As anyone who has ever been to Hanoi can attest, street vending is one of the most common and important forms of urban livelihood, along with junk trading and motorbike taxi driving. Thousands of rural-to-urban migrants ply city streets, mainly selling fruits, vegetables, and prepared foods (like pho, the ubiquitous noodle dish). Not only is vending an important source of livelihoods, it also creates a pro-poor distribution chain for produce grown in Hanoi's peri-urban outskirts. As the economy grows, however, and more and more of Hanoi's agricultural hinterland is plowed under for development schemes, and supermarkets begin to displace traditional markets and street vendors (especially in the consumption patterns of Vietnam's newly rich) informal livelihoods are coming under immense pressure.
Alerts: Markets in Trouble
Hanoi: Ban on Street Vending Goes into Effect July 1
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Canby Saturday Market
This is the first year for te Canby Saturday Market. Ihope that the City of Canby can grasp on to the tradition that saturday markets bring. An excellent way to mingle with you community while taking in great wholsome food, veggies, flowers, art's & crafts, and gret music just to name a few! Please come down to this years Canby Saturday Market and enjoy what still can be called small town goodness! 9-1 main street Canby, Or 97013......
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New York Street Artists
This link and accompanying videos are about ARTIST andRobert Lederman in NY City. ARTIST is an acronym for a street artist organization in NYC.
The 21 new videos include ARTIST protests, artist arrests, City officials including Giuliani discussing street artist rights, SoHo Alliance members describing their plan to limit artists to a few special areas with certification and a profile of the poet whose summons led to the written matter exemption being created in 1982.
If you were around in the early years 1993-1997 when artists arrests were a daily occurrence or are a newcomer to the NYC street artist community, you will enjoy and learn a lot from these videos.
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Mexico City Street Vendor Crackdown - October 2007
Below is info from google news links. I searched using ther Mexico City Vendors. I invite people to comment on this situation.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtuo4qb2TAqMzIIBwY1EFszrzw8Q
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvnN5oo_nnk78PX8dA6DRHO7ItUQD8S7U25G0
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1246793820071012
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ap9hEJP22nMU&refer=home
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Mexico City bars vendors from city center
Officials tell vendors to relocate to government-subsidized property nearby
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:49 p.m. CT Oct 12, 2007
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Protest Assault Against Street Vendors and Informal Settlements in Zimbabwe
- Sample Letter to Boniface Chidyausiku, Ambassador to the UN for Zimbabwe
- An Op-Ed essay: STREET VENDING GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY
June 28, 2005
Dear Friend of Markets and Social Justice,
