NYC’s Yemeni bodegas go on strike today to protest Trump’s travel ban
Rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall this evening
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.