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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Elsa Zamaniego, Street Vendor from Brooklyn
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Elsa Zamaniego, a street vendor from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, testified about her 18-year experience as a vendor and alternative therapist. She sells accessories and quartz used in therapy to help other street vendors deal with stress, depression, and anxiety caused by mistreatment and arrests. Zamaniego urged the City Council to approve legislation supporting street vendors' rights.
- Zamaniego has lived in New York for 20 years and has been a vendor for 18 years
- She specifically asked for the approval of bills 408, 431, 447, and 24 to defend vendors' rights
- Zamaniego emphasized that street vendors pay taxes and contribute to the country
UKNOWN
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Elsa Zamaniego, and I've lived in the state of New York for twenty years.
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I live in the county of Brooklyn in Sunset Park.
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I'm a street vendor.
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So I've been a vendor for eighteen years and at the same time I became an alternative therapist.
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I live I sell accessories, and also quartz.
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are used during therapy.
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In order to be able to take care of a lot of street vendors.
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In the spaces that has provided for us.
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And we use this in order to calm their ills, their pains.
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And also to be able to reduce the stress, the depression, and the anxiety.
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That has been caused by the mistreatment.
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To calm down the anxiety, the depress, and the stress caused by all the arrests performed by the police, the neuropolice.
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Am here to ask the city council to please approve four zero eight four thirty one forty seven and twenty four.
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So that these laws can be approved and defend the rights of street vendors.
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Because we've all been paying our taxes to this country.
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That
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Thank you.