Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $71,049
87%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 87%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: sanctuaryrestaurants

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Restaurants around nation join sanctuary movement to protect workers, customers

    02/11/2017 10:53:47 AM PST · by EveningStar · 77 replies
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 11, 2017 | Alanna Wittet
    Numerous restaurants across the country have joined a Sanctuary Restaurants Movement to offer safe and tolerant spaces to restaurant workers, employers, and consumers that face hate and harassment in the restaurant industry. As a collaborative project between the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC United) and Presente.org, the Sanctuary Restaurant Movement seeks to not only create solidarity, but also to provide support and resources like job training and legal advice to individuals and their families impacted by hostile policies.
  • Chicago's Honey Butter Fried Chicken signs on to 'sanctuary restaurant' movement

    01/06/2017 2:43:58 PM PST · by EveningStar · 28 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | January 4, 2017 | Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
    Chicago's Honey Butter Fried Chicken is among a couple of dozen restaurants across the country to sign onto a new "sanctuary restaurant" movement meant to offer safe workplaces for immigrants, Muslims and other communities they feel are under threat in the current political climate. The movement is a joint project of ROC United, a national group that advocates for higher wages for restaurant workers, and Presente.org, whose mission is to "advance Latinx power" (Latinx is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina). According to a news release Wednesday, sanctuary restaurants do not allow harassment of individuals based on immigrant or...