Politics & Government
Bodega Strike Raises Over $8,000 For CUNY Program That Advocates For Muslims
The fundraiser donated the money to a CUNY program that helps Muslims and others in NY whose lives are impacted by national law.
BROOKLYN, NY — The community organizers of the Yemeni Bodega Strike last week raised over $8,000 with a GoFundMe created after Thursday's protest, the fundraiser's creator told Patch. The activists in charge of the Bodega Strike held a vote and decided to allocate the money to The City University of New York's Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) program, said Catherine Keys, the GoFundMe's organizer.
"After meeting with two attorneys who run CLEAR and seeing them in action tonight fielding questions and dispensing much-needed advice, as well as hearing from Yemenis they are working with right now, I'm persuaded this is the best way to directly support the Yemeni community in NYC," Keys said.
The agency offers free, individual consultations and answer questions for anyone living in NYC with questions and concerns about Donald Trump's executive order barring immigration from Yemen and six other Muslim-dominant nations.
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A request for comment from CLEAR on the donation wasn't immediately returned.
Thousands of Yemeni-Americans and others protested in Downtown Brooklyn last Thursday against Trump's executive order barring many of their family members from entering the U.S. People came from hours away to demonstrate against the order, Patch reported.
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Trump's executive order remained blocked nationally on Monday, meaning people from the countries in the ban could technically travel to the U.S., NBC News reported. A Washington state federal court ruled on Monday morning that reinstating the order would cause a drop in business and university students, based on evidence of damages the state had already suffered due to the ban. A U.S. district judge, James L. Robart, in Seattle issued a nationwide stay on the order on Saturday, which Washington state filed a motion to extend Sunday morning. Meanwhile, there are at least eight other lawsuits against the order, seven of which judges have already begun ruling on.
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