21 Bay Area coffee shops join weekend fundraising bid for ACLU

  • Blue Bottle(300 Webster St., Oakland):25 locations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

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(R)evolve Cafe (1714 Franklin St., Oakland)

(R)evolve Cafe (1714 Franklin St., Oakland)


Photo: Julia R./ Yelp

Hadden Hill Cafe (504 Wesley Ave., Oakland)

Hadden Hill Cafe (504 Wesley Ave., Oakland)


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Coloso Coffee (1715 Webster St. Oakland)

Coloso Coffee (1715 Webster St. Oakland)


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Chromatic Coffee Company (5237 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara)

Chromatic Coffee Company (5237 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara)


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Roy’s Station Coffee  (197 Jackson St., San Jose)

Roy’s Station Coffee  (197 Jackson St., San Jose)


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Taylor Maid Farms (6790 McKinley St., Sebastopol)

Taylor Maid Farms (6790 McKinley St., Sebastopol)


Photo: Jamie E./ Yelp

Pinhole Coffe (231 Cortland Ave.)

Pinhole Coffe (231 Cortland Ave.)


Photo: Tiffany P./ Yelp


A apportionment of that coffee we bought this morning might go towards a American Civil Liberties Union.  

Bay Area coffee brands like Blue Bottle, Equator Coffees and Four Barrel have teamed adult with Sprudge, a coffee news website, to launch a national fundraiser in response to President Trump’s immigration order. 

“We trust that the current executive order banning refugees from a United States and immigration from 7 infancy Muslim nations is illegal, immoral, and essentially un-American,” Sprudge staff wrote

The American Civil Liberties Union indicted a Trump administration in a lawsuit filed on Thursday of violating a eremite leisure of some nationals from 7 Muslim-majority countries who have been barred from entering a United States. The ACLU filed a lawsuit in sovereign justice in a Northern District of California on interest of 3 tyro visa holders, including one Yemeni who left a United States and is incompetent to come back, according to justice documents.


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Thus distant 21 internal coffee brands have assimilated Sprudge’s #RefugeesWelcome #YesEqual campaign.  In all 530, coffee shops opposite a nation are approaching to attend by a weekend. 



For any coffee sole during Blue Bottle a $1 dollar will go towards a ACLU, James Freeman owner of Blue Bottle wrote. The volume any café donates towards a ACLU will vary, Mic.com reports

Check out a slideshow above to see internal Bay Area coffee shops are participating.