Margarida Teixeira

Media & Comms manager of @Streetnet1, global alliance of street vendors 🌍

🗣 EN, PT, FR, ESP

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

‼️ Reminder 🙌 I'm always open to queries from #journalists interested in writing stories on street vendors globally focused on ➡️ #DecentWork, inclusive #UrbanPolicy, #SocialProtection & more. Need the POV of workers anywhere on the ground? 📨 Send a message, we'll connect you!

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

Join us on October 17th to listen to human rights defenders, media professionals and worker leaders about their efforts to promote #DecentWork 💪 with @Streetnet1 @hrw @equaltimes and the @asianlabour

[StreetNet International @Streetnet1]

Join our webinar about how the media can promote #DecentWork for street vendors! 🌍 Interpretation available in English, Spanish, Hindi, French & Portuguese!

🗓️ October 17th
⏰ 3 PM SA Time | 6:30 PM New Delhi | 9 AM New York

Register: https://t.co/YIJTUP9mxV 🖥️🎙️

[StreetNet International @Streetnet1]

🏙️What would our cities be without markets? They add color to urban life, provide fresh food, and strengthen communities. Let's protect our markets and the vendors who make them possible!
📍 Ourussey Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia by Enric Català #CityMarkets #CommunityStrength

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

@renurenun @WIEGOGLOBAL Ahh so cool! 😍😍

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

Field visits with @Streetnet1 take you to wondeful places 😊

[StreetNet International @Streetnet1]

🔊 Our Organizer for West and Central Africa Evelyn Benjamin-Sampson was recently on a visit to #BurkinaFaso🇧🇫 to get to know better the work of our affiliate SYNAFVL and their members, who are mostly women! 💪🏿🌍👩🏿💼✨ #WomenEmpowerment #SNI

[Liz Orembo @lizorembo]

It takes a village to raise a chatbot https://t.co/B0vqSdDCEj

[HomeNet International @HomeNetInt]

🌟 Did you know that the @ILO estimates that about 2 billion workers, or over 60% of the world’s adult labour force, operate in the #InformalSector? That includes #HomeBasedWorkers, #WastePickers, #DomesticWorkers and #StreetVendors (+)

[ROAPE journal @ROAPEjournal]

ROAPE is excited to announce the forthcoming volume on Africa's (untold) revolutionary history which will be published later this year by @PlutoPress & @CODESRIA with chapters on Tanzania, South Africa, Mali, Senegal and more - edited by @nssylla, Pascal Bianchini & @LeoZeilig

[Ido Liven @IdoLiven]

This ace @KimHarrisberg story sheds a rare light on the plight of informal workers, and particularly women, affected by the climate crisis -- and their call to be part of the transformation of our societies (and the climate movement). https://t.co/bwFt6FNkIw

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

What a privilege to spend time with Lupe and @Mo__Attia and learn more about street vending in #NYC, especially their organizing work that overcomes ethnic and linguistic barriers to achieve a united front of diverse street vendors from across the city! An inspiration 😍

[StreetNet International @Streetnet1]

Members of the SNI team were recently in New York 🏙️ where we had the opportunity to meet with our affiliate @VendorPower and learn more about how they are advocating to reform the street vending system and make it more inclusive to all vendors ✊ #PermitsNotTickets

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

@nashtysmans ahahaha yes 😂😂 i swear its work!

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

We are all doomed to focus on TikTok. As per @risj_oxford:

"video-based content, distributed via networks such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube are becoming more important for news, especially in parts of the Global South"

https://t.co/0CQvg3TQIx

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

@sophie_neiman Congratulations for the article & for amplifying this work and activists 🙏 if you are ever interested, at @Streetnet1 we have 3 affiliated orgs in DRC working with women informal traders, many who were affected by the conflict. It would be a pleasure to connect you

[Kendra Hughes @hughes_kendra]

"We're trying to contribute to the overall process of building democracy & exercising democratic rights" - @AbboudOksana @Streetnet1

⏰ Timely reminder @FordFoundation event "Worker Organizing & the Civic Space" - workers' orgs work to uphold democracy & #HumanRights 💪

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

From NYC to Gabarone, almost everytime we talk to street vendors they mention the need for childcare facilities. This kind of research is urgent and very important for women traders in the whole world 👇

[StreetNet International @Streetnet1]

🚸How to create childcare services for women street vendors in markets?
📖 This case study from #Ghana presents guidelines for informal economy workers

Read more about the pilot in this article by @Laura_WIEGO & @s1891_sneha

https://t.co/xqNy5dnYa4

[RIDER 🚲 SUPPORT ♥ @support_rider]

"“I have experience of both sub-contractors and being directly employed and I can say that I don’t want any sub-contracting system because they are very small companies, they don’t have any system for tax, for paying insurance; they are just stealing money,” Muhammad says."

[Djenabou Sow @DjenabouSow122]

Chauffeur de taxi ou transport en commun, dévient progressivement un métier qui se féminise de plus en plus Afrique notamment, au Nigeria et particulièrement à Lagos.
Elles sont une vingtaine de jeunes filles et femmes, qui exercent cette activité du secteur tertiaire.

[Margarida Teixeira @Margcatela]

According to @hrw, zungueiras in #Luanda #Angola were protesting for their #RightToWork& #RightToCity and were met by the police "with dogs and, without warning, fired tear gas at the crowd". This is how women fighting to feed their families are treated.
https://t.co/sdDfVcqtb2

[Bert De Wel🌳@bertdewel.bsky.social @BertDeWel]

Social justice and fundamental workers' rights are vital for a #JustTransition that saves our climate!
#InternationalLabourConference 2023 @ILO
👉Endorses #ILO #JustTransitionGuidelines
👉Governments commit to just transition frameworks linked to #NDCs & net-zero policies
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[Eromo Egbejule @EromoEgbejule]

I'm looking for freelancers from Kenya, South Africa and all of Lusophone Africa. If you report/write on culture, conflict, social justice, please email me: [email protected].

My DMs are also open.