NYCs Yemeni bodegas go on strike today to protest Trumps travel ban
Source: Brooklyn Eagle
Better get your sandwich and coffee early today.
At noon, Yemeni business owners across all five New York City boroughs will close their roughly 1,000 neighborhood grocery stores and bodegas in response to the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting Muslims. The stores won’t reopen until 8 p.m., following a mass rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Yemen is one of the seven countries named in Trump’s executive order, which bars Syrian refugees from entry indefinitely, suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days, and blocks citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the U.S. for 90 days — even those with valid visas from the U.S. government.
The shutdown represents “a public show of the vital role these grocers and their families play in New York’s economic and social fabric,” organizers said on their Facebook page.
Read more: http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/2/2/nycs-yemeni-bodegas-go-strike-today-protest-trumps-travel-ban
I live next to one of the largest Arab districts in NYC; might have to stop by and lunchtime and see what's happening.
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