Alerts ! -- Street Markets & Vendors In Jeopardy

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Atlanta: City government tries to keep vendors off the streets during 1996 Summer Olympics. Vendors file law suit.

Baltimore: Arabbers (horse drawn produce peddlers) threatened with extinction.

Calcutta, India: Government intends to outlaw all rickshaws.

Chicago:

• Save Chicago's Eloteros (Mexican Corn Vendors) Home Page
• Remnants of old Maxwell Street area to be destroyed by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Peanut vendors squashed. United Center, home of the Bulls, the Blackhawks, and the 1996 Democratic National Convention, squashes local peanut vendors.

Evansville, Indiana - Municipal Market threatened to be turned into a tavern.

Garland, Texas: Another city is about to outlaw street vendors altogether.

Jacksonville Florida--Crackdown on Street artists. See http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/saintgeorgestreetperformers; http://www.geocities.com/pics_to_go/; and http://www.geocities.com/roger_jolley/

New York City: Artists removed from Central Park and city streets.

Northwest Cook County, Illinois: Homeless StreetWise vendors face elimination by local politicians.

Mexico City: Violent crackdown on street vendors.

São Paulo, Brazil. Vendor oppression

Washington DC. DC Government to ruin Eastern Market. Group fights to preserve historical market.

Yaounde, Cameroon: Street traders clash with riot police in Cameroon's capital.

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