Posted on 06/04/2010 12:25:06 PM PDT by davidlachnicht
In mid-May, Portland police Officer James Crooker went to Southeast Portland on a patrol call. With a few minutes to spare, he decided to get a coffee.
So, he popped into the Red & Black cafe on Southeast 12th Avenue near Oak Street, bought a coffee and was heading out when a customer approached him, saying she appreciates the hard job that police officers do every day in Portland.
One of the co-owners of the cafe, John Langley, has another point of view. While the officer and customer were chatting, he walked up and asked Crooker to leave, saying he felt uncomfortable having a uniformed officer in the vegan cafe.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Who would eat in this dirty little commie dump, except other dirty commies?
Or maybe they’re so out of it all of the time that they don’t realize what a stupid diet they’re on.
You are cordially invited to a screening of “Flag Wars,” this Friday, March 12, at 7pm!
“Flag Wars” is a cinema verite documentary that follows the conflicts that arise when gay white professionals move into a black working-class neighborhood. Filmed over a four years in Columbus, Ohio, “Flag Wars” leads viewers on an eye-opening journey into a divided community.
Check this crap out at the redandblackcafe web site!......whack left shit hole!
FRisco is a clown show to be sure but I really can't imagine a cafe here pulling a similar stunt. Berkeley, maybe. Not FRisco.
Ha! Ditto.
Don’t be fooled by the ‘feel good’ label. That red guy leading the pack is NOT a vegetable. He’s a fruit.
About the Red and Black
The Red and Black is dedicated to providing delicious, wholesome foods at the lowest prices possible. We use organic, local and seasonal ingredients whenever possible.
We strive to provide a community space that is safe and welcoming to all. We hope this space is used for local voices to bring awareness and education on the issues facing us today. We work to be an example of ethical, non-hierarchal business. The cafe is worker-run and worker-owned. Our space and our community are always growing and changing. We evolve based on the energy, enthusiasm and direction of our fellow workers and our neighborhood in accordance with our ideals.
The Red & Black Cafe is located on SE 12th avenue and SE Oak street in wonderful Portland, Oregon. We have been proudly displaying our colors as a community-minded worker’s collective since 2000 and we’re still going strong. We boast a delicious, ENTIRELY VEGAN seasonally-sensitive menu, fair trade organic coffee, and a changing selection of organic red wines and local microbrews. As of recently, we decided to become a closed IWW shop.
But wait, there’s more. We love good music and good films. If you’re a musician, artist, or group looking to do a lecture or film screening at the cafe, we would love to hear from you! Please contact us at the e-mail address above and let’s talk about it!
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.
The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished.[1] They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented. On January 3, 2010 the IWW GHQ moved its general offices into a new location at 2117 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago, IL. United States. The origin of the nickname “Wobblies” is uncertain.
The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States (mainly the Western Federation of Miners) who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
The convention, which took place on June 27, 1905, was then referred to as the “Industrial Congress” or the “Industrial Union Convention”—it would later be known as the First Annual Convention of the IWW. It is considered one of the most important events in the history of industrial unionism and of the American labor movement in general
The IWW’s first organizers included William D. (”Big Bill”) Haywood, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas J Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, “Mother” Mary Harris Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.
The IWW’s goal was to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class; its motto was “an injury to one is an injury to all,” which improved upon the 19th century Knights of Labor’s creed, “an injury to one is the concern of all.” In particular, the IWW was organized because of the belief among many unionists, socialists, anarchists and radicals that the AFL not only had failed to effectively organize the U.S. working class, as only about 5% of all workers belonged to unions in 1905, but also was organizing according to narrow craft principles which divided groups of workers. The Wobblies believed that all workers should organize as a class, a philosophy which is still reflected in the Preamble to the current IWW Constitution:
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth. ... Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work’, we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system.’ It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World
Are Vegans allergic to cops?
Well I guess this is just taking the anti-gun thing to its logical conclusion so I have to respect them for not being hypocrites, stupid but not hypocrites.
National Socialists expressing tolerance towards their fellow man.
Indeed. The cafe's website links to www.riseup.net, which is neck-deep in the indymedia stuff, and more. An anarchists' mailserver site, it appears.
Years ago I worked at McDonald’s and all uniformed police (local and state) got their meals free. We didn’t care whether they were on duty or not, but the uniform was what gave them the free meal.
So they're selling fraudulent, plastic, coffee? That's a closing offense right there...
Vegan = Indian word for ‘sorry hunter’
Ping for your vegan compatriots!
Red and Black Cafe? I know what the Red and Black colors are for (communism, anarcho-socialism at best.)
he probably over paid for a horrible cup of coffee... and decaf at that....
johnny law won’t frequent there.
teeman
Actually for once the left is being consistent. How many “man with a gun” calls are generated by them on ordinary ditizens. If having a gun reflects bad intent and terrorizes people, then to be consistent a cop should have the same effect.
portland imc thread on the story...the comments are pretty much what you would expect of the vermin.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/400052.shtml?discuss
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