Hi Rick:
What we got started in the 70's in NY was a loose pack of us, who kept a petition near to the case to ask the City Council to amend the charter to stop the harassment of music in the streets of New York. Basicly an association of buskers would be a way of creating a pool of buskers - their friends and supports who would get petitions sent around to stop the controll of and harassment of buskers, as we have always been a primary funciton for the passing on of folk traditions and the fucking tourest boards bragg about us while another branch of government is trying to kill us. Some world.
I agree, I don't think it will happen, but that is why we are getting kicked to hell and back, well, not back, just to hell.
Cheers - Larry