TESTIMONY
Testimony by Jose Masaquiza: A Vendors' Perspective on Working on the Brooklyn Bridge
1:23:05
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3 min
Jose Masaquiza, representing street vendors specifically working on the Brooklyn Bridge, shares his testimony on the economic impact of being removed from the bridge and his support for the bill allowing vending in designated areas. He highlights the vendors' commitment to abide by regulations and collaborates with the council and law enforcement for a sustainable livelihood. Mistaken transcriptions noted due to Spanish spoken with interpretation errors.
Speaker 27
1:23:05
When I start this, my number is Jose Masakeza, is Sohimi and Rodel Banderambulante, and they are key as their brooklin bridge.
Speaker 11
1:23:16
Continue.
1:23:17
Okay.
1:23:27
Good afternoon.
1:23:28
My name is Jose Masakisa, and a member of the estate vendors association who work in the Brooklyn Bridge.
1:23:35
And I wanted to say thank you to our president, Javier Machine, and to the committee to give us the opportunity to give our voice today to honor you.
1:24:09
Okay.
1:24:11
I support this bill that you're trying to approve.
1:24:14
And also the cells done in the Brooklyn Bridge.
1:24:17
Since the moment, we were thrown away from the Brooklyn Bridge.
1:24:21
This affects to me, economically, to me and my family.
1:24:25
And we are committee to continue working if you can provide us with rules and the way to help us, in order for us to make a living, in a innocent way, in a good way.
1:24:59
We are committed to work together with all of you, and we wanted to respect the rules that you wanted to issue for the street vendors and we are working to work together now only with the council members, but also with the national police and in the UCD Police.
1:25:13
We just wanted to make a leave in from our work as the street vendors, but we need your help in order for us to work better with these.
Speaker 27
1:25:32
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Speaker 11
1:25:34
Okay.
1:25:35
I wanted to say thank you to the council members and to the committee and to all of you to help us and to give us the opportunity to give our boys and to provide this worse to all of you.
1:25:47
We also wanted to say thank you to the municipal council as well.
1:25:51
To give us the opportunity to provide our voice about these problems that we're experiencing.
Speaker 1
1:26:00
Okay.
1:26:01
Thank you very much.
Speaker 11
1:26:07
Okay.
Speaker 1
1:26:09
Thank you.
1:26:09
Okay.
Speaker 11
1:26:10
Yeah.
1:26:10
She's going to change the seat council so she can I will be able to hear better?
Speaker 1
1:26:15
Okay.
Speaker 11
1:26:23
T and ingress.
1:26:43
Okay.