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economist suntribune in our community thursday june 13 2002 19 local teenagers push globalization message at markham festival bymikeadler staff writer people strolling through the markham village music festival this saturday probably arent expecting to hear about inequality between nations but teresa devor and stephanie madden will be there on main street hwy 48 north of hwy 7 questioning the way we live in canada and how we affect the rest of the world the two markham youths said they want to talk with people before leaders of the g8 a group of some of the rich est countries in the world including canada hold their summit in kananaskis alta on june 26 and 27 along with derek maisonville of scarborough ms devor and ms madden will be at a display table called global change through local roots ms madden said theyll be supply ing information on subjects like the worlds richest and poorest and the way ideologies affect our lives the way we want to approach it is not in a judgmental way she added this week we want to start discussion mostly the university students said they started thinking about consumerism staff photosjoerd witteveen stephanie madden left and teresa devor will have a booth at this years markham village music festival tackling environmental and globalization issues and politics in high school which was tough in a town where plenty of par ents work for big corporations i think a lot of people get defensive when you talk about capitalism and global institutions ms devor said people dont want to look at dispar ity or that theyre making money off of sweatshops visitors to the table can also find out where to buy composters organic food or fair trade coffee grown by workers given fair wages and condi tions featuring an exclusive p event figurine also featuring royal doulton v sunday jbne16th noon4 meet michael doulton fifth generation descendant of royal doultons- founder who will be pleased to sign royal doulton figurines purchased during this special event call this store to reserve your personally signed keepsake the royal doulton store markville shopping centre 5000 highway 7 unit 16 markham on tel 905 4798006 clk 430 coupe 599 365 ml 320 499 365 e320 649 365 while patience may be a virtue waiting could cost you while the appeal of a mercedesbenz endures these offers wont make a date in your electronic daytimer to visit one of our toronto area retailers soon of course mercedesbenz toronto area retail group