{"id":237777,"date":"2019-11-18T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237777"},"modified":"2019-11-18T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:11:35","slug":"vendors-seek-christmas-moratorium-from-city-clearing-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/18\/vendors-seek-christmas-moratorium-from-city-clearing-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendors seek \u2018Christmas moratorium\u2019 from city clearing ops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The group likewise complained that the newly-launched Suki sa Kyusi Club of the Quezon City government is \u201cinadequate, a band-aid solution derived from a totally erroneous understanding of the economics of the informal sector and plight of vendors\u201d. (File Photo<\/a>: Brian Evans\/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hundreds of ambulant vendors belonging to Metro Manila Vendor Alliance (MMVA) marched on Monday to the Quezon City Hall as local officials and city hall employees were led by Mayor Joy Belmonte in their weekly flag ceremony rites.<\/p>\n

The group sought an audience from Belmonte to demand that she grant them a holiday reprieve from the city\u2019s clearing operations by issuing a \u2018Christmas moratorium\u2019 and allow them to sell their wares during the holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past seventeen years, the past mayors of Quezon City have granted us a \u2018Christmas moratorium\u2019. This is not too much to ask considering that we have consistently abided by all the regulations provided by the City Hall,\u201d said Flora Assidao-Santos, coordinator of MMVA.<\/p>\n

The group lamented that more than ninety days has passed since Malacanang ordered the Interior and Local Government Department to clear all sidewalks and remove all those that obstruct traffic but no alternative livelihood program has been provided for by both the national and local governments.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng nais lamang namin ay maghanapbuhay. Inaalisan ang pamilya namin ng karapatan mabuhay ng clearing operations. Bakit bang kaming maliliit na lang palagi ang pinupuntirya ng administrasyong Duterte?,\u201d the protestors complained.<\/p>\n

MMVA members brought with them a makeshift Christmas tree and three black parol lanterns to depict the bleak holidays once Mayor Belmonte refuses to grant them a reprieve from the city hall\u2019s clearing operations.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe are not against the free flow of traffic, for we ourselves benefit from it. But to clear the sidewalks should automatically mean that we are deprived of our livelihoods.\u201d Santos pointed out.<\/p>\n

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Suki sa Kyusi Club<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The group likewise complained that the newly-launched Suki sa Kyusi Club of the Quezon City government is \u201cinadequate, a band-aid solution derived from a totally erroneous understanding of the economics of the informal sector and plight of vendors\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe acknowledge the efforts of the City government to provide venues for us to ply our trade but this program misses the entire point why vendors exist in the first place,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n

The Suki sa Kyusi Club is a program intented to provide temporary relocation vending sites for vendors displaced by the clearing opetations. So far only two areas have been identified and less than 40 percent of the total number of displaced vendors can be accomodated. The night markets will be open from November 24 to January 24 next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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