Sounds good to me. I'm off to the Java as soon as I get to Mpls.
AK
Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
> I proposed this to other mailing lists but I'd like to
> present it here as well.
>
> My idea is to make an event of eating at a middle eastern
> owned restaurant in the next week, and possibly on a regular
> basis afterward, with as many people as you can.
>
> 1. It brings money to these businesses which will
> suffer needlessly as xenophobia inevitably grows rampant,
> in particular racism against middle easterners.
>
> 2. It will make part of their culture, the food, into your
> own.
>
> 3. You will have dinner with your friends, and at this
> point this should be considered momentous.
>
> 4. It shows a solidarity in the face of witch hunts- that we
> are not afraid, that we believe in people regardless of race,
> and that we would rather be kind and wrong than vile and right.
>
> -e.
