Thousands of Yemeni-Americans and their supporters rallied on the steps of Brooklyn’s Borough Hall on Thursday evening to protest Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to travelers from Yemen and six other Muslim-majority nations.
Enormous crowd here at Brooklyn Borough Hall supporting #BodegaStrike #NoBanNoWall chanting "USA! USA!" Very high energy. pic.twitter.com/3y4yJM95VC
— Mike Sandmel (@mikeysandmel) February 2, 2017
The #BodegaStrike rally keeps breaking into loud chants of "USA!" pic.twitter.com/OMo52i8sug
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) February 2, 2017
My colleague Lauren Feeney was at the rally and streamed live video updates via Facebook.
Yemeni-Americans are gathering in Brooklyn today to protest Trump's executive order. Scenes from the #BodegaProtest: https://t.co/BOZFXKWO3y pic.twitter.com/tDYTo4NZxr
— The Intercept (@theintercept) February 2, 2017
Images shared by other journalists at the rally, including Liam Stack of the New York Times and Joe Penney of Reuters, showed a sea of Yemeni and American flags.
There are *a lot* of Yemeni bodega owners (and their supporters) at the rally in Downtown Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/s6xUFOxym3
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) February 2, 2017
Massive yemeni community protest in front of brooklyn borough hall now pic.twitter.com/xsWsGa4VyN
— joe penney (@joepenney) February 2, 2017
Bodega strike against #MuslimBan: a sea of US & Yemeni flags, someone says: "We must show Trump we're from this country—we will never leave" pic.twitter.com/NUMVDx80kU
— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) February 2, 2017
The rally took place during an eight-hour strike by hundreds of Yemeni-owned grocery stores, also known as bodegas, across New York City.
#bodegastrike pic.twitter.com/rYrYeXK1XN
— katie ???? (@katieraffa) February 2, 2017
At my local bodega. #bodega #bodegastrike pic.twitter.com/SGP4j36qHG
— Shawna Laken Klein (@shawnalaken) February 2, 2017
Over 1,000 bodegas are closed rn as Yemeni-Americans protest the immigration ban. Also, I ??NY https://t.co/vMMZwZVGAG
— Adam Chandler (@AllMyChandler) February 2, 2017
Issa, a #BodegaStrike worker from Ibb #Yemen wants the ban reversed so friends and family can come to the US #MuslimBan pic.twitter.com/bFNx2QoQ6A
— Ben Piven (@benpiven) February 2, 2017
Supporting our neighbors in Crown Heights ????? #BodegaStrike #NoBanNoWall pic.twitter.com/acx6qtlwYp
— rory solomon (@rorys) February 2, 2017
Nadal Deli, a bodega in the Bronx is 24 hours, so they plan on closing after buying locks, since they never had to close.
— Talal Ansari (@TalalNAnsari) February 2, 2017
Shutting down pic.twitter.com/M8ZE4BhR4k
— Talal Ansari (@TalalNAnsari) February 2, 2017
the gurgleocracy is not against war per se, just war that creates the wrong kind of human debris
but if the right kind of rainbow refugees are prevented from coming to NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, Seattle, or San Francisco … well better crank up the outrage
i mean, you cant expect a Syrian doctor in Manhattan to go back to Syria, and maybe treat some … uh, Syrians
that would just not be very Um-erican at all
hackey doesn’t appear to be very well acquainted with flyover country. maybe he’s too busy eating small plates at whatever weirdo restaurant he frequents
when he’s not busy strip-mining twitter for junk
Why didn’t these Yemeni’s demonstrate in Yemen?…Why do they feel the courage to demonstrate here instead??? Oh, that’s right..we are a FREE country! But, how long will it be before we find out that instigators also will take advantage of future demonstrations, and those demonstrations may be violent, property-destructive demonstrations? I believe a ban of travel from those trouble-making countries should be effected in order to screen-out the bad guys who would take your freedoms away if possible !
Hi Mackey,
Yemeni-Americans protesting against Trump muslim ban, huh?
That’s the first thing I’de denounce, too if the US was helping to bomb my country to dust, the muslim ban.
Not the cluster bomb sale or the diplomatic support to the assaillant, Saudi Arabia. I mean bombing hospitals is kinda ok – as long as the victims can come and pay a visit to express their gratitude.
You know what, Mackey?
From now on I’ll call you lackey. Cos’ that would rhyme and I’d be as good as a poet as you are a journalist.
Does nobody understand that this is not a true ban, that this is simply a temporary suspension so they can review the current system? Where were all of these protests when Obama placed a 6 month suspension on immigrants from Iraq?
It is the media’s responsibility to report the truth. Instead, they’ve incited riots by reporting falsely on this topic.
I cannot believe this is America. Where areall the Americans that are really sick and tired of supporting illegals and refugees.and why do these people keep having children if there countries are in such deep turmoil. They should have to enter legally and do it the right way
NOT a “Muslim ban”.
This is a temporary restriction on visas from seven countries (3 added, 4 already included) in the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015**
**https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/02/18/dhs-announces-further-travel-restrictions-visa-waiver-program
FYI, the four largest Muslim populations are found in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. There are no restrictions on these four countries. Likewise, there are no restriction on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, etc. also large Muslim populations.
There is no “Muslim ban”. Please correct your errant title and refrain from further sedition based upon hyperbolic lies.
OK Mackey, I’m done “reading” your crap until you stop embedding so many social media posts. Lame!
I imagine a tear rolling down Mr. Mackey’s cheek. News that the great JD will no longer be viewing his articles will surely hit hard.
This is where you are wrong.: this is not an article, this is someone spending 20min on twitter.
The other thing is Lackey, here doesn’t give a shit about you, or blending in here at TI, or to inform you.
Twitter “journalism” is crap.
I’m not a huge fan myself, particularly when complex issues are distilled into tweet sized synopses, but I’m coming around. It is an absolutely effective means of communicating happenings and giving voices to people. Instead of having a small and potentially homogeneous pool of media contacts, it provides an ocean of voices. It’s a disruptive technology and it’s here to stay.
It is nothing more than repetition and it is
EXACTLY what the corporate media is criticized for doing
when it markets the preferred message without criticism or proof.
There is nothing wrong with repetition. If used properly, these Tweets can provide up close and personal views of events happening in real time. I mean, if you think about it, this is a bunch of images and videos generated by protesters. You saying Twitter journalism is crap is simply attacking the medium from which the message was delivered.
Now there are bad uses of Twitter such as for in-depth analysis and investigative journalism. But chronicling a protest is a huge strength of Twitter.
“There is nothing wrong with repetition. ”
When you are talking hoisting a pint, sure, but retweets are the sort of thing one does after several pints.
Just how drunk would one have to be to not do Hackey’s job.
I belief that the phrase that you are searching for is “tool of indoctrination.”
I belief? Lol
Great to know they’re all in NYC! Embrace them at your peril! I’m moving west!
Don’t stop at the beach…
not sure if escalating the proxy war against Iran by way of Yemen makes Trump any less of a neocon than Clinton going through Syria, but anyway it looks like Yemen just moved to the top of the list.
it really is remarkable how pervasive and persistent this policy and trend is across various administrations, though perhaps this is just one more example of how much Trump’s admin is more of the same, but turned up to 11.
any bets on how long it’ll be before more direct confrontations occur?
Looks like Soros is at it again. Old man full of hatred !
Please elaborate on this Soros meme..Alex, please, indulge us
Saudi has been in yeman few years now flying uk planes dropping uk bombs with uk pilots teaching Saudi
Sad day
It’s Time for a #NationWideStrike!
Boycott with your Dollar$ any Company or CEO who is associated with a company who supports and does not denounce or STRONGLY (not passively) and Publically with repudiation this CEO (Corrupt Elected One) President! Make a list… and double check it twice! America its Time to Take a Stand!
#EndTheCoup
Isn’t it ironic…
America needs a “Regime Change!” NOW!
As Macolm X said, “By any means Necessary!”
As MLK said, “Justice delayed… is Justice Denied!” And “Injustice for some is Injustice for All!”
And as Patrick Henry said, “Give me Liberty or give me Death!
This is not about Democrats or Republicans…
This is about Demons…
Demons are in the White House!
Demons are in the White House!
Demons are in the White House!
Regards,
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Your quest for ideological purity is unseemly.
What are you striking against? A temporary suspension so that the administration can review the current system? Did you strike when Obama placed a 6 month immigration suspension on Iraq? My guess is that you probably didn’t.
20 years ago I worked at JFK and watched asylum seekers and refugees go back and forth to the countries that they claimed persecuted them and wanted too harm and/or kill them. How are you afraid for your life but not afraid to visit? The Yemenis are now doing the same thing…living here but continually going back to their country. Here’s a novel idea…stay, fight, and try and fix the mess that your culture created.
They are supposed to lose the asylum if they return to the country they fled from
When I asked the Immigration inspectors about 20 years ago they told me that there was nothing they could do. Mostly it was Syrians flying back and forth to Damascus. And yes, at the time they had the white stateless passports with rainbow colored pages. My friend teaches in Brookly and all of her students go Sanaa for the summer.
“stay, fight, and try and fix the mess that your culture created.”
who says irony is dead?
You want irony? How about bringing hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees here to the US and then have them ship back hundreds of thousand, if not millions, of dollars in likely welfare money to sustain the Warlords.
Really!?.. The same could be said tothe first Pligrims at Plymouth Rock..
Yes, Really. When the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock the world hadn’t spent TRILLIONS trying to build infrastructure, provide clean drinking water, and build schools to educate improverished nations. And the Pilgrims fought tooth and nail for their survival. We’ve made it easy to sustain failed cultures and idealogies so shame on us.
pearls before swine….
I’m assuming that’s the Bible quote, correct? If so…even more irony. The Arab/Muslim world has continued to prove that they only way they can have order or maintain civility is if it is done at the hands of brtutal, autocratic dictators. The Sunni and Shia will only have peace once one sect is eradicated from the planet. The Wahhabists rule with absolute authority, etc. So we can blame colonialism or oil or whatever but when left to their own devices they show the world who and what they really are.
go on, tell us the one about the white man’s burden
that’s my favorite!
I hope that you haven’t given up your day job bob as the dwindling responses to your trite twitterings are a clear call for something other than pablum.
Are you implying some commenters are teething?
I’m glad that people are protesting the ban against people from seven Muslim countries. People should also protest Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemen, Bangladesh, Brunei, Malaysia and Pakistan who ban people from Israel, the world’s only Jewish country.
Israel, the world’s ONLY Jewish country.
you said it, not me.
finally, an overt admission of sectarian racism.
worthy of framing!
Israel, the world’s ONLY JEWISH country.
context emphasised!
Do you oppose affirmative action?
1. People tend to be more interested in protesting the bad stuff their own govt is doing in their name rather than the bad stuff that govts of other countries are doing.
2. People tend to protest about things they have a chance of changing. Good luck getting the Iranian or Saudi govt to shift it’s policy because of protesters in New York.
3. Many of those countries won’t take Israeli passports because they have never recognized Israel as a valid state. It is their sovereign right to do so, and I’m guessing there is clear popular support for it. But you’re welcome to go over to Kuwait and try to rouse protests for Israeli entry rights if you like. Since you’re so concerned about it.
4. If people started protesting because Trump started using North Korean style gulags and work camps, would you call them hypocrites because they weren’t previously protesting against the North Korean ones? What a great contribution thanks.
5. You’ve fallen for distraction spin.
When we start discriminating against people based on their nationality, we send a message to other countries that it’s OK to discriminate against people based on their nationality. We don’t live in a vacuum. What we do affects other countries & comes back to us as blowback.
Every nation-state invests its citizens with a set of exclusive rights while simultaneously imposing on them a set of legal obligations.
“I’m glad that people are protesting the ban against people from seven Muslim countries. People should also protest … Israel, the world’s only Jewish country.”
Agree. Nothing like a theological state to mess with people.
Next thing there will be roads labelled “Jews Only” according to the scriptures.
Israel is not a theocracy.
If it were a theocracy, the prime minister would be a rabbi.
Netanyahu is no rabbi.
There are some Israeli only roads because Palestinians were murdering Israelis on the regular roads. No country treats the enemy the same as it treats its own citizens.
Where were the Yemenis when Obama was funneling weapons to the Saudis? Where was Robert Mackey and The Intercept?
Total bullshit. That’s what this “news” portal has become.
Mackey was sucking from Hillary’s catheter, but Greenwald has spoken out against both the drone war against (alleged) al Qaida in Yemen and the US support of the Saudi bombing campaign.
The travel ban is a bad idea, but please stop calling it a “Muslim ban.”
Muslims from other countries are free to travel to the US and non-Muslims from the specified countries aren’t given a free pass. Calling it a “Muslim ban” is simply, factually inaccurate.
Yeah it’s better to call it a Muslim ban of all Muslims from the poor countries the US has bombed the shit out of for no good reason other than in pursuit of America’s “way of life” (i.e. money, control and power).
Umm, well. . . not a free pass, just. . . priority.
From the subject executive order:
I wonder if persecuted religious minorities include, e.g. Sunnis in Iraq and Iran.
All that bolding and yet you missed the most important part (at least for purposes of your rebuttal):
“[Section 5] . . . (b) Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions…”
In other words, the religious-persecution priority only goes into effect AFTER the ban is lifted. So, while the ban is in effect, non-Muslims are given no priority.
As stated.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
“Alternative facts” AKA lies & propaganda .= Making up your own facts .