Streets Blog

"[The Street Vendor Project] estimates there are some 20,000 street vendors in the city, but the city has a cap of 3,000 citywide mobile food vending permits, another 1,000 for seasonal setups, and 1,000 more for fresh fruit and vegetable carts, meaning many sell illegally or pay document holders in an underground market to rent the papers."

Front Page Confidential

The short films in the two-day program often dealt with battling the stigma associated with sex work, including two shorts from the Sex Workers Project-Urban Justice Center, which interviewed sex workers and their families, offering positive views of sex work as a profession.

Patch

"We stand in solidarity with them and their demands for basic needs which should already been met. DOC must act swiftly before another life is lost," said Darren Mack, Co-Director of Freedom Agenda."