Yemeni’s organize nationwide protest against immigration restrictions
National One-Hour #BodegaStrike Shutdown April 24th
Yemeni Americans will organize a protest and shutter their bodegas (small stores) across the United States to express their opposition to restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump and his immigration ban.
Who: Yemeni American Merchants Association and National Bodega Partners
What: Communities Unite to Stand with Their Yemeni Bodega Neighbors Against the #MuslimBan with #BodegaStrike
When: Tuesday, April 24th, begging at a 2:00 pm press conference, followed by one-hour shutdown at 3:00pm EST/2 pm CST/12 pm PST
Where: 888A Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY, 10451
About National #BodegaStrike Shutdown
On Tuesday, April 24th, Yemeni-Americans in heavily populated cities across the United States are calling for a one-hour shutdown of their Bodegas (small neighborhood food stores) to let the world know of their pain, and of the pain and suffering of other Yemeni-Americans who are separated from their families due to the #MuslimBan.
Bodega owners across the country call on their neighbors to stand with them and their workers outside their stores to show that America is bigger than this, that we are better when united than when we allow bigoted policies to divide us.
Merchants invite their neighbors and customers to join them with Yemeni sweets in person, and with messages of solidarity to be shared over social media.
For more than a year, President Trump’s Muslim Ban has separated Yemeni-American families and left them turmoil in neighboring countries after they fled from the war in Yemen. As the courts decide the legal merits of the President’s effort to turn campaign rhetoric into public policy, we must never lose sight of the real and devastating effect on human lives.
Participating Cities and States: New York City; Albany, NY; Buffalo, NY; Rochester, NY; Westchester County, NY; Washington DC; North Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; Michigan; Bay Area, California; Bakersfield, California; Fresno, California; and San Francisco, California.
Hashtags: #BodegaStrike #IAmAmericanToo
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
Click here to send Ray Hanania email.
Follow RayHanania on Gettr.com, the uncensored Twitter Ray Hanania on Gettr, the new Twitter
