Who We Are
Two Way Street is a community-based publication providing micro-entrepreneurial street vendor opportunities for Albuquerque’s low-income and homeless community. The first issue of Two Way Street was designed and produced based upon the findings of a qualitative research project that included 30+ interviews with local community leaders interested in exploring opportunities for developing a street paper publication in ABQ.
What We Do
We are volunteer writers, editors, artists, creators, doers, buskers, and opiners. We've seen what our local creators can accomplish, so we coordinate that resource to create a community publication. This community publication is offered to our vendors as a micro-entrepreneurial opportunity for employment (without the traditional barriers to employment) as a hand up, not a hand out, out of poverty. We believe in the power of community creativity, placemaking, interaction/dialogue, and first amendment expression to address the issues of homelessness, poverty, and the growing divide between humans in our modern age.
Vibrancy
Salesmanship that brings vibrancy to the sidewalks, the public right-of-way, nearby business storefronts, and underutilized spaces of the built environment.
Community Vendors
Street Vending that cultivates community policing, improves public safety, and stimulates incremental economic development.
Placemaking
Placemaking that activates people and place to promote community health, happiness, and overall wellbeing.
Empowerment
Self-Empowerment that leverages human and civil rights to create systemic change.
Details
| twowaystreetabq@gmail.com | |
| The Truth | |
| Founder | |
| https://twowaystreetabq.org/ |
