 7.4 billionIncreasing by 200,000 a day

World Population: 7.4 billionIncreasing by 200,000 a day

Hopefully stabilizing

at 11 billion by AD 2100,

then declining

“More plastic in the sea than fish.”

Extinctions

Human population

'Insatiable' by Theodore Bolha

What’s it all about?


GDP =GrossDepletion of the

Planet


GrossDepletion of the

Planet

Why?

To raise cattle, to make hamburgers


Why?

To make shark fin soup

Guy Dauncey 2013 www.earthfuture.com Chris Jordan

I see gravefundamental

problems ahead…

DEMOCRACY CRISIS

ECONOMIC CRISIS

AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS

ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

CLIMATE CRISIS

POVERTY, DESPAIR & LONELINESS

LOSS of COMMUNITY

Can we put them all in a pot, and cook up a

wonderful feast?

CLIMATE STABILITYHEALTHY DEMOCRACYAFFORDABLE HOUSINGECOLOGICAL HARMONY

BLOSSOMING COMMUNITYA FAIR AND JUST ECONOMY

A RENEWED SENSE OF PURPOSE

2032

Three Fundamental

Findings from the Future

1. The power that comes with having a positive vision is amazing

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are.

– Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

2. We simply need to organize together around the power of a new vision

3: The new theory of Syntropy provides a deep unifying principle and a new story

Failed, due to the absence of positive, practical solutions

AGAIN?

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DEMOCRACY CRISIS

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2011 World Values Survey34% of Americans approve of

“having a strong leader who doesn’t have to bother with Congress or elections.”

42% among those with no education beyond high school.

Voting at age 16

$100 Voting Tax Credit

Electronic Voting

Money OUT, Voters IN

86% of British Columbians support a ban on corporate and union political donations

81% BC Liberal voters 91% NDP voters

86%

Fair, proportional voting

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Neo-Liberalism

Destroying Nature

Enabling tax havens

Increasing inequality

Generating anger

Corrupting governments

Pleasing corporations

Destroying jobs

Generating wealth

Consumerism … Materialism … Neo-Liberalism

CorporatePlutocracy

SocialDemocracy

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2032Eight Ways that

Capitalism is being transformed

into a Green, Entrepreneurial,

Cooperative, Caring Economy

A Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative, Caring Economy

1. StrengtheningEntrepreneurialism

2. TransformingThe Corporation

3. TransformingBanking

4. Reducing Poverty & Inequality

5. Respecting Nature 6. Protecting Public Ownership

7. New GlobalFinancial Architecture

8. Green, Sustainable Economics

1. StrengtheningEntrepreneurialism

The Brilliance of Business

www.startupcommunities.ca

Training New Entrepreneurs

Youth enterprise in all schools

Emilia Romagna, Italy• Population 4.4 million• $$$, top ten European regions• 32% self-employed• 76% work in small business with 4-

5 workers• Italy’s 4th largest exporter• 400,000 enterprises• 7,500 cooperatives• Strong tradition of reciprocity,

regional economy mutual support, financed by 0.4% levy on sales

• Regional credit system with close ties to local enterprises

• Lowest unemployment• Highest rate of citizen satisfaction in

Italy

Businesses Cooperating Together

Starting New Cooperatives

Mondragon, Spain

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Network of 257 cooperative businesses Philosophy of participation and solidarity

Mondragon wage ratios 1:3 to 1:9US Corporate CEOs 1:350*

(*Harvard Business School Study)

Cape Breton

Green Business Certificationwww.vigbc.ca

The Triple Bottom LinePlanet, People, Profits

2. Transforming the Corporation

Benefit Corporations

Benefit Corporations in VancouverAquatic InformaticsAroundsquare Ltd

Big Room Inc.Brix Media Co.

Climate Smart Business, Inc.Ethical Bean Coffee

Fairware Promotional Products.Flipside Creative

HootsuiteJunxion Strategy

Kent Employment LawLeverage Lab

Light Trail ConsultingLunapads

Mills Office ProductivityPyrrha

Realize StrategiesRecollective Consulting

Renewal FundsRTOWN

Saul Good Gift CoSave On MeatsSES ConsultingSMAK Food Inc

soulpepperSPUD

Sustainability TelevisionYulu Public Relations Inc.

Companies with more Women Board Directors experience higher financial performance

Catalyst Bottom Line

3. TransformingBanking

Triodos, HollandThe World’s Greenest Bank

Vancity Credit Union

520,000 members$20 billion in assets

$5.5 million returned to members last year

Microlending – The Grameen Bank

Microlending

Public Banking

40% of the banks in the world are Public BanksAlgeriaAustriaBrazil

BulgariaCaribbean

ChileChina

ColombiaCosta RicaDenmark

Egypt

FinlandFrance

GermanyHollandHungary

IndiaJapan

MacedoniaMexico

New ZealandNorway

PolandRussia

SloveniaSouth Korea

SpainSweden

SwitzerlandSyria

Taiwan

“When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting

their customers’ accounts.” - Sir Mervyn King

Governor of the Bank of England, 2003-2013

When a public bank creates

money, the interest

earned returns to the public.

Mission “to deliver quality, sound financial services

that promote agriculture, commerce and industry in North Dakota.”

“More profitable than Goldman Sachs, has a better credit rating than JP Morgan and Chase,

and hasn’t seen profit growth drop since 2003.

Meet the Bank of North Dakota, the U.S.’s lone state-owned bank.

Return on equity (…) is 18.56%, about 70% higher

than at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.”November 19, 2014

The Public Bank of British Columbia, est. 2018

• Stores government and crown agency revenues• Creates new money by the act of lending• Saves taxpayers up to 50% in interest costs on critical

infrastructure like bridges, trains and schools • Eliminates billions in bank fees and money management

for cities and the province• Supports community bank loans to clean energy, building

retrofits, farms, First Nations projects, value-added forestry, hi-tech, community development corporations, small businesses, students.

• Provides counter-cyclical relief by issuing credit at low or zero cost to revitalize infrastructure and other services

Re-instated the pre-1974 powers of the Bank of Canada

4. Reducing Poverty and Inequality

Abolished Student Debt

$23 Minimum Wage(in 2032)

Basic Income Guarantee

Progressive Tax Reform

Community Currencies

• 25 First Nations MPs in Ottawa• BC’s Premier a First Nations woman• Free college education• Land treaties signed across the country• First Nations people becoming teachers,

lawyers, doctors, engineers, politicians• Westshore coal terminal at Tsawassen a

centre for First Nations history, celebration, tidal energy & eelgrass recovery.

Some First Nations Breakthroughs by 2032

5. Treating Nature as a Being to Respect

not a Resource to Exploit

Ecological Economy

Counting and taxing Nature’s external costs Regulating effectively to protect habitat

Compassionate care for farm animalsFully protected habitat zonesA green restorative economy

100% sustainable fisheries100% sustainable forestry100% renewable energy

100% organic farmingZero waste

An Ecological Economy

100% Organic Farming in 2032

All organic farms protect their bees

Sustainable Ecosystem-Based Forestry

Marine Protected Areas

Measuring Gross National Happinessas well as Gross Domestic Product

6. Protecting Public Ownershipand the Role of Government

The Entrepreneurial State

“It is indisputable that most of Apple’s best technologies

exist because of the prior collective

and cumulative efforts driven by the State.”- Mariana Mazzucato

HealthcareEducation

Social SecurityInsuranceUtilities

Affordable HousingPublic Banking

Research & DevelopmentEffective Regulation

7. A New GlobalFinancial Architecture

Abolish Every Tax Haven

The Panama Papers

Climate Treaties are essentially voluntary

Trade Treaties come with tribunals, bringing huge penalties and costs.

Chapter 11 allows corporations to sue governments if they feel they have not been treated as a domestic

company would be treated.

After Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline, TransCanada filed a $15 billion lawsuit under NAFTA.

Global Fair Trade Treaty, March 2025

8. New, Green, Sustainable Economics

Five Star Thinkers of a Socially Just Economy

Mariana Mazzucato Muhammad Yunus

Ellen BrownHa-Joon ChangThomas Piketty

CLIMATE CRISIS

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Global Monthly Temperature Change, 1850-2015

Where the heat is going

Greenhouse gas pollution

Observed temperature

Bloomberg


British Columbia Forest FireJuly 2015

Fort McMurray, 2016

The Paris Climate Agreement

Great Collapse

Great Transition

The last time the world was 3C warmer,the sea level was 25 metres higher.

2 metres

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Vancouver 2 Metres Sea-Level Rise

Vancouver 20 Metres Sea-Level Rise

2-metre sea-level riseEvery beach on the planet … GONE

Fossil fuelslaunched the Industrial Age,

and the modern world.

Fossil fuelsmade advanced engineering,

solar PV and electric vehicles possible.

Fossil Fuels were the Launch Rampfor the Solar Age

Burning firewood - 500,000 years


Burning fossil fuels – 300 years


Direct solar energy – more than a billion years

Farewell and Thank You, Fossil Fuels

Welcome, Solar Age!

SocialDemocracy

CorporatePlutocracy

The five fundamental solutions to the climate crisistothe climate crisis

The five fundamental solutions to the climate crisistothe climate crisis1. 100% renewable energy


2. No more industrial meat


2. No more industrial meat3. Restore Earth’s forests



4. Eco-sequestrate carbon



4. Eco-sequestrate carbon5. A restorative economy


The livestock industry – meat & dairy – is causing 15% of global warming

Oslo voted to slash emissions 95% by 2030

Denmark

A Global Carbon CapA firm global cap

on fossil fuel emissions,agreed to by all nations, motivated by real alarm, and a clear positive vision

of a future green economy.

By 2015, a global cap of 493 Gt of future CO2

National Carbon Caps

1. Each nation is allocated a cap, agreed by negotiation.

2. Every producer or importer of fossil fuels bids for a permit in a national annual auction.

3. The auction puts a price on carbon and brings income to the government.

LNG

=Leave itN theGround

Why? The climate crisis, the salmon, the eelgrass, the Tsimshian, the Haida…

Lelu IslandSkeena Estuary

2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040

Every year5-10% CO2 reduction

Carbon rationing, for individuals and businesses

Year 1: 5 tonnesYear 2: 4.5 tonnesYear 10: 0 tonnes

Carbon Exchange to buy and sell rations

2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040

Every yearrenewable energy

increase

Almost Twice as Many Green Jobs in Canada

By Guy Dauncey

800,000 fossil fuel jobs lost 1,000,000 green energy jobs gained

www.cleanenergycanada.org

www.ironandearth.org

TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT FOSSIL FUELS

Metro do Porto, Portugal

Downtown streets

www.restreets.org

Downtown streets

Suburban streets

The Copenhagen Wheel

The Veemo, being made in Vancouver

www.velometro.com

In Odense, Denmark, 5-Year-Olds Bike to School on their Own

2032: The E&N railway has been turned into a long-distance Island Bikeway

Solar bike lane, South Korea

The Hovenring Bicycle Bridge, HollandConnects Eindhoven and Veldhoven

The Future Arbutus Corridor, Vancouver

Cornelia Dinca

Amsterdamnow

Amsterdamthen

Cornelia Dinca

Amsterdamthen

Amsterdamnow

Barcelona is moving ALL its buses to electric100% electric by 2020

Australian/Chinese Brighsun Bus1027 km on one charge

Bio-methane from Bristol's sewage treatment (UK) 300 km on a tank of gas.

Well-to-wheel, biomethane produces 95% less CO2 than diesel

Curitiba, Brazil

Elevated transit bus, under development in China

The Pilot: real-time in-ear translations in French, Spanish, Italian, and English

Build-It-Ourselves Bus Shelters

Real-time electronic bus stops

Car sharing - Car2Go

Car sharing - Car2Go100,000 members in Vancouver

Top

Hiroko EV

By 2025, Holland is preparing to ban the purchase of gas and diesel cars

Germany is planning a 2030 zero emissions mandate: 100% electric vehicles

Norway’s Transport Plan assumes that electric cars will be 100% new car sales by 2025.

India is working on a plan to make every car electric by 2030, self-financed by the savings on gas.

Almost 400,000 advance orders placed for The Tesla Model 3. $35,000 US

320 kilometres range

The falling price of EV batteries

Swiss E-Force 18 tonne electric truck300 km range

80–110 kWh per 100 km at highway speed

Future Nicola One 2000 HP electric truckCNG hybrid. Driving range 800-1200 miles

per tank. www.nikolamotor.com

Future Scania electric truck, recharging by an inductive roadway.

Air pollution - gone

Norway’s Electric Ferry ZeroCat5.7 km route, 20 minute round trip

The Hyperloop

Price of Solar Module

per Watt

1977: $77

1997: $7

2013: $0.7

Vauban, Freiburg, Germany


Fujisawa Sustainable Smart TownKanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Solar Stadium, Taiwan

Solar PV in 2032: $1.50 a watt4 kW rooftop system - $6,000

Nelson’s Community Solar Garden

The world’s largest solar farm, Topaz, California. 9 million panels, 550 MW

Thin-film Solar PV

Tidal Energy Plant, South Korea

Proposed Tidal Lagoon, Swansea, Wales

65%of British Columbians want a commitment to

phase out coal, oil and gas, replacing them with renewable energy.

Oracle Poll, November 2015

73 %of British Columbians want to see a legally enforced cap or limits on carbon pollution.


75%of British Columbians think protecting the climate is more important than building

pipelines and further developing the tar sands.Oracle Poll, November 2015

92%of British Columbians

want to see a plan to develop jobs in

the renewable energy sector.


Passive Houses, Victoria90% reduced heat loss

Passive House, Victoria, B.C. 90% less heat energy, 15 kwh/m2, 4.4% more cost

www.bernhardtpassive.com

Brussels, BelgiumSince 2015, all new buildings and retrofits are

required to be Nearly-Zero Energy, based on the Passive House Standard.

Stockholm, 80,000 apartmentsheat from treated sewage

Vancouver Olympic VillageSewage-Based District Heat

Drake Landing, Okotoks, AlbertaStored Solar Thermal Heat

800 solar hot water panels on the garages

Energy Centre

Community solar Thermal panels

90% solar heating throughout the cold Alberta winter

With auto-dominated urban designs, people disconnect. Less sense of neighbourhood.

Less mutual support.

With social urban designs, people connect. More sense of neighbourhood.

More mutual support.

Hundertwasser House, Vienna, Austria

REGEN Danish village, 100 homes.Summer 2016. EFFEKT Architects

Energy positive. High-yield organic food production. Mixed renewable energy and storage.

Water and waste recycling.

ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

Semiahmoo Transit Station Surreywww.greenovergrey.com

Vancouver’s lost creeks and streams

Still Creek, Vancouver. Chum Salmon restored after 80 years

Herring – Once Super-Abundant

Creosoted pilingskill herring spawn

Squamish Streamkeepers wrapping the pilings to create safe habitat for herring spawn

The Ocean Clean Upwww.theoceancleanup.com

In 2032: Ecology 101 Mandatory for College Entry

A Local Food Economy

Growing our own food

Brooklyn School Edible Schoolyard

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS

91% of homes priced over $1 million

Vancouver Average House PriceJanuary 2016: $1,1850,000

June 2016

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Excess money coming into the

market = Inflation

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market = Inflation

Inheritances

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market = Inflation

Inheritances

Foreign money

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market = Inflation

Inheritances

Foreign money Tax-evadingmoney

Offshore tax evasion in Vancouver real estate

Ian Young, South China Morning Post

July 1st, 1962

AFFORDABLE HOMES

July 1st, 1962 July 1st, 2018?

Restrict Foreign Ownership

2/3rds of Canadians.Parents own property.

They will inherit.

1/3rd of Canadians.Parents do not own property.

They will never inherit.

2/3rds of Canadians.Parents own property.

They will inherit.

Gather a big pool of new revenue

and build lots of affordable housing

Build LOTS of affordable housing10,000-20,000 units a year in BC

Seattle’s property tax levy has enabled the construction of 12,500 apartments with

below-market rents.

1. An affordable housing tax levy

2. Escalating taxes on properties left empty

2. Escalating taxes on properties left empty

80% public support

3. Affordable Housing Tax on AirBNBs

67% of Vancouver AirBNBs are for whole house or apartment

Vancouver AirBNBs

4. Escalating property transfer tax on top-end real estate sales

5. Speculation tax on properties flipped within a year

6. Tax on homes bought through offshore tax-havens

7. An Inheritance Tax on Estates above a certain value

Pour all the money into an

AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND RESERVE

Developer incentives to build 100% rental properties

Shipping Container

Homes

280 sq. ft.

12 units, base cost

$85,000 each

Car-Free Laneway Housing

No parking permits, rainwater collection, zero-net energy

Tiny Homes Zones on Temporarily Vacant Land

Boneyard Studios, Washington DC

Since 2020: All new buildings Passive House standard. 90% reduced heat loss

Rob & Mark Bernhardt

Passive House, Victoria. 90% less heat, 4.4% more cost, net zero $ cost

www.bernhardtpassive.com

Rob & Mark Bernhardt

Brussels, BelgiumSince 2015, all new buildings and retrofits are

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REBUILDING COMMUNITY

Neighbourhood Tool-Sharing

www.cityrepair.org

Guy Dauncey 2013 www.earthfuture.com Portland, Oregon www.CityRepair.org

Hamburg Autobahn, Germany

The road will run under the green space

LOSS OF PURPOSE

What’s it all about?


Is there purpose in the Universe?


Is there purpose in the Universe?

Or is it all just the result of random chance ?

Number of stars in the Universe

1024 = 1 trillion trillion

Number of atoms in your body

7x1027 = 7000 trillion trillion

All self-organized into one amazing whole

Conscious, self-organized stardust

Or both?

A Spiritual Universe

A Material Universe

What is Consciousness?

Are they just dancing robots?

If I have consciousness,

where did it come from?

“A rudimentary consciousness is present even at the level of particle physics.”

– David Bohm, 1917-1992

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind

consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. “

Max Planck, 1858-1947

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.

It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.” Erwin Schrödinger, 1887 - 1961

Consciousness is everywhere

The Universe is not a purely material, entropic reality

Entropy describes heat-loss in a physical, material world.

In reality, the Universe is pervaded with consciousness

syntropyA New Story

A conscious Universe is a syntropic Universe

Luigi Fantappiè, 1901-1956Founder of syntropy theory

SyntropyGreek syn (together) and tropos (tendency) A deep, unifying, self-organizing force that is

omnipresent in the universe, bringing a tendency towards energy concentration, order, organization

and life, in contrast to entropy.

Self-organizing love

syntropy

Syntropy

All existence shares in a deep cooperative impulse to increase order and wellbeing.

Champions of syntropy, based in Rome, Italy

The 1st Law of Syntropy

“Acting through consciousness, syntropy motivates individual units of being to self-organize

cooperatively within their empathic reach

to achieve greater organizational power, range, competence,

integrity and freedom for their common good.”

from Journey to the Future

The 2nd Law of Syntropy

“In the long run, due to the deep fundamental unity of the Universe, any unit of being that extends its

empathy beyond its familiar reach will discover affinity

with other units of being. Over time, the syntropic impulse will

result in ever-widening circles of empathy, until they embrace the

entire Universe.”

from Journey to the Future

Morphogenesis

Symgaiagenesis

All existence shares a cooperative impulse to

increase order and wellbeing

Syntropy allowsthe Unification of


Spirit


Spirit Science


Spirit Science

Social and Political Change


Humans are motivated by dreams of life and wholeness, not by nightmares of death and collapse.

So how do we get there?

FOOD &FARMING

NEW ECONOMY

BUILDINGNEIGHBOURHOODS

100% RENEWABLE

ENERGYNEW MODELSOF BUSINESS

NEW BANKING & FINANCE

TACKLINGPOVERTY

OURFORESTS

GREENTRANSPORT

AFFORDABLEHOUSING

LOCALDEMOCRACY

ECOLOGICALRESTORATION

How can we get it all to fit together?

We need to organize togetherso that we can realize our chosen vision of the future and

flourish in harmony with each other and with Nature.

Unity in Diversity, Shared Purpose

Food and Farming GroupCycling, Trails, Transit Group

Electric Vehicles GroupForests Group

Community Planning GroupHousing Group

Solar PV Group

Climate Action Circles

A New Green Economy Group

Ecology Group

Community Education Group

Environmental groups Food and gardening groups First Nations Youth groups Local government Local businessesSchools Churches Community groups Political organizations Chamber of Commerce Service clubs Regional District

Local college

OUR TOWNA happy community

A restoring nature communityAn engaged learning community

A 100% renewable energy communityA self-organizing, mutually supportive, caring community

Syntropic self-organizationUsing informed and inspired consciousness

Embraces the best aspects of

CapitalismLiberalismSocialism

AnarchismGreen thinking

A New Political Synthesis

Embraces the best aspects of



Rejects the worst aspects of



A New Political Synthesis

Throughout existence, having a positive intention of a future outcome

has been a precondition for success

Dream itPlan itDo it

Previous generations devoted their lives to ending slavery

To ending child labour

To winning the vote for women

To defeating Fascism

To the struggle for civil rights

To the struggle for gay rights

ORLANDO

This is our task

The dark dangers of authoritarian

corporate power

The freedom and progress for all that

uncorrupted democracy makes possible

CorporatePlutocracy

SocialDemocracy

“It’s a race. A race between the expanding reach of our empathy

as it stretches across the world, bringing love and intelligent cooperation for the good of all,

and the clutching fear of tribal distrust, made more powerful by modern technology.

Which will win?”- Guy Dauncey, Journey to the Future

So what is our future to be?

Collapse is Possible

A Great Transition is PossibleMark Henson

It’s up to each of us to choose. And then to act. Mark Henson


How can I contribute

more?


Make a deep inner commitment, and ask the Universe – and my friends - to help me.


Research and read to educate

myself about the issues.




Follow my passion, and

use it to change the world.






Train for a career that will enable me to

make a difference.







make a difference.

Join a local non-profit that’s

working for change.







make a difference.


working for change.

Become active in a political

party.


Start my own business for

change.






make a difference.


working for change.

Become active in a political

party.

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