Street Vendor Project
@VendorPower
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Member-led organization championing the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living & contribute to NYC culture & life @urbanjustice
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NOW: Hundreds of Street Vendors are rallying to demand permits
After a week of intense crackdowns on vendors from both DSNY & NYPD, we are marching to the licensing center to demand access to permits. We will show how impossible the system is
We demand
#StreetVendorReform
👇
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A moving scene as New Yorkers from all walks of life come together to support Mohamed, Sam and their coworkers on 83rd & 2nd Ave, taking a stand against anti-Muslim hate
Sitting around a folding table provided by an UES neighbor, sharing halal chicken over rice & building bonds
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In the middle of a pandemic, in the Bronx where 1 in 5 don't have enough to eat
@NYPDnews
@NYCSanitation
trashed a business, destroying produce in a food desert
This family is just trying to run a small business, and sell affordable fruits & veggies.
@NYCMayor
beyond wrong
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Horrific treatment of Maria, a mother, immigrant entrepreneur & her *daughter* who filmed
Earlier this week, Maria was arrested for selling mangoes & kiwis to customers she's served for 10+ yrs
Shame on our city for choosing cruelty, instead of supporting hardworking mothers
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The systemic abuse of our city's micro-businesses and disregard for hunger is a travesty.
Our communities deserve care, support, and training. Thankful to the community members who donated to the vendor yesterday to help her get back on her feet.
@NYCMayor
do you condone this?
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NYC vending laws can put a family into poverty in under 10 minutes
Floriberto, a father of 4, started selling tamales 🫔on Fordham Road after working in restaurants for 15 yrs
@NYCSanitation
fined him $4,000 - due to the cap on permits he’s unable to get one
#StreetVendorReform
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The abuse of street vendors will continue until there is legislative change, creating a pathway for NYC’s smallest businesses to formalize
Support vendors by calling your State Senator & Assemblymember to
#LegalizeStreetVending
by passing S1175/A5081 NOW!
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Note: Maria has a food vendor license (pays sales taxes, passed DOHMH food safety courses) but no permit to vend - but it's not for lack of trying
A cap on # of permits in place for ~40yrs makes it nearly impossible to get one, hurting NYC's smallest biz
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Street vending is a crucial part of economy & culture in Corona, Queens. In times like these, when critical information is being shared primarily online and in English, street vendors continue to play an essential role in ensuring information reaches the most impacted communities
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Maria wanted to show the work she was arrested for:
"These are the fruits & box of chocolates we sell - it takes us 3 days to sell this box. This is the honorable work we do - we aren't hurting anyone or anything"
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🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 Stand Up for Street Vendors!
Street vendors are a vital part of our community and our smallest businesses
#LegalizeStreetVending
🗓 Sunday, September 26th
⏰ 12 PM
📍 White Plains Rd & Pelham Parkway
Alongside
@Vanessalgibson
@Fernandez4NY
@mvelaznyc
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Floriberto and his family have been struggling mentally & economically figuring out to how pay these fines after seeing his cart stripped away
NYC is cruel to street vendors - this must change. We need to reform the vending so our smallest biz don’t get traumatized like this
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To support Maria financially, her venmo is
@Maria
-Falcon-65
To advocate for laws to change to increase Street Vendor rights & protections - call/tag your NYC Councilmember & NYC Mayor
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For those saying he should get a permit - he is desperate to get one!
Did you know there’s a cap in place for nearly 40 years on permits - preventing these small businesses from formalizing?
Read more 👇
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"Instead of giving her the opportunity to formalize her business and get a permit, Diana is being criminalized"
Women immigrant entrepreneurs like Diana are exactly who NYC should be supporting to formalize their businesses
By
@NaveenABC7
@ABC7NY
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This is inexcusable. 5 male officers harassing, fining & mocking 3 immigrant women vendors
One woman is Elsa, whose arrest in 2019 opened the city's eyes to the life of a street vendor
These mothers are doing honest work, selling mangoes & churros to provide for their children
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@nycpix
@NYCSanitation
@OswaldFeliz
@PiSanchezNYC
@AmandaFariasNYC
@CMAmandaFarias
@CnDelarosa
@voteshekar
@Vanessalgibson
@bronxbp
@ShoshBedrosian
@JumaaneWilliams
Did you know there’s a cap in place for nearly 40 years on permits - preventing these small businesses from formalizing? He’s desperate to get a permit
Read more 👇
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"I'm here in the rain, I'm here in the snow. I've been working to provide food but also to take care of my family" shares Diana, longtime Bronx street vendor
Diana, pictured here in photo by IG User
@heroichira
, in front of NYPD officers at her fruit stand on Thursday 9/23
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Street vending by the #'s:
NYC is home to ~20k street vendors. Only 853 total licenses are available for merch vendors, 5k permits for food vendors
Waitlists have been closed for 10+ yrs due to high demand, ~12k on the merch license waitlist & ~6k on the food permit waitlist
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@OxoYvonne
@NYCSanitation
@OswaldFeliz
@PiSanchezNYC
@AmandaFariasNYC
@CMAmandaFarias
@CnDelarosa
@voteshekar
@Vanessalgibson
@bronxbp
@ShoshBedrosian
@JumaaneWilliams
Did you know there’s a cap in place for nearly 40 years on permits - preventing these small businesses from formalizing? Vendors are lining up to get permits
Read more 👇
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How anyone can give Don Lucio a $2,050 ticket is beyond understanding. This essential worker hasn't received a penny in relief for 17 months
This is a cycle of poverty & criminalization created by NY. Over selling tacos & aguas frescas.
#LegalizeStreetVending
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@AndrewYang
Grossly uninformed statement. Vendors bring business to commercial corridors, increasing foot traffic and economic growth for all. Read Up on the facts:
Brick & mortars have called for need commercial rent stabilization - do you support this?
@usb_nyc
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Vendors are working hard to provide hot breakfast to everyone out in today’s storm! ☕️ 🫔
Need a warm up? Visit Bricia at the corner of Starr & Knickerbocker in Bushwick for hot tamales ~ rajás, verdes, mole, sin chiles, or a steaming ☕️ of champurrado!
🎥
@BushwickLife
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🧵 There's no question, street vendors are an invaluable part of NYC's culture & economy, as are all small biz
We celebrate tamaleras, Halal food vendors & US military veterans selling souvenirs for tourists, adding livelihood to our City’s streets & sidewalks /1
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Doña Sabina on Junction & Roosevelt adapted so she can continue providing working neighbors w fresh produce while maintaining social distancing. She speaks w each customer about the PAUSE order & shares health and safety info. SVP provided her w cones, masks, caution tape & signs
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INTRO 1116 HAS PASSED!
Today, the street vendor movement made history with
#Intro1116
! Thank you to all Council Members who voted aye, small business advocates, public space & immigration activists - and to every street vendor who fought for this day!
VENDOR POWER! 🌽🌮🥙🥨🍎
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SVP is appalled by the racist Islamophobia & in touch with the vendors for support
They feared speaking out would put them at risk of displacement b/c nearby building owners had tried to replace them with planters
No one should have to choose between harassment or displacement
This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.
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Ramadan Mubarak from NYC’s halal food vendors! 🌙
SVP team brought a piece of the Egypt to the streets of NYC, handing out “fanoos” or lanterns to vendors in Midtown
If you pass by a Muslim vendor be sure to send Ramadan greetings their way!
#RamadanMubarak
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@NYCMayor
we are appalled by your decision to send NYPD to harass vendor small biz in the Bronx for selling fresh, affordable produce, just 1 year after declaring NYPD out of vending
Raining down police on a broken vending system is NOT the answer. STOP criminalizing poverty!
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Street Vendor Project Responds to
@NYCMayor
Announcing
#NYPD
out of Street Vendor Enforcement. This is a big step forward - but we must go further to
#DefundNYPD
&
#LifttheCaps
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of New Yorkers will sleep out at the doorstep of Jeff Bezos $100M NYC apartment to demand a state tax on billionaires to fund survival benefits for workers left out of the federal stimulus & stop budget cuts.
#MakeBillionairesPay
#FundExcludedWorkers
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IS THIS JUSTICE???
Margarita sells mangoes to feed her family. She's struggling to pay off $1000 in tickets received for vending w/out a permit. Her sales are down & she's excluded from
#COVID19
relief. She was threatened w/ arrest for payment delinquency.
Pass
#Intro1116
NOW
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NOW: the NYC Street Vendor Justice Coalition is marching to City Hall - calling on
@NYCCouncil
for Justice for our City’s Smallest Businesses!
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NEW: As of 1/15
@NYPDnews
will no longer oversee enforcement of the vendors who make our streets vibrant
As NYC's smallest biz, vending never should have been treated as a crime
The transition to civilian agency oversight must be codified into law-
@NYCCouncil
pass
#intro1116
!
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Maria was handcuffed, detained, strip-searched - for selling mangoes & kiwis
NYC is pouring resources into criminalizing these small businesses instead of creating a licensing program & regulating them
This has to change:
@NYCMayor
@MTorresSpringer
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While
@NYGovCuomo
spends his days calling billionaires in the Hamptons, Doña Sabina is making sure her neighbors in Corona, Queens, have affordable fruits & vegetables. She's an
#essentialworker
but excluded from
#COVID19
relief
@NYGovCuomo
where's her call?
#FundExcludedWorkers
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Street vendors are part of the fabric of city life
Why does NYC criminalize our smallest biz, instead of giving them tools to formalize?
#PermitsNotTickets
This abuse has to end. Vendors like Elsa need a pathway to permits so they can work safely
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And FYI: Maria who is being harassed in the video:
- her first language is Kichwa
- her second language is Spanish
- her THIRD language is English
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🧵 Myths vs. Facts - NYC Street Vendor Edition🗽🥨
As NYC's smallest yet most visible businesses, myths about this workforce of primarily immigrants & POC often make more waves than the truth
It's time to clear them up!
#PermitsNotTickets
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"I've been working here 15 yrs, I know the rules"
MD Rahman has a license & permit to vend. As an SVP member, he knows his rights & laws to follow
@NYCParks
is harassing legally operating vendors. Why are you making it so difficult for small biz to survive?
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Grossly uninformed statement. Vendors bring business to commercial corridors, increasing foot traffic and economic growth for all. Read Up on the facts:
Brick & mortars have called for need commercial rent stabilization - do you support this?
@usb_nyc
You know what I hear over and over again - that NYC is not enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors. I’m for increasing licenses but we should do more for the retailers who are paying rent and trying to survive.
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@AndrewYang
@usb_nyc
Increasing licenses brings vendors into the formalized economy, rather than criminalizing & levying heavy fines NYC's smallest biz - primarily women, POC & immigrants
There should be no cap on entrepreneurship on our city
Focus on commercial rent stabilization
#FairRentNYC
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🧵
#ValentinesDay
marks an important moment in Lidia’s life
On February 14, 2001 she first began to organize for street vendor rights
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In the month of Ramadan as 1000s of Muslims in NYC fast from dawn to sunset, they look for Halal food which is rare to find in food banks. Working w
@jessicaramos
to serve the Muslim community & provide 100s of Halal meals in this holy month. Ramadan Mubarak sisters & brothers
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Is there any industry that makes you wait 20+ yrs for business permitting?
Moulay Ennaaim is 53 years old. He's been a vendor for 14 yrs
His waitlist number is 1,172. If he's lucky, he'll receive a license for his Financial District halal cart in 10 years, in *2033* at age 63
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For anyone who has the means to support the impacted halal cart workers of Q Halal Cart on 83rd & 2nd Ave
100% will go to the 4 affected Halal Cart workers, including financial assistance to cover lost wages & other costs associated with these attacks
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Yesterday after 16 years on a waitlist & $140,000 spent renting a permit on the underground market - our member Mohamed Bahieldin finally got the green light to apply for a Supervisory License & own his very own food cart permit 🎉
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All evidence points to NYC not loving the churro lady
does this gets the churro lady a free pass next time she gets arrested by NYPD?
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Today marks 25 years since an act of police brutality robbed 23-year-old Amadou Diallo of his life and an ambitious future
Amadou Diallo was an immigrant from West Africa and street vendor, who came to the USA with dreams of going to college 🧵
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Inés is a single mother of 4, a street vendor in Queens, and an immigrant who has made NYC home
Last week, 4 DCWP & NYPD agents gave Inés a $1,000 fine for street vending. The agent who gave her the fine said “don’t worry, it’s just $1,000”
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Corona Plaza is a cultural & economic hub. Local street vendors have been collaborating w/ city agencies to add trash receptacles, set rules, distribute community resources & host cultural events
But this Thursday, DSNY Police were armed & deployed to remove them 👇👇
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⬆️👀 have you called / tagged your NYC Councilmember yet to demand legislation for a fair street vending industry?
NYC must support our smallest businesses, not further marginalize them
Allow them access to licensing. Don’t make outlaws out of working families trying to survive
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Congratulations to our member Mor Moussa! After being on the waitlist for 9 yrs, waiting for his chance to get a license & formalize his business, his name finally was called
❓Did you know- there are only 853 licenses for merch vendors, in all of NYC - a population of 8 mil?
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Hundreds of deliveristas arriving to Foley Square demanding essential rights:
✅Access bathrooms
✅Living wage + Hazard Pay
✅Safety protections
✅Safe space to eat & stay warm
✅Right to organize
🚴♂️
#LosDeliveristasUnidos
@workersjusticep
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新年快乐！虎年吉祥，恭喜发财！
Happy Lunar New Year! 2022 brings the Year of the Tiger, an animal that symbolizes courage, bravery, and power. May we find the strength to overcome any obstacles we may face and have a safe, prosperous, and fulfilling year!
#LunarNewYear
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the hardworking street vendor moms! 🌸🌹♥️
Make today a special one for all & support moms like Norma, pictured here in Corona Plaza, Queens, and Sonia at 203 Knickerbocker Ave in Bushwick
#MothersDay
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Happy holidays from
@NYCMayor
to The Bronx’s working families:
$1,000 fine for selling fruit cups
All vendors want for Christmas is a permit to work safely & with dignity. But now, you can’t even get on a waitlist for one
How are working families supposed to survive???
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It's been a year since videos went viral of the 'Churro Lady' - Senora Elsa - handcuffed by
@NYPDnews
for selling churros
ONE YEAR & A GLOBAL PANDEMIC later
@NYCCouncil
@NYCMayor
have done NOTHING to support NYC's 20,000 street vendors
STREET VENDORS NEED RELIEF!
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@NYPDnews
War on Working Families continues
Each bag of clothing & toys represents a family falling into poverty as a result of your actions
Shameful to celebrate criminalizing hard-working immigrants trying to make a living. Why don't you help vendors get a license instead?
Your feedback matters, and we heard you, Jackson Heights! Thanks to your input and with the support of the Community Response Team and Sanitation, we took action against unlicensed vendors on Roosevelt Avenue. Here are the items confiscated as a result.
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The most beautiful flowers come from street vendors 🧸❤️🌹
Tag us
@VendorPower
as you shop from vendors this weekend!
🖼️ by
@smugmorenita
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“16 days without income. We want dialogue, not harassment”
These are the faces of Corona Plaza vendors who make an honorable living, pay taxes & live in Corona
Yet who the City has forced to stop work w/daily police presence, unable to sell food
@nytimes
called top 50 in NYC
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City planning is at its best when communities are leading the way!
In Corona Plaza, Queens, the growing vending community of ~90 food & merch vendors have developed a map of their placement, community agreements - and yesterday voted to form a Corona Plaza Vendors Association!
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NYPD conducts sweeps on Downtown Manhattan Street Vendors, issuing fines to struggling biz months after
@NYCMayor
declared
@NYPDnews
out of vendor Enforcement
We call for
@NYCMayor
&
@NYCCouncil
to pass
#Intro1116
immediately and end the criminalization of street vending!
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Maria was handcuffed, detained, strip-searched - for selling mangoes & kiwis
NYC is pouring resources into criminalizing these small businesses instead of creating a licensing program & regulating them
This has to change:
@NYCMayor
@MTorresSpringer
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Street Vendors from 5 boros are camping out for 24hrs at
@GovKathyHochul
office demanding
#LegalizeStreetVending
🧵Hear their stories:
María, Vendor in Jamaica, Queens:
“I’ve had a license for 13 yrs, but w/out a permit, police chase me. I’m here for the opportunity to work”
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How would you feel if NYPD pulled up on you, handed you a ticket for up to $1,000 & said see you in court --
4 months after
@NYCMayor
said
#NYPD
would no longer enforce street vending?
@NYCCouncil
must take action on real reform for our smallest biz. Pass
#intro1116
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When the city tried to give this publicly-owned building away to Amazon, organizing kept it public!
Now - with
@wqclt
we’re plotting to turn it into a community land trust: community-owned and run space, including a commissary kitchen & street vendor garage!
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NYPD HAS NO PLACE IN STREET VENDING!
This week, 3 halal cart vendors working outside Hudson Yards, who have been excluded from all pandemic relief, were harassed & fined by the NYPD for up to $400 on bogus charges.
NYC's smallest businesses should NEVER be criminalized‼️
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Every day, Hudson Yards management harasses street vendor Mohamed & calls NYPD
His crimes?
A box on the ground. His license in his pocket. 22 fines of $50-$500 in 1 month
@GovKathyHochul
@NYCMayor
: STOP letting billionaires target NY's smallest biz!
#LegalizeStreetVending
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This is how NY treats immigrant mothers
This is Rosa. She is the mother of a young daughter. She is an
#excludedworker
All women deserve to work safely. This is why
@GovKathyHochul
must
#LegalizeStreetVending
so immigrant mothers like Rosa can get a permit to vend
Cops issuing a ticket to this vendor in Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station
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Day 12: a foggy day in Corona Plaza as vendors gather to share atole before beginning to collect signatures of support
Meanwhile police are parked nearby to stop vendors from working
Why so much investment in stopping people from working?
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On day 32 of protest, the taxi workers of
@NYTWA
are going on a hunger strike to demand IMMEDIATE debt forgiveness. We're here in solidarity with them to demand justice for the workers who have lost their lives and for those who are putting their lives on the line fighting for it
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THIS IS WHY WE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR STREET VENDORS!
Vendors work day in and day out to feed NYC. We call on
@NYCCouncil
@NYCSpeakerCoJo
to recognize their contribution to NYC, decriminalize street vending and PASS
#INTRO1116
!
📽️⚡️ of 8/13 Action in Times Square
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Most NYC street vendors are excluded from federal stimulus relief DESPITE the fact that they pay taxes w ITIN.
👉 Pledge your stimulus check to support NYC's immigrant street vendors:
#MutualAid
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Vendors we visited on 14th St yesterday say its closure to cars is helping their business. Fewer cars = more space for pedestrians to walk and folks like Angel to make a living. Thanks
@CarlinaRivera
@NYCSpeakerCoJo
@TransAlt
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13 days without income
Corona Plaza vendors are occupying the plaza until we reach an agreement with the City
Entrepreneurship should be supported & regulated, not wiped out. Corona residents need work
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It’s not enough for armed DSNY police to tear down a fruit vendor
They misinform the public, belittle the street vendor, then give a $1,000 ticket
🗯️“They can get a license, it’s cheap, they’re making more than enough to get one”
20,000 NYers on waitlists would beg to differ
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NYC's smallest biz are trapped
W/out permits, vendors like Mercedes have difficulty proving they're small biz owners to get relief. Mercedes has served Queens for 20+ yrs, doesn't she deserve relief?
NYC's street vending system needs urgent reform.
@NYCCouncil
pass
#Intro1116
!
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Now - time to go support your local street vendor! Because rain or shine, vendors show up for New Yorkers, keeping our city's streets safe, vibrant & delicious
#VendorPower
#LiftTheCaps
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"To truly address the tale of two cities, we must protect our street vendors
I urge my colleagues
@NYSA_Majority
to join me in cosponsoring A5081A to create a fair street vending license program. Let's get this done New York"
Thank you
@votejgr
!!
#LegalizeStreetVending
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NYC's open streets program that excludes street vendors is just 🤯🤯🤯
Vendors have been keeping communities fed throughout the pandemic as essential workers, but time & time again excluded from relief.
City policy should help all small biz, not some at the expense of others
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NOW: Street vendors & allies march demanding
#PermitsNotTickets
!
Vendors are part of NY's culture & economy - it's time to
#LegalizeStreetVending
!
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RALLY❗️We’re coming together to say NO to over-policing, YES to fair working conditions for vendors, and YES to subway and bus improvements!
🗓 Mon. Nov 11th
⏰ 12PM
📍Broadway Junction Subway Stop
#NoNewCops
#FixTheSubway
#LifttheCaps
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Vendors in Flushing, Queens, gathered to discuss recent enforcement & lack of licensing. They ask that community leaders meet with them - their neighbors- and work together to develop solutions
Recent reporting has not included a single street vendor voice. Hear their stories 👇
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We are heading to 83rd Precinct with Señora Elsa to see what happened to the vendor at Myrtle-Wyckoff to try and get her released
@RLEspinal
@ReynosoBrooklyn
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This is what NYC forcing a family into poverty looks like.
Who does this help? Who is this protecting? Who is safer because a mother and son selling mangoes has been fined? No one.
#LegalizeStreetVending
#DefundNYPD
This is compassionate policing in NYC under our “progressive”
@NYCMayor
. I offered to pay her tickets and tried to hand her my number and the cops told me to “stand the fuck back.” Good fuckin’ riddance,
@BilldeBlasio
.
What are your thoughts,
@ericadamsfornyc
?
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📣The Elsa Fund is now live 📣
We created a fund to support street vendors caught up in the unjust vending system, to cover the cost of tickets and confiscated wares. 100% goes to vendors, including Elsa. Please donate & share!
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Maggie Morales runs Mike’s Coffee Express, a popular food truck by LaGuardia Airport, previously run alongside her husband who passed from this earth last year due to COVID.
Together with her children, Maggie is working to move forward and continue the food truck.
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BREAKING: Excluded Workers have shut down the Manhattan bridge to demand
@GovKathyHochul
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
pass the Unemployment Bridge Program to create a safety net for all workers.
Let’s make sure we’re
#ExcludedNoMore
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We're asking
@NYGovCuomo
to cancel his plan of hiring 500 new cops and instead invest this money in serving our communities. New Yorkers deserve better services and more affordable fares, and vendors need safe spaces in the MTA to make a living legally and serve their communities
Punishing the poor does not create a safer environment. Instead it threatens the very foundation of our community. That is why my New York colleagues and I wrote a letter to
@NYGovCuomo
asking him to help put an end to MTA's dangerous policing policy. Check it out here:
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📣 Today! It’s time to end the exploitative system & legalize the work of tamaleras, Halal cart vendors, and entrepreneurs who are part of New York's heart & soul🗽♥️
There is no just recovery without
#LegalizeStreetVending
- pass S1175/A5081
⏰ 11 AM
📍34 ST - Herald Square
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Street vending is NYC’s oldest entrepreneurial venture for veterans going back to the 1890s, when NYS passed a law promising wounded Civil War veterans could make a living as vendors.
Today, street vending is a tradition that remains deeply rooted in the NYC veterans community
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🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
8 street vendors, excluded from all pandemic relief, were displaced from Hudson Yards after a battle w property developers. We're FIGHTING BACK & will reinstall their food carts
#FundExcludedWorkers
⏰ 1 PM, Monday, March 22nd
📌 33rd street // 10th & 11th Ave
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Today marks 2 months since the hardworking vendors of Corona Plaza were halted. Families are at the bottom of their savings, struggling to pay rent
We appreciate all working towards a resolution to formalize the market, bringing this vibrant cultural & economic hub back to life
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Happening Now! Street Vendors &
#FundExcludedWorkers
Hunger Strikers gather in Hudson Yards, where vendors have been illegally displaced from their spots by Billionaire Developers Related Companies - losing their jobs after a year w/out any pandemic relief
We are fighting back!
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