@DC_BCI Swamp Rose focuses on ecological landscaping & native plant sales, with a commitment to changing how workers are treated in the industry: "At Swamp Rose all of our worker-owners get the same share of the profits. We believe that labor is truly entitled to the wealth it creates."

Join us next Weds, 11/20 for our final #solidarityeconomy social hour of 2024! For co-op & union members, mutual aid-ers, and the SE curious. 6-9pm @metrobardc register for free ⬇️ https://t.co/TQZWrobGy6

So glad to see this legislation introduced! Cooperatives benefit both workers and our communities’ economic well-being, and small business conversions to coops are a key strategy!

Submit your comments to DC Health and the DC Council and support vendors in accessing the microenterprise home kitchen permit today! https://t.co/BBR9phcO2N 4/4

But DC Health missed key deadlines to create this permit, and their new proposed rules continue to place an undue burden on street vendors as compared to other food businesses, including requiring 4x more inspections than restaurants receive on average! 3/4

DC’s 2023 vending laws created a microenterprise home kitchen permit that lets small business owners, including street vendors, to start and operate a food business from their home kitchen. 2/4

Help DC Street Vendors access the microenterprise home kitchen permit! 1/4

DC ❤️ Vendors! Join us May 30 at 6:30pm at @SankofaDC to celebrate DC Street Vendors' recent wins! Tickets at: https://t.co/u1XWn9DqTb #solidarityeconomy #dcstreetvendors

We got the oversized edition that is apparently so popular with NYC student protestors in

We join 95 orgs, led by @MuslimsForJF, @pal_legal, @AfghansTomorrow,@hearttogrow,@ccr, alongside 95 orgs & others in demanding the WH center community demands calling for government accountability, justice, freedom, & solidarity in any strategy to counter Islamophobia.

But DC bureaucracy still has put up so many barriers to getting a license, from not publishing the requirements for food vendors to cook from home to intimidating vendors selling on the street. Vendors are making progress — is @MayorBowser?

Over the pst year DC street vendors have been working to get licenses: investing in new equipment with BCI’s license fund & taking food manager certification courses!

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@_DCHealth @CMCHenderson @wcp

“Now the Dept of Health is going to set us back decades,” says Ana Lemus, a vendor. “If I have to pay this fine, there is no way I will be able to pay the rent or take care of my family. The Department of Health is literally taking the food out of my children’s mouths.” 10/

Take two minutes to join us in calling DC Health at (202) 442-5955 and asking them to #FixNotFine the home kitchen permit process! Because, how can vendors follow the law if DOH won’t? 9/

We’re asking @_DCHealth to #FixNotFine the home kitchen permit process, which means they should: 1) fix their own process and 2) refrain from fining vendors until they do so. 8/

Today, we were also informed of upcoming citywide sweeps planned by @_DCHealth where they will give out $1,000 fines to any food vendors without a license. 7/

To make matters worse, on the anniversary of the bill’s passage, @_DCHealth inspectors handed out cease and desist letters to street vendors! 6/