“Youth participants enacted Magkaisa Centre’s “Maleta Stories” at the Counterspin: Building a Movement for Social Change conference on Nov. 19. Each youth held a Maleta painted with a depiction of a despondent immigrant on one side while that immigrant told their story. Each story led to positive change resulting in the youth turning the Maleta to the other side to show the portrait of an immigrant transformed into a proud and confident Filipino-Canadian.” PHOTO: J.OSEPH SMOOKE