Rescind Discriminatory Ordinance against Beach Street Vendors in San Diego
Rescind Discriminatory Ordinance against Beach Street Vendors in San Diego
The Issue
San Diego has recently begun cracking down on enforcement on vendors and has passed a newly amended ordinance that discriminatorily bans and prohibits street vendors from vending on San Diego sidewalks, beaches, and parks. These bans and areas prohibited to street vendors included Balboa Park and Ocean Beach where there are no vendors currently vending due to the newly amended discriminatory ordinance.
Link: Mission Beach “Leaders” File Complaint to Enforce Ban of Street Vendors.
On behalf of the Street Vendors Coalition representing indigenous sidewalk vendors currently selling on Mission Beach in San Diego we confirm that they have met the several permits legally required of them, including the city business license to ensure they are operating in a responsible and in a safe manner. We believe the city's new discriminatory ordinance is unfair and too punitive, aggressive, and unlawful. It bans vendors from most high-traffic and profitable areas. Also it has racist overtones because most vendors are immigrants of color and from indigenous communities. “It bans sidewalk vendors from operating in some of the most high-traffic, profitable areas for them and will significantly limit or outright ban vendors from vending on public property. “This ordinance would disproportionately impact immigrants and People of Color and further penalize individuals for being low income,” said Patricia Mondragon from Alliance San Diego. “Sidewalk vending is a culturally significant means of income for immigrant families and an accessible entry into entrepreneurship for low-income individuals.”Many speakers also argued that the ordinance was too strict, citing restrictions on how far away (in feet) vendors must be from the curb, from any buildings, from other vendors, from bus stops, from fire hydrants, from public restrooms, from major intersections, from a public trash can, etc.
The Mission Beach Town Council along with local residents and business owners in San Diego have recently held anti vendor protests and rallies fostering hatred towards vulnerable indigenous vendors earning their livelihood on Mission Beach. Mission Beach Council president Larry Webb has created a hostile work environment for indigenous vendors selling along Mission Beach and claims that street vendors are disturbing to “their” community and that vendors create a lot of extra trash. He claims that they can’t use the park spaces on “their” most popular beaches.
Larry Webb also claims that the beach is overran/ taken over by street vendors who block the visual and physical access to the beach. Larry Webb proposes on social media and local news channels that Mission Beach should “only be enjoyed by the CITIZENS of San Diego,” and stated that there is a direct coralation between the rise of violence and gun fire in and around Mission Beach Park and the influx of uncontrolled street vending.
These public anti immigration/ xenophobic statements are creating a hostile work environment for indigenous vendors and making local residents take extreme measures to get rid of them while again creating the racist environmental narrative that vendors are dirty, illegal, and criminal.
Larry Webb does not want to uphold or honor our current standing State Law SB 946 Sidewalk Vending Act that’s currently on the books but instead wants to bring back an outdated municipal code from 1987 which criminalizes and bans all street vendors from selling on Mission Beach. Mission beach council members are putting pressure on the city of San Diego & local law enforcement to kick them out. Such rules that Mission Beach Council wants to pass do not apply to beach communities ( Mission Beach) because the new measures will require approval from the California Coastal Commission. Let’s inform the California Coastal Commission that the citizens and non citizens of California do not approve of this discriminatory mistreatment of indigenous peoples.
Please help/ support by signing and sharing our petition and resending this discriminatory amended ordinance done by our San Diego city council members and racist San Diego locals that think it’s their duty to enforce and police indigenous vendors earning a livelihood on Mission Beach. Let’s remind the California Coastal Commission that indigenous (coastal) vendors have every right to uphold and honor the spirit of California State Law/ Senate Bill 946 – Safe Sidewalk Vending Act became effective January 1, 2018 and required local agencies (including charter cities) to adopt (FAIR) regulations governing sidewalk vending.
1.) California cities cannot ban vending in parks.
2.) Cities cannot determine where vendors can operate on sidewalks, unless there is a HEALTH, SAFETY, or WELFARE CONCERN.
3.) STREET VENDORS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO ASK PERMISSION FROM ADJACENT BUSINESS TO OPERATE.
Another culprit discriminating indigenous vendors and spreading misinformation on local news channels is an individual by the name Tony Sanfelice, who is affiliated with Don'tTrashMissionBeach.org. https://www.donttrashmissionbeach.com/publicity
Tony Sanfelice has joined with Larry Webb to create this racist environmental narrative against indigenous vendors. Tony Sanfelice falsely stated that vendors alone are responsible for all the dirty diapers and broken glass bottles left on Mission Beach. Instead of pointing out the obvious logical reasons of who contributes to trash ( Locals, Tourist, and homeless population ) Tony chooses instead to criminalize the indigenous vendors selling alongside Mission Beach.
“These people are not acting like entrepreneurs," said Tony Felice.
"Entrepreneurs would have assembled and organized within months. They would have a designated representative. They would have self-governed. They would take pride in ownership. They would clean up, but instead, go to our website and see the piles of trash that’s left on the ground.” - Tony Felice.
Mission Beach Press Conference: Illegal Street Vending: https://www.donttrashmissionbeach.com/post/mission-beach-press-conference-illegal-street-vending
Larry Webb’s and Tony Felice anti vendor rhetoric incites and emboldens racist locals and businesses to harass and threaten our vulnerable indígena vendors. Larry Webb and his mob are colonizing space and taking up Mission Beach sidewalks for their own events and anti vending protests and using outdated municipal codes that they are looking to pass to ban indigenous vendors. This is not keeping our community safe and adding insult to injury.
Indigena street vendors are being publicly targeted on biased local news channels resulting in lower and fewer sales for vendors from the public.
Local racist are harassing and threatening indigena vendors on Mission Beach without the help of local law enforcement who rather police vendors than protect them from xenophobic attacks from local residents and Mission Beach Council members.
Racist local residents have gone to the extent of impersonating ICE officials and city code enforcement to instill fear and harass indigenous vendors selling on Mission Beach.
Vendors who pay their fees and taxes shouldn't have to deal with this issue and have the freedom to choose their location where they wish. Vendors don't say YOU HAVE TO buy from them nor should they be told where to go. They have several competing local brick and mortar businesses in close proximity to one another that have made it work for years. These vendors have all their paperwork in order, taxes and fees paid up, and get told to leave the beach or the park. NOT FAIR! Vendors should be recognized as a general benefit and as a right of people to earn their livelihood.
The reality is that Mission Beach council cant legally enforce a new or outdated law and rather have to enforce ordinances instead because California State Law Bill 946 trumps it which decriminalizes vendors in the absence of local permitting programs unless there are Health, Safety, Wellness concerns or issues.
The city of San Diego and local brick and mortar businesses understand that they cannot ban or determine where vendors can operate on sidewalks, UNLESS there is a HEALTH, SAFETY, or WELFARE CONCERN and since 2020 (COVID) the city of San Diego / local businesses & Larry Webb have been actively targeting those areas of concern in order to prohibit and criminalize street vendors while causing public alarm from locals residents and the bias local news channels. They solely want to criminalize vendors' business activity and don’t respect indigenous vendors as entrepreneurs. They are just trying to make a living to support their families and they are not doing anything criminal or illegal. Street vendors should be allowed to exercise their economic rights, made explicit in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other normative frameworks at the international and national levels. Many constitutions guarantee the right to work and/or the right to carry on a trade or business, and street vending organizations have successfully argued in courts of law that governments cannot violate that right by banning street trade. Proponents of economic liberty argue that outlawing street vending violates principles of free and open competition in addition to individual rights to work and non-discrimination.
Please help/support by signing our petition and rescindIng this discriminatory amended ordinance done by the San Diego City council members and enforced by Mission Beach Council members that don’t uphold or honor the spirit of California State Law/Senate Bill 946 – Safe Sidewalk Vending Act became effective January 1, 2018.
1.) California cities cannot ban vending in parks.
2.) STREET VENDORS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO ASK PERMISSION FROM ADJACENT BUSINESS TO OPERATE.
(Businesses are enraged that they can NO longer shake down vendors and harass them with authority like they did in the past before the California State Law SB 946 Safe Sidewalk Vending Act.)
3.) Cities cannot determine where vendors can operate on sidewalks, unless there is a HEALTH, SAFETY, or WELFARE CONCERN. ( Anti vending San Diego residents have no other choice but to attack these areas of concern in order to ban indigenous vendors.)
The city of San Diego and brick & mortar businesses that sell on Mission Beach must honor and uphold the State Law SB 946 that states no city or business establishment can ban or prohibit vending on sidewalks and in parks. The city and the brick & mortar business that are located on Mission Beach are not upholding the spirit of SB State Law in San Diego and in favor and politically influenced by corporate capitalistic interest, including the Boardwalk and local businesses who are also competing with street vendors financially and making claims to the city council and the public that street vendors are taking away their customers who are buying the same products they sell.
Video on YouTube showing Businesses complaining about vendors taking business away from them (economic competition). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaR3_zMro68
State Law decriminalized vending, with the aim of promoting economic opportunities to low-income and immigrant communities. The law does not allow the city to prohibit sidewalk vendors based on perceived community animus or economic competition and that's the exact scenario that we as street vendors are faced with selling on a monopolized popular (touristic) Mission Beach San Diego.
This discriminatory ordinance goes way beyond what’s required by the state law which focuses on protecting public health and safety, the ordinance also resource vendors through out the city, weather it’s a high traffic area or not. Overreaching broad laws are tailored to one specific area with indigenous vendors on Mission Beach but they don’t take into account communities/ areas where vendors who are white are selling an issue.
These are the alleged concerns and issues that were brought up at the San Diego city council in which the newly discriminatory amended ordinance were based on:
1.) Street Vendors are responsible for food-borne illnesses.
SVC Response: The indigenous vendors that Mission Beach Council president Larry Webb is targeting (attacking and harassing) DO NOT SELL FOOD, they are merely artisans that sell on Mission Beach and more importantly there has NOT been one report or no increase in reported food borne illness incidents in San Diego coming from street vendors. There hasn’t been any reports to the police or public health department of these alleged concerns.
2.) Street Vendors block emergency access or public access to the beach
SVC response: The sheer number (thousands) of tourists during the summer create traffic jams and block public access to the beach all summer long. Who’s bringing and attracting these people? The answer is simple, the city of San Diego / Boardwalk and businesses that spend a pretty penny on advertising each year during the summer. Street vending was till recently looked upon only as an obstruction to traffic and to people walking. However with the effort of many organizations it is now recognized as a general benefit and as a right of people to earn their livelihood. The public access to the beach can never be blocked due to the multiple entrances/ access to the coastal waters throughout the coast of San Diego. No emergency access has been blocked by street vendors, tourists and the foot/ car traffic significantly create the highest congested areas of concern during the crowded summers in San Diego.
3.) Street vendors are responsible for uncollected trash
The city of San Diego and parks and recreation is responsible for the uncollected trash left by the true culprits who are no other than tourists who leave behind trash in every city of California. Blaming vendors for other peoples trash is discriminatory and dehumanizing while criminalizing vendors for earning a livelihood. Trash does not discriminate and should not be targeted to any set demographic of people or culture. The San Diego homeless population is not even mentioned.
4.) Interference with enjoyment of natural resources and recreational activities
The impact of COVID-19 has been very harsh on informal workers who have exhausted their capital and earnings in trying to feed themselves and their families during the extended lockdown period and now in 2022 when the lockdown and the restrictions have been lifted they are still using the same excuses to ban us as street vendors selling on Beach Street in Santa Cruz. Livelihood promotion for all vendors, including those selling non-essential goods, brings together about the law, justice, race, and inequality.
The sad reality is that local racist attack vulnerable indigenous vendors because they believe nobody will defend them but this petition will show them that’s not true and we will always have their back regardless of the backlash. White Americans only want to see our people working for them and not creating business for ourselves as Entrepreneurs / vendors. If it’s not us (Latino/ Hispanic / Indigenous people) building their houses (construction), it’s us cleaning their houses (landscaping, cleaning/ maids). If we are not picking their fruits and vegetables on colonized fields ( farm workers ), it is us becoming cooks or servants in their restaurants and corporations. As soon as indigenous people want to work for themselves is when we have a problem.
We need all San Diego residents, activists, healers, warriors, SD Aztecs, land protectors out there everyday to help our vulnerable vendors facing racist xenophobic attacks on them earning a livelihood on Mission Beach. Street Vendors Coalition. Gabriella & Leticia Torres @leticiatorres3057 need protection against these anti vendor policies and racist attacks from “local” residents and protect and defend them everyday while these discriminatory ordaince are in place, they really need the help and support from the San Diego community.
History
Street vending became prominent in the latter half of the 19th century, after California became a state in 1850.[1] Mexican and Chinese immigrants were some of the first street vendors in 1870. By 1890, the city tried to restrict their movement, but the food proved to be too popular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_vending_in_Los_Angeles
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The Issue
San Diego has recently begun cracking down on enforcement on vendors and has passed a newly amended ordinance that discriminatorily bans and prohibits street vendors from vending on San Diego sidewalks, beaches, and parks. These bans and areas prohibited to street vendors included Balboa Park and Ocean Beach where there are no vendors currently vending due to the newly amended discriminatory ordinance.
Link: Mission Beach “Leaders” File Complaint to Enforce Ban of Street Vendors.
On behalf of the Street Vendors Coalition representing indigenous sidewalk vendors currently selling on Mission Beach in San Diego we confirm that they have met the several permits legally required of them, including the city business license to ensure they are operating in a responsible and in a safe manner. We believe the city's new discriminatory ordinance is unfair and too punitive, aggressive, and unlawful. It bans vendors from most high-traffic and profitable areas. Also it has racist overtones because most vendors are immigrants of color and from indigenous communities. “It bans sidewalk vendors from operating in some of the most high-traffic, profitable areas for them and will significantly limit or outright ban vendors from vending on public property. “This ordinance would disproportionately impact immigrants and People of Color and further penalize individuals for being low income,” said Patricia Mondragon from Alliance San Diego. “Sidewalk vending is a culturally significant means of income for immigrant families and an accessible entry into entrepreneurship for low-income individuals.”Many speakers also argued that the ordinance was too strict, citing restrictions on how far away (in feet) vendors must be from the curb, from any buildings, from other vendors, from bus stops, from fire hydrants, from public restrooms, from major intersections, from a public trash can, etc.
The Mission Beach Town Council along with local residents and business owners in San Diego have recently held anti vendor protests and rallies fostering hatred towards vulnerable indigenous vendors earning their livelihood on Mission Beach. Mission Beach Council president Larry Webb has created a hostile work environment for indigenous vendors selling along Mission Beach and claims that street vendors are disturbing to “their” community and that vendors create a lot of extra trash. He claims that they can’t use the park spaces on “their” most popular beaches.
Larry Webb also claims that the beach is overran/ taken over by street vendors who block the visual and physical access to the beach. Larry Webb proposes on social media and local news channels that Mission Beach should “only be enjoyed by the CITIZENS of San Diego,” and stated that there is a direct coralation between the rise of violence and gun fire in and around Mission Beach Park and the influx of uncontrolled street vending.
These public anti immigration/ xenophobic statements are creating a hostile work environment for indigenous vendors and making local residents take extreme measures to get rid of them while again creating the racist environmental narrative that vendors are dirty, illegal, and criminal.
Larry Webb does not want to uphold or honor our current standing State Law SB 946 Sidewalk Vending Act that’s currently on the books but instead wants to bring back an outdated municipal code from 1987 which criminalizes and bans all street vendors from selling on Mission Beach. Mission beach council members are putting pressure on the city of San Diego & local law enforcement to kick them out. Such rules that Mission Beach Council wants to pass do not apply to beach communities ( Mission Beach) because the new measures will require approval from the California Coastal Commission. Let’s inform the California Coastal Commission that the citizens and non citizens of California do not approve of this discriminatory mistreatment of indigenous peoples.
Please help/ support by signing and sharing our petition and resending this discriminatory amended ordinance done by our San Diego city council members and racist San Diego locals that think it’s their duty to enforce and police indigenous vendors earning a livelihood on Mission Beach. Let’s remind the California Coastal Commission that indigenous (coastal) vendors have every right to uphold and honor the spirit of California State Law/ Senate Bill 946 – Safe Sidewalk Vending Act became effective January 1, 2018 and required local agencies (including charter cities) to adopt (FAIR) regulations governing sidewalk vending.
1.) California cities cannot ban vending in parks.
2.) Cities cannot determine where vendors can operate on sidewalks, unless there is a HEALTH, SAFETY, or WELFARE CONCERN.
3.) STREET VENDORS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO ASK PERMISSION FROM ADJACENT BUSINESS TO OPERATE.
Another culprit discriminating indigenous vendors and spreading misinformation on local news channels is an individual by the name Tony Sanfelice, who is affiliated with Don'tTrashMissionBeach.org. https://www.donttrashmissionbeach.com/publicity
Tony Sanfelice has joined with Larry Webb to create this racist environmental narrative against indigenous vendors. Tony Sanfelice falsely stated that vendors alone are responsible for all the dirty diapers and broken glass bottles left on Mission Beach. Instead of pointing out the obvious logical reasons of who contributes to trash ( Locals, Tourist, and homeless population ) Tony chooses instead to criminalize the indigenous vendors selling alongside Mission Beach.
“These people are not acting like entrepreneurs," said Tony Felice.
"Entrepreneurs would have assembled and organized within months. They would have a designated representative. They would have self-governed. They would take pride in ownership. They would clean up, but instead, go to our website and see the piles of trash that’s left on the ground.” - Tony Felice.
Mission Beach Press Conference: Illegal Street Vending: https://www.donttrashmissionbeach.com/post/mission-beach-press-conference-illegal-street-vending
Larry Webb’s and Tony Felice anti vendor rhetoric incites and emboldens racist locals and businesses to harass and threaten our vulnerable indígena vendors. Larry Webb and his mob are colonizing space and taking up Mission Beach sidewalks for their own events and anti vending protests and using outdated municipal codes that they are looking to pass to ban indigenous vendors. This is not keeping our community safe and adding insult to injury.
Indigena street vendors are being publicly targeted on biased local news channels resulting in lower and fewer sales for vendors from the public.
Local racist are harassing and threatening indigena vendors on Mission Beach without the help of local law enforcement who rather police vendors than protect them from xenophobic attacks from local residents and Mission Beach Council members.
Racist local residents have gone to the extent of impersonating ICE officials and city code enforcement to instill fear and harass indigenous vendors selling on Mission Beach.
Vendors who pay their fees and taxes shouldn't have to deal with this issue and have the freedom to choose their location where they wish. Vendors don't say YOU HAVE TO buy from them nor should they be told where to go. They have several competing local brick and mortar businesses in close proximity to one another that have made it work for years. These vendors have all their paperwork in order, taxes and fees paid up, and get told to leave the beach or the park. NOT FAIR! Vendors should be recognized as a general benefit and as a right of people to earn their livelihood.
The reality is that Mission Beach council cant legally enforce a new or outdated law and rather have to enforce ordinances instead because California State Law Bill 946 trumps it which decriminalizes vendors in the absence of local permitting programs unless there are Health, Safety, Wellness concerns or issues.
The city of San Diego and local brick and mortar businesses understand that they cannot ban or determine where vendors can operate on sidewalks, UNLESS there is a HEALTH, SAFETY, or WELFARE CONCERN and since 2020 (COVID) the city of San Diego / local businesses & Larry Webb have been actively targeting those areas of concern in order to prohibit and criminalize street vendors while causing public alarm from locals residents and the bias local news channels. They solely want to criminalize vendors' business activity and don’t respect indigenous vendors as entrepreneurs. They are just trying to make a living to support their families and they are not doing anything criminal or illegal. Street vendors should be allowed to exercise their economic rights, made explicit in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other normative frameworks at the international and national levels. Many constitutions guarantee the right to work and/or the right to carry on a trade or business, and street vending organizations have successfully argued in courts of law that governments cannot violate that right by banning street trade. Proponents of economic liberty argue that outlawing street vending violates principles of free and open competition in addition to individual rights to work and non-discrimination.
Please help/support by signing our petition and rescindIng this discriminatory amended ordinance done by the San Diego City council members and enforced by Mission Beach Council members that don’t uphold or honor the spirit of California State Law/Senate Bill 946 – Safe Sidewalk Vending Act became effective January 1, 2018.
1.) California cities cannot ban vending in parks.
2.) STREET VENDORS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO ASK PERMISSION FROM ADJACENT BUSINESS TO OPERATE.
(Businesses are enraged that they can NO longer shake down vendors and harass them with authority like they did in the past before the California State Law SB 946 Safe Sidewalk Vending Act.)
3.) Cities cannot determine where vendors can operate on sidewalks, unless there is a HEALTH, SAFETY, or WELFARE CONCERN. ( Anti vending San Diego residents have no other choice but to attack these areas of concern in order to ban indigenous vendors.)
The city of San Diego and brick & mortar businesses that sell on Mission Beach must honor and uphold the State Law SB 946 that states no city or business establishment can ban or prohibit vending on sidewalks and in parks. The city and the brick & mortar business that are located on Mission Beach are not upholding the spirit of SB State Law in San Diego and in favor and politically influenced by corporate capitalistic interest, including the Boardwalk and local businesses who are also competing with street vendors financially and making claims to the city council and the public that street vendors are taking away their customers who are buying the same products they sell.
Video on YouTube showing Businesses complaining about vendors taking business away from them (economic competition). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaR3_zMro68
State Law decriminalized vending, with the aim of promoting economic opportunities to low-income and immigrant communities. The law does not allow the city to prohibit sidewalk vendors based on perceived community animus or economic competition and that's the exact scenario that we as street vendors are faced with selling on a monopolized popular (touristic) Mission Beach San Diego.
This discriminatory ordinance goes way beyond what’s required by the state law which focuses on protecting public health and safety, the ordinance also resource vendors through out the city, weather it’s a high traffic area or not. Overreaching broad laws are tailored to one specific area with indigenous vendors on Mission Beach but they don’t take into account communities/ areas where vendors who are white are selling an issue.
These are the alleged concerns and issues that were brought up at the San Diego city council in which the newly discriminatory amended ordinance were based on:
1.) Street Vendors are responsible for food-borne illnesses.
SVC Response: The indigenous vendors that Mission Beach Council president Larry Webb is targeting (attacking and harassing) DO NOT SELL FOOD, they are merely artisans that sell on Mission Beach and more importantly there has NOT been one report or no increase in reported food borne illness incidents in San Diego coming from street vendors. There hasn’t been any reports to the police or public health department of these alleged concerns.
2.) Street Vendors block emergency access or public access to the beach
SVC response: The sheer number (thousands) of tourists during the summer create traffic jams and block public access to the beach all summer long. Who’s bringing and attracting these people? The answer is simple, the city of San Diego / Boardwalk and businesses that spend a pretty penny on advertising each year during the summer. Street vending was till recently looked upon only as an obstruction to traffic and to people walking. However with the effort of many organizations it is now recognized as a general benefit and as a right of people to earn their livelihood. The public access to the beach can never be blocked due to the multiple entrances/ access to the coastal waters throughout the coast of San Diego. No emergency access has been blocked by street vendors, tourists and the foot/ car traffic significantly create the highest congested areas of concern during the crowded summers in San Diego.
3.) Street vendors are responsible for uncollected trash
The city of San Diego and parks and recreation is responsible for the uncollected trash left by the true culprits who are no other than tourists who leave behind trash in every city of California. Blaming vendors for other peoples trash is discriminatory and dehumanizing while criminalizing vendors for earning a livelihood. Trash does not discriminate and should not be targeted to any set demographic of people or culture. The San Diego homeless population is not even mentioned.
4.) Interference with enjoyment of natural resources and recreational activities
The impact of COVID-19 has been very harsh on informal workers who have exhausted their capital and earnings in trying to feed themselves and their families during the extended lockdown period and now in 2022 when the lockdown and the restrictions have been lifted they are still using the same excuses to ban us as street vendors selling on Beach Street in Santa Cruz. Livelihood promotion for all vendors, including those selling non-essential goods, brings together about the law, justice, race, and inequality.
The sad reality is that local racist attack vulnerable indigenous vendors because they believe nobody will defend them but this petition will show them that’s not true and we will always have their back regardless of the backlash. White Americans only want to see our people working for them and not creating business for ourselves as Entrepreneurs / vendors. If it’s not us (Latino/ Hispanic / Indigenous people) building their houses (construction), it’s us cleaning their houses (landscaping, cleaning/ maids). If we are not picking their fruits and vegetables on colonized fields ( farm workers ), it is us becoming cooks or servants in their restaurants and corporations. As soon as indigenous people want to work for themselves is when we have a problem.
We need all San Diego residents, activists, healers, warriors, SD Aztecs, land protectors out there everyday to help our vulnerable vendors facing racist xenophobic attacks on them earning a livelihood on Mission Beach. Street Vendors Coalition. Gabriella & Leticia Torres @leticiatorres3057 need protection against these anti vendor policies and racist attacks from “local” residents and protect and defend them everyday while these discriminatory ordaince are in place, they really need the help and support from the San Diego community.
History
Street vending became prominent in the latter half of the 19th century, after California became a state in 1850.[1] Mexican and Chinese immigrants were some of the first street vendors in 1870. By 1890, the city tried to restrict their movement, but the food proved to be too popular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_vending_in_Los_Angeles
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Petition created on July 21, 2022