Delhi After eight days on the ground in India and two days in the air and endless discussions of the formally named THE STREET VENDORS (PROTECTION OF LIVELIHOOD AND REGULATION OF STREET VENDING ACT, 2014, which has become our primary organizing tool since formal passage and enactment on May 1, 2014, it was clearly time …
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The Law of the Streets
Bengaluru In Chennai and Bengaluru, the issue we continued to hear in every market where we visited with our members was the police. Every day was a continual battle for space and the streets. We may have gotten a law passed in Delhi, but without power, literally in the streets, it wouldn’t matter to our …
Street Sellers are not Cage Dwellers
Bengaluru Visiting the Yesvantpur markets at dawn on a Sunday morning gave our whole ACORN team a better way of understanding the issues some of members were facing and what our union needed to do to address some of them in the future. As soon as we saw our members in vegetable market spreading out …