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Time to let the DC Council know you support the Immigrant Justice Platform!

Sanctuary DMV on Twitter “Join us in asking the to fund the budget priorities! The Immigrant Justice Platform comprises legislative & budget priorities that are essential to the well-being of DC’s many immigrant communities! Email council now👉🏽 https://t.co/8ToO30rOnM 🧵”

https://twitter.com/hrzate/status/1620525195567169536?t=9BCympgwM39VUrPMn2iTnA&s=19

👆🏽Excellent cocerage from the DCist's Hector Arzate on big deveopmenta in the fight for vendor justoce. Council Chair Phil Memdelson and Council Chair Brianne Nadeau have joined forces to support DC street vendors to decriminalize street vending and create an easier path to licenses!

Vendors United's campaign to decriminalize street vending is featured in this month's issue of Shelterforce, the only independent, non-academic publication covering community development, affordable housing, and neighborhood stabilization since 1975.

Read the article 👇🏽

https://twitter.com/DC_BCI/status/1603880005561454594?t=WPwEZFmBNvCcPq2I0Zpo5Q&s=19

https://vimeo.com/755992150/5c2224366c

For years DC street vendors have suffered harassment and abuse from the police. In 2018, Vendedores Unidos/ Vendor’s United was formed to fight back against this abuse. As a result of their work, in 2020 two bills were introduced in the DC Council to decriminalize street vending and reform street vending laws. In 2021, they were reintroduced. This Wednesday (11/16) these bills will finally get their first hearing. Tune in here: www.ChairmanMendelson.com/live

Bill 1: Street Vending Decriminalization Amendment Act of 2021
This bill will decriminalize vending without a license in DC. Currently, a de facto ban on new street vending licenses exists due to high license and permit costs ($2,000 minimum) and extreme regulatory barriers. Additionally, biased enforcement of vending laws creates additional barriers for Black and brown vendors.

Street vending is an essential part of DC culture, going as far back as the 1800s when Alethia Browning Tanner and Sophia Browning Bell sold produce downtown to purchase their own freedom and that of their family and friends. Since then street vending has provided a lifeline to many marginalized communities who are excluded from the formal labor market, including returning citizens and migrants. Till this date vending in high foot traffic areas downtown remains one of the only ways that poor and working class residents can benefit from DC’s tourism industry.

It is past time to decriminalize street vending! Stay tuned over the next few days to learn more about Bill No 2 and the hearing! Also join us on 11/16 for a phone zap and twitterstorm to tell Chairman Mendelson to commit to passing the Street Vending Decriminalization Amendment Act and the Sidewalk Vending Zones Amendment Act by the end of 2022

Ni Un Año Más (Not Another Year): the Fight to Decriminalize Street Vending in DC | Part 1 This is "Ni Un Año Más (Not Another Year): the Fight to Decriminalize Street Vending in DC | Part 1" by Andi Avery on Vimeo, the home for…

Watch the entire video and hear from members of Vendors United urging DC elected officials to decriminalize street vending now.

https://vimeo.com/721539052

TODAY

Please join us for an impromptu lunch at the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza at 1 p.m. to honor the life of Chef Ziggy, Eliezer Albino Segui. His Puerto Rican sidewalk restaurant was known across the region. He gave so much love to his community and to Columbia Heights, and was loved in return. Vendors United Food Coop Members will be serving foods as well as the Solidarity Chefs, who have cooked over 1500 meals for migrants recently arrived to DC.

BCI and members of Vendedores Unidos // Vendors United are raising funds to support Consuela, the mama of Chef's Ziggy's son. We've been trying to find her most recent phone number. Please help us find Consuela by forwarding this message and responding here.

Please take a moment from your day to read about Chef Ziggy, and forward this message far and wide.

May his memory be a blessing.

https://dcist.com/story/21/02/25/puerto-rican-chef-columbia-heights-gofundme/

Follow the bus!! Follow the bus!!

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And join us!!

We are getting started!! Follow our live location here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1pPDhrFR79VxfzuL7

Listen to Coop Worker Owners and Excluded Worker Council Leaders testify today LIVE:

– On the Council site, at https://bit.ly/2ooL0l1
– On the OCTFME site, at https://bit.ly/2JNZIro
– On TV, Channel 13 or 18

ENGLISH FOLLOWS. We would so deeply appreciate it were you to tithe today in support of Excluded and Essential workers.

¿Recuerdan cuando comenzamos a cuidarnos unos a otros durante esta pandemia? ¿Cuando no había papel higiénico ni desinfectante para manos? No ha terminado para muchos de nosotros. Muchos trabajadores y sus familias siguen enfermándose de COVID. Por favor diezme hoy y apoye el Fondo de Recuperación para Trabajadores Esenciales y Excluidos de la Amada Incubadora Comunitaria.
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Do you all remember when we started taking care of each other through this pandemic. When there was no toilet paper and hand sanitizer to be found? It's not over for many of us. Many workers and their families are still getting sick with COVID. Please tithe today and support the Beloved Community Incubator Essential and Excluded Worker Recovery Fund.
https://give.weraise.org/.../beloved-community.../c386686

Help us cross the finish line!

https://give.weraise.org/campaign/beloved-community-incubator-2022/c386686

Beloved Community Incubator 2022 Workers deserve protection and meaningful compensation. Help us buy high-quality masks and rapid tests, and provide financial support for workers to quarantine, care for sick family members, and take time off to get vaccinated. www.give.weraise.org/BCIcovidworkerfund

Join us TONIGHT for the launch of the Vendors United Food Coop's Winter Season Meal Subscription. Music, Tweet Campaign, and more.

https://goo.gl/maps/mSSuvNYg2uzwmBCH6

The Vendors United Food Coop coop is launching this coming Wednesday, the 16th, in NW DC. Buy Meal Subscriptions here: https://givebutter.com/O3UJ5a. Think CSA for delicious prepared Central & South American & Caribbean meals from local vendors.

We’ve more than doubled our original goal to sell 80 Meal Subscriptions before the coop launches on this coming Wednesday, the 16th. We've sold 160+ Meal Subscriptions - help us reach 200 sold Meal Subscriptions before we launch on Wednesday!!!

Details about the Winter Season Meal Subscription
- The Vendors United Food Coop will be cooking a wide variety of South and Central American and Caribbean foods, and meal subscribers will be able to choose their meal from a different menu each week of 8-10 total meal options (3-4 vegetarian or vegan options)
- Meal pick-ups will be every Wednesday for 8 Wednesdays in a row between February 16th and April 6th between 6-7pm at the park at the corner of 11th St NW & Monroe St NW in Columbia Heights
- Meal subscribers can assign their meal for pick-up by someone else, if needed, for any given week
-Meal subscribers can also choose to give away their meal to someone in need of a meal during any given week
- The meals are enough food for 1 person - people should buy the amount of Winter Season Meal Subscriptions for the amount of people they want to have meals

The Vendors United Food Coop coop is launching this coming Wednesday, the 16th, in NW DC. Buy Meal Subscriptions here: https://givebutter.com/O3UJ5a. Think CSA for delicious prepared Central & South American & Caribbean meals from local vendors.

Meet Angela, a vendor worker-owner of the coop. Every year, Angela's mother participates in a challenge cooking contest where indigenous Mexican chefs can only use local ingredients to prepare their meals. Every week, Angela and her husband Pablo, carry on the family tradition of generosity and food by giving away hundreds of boxes of food with their neighbors in the Arroz y Frijoles "Pod" of Ward 1 Mutual Aid.

We're halfway there -- help us hit $20,000!

We will support local essential workers, excluded workers, and cooperative worker-owners with paid sick days for vaccination and quarantine support. At least 100 workers themselves and/or family members will be paid and protected.

Beloved Community Incubator 2022 Workers deserve protection and meaningful compensation. Help us buy high-quality masks and rapid tests, and provide financial support for workers to quarantine, care for sick family members, and take time off to get vaccinated. www.give.weraise.org/BCIcovidworkerfund

The Vendors United Food Coop coop is launching this coming Wednesday, the 16th, in NW DC. Buy Meal Subscriptions here: https://givebutter.com/O3UJ5a. Think CSA for delicious prepared Central & South American & Caribbean meals from local vendors.

Meet Santiaga, one of the vendor worker-owners of the coop. Santiaga carries and keeps alive an indigenous food tradition passed along to her by her parents from Guatemala. Santiaga is determined to make sure street vendors are never criminalized for sharing their food and culture.

The Vendors United Food Coop coop is launching this coming Wednesday, the 16th, in NW DC. Buy Meal Subscriptions here: https://givebutter.com/O3UJ5a. Think CSA for delicious prepared Central & South American & Caribbean meals from local vendors.

Our original goal was to sell 80 Meal Subscriptions before the start of the Winter Season on Wednesday, Feb. 16th. We’ve more than doubled our goal and have sold 160+ Meal Subscriptions - help us reach 200 sold Meal Subscriptions before we launch on next Wednesday, the 16th!!

Details about the Winter Season Meal Subscription

- The Vendors United Food Coop will be cooking a wide variety of South and Central American and Caribbean foods, and meal subscribers will be able to choose their meal from a different menu each week of 8-10 total meal options (3-4 vegetarian or vegan options)
- Meal pick-ups will be every Wednesday for 8 Wednesdays in a row between February 16th and April 6th between 6-7pm at the park at the corner of 11th St NW & Monroe St NW in Columbia Heights
- Meal subscribers can assign their meal for pick-up by someone else, if needed, for any given week
-Meal subscribers can also choose to give away their meal to someone in need of a meal during any given week
- The meals are enough food for 1 person - people should buy the amount of Winter Season Meal Subscriptions for the amount of people they want to have meals