INQUIRER.net: Vendors to stage protest in Mendiola

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Vendors to stage protest in Mendiola Mar 4th 2013, 02:53 MANILA, Philippines – A group of vendors, who were barred from selling their goods inside the Rizal Park, was on its way to Mendiola in Manila to stage a rally. Manila Police District station 8 said the group is composed of 40 people who were on their way to Mendiola after staging a similar protest in front of the Department of Tourism office at Luneta Park earlier Monday. Joel Meralpes, secretary of People's Democratic Hawkers and Vendors Alliance or PEDHVA-Kadamay (PEDHVA-Kadamay) alleged in a statement that the government was taking away their livelihood in a bid to privatize the park to foreign traders. The group claimed that 130 families are going to be affected in the pa... Keep on reading: Vendors to stage protest in Mendiola Media files: mendiola.jpg (image/jpeg)

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