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Displaced Divisoria vendors fail to get dialogue with Isko

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Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/11/18/20191118-ylaya-vendors-protest-manila-aa-1518.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Vendors hold a protest outside Manila City Hall after the city government prohibited them from selling their wares along Ylaya Street in Divisoria, Nov. 18, 2019. <em>ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA- Around a hundred people, mostly street vendors from the Divisoria area, staged a protest outside Manila City Hall on Monday morning to call for a dialogue with Mayor Isko Moreno in hopes of going back to sell their wares in the shopping district. </p><p>They shouted &quot;Kabuhayan, ipaglaban&quot; and asked the mayor to come down and meet them. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">LOOK: Street vendors displaced from Divisoria area hold a rally outside Manila City Hall, calling on Mayor Isko Moreno to face them &amp; hear their grievances <a href="https://t.co/4XbEI9XUWv">pic.twitter.com/4XbEI9XUWv</a></p>— Anjo Bagaoisan (ᜀᜈ᜔ᜇᜒᜌᜓ ᜊᜄᜏᜒᜐᜈ᜔) (@anjo_bagaoisan) <a href="https://twitter.com/anjo_bagaoisan/status/1196246076145057792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Moreno, however, said he had other scheduled appointments and would be unable to meet with the protesters. </p><p>Gloria Ricafrente, one of the vendors, said life has been difficult for vendors&#x27; families after they were prohibited from selling along the main thoroughfares of Divisoria such as Recto and Soler. She said vendors have been neglected in Moreno&#x27;s cleanup drive. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The group, calling themselves the Divisoria Vendors Association, chant &quot;Kabuhayan, ipaglaban!&quot;<br/><br/>Mayor Moreno declined to face them, citing a full schedule, but said they are free to express themselves. <a href="https://t.co/1pedvV9a2q">pic.twitter.com/1pedvV9a2q</a></p>— Anjo Bagaoisan (ᜀᜈ᜔ᜇᜒᜌᜓ ᜊᜄᜏᜒᜐᜈ᜔) (@anjo_bagaoisan) <a href="https://twitter.com/anjo_bagaoisan/status/1196246365174583296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>&quot;Sabi ni Mayor, kasama kami sa pagbabago ng Maynila. Nasaan kami? Tinatapon kami! Hindi kami pinakikinggan. Kung hulihin kami parang kriminal,&quot; she said. </p><p>&quot;Papayag naman kami kahit sa bangketang maliit. Hindi naman ho malaking space ang hinihiling namin! Nakakadaan naman nang maayos ang mga sasakyan.&quot;</p><p>The vendors showed the media photos of the vendor-cleared areas, which are now being used as parking spaces for motorcycles. </p><p>&quot;Mas inuna niya ang pag pa-parking kesa sa aming mga vendor, &quot; Ricafrente said. </p><p>&quot;Makikita niyo na hindi kami ang sagabal kung hindi ang traffic.&quot;</p><p>But Moreno said his administration had given the vendors alternate locations for their stalls, with the condition they remain within their set areas and keep their places clean. </p><p>&quot;Nabigyan na sila ng pagkakataon, sinayang nila.&quot;</p><p>The last straw, he said, was finding the areas littered with trash at an inspection last week.</p><p>&quot;Unfair &#x27;yun sa mamamayan. That is too much to bear. Inakap ko na kayo. Pinaramdam ko na malasakit ng gobyerno. Ipinagkaloob ko sila ng pagkakataon, ang ibabalik nila ay kababuyan.&quot; </p><p>The vendors, however, deny that the trash came from them. </p><p>Rather than meet with the vendors, Moreno said the city government is busy paving, cleaning up, and maintaining the cleared streets. </p><p>The street vendors, meanwhile, vowed to continue their protest until Moreno hears out their grievances.</p>

<p>Displaced vendors failed to get an audience with Manila Mayor Isko Moreno after the latter said he had already given the vendors alternate locations for their stalls. </p>

Displaced vendors failed to get an audience with Manila Mayor Isko Moreno after the latter said he had already given the vendors alternate locations for their stalls.

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Displaced Divisoria vendors fail to get dialogue with Isko

Anjo Bagaoisan,

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Published Nov 18, 2019 04:14 PM PHT

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