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NYC: 1,000 Yemeni-Owned Bodegas Strike over Trump’s Muslim Ban

HeadlineFeb 03, 2017

In New York City, more than 1,000 Yemeni-American-owned bodegas went on strike Thursday to protest President Trump’s executive order banning people from Yemen and six other majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Thousands of these bodega owners and workers, as well as their family members, rallied at Borough Hall Thursday evening.

Abdul Rahman: “So I do work in a grocery store, and we closed to come out here. It is our duty to come, so Donald Trump can see what we are about. This is wrong what he’s doing. It’s wrong. It’s wrong.”

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