※ [本文转录自 AAAAAAAA 看板] http://elitestv.com/pub/2010/04/the-big-issue-hits-taiwan The Big Issue Hits Taiwan By Global Voices Online ‧ on April 2, 2010 The Big Issue, first published in UK 20 years ago, is now rolling out its Traditional Chinese monthly edition in Taiwan on 1st of April. This is a unique publishing project which relies on homeless people to sell the street magazine and hence helps them to have a legitimate job. The homeless can earn 50 TWD (around half of the price) for each magazine they sold. You can read more about its origin and development on Wikipedia. Taiwan is the 9th country that publishes The Big Issue. Li Chi Zhong(李取中), the founder of Roodo Blog, introduces this model to Taiwan with a hope to develop a new type of social business. One month before publishing the first issue, bigissue.tw started its Facebook fan page to recruit volunteers. So far it has 27,000 fans already. Many Taiwanese bloggers are invited to write for the first issue, including Kenworker, famous travel blogger, and soundfury, noted writer and music critic. Lin You Xue is excited about the arrival of The Big Issue to Taiwan: Big issue 登陆台湾，对我个人是个振奋的消息，除了惊讶台湾亦步亦趋吸收英国的社福 观点外，作法上也渐渐同步了起来。这份街友才能贩卖的杂志，在英国发行已经超过20年 ，杂志卖点除了内容之外，附加价值在於，提供人们帮助弱势的管道，但与捐款不同的是 ，让弱势族群也肩负自力更生的责任。 The arrival of The Big Issue to Taiwan is an exciting news to me. I am surprised that Taiwan is not just taking up perspectives but also methodologies of British social welfare. This sold-only-by-homeless-people magazine has been publishing in UK for more than 20 years. Besides its content, it provides a way for citizens to help minorities. But different from donation, the model lets minorities to take responsibility and live on their own. siligraphy19 says: … 请大家告诉大家这本杂志的消息,转贴我的部落格文也可以. 如果在捷运站出口处,看 到穿着The Big Issue制服的街友或志工, 请停下脚步, 购买一本100元的杂志, 作为对社 会企业杂志最直接的支持. 省下一杯星巴克的钱, 获得的不只是阅读的乐趣, 也帮助街友 或社会弱势的人们, 透过贩售杂志的工作机会, 赚取收入, 重建信心,重新取回生活主导 权。 …Please tell everyone about this magazine, or you can just repost my article. If you see homeless people or volunteers in The Big Issue uniform around MRT stations, please stop and buy the 100 TWD magazine for showing your direct support to the social business. Drink a cup less of Starbucks and save the money for the joy of reading and helping homeless people and minorities. By selling magazines, they can get income, rebuild confidence and earn their own living. Purple Beans(紫豆子) took some photos when he saw volunteers selling The Big Issue near Gongguan MRT Station. Although it looks like a promising project, Ambertaipei shares her conversation with Mr. Jia, one of the homeless sellers on Twitter: 「请支持我自食其力！」贾先生说。早上从捷运站出来遇到他，喊得声嘶力竭却没有半个 人停驻看一眼；贾先生说，我是他今天卖出去的第一本the big issue http://twitgoo.com/mn587 “Please support me to earn my own living!” Mr. Jia shouted. I met him in the morning when I left the MRT station, no one slowed down or took a look no matter how hard he shout. Mr. Jia said that I was his first customer today. http://twitgoo.com/mn587 贾先生说：「大家不知道我在喊的这是什麽~」捷运站外飘起小雨，他不能站上有屋檐的 捷运手扶梯前喊，只好继续站在阶梯外喊「大志杂志！」的确，到底什麽是大志？大志有 什麽？对於平常只逛拍卖只读苹果与GQ的上班族来说，一个站在捷运外叫卖陌生书刊名字 的中年人一点也没有意义 Mr. Jia said: “They do not know what I am shouting about.” It was raining outside the station and he could not stand in front of the escalators under the roof, so he kept shouting “The Big Issue” outside the station. However, what is “The Big Issue” anyway? What is inside The Big Issue? For white collars who are only interested in online auction sites, read only Apple Daily and GQ everyday, they don’t care about the middle aged man shouting and selling unpopular magazine outside a MRT station. antibadmedia also anticipates the difficult future of The Big Issue in Taiwan: 再过两天这本杂志就要创刊了，虽然立意很好，但是新闻中报导台北县市以外的县市仍由 便利商店作为贩售通路，恩…… 如果这本杂志内容还不差，也确实地实践其宗旨「由街 友贩售」，那大家就尽己所能支持罗！大型的社会公平不易一蹴可几，小规模的资源流动 总是可行的。除了期待还要观察。 Two more days and this magazine is going to publish its first issue. It has a good intention, but the news said that outside Taipei city and Taipei county the magazine will be sold via convenience stores, well…….If the content inside this magazine is not bad, and it genuinely practices the principle of “sold-only-by-homeless-people”, then we shall do whatever to support it! Social fairness in large scale is not something to be achieved overnight, but resource re-allocation in small scale is still possible. Let us wait and see. Syndicated from http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org: The Big Issue Hits Taiwan This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ※ hymanguo:转录至看板 IceSugar 04/04 16:04 ※ anteo:转录至看板 Anteo 04/04 16:05 ※ Ibe:转录至看板 funfuntown 04/04 17:16 ※ darkelf328:转录至看板 Malalavas 04/04 20:43 ※ samandyou:转录至某隐形看板 04/04 23:21 --

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