Sean Basinski is the Director of the Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project works to correct the social and economic injustice faced by street vendors in New York City. Reaching out to vendors on the street, the organization holds clinics to educate vendors about their legal rights. Working to support a local vendors' rights movement, they organize vendors to participate in the political process that determines their fate.
Sean Basinski received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For nine months before he started law school, Sean built a pushcart and sold Mexican food on Park Avenue and 52nd Street.
The gross consumption and the waste were the biggest things, right and even the prices, even being able to justify I mean ... let alone buying a coffee for $4 which would be more than somebody would live on in a week in Africa and imagining paying that money to Starbucks. Even a 75 cent coffee from...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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