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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDay Without Immigrants Protest is Tomorrow.
Please support in any way you can. The article is about DC, but the protest is nationwide.
From the NYT's:
WASHINGTON In a city where expense account meals are a central part of power players lives, some of Washingtons best-known restaurants will close their doors on Thursday in solidarity with a national campaign to draw attention to the power and plight of immigrants.
The campaign, spread on social media and messaging apps, has called for a day without immigrants. It asks foreign-born people nationwide, regardless of legal status, not to go to work or go shopping in a demonstration of the importance of their labor and consumer spending to the United States economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/us/politics/immigration-restaurant-strike-trump.html?_r=0
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Day Without Immigrants Protest is Tomorrow. (Original Post)
zentrum
Feb 2017
OP
K&R Imaginative useful (utile) Resistance. Thanks for posting. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2017
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)1. I like this idea, but I doubt many can afford that day off.
Not to mention those who are "illegal" don't want to call attention to themselves.
We've had several ICE sweeps here in my city. People are frightened,
zentrum
(9,865 posts)2. I know. That part baffles me
....and I'm not sure how best to support but had to put the word out there.
It's true if you walk through any large city, it's so clear none of them could run or be built or maintained on a daily basis without immigrants.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)3. I assume that Silicon Valley will shut down
The tech companies employ many many 1st through 2.5th generation immigrants
And they can afford it
Think about the impact of a day without social media or a day without Internet
Now that would be a protest
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)4. K&R Imaginative useful (utile) Resistance. Thanks for posting. . . . nt