Not all heroes wear capes, though all lawyers need coffee.
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We’d adore to, though unfortunately a conditions in a republic has changed over domestic theater. We trust that a current executive order banning refugees from a United States and immigration from 7 infancy Muslim nations is illegal, immoral, and essentially un-American. Like a prohibited mop of season coffee spilled on a frail white apron, these actions are a dim mark on a inhabitant conscience, and as Americans we feel compelled to mount adult opposite them.
Fortunately there are heroes in these dim times. The United States is a republic of laws, not of men, and a supervision has 3 branches—Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. It is in this final bend where a conflict is now being fought, by a thousands of lawyers orderly and saved by a American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU is America’s non-partisan guardian of liberty, operative tirelessly given 1920 to urge a country’s strange county values, a Constitution and a Bill of Rights. They have no domestic connection or ideological member to their mission. Today they’re defending trusting interloper and newcomer families impacted by a new executive orders—tomorrow they could be fortifying you, since they are committed to fortifying all of us.
So we’re station with them by organizing a national fundraiser in coffee bars opposite a country. Next weekend—Friday Feb 3rd thru Saturday Feb 5th—we’re partnering with coffee companies via a United States to lift supports for a ACLU. You can take partial in this fundraiser by condescending these cafes, or by donating directly to a ACLU.
[UPDATING BELOW!] Sprudge will compare a initial $500 per association lifted subsequent weekend for a ACLU, in partnership with a following twenty-six launch partner brands opposite 125 cafes:
All Day, Miami, FL
Blacksmith Coffee, Morningstar Greenway Coffee, Houston, TX (3 locations)
Blueprint Coffee, St. Louis, MO
Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA (25 locations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland)
Coffee Manufactory Tartine Manufactory, San Francisco, CA
Cultivar Coffee, Dallas, TX (3 locations)
Either / Or, Portland, OR
Equator Coffees Teas, San Rafael, CA (5 locations opposite a Bay Area)
Everyman Espresso, New York, NY (2 locations in Manhattan)
Fleet Coffee, Austin, TX
GB Coffee and Go Get Em Tiger, Los Angeles, CA (3 locations)
Huckleberry Coffee Roasters, Denver, CO (2 locations)
Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago, IL (10 locations in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles)
Joe Coffee, New York, NY (15 locations in Manhattan and Philadelphia)
La Colombe Coffee Roasters, Philadelphia, PA (22 locations in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC and Philadelphia)
Olympia Coffee Roasting Company, Olympia, WA (3 locations)
PT’s Coffee, Topeka, KS (2 locations in Topeka and Kansas City, MO)
Peace Coffee, Minneapolis, MN (Wonderland Park location)
Slate Coffee, Seattle, WA (4 locations)
Spiller Park Coffee, Atlanta, GA
Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Portland, OR (12 locations in Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and New Orleans)
Tipico Coffee, Buffalo, NY
Ultimo Coffee, Philadelphia, PA (2 locations)
Variety Coffee Roasters, Brooklyn, NY (3 locations)
The Wormhole Halfwit Coffee Roasters, Chicago, IL
Wrecking Ball Coffee, San Francisco, CA
UPDATE 1: 10 some-more companies representing 23 cafes have assimilated this bid as of 2pm PST on Jan 31st. Totals: 36 brands, 148 cafes.
Hideaway Cafe, Winchester, VA
Dragonfly Coffee Roasters, Boulder, CO
Cocoa Cinnamon, Durham, NC (2 locations)
Gimme! Coffee, New York, NY (7 locations)
Verve Coffee Roasters, Santa Cruz, CA (7 locations)
Caffe Driade, Chapel Hill, NC
Open Eye Cafe, Carrboro, NC
Bluebeard Coffee, Tacoma, WA
Union Coffee Roaster, Ayer, MA
Bar Nine, Los Angeles, CA
UPDATE 2: We’ll continue announcing new confirmations in batches of 10. New totals: 46 brands, 161 cafes.
Rise Coffee, St. Louis, MO
Elixr Coffee, Philadelphia, PA (2 locations)
Woodcat Coffee, Los Angeles, CA
Bar Nine Coffee, Los Angeles, CA
Joe Bean Coffee Roasters, Rochester, NY
Sightglass Coffee Roasters, San Francisco, CA (3 locations)
Friends Cafe, Chapel Hill, NC
Coco Bean Coffee Shop, Chapel Hill, NC
Phoenix Coffee, Cleveland, OH
Amethyst Coffee Company, Denver, CO
Update 3: Dozens some-more cafes have assimilated this effort. New totals: 66 brands, 200 cafeteria locations
Revelator Coffee, Birmingham, AL (12 locations in Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Charleston)
Zona Rosa Caffe, Pasadena, CA
Pudge Knuckles Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
Murray’s Tivoli, Tivoli, NY
Condesa Coffee, Atlanta, GA (2 locations)
Qūentin Café, Mexico City, Mexico
Ugly Duck Coffee, Rochester, NY
Street 14 Cafe, Astoria, OR
Comet Coffee, St. Louis, MO
Bandit Coffee Company, St. Petersburg, FL
Houndstooth Coffee / Tweed Coffee Roasters, Dallas, TX
Birch Coffee, New York, NY (7 locations)
Perkolator Coffee, Chicago, IL
Royal Drummer, Seattle, WA
El Diablo Coffee Company, Seattle, WA
Cloud City Coffee, Seattle, WA
The Wired Goat Cafe, Columbia, SC (2 locations)
Bump n’ Grind, Silver Springs, MD
Estate Coffee Company, San Antonio, TX
Cup Spoon, Chicago, IL
We are actively seeking some-more cafes to join in this effort! If we possess or work a cafeteria and wish to get involved, we acquire we to join us subsequent weekend. Please click here supplement your name to a list of cafes lifting supports subsequent weekend to support a ACLU. We’ll refurbish with some-more participating cafes via a week.
If we possess or work any arrange of coffee company—importer, appurtenance manufacturer, products supplier, private citizen or media company—we would adore your support in a form of relating sponsorships. Please click here and we will give we all a information we need to join us as a relating fundraiser. We wish to tell a prolonged list of relating companies in a entrance days.
If we live over easy visitation stretch from any of a cafes participating this weekend, or wish to only present but all a rest of it, greatfully cruise creation your taxation deductible concession directly to a ACLU.
To a readers around a world, let us be clear: Americans of all stripes, all domestic backgrounds and beliefs, are deeply uneasy and repelled by a interloper and immigration orders. This is not a coastal chosen issue, or a hardcore magnanimous issue—it is not a Democrat or Republican issue, nor unequivocally even a domestic issue. This is a tellurian issue, and one on that there can be no equivocation. America is a republic of immigrants and refugees, and either your family came a year ago or 150 years ago, we are equal. All immigrants and refugees are acquire here no matter their devout beliefs, their republic of origin, or tone of their skin.
Thank we for fasten us.
#RefugeesWelcome
#YesEqual
Jordan Michelman, co-founder, Editor
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Zac Cadwalader, News Editor, Staff Writer
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