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Castalia first discovered Sure We Can not as a canner, but as a performer, when his experimental theater company put on a show in cleared-out warehouse space there.

The Alliance aims to help its canner members however possible, including by offering a sort of paid sick leave, in which members too ill to work may receive $200.

The group takes inspiration from the International Alliance of Waste Pickers, said Yvonne Norville, a part-time canner who serves as secretary of the Alliance.

The average New York City canner makes $119 a week from collecting cans, according to a 2023 survey of New York City canners co-authored by Christine Hegel-Cantarella, an anthropology professor at Western Connecticut State University, and organized in part by Sure We Can.

By the time I was 10 in 1989, my mother — a tomato canner — and my truck-driving dad had saved up enough to buy a post-World War II tract home in a better part of town.