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Beyond The BoxWho Feeds These Streets? A Conversation with Mohammed Attia.Who keeps New York City running with coffee, kebabs, nuts, hats, pretzels, doughnuts, churros, Korean tacos and more – and who protects their rights when big businesses, the cops, and powerful politicians try to shut them down? Doug Lasdon talks with Mohammed Attia, former street vendor and Director of the UJC Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project is a membership-based project with more than 2,000 vendor members working together to create a vendors’ movement for permanent change, and advocating for the rights of street vendors in New York City. Find out more. https://urbanjustice.org/podcast2024-04-0828 min