Its hard to advance vendors’ rights when you are always on the defensive! Just as we were battling the Health Department to get bathroom access for our food vendors, now the Parks Department is trying to remove 80% of the artists who sell in NYC parks. We’re tired, but our struggle continues. At our meeting last week, our members agreed that an injury to one of us harms us all!
This issue is rightly getting a lot of attention (NY Times, Boston Globe, and even Art Daily). The City’s spinmeisters are making their usual argument — that the artists are creating “congestion.” And some powerful organizations, like the Daily News and Municipal Arts Society, are buying what Bloomberg is selling. But is anyone actually talking to New Yorkers?
While we’re rallying our troops for Friday’s hearing (details here), preparing our testimony, and working the phones, please sign our online petition to support these artists.
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Allow people who work with their hands and heart to sell their ART