Oregon Coffee Shop doesn't want cops

[The Village Idiot]

http://www.foxnews.com//us/2010/06/04/police-officer-asked-leave-portland-coffee-shop/

What are their DU names??

.....

The Red & Black Cafe is no place for a man in blue.

Police Officer James Crooker was asked to leave the vegan coffee shop in Portland, Ore., last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com.

Crooker, 36, a 2-year veteran of the force, entered the Red & Black Café on May 18 and bought a cup of coffee before a customer approached him and said she appreciated his efforts.

That's when John Langley, one of the co-owners of the collectively managed shop, approached the cop and asked him to leave.

Crooker left immediately. It was the first time something like this has happened to him in his nine-year law enforcement career, he told The Oregonian newspaper.

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[The Village Idiot]

Their website is;

http://redandblackcafe.com/

Neither Crooker nor Langley could be reached for comment on Friday. An employee who answered the phone at the Red and Black café declined to discuss the incident.

“I’ve been taking calls about this all day and I’m kind of tired of talking about it,” the employee said. “I have a regular job.”

The phone number is (503)231-3899

[JohnnyReb]

When they get robbed....who they gonna call.....ghostbusters.

[Mike220]

They're anarcho-communists. Shocker...

[The Village Idiot]

did you see their website?

their customers had to do without tomatoes and avacadoes all winter.

[thundley4]

Just a guess, but if the place gets vandalized , I don't see the cops working very hard to find the people that did it.

[The Village Idiot]

When they get robbed....who they gonna call.....ghostbusters.

Their produce is all locally grown and biked in!!! 

[The Village Idiot]

did you see the menu!! It's highway robbery!!

http://redandblackcafe.com/menu/

[JohnnyReb]

did you see the menu!! It's highway robbery!!

http://redandblackcafe.com/menu/

I'm surprised they don't have 'pine needles and dog pee' on the menu...it's organic.

[cavegal]

from their website

ZAP Writing Workshop with Judith Arcana!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 by Red & Black Cafe

There have been murmurs of a writing workshop, led by Judith Arcana, happening at the Red and Black.  Well, friends, speculate no longer!  The workshop will be happening on Saturday, March 6, 2010.  Please visit the “ZAP Writing Workshop” page on our website for  all the details about the workshop. 

Registration begins on Wednesday, January 27.  Registration forms are available at the cafe, just ask any worker.  Please send any questions or concerns you may have to the e-mail address, listed above.

In solidarity,

Oh oh maybe we can add them to the DUmp posts now??

Margaret Killjoy: Anarchism & Fiction.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2010 by Red & Black Cafe

Just a heads up to all of you, this Thursday, January 21, Margaret Killjoy will be at the Red and Black speaking about Anarchism & Fiction.  Margaret just published a book through AK Press entitled, Mythmakers and Lawbreakers which consists of interviews with many fiction writers who identify as anarchists[/U] and / or explore anarchist themes in their writing. 

Also speaking will be the independent zine publisher Artnoose, who has published the personal zine Kerbloom! for years. 

It promises to be an amazing night.  We hope to see you all there!

In solidarity,

Red and Black Collective

[The Village Idiot]

Their workers are also IWW union members, lol. The wobblies.

[cavegal]

Their workers are also IWW union members, lol. The wobblies.

Figures!

[The Village Idiot]

Figures!

A "closed shop" lol

$5 for beans and rice!!! Goodness gracious

[cavegal]

A "closed shop" lol

$5 for beans and rice!!! Goodness gracious

But Union Label beans and rice!

[Mike220]

Their workers are also IWW union members, lol. The wobblies.

Probably makes up most of the remaining Wobbly membership. Figures they'd be part of a loser group.

[Lacarnut]

A group of NRA members should invade that dump. If I lived there I would go in there everyday just to piss them off. Wear my I support the fuzz T-shirt one day, Border P. cap the next day and NRA cap the next. 

[DefiantSix]

A group of NRA members should invade that dump. If I lived there I would go in there everyday just to piss them off. Wear my I support the fuzz T-shirt one day, Border P. cap the next day and NRA cap the next. 

"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone".

[Chris_]

Sounds about as silly as the "Conflict Kitchen".

[NHSparky]

Hmmmm...look at the "Who we are" link:

LINK

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.

Uh, I call bullshit!

[cclanofirish]

http://www.foxnews.com//us/2010/06/04/police-officer-asked-leave-portland-coffee-shop/

What are their DU names??

.....

The Red & Black Cafe is no place for a man in blue.

Police Officer James Crooker was asked to leave the vegan coffee shop in Portland, Ore., last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com.

Crooker, 36, a 2-year veteran of the force, entered the Red & Black Café on May 18 and bought a cup of coffee before a customer approached him and said she appreciated his efforts.

That's when John Langley, one of the co-owners of the collectively managed shop, approached the cop and asked him to leave.

Crooker left immediately. It was the first time something like this has happened to him in his nine-year law enforcement career, he told The Oregonian newspaper.

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Typical Communist POS....they're About Us section proves they are unequivocal hypocrites "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."

Sounds to me like you did not provide a welcoming space to this cop. Furthermore, I believe the person that thanked the cop, was using the space "to bring awareness and education on the issues" of crime prevention and human decency....which makes sense why you would balk at such a thing occurring in your shop.

Personally, I am going to have fun spamming calls to their business all day for the next week.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

DU weighs in:

proteus_lives  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Jun-05-10 05:30 AM
Response to Reply #6
97. "It's run by anarchists. They're not going to call the cops"
   
And a dozen junkies and thieves across Portland just read this story and said "god bless the naive dipshits of the world."

Hempathy (209 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 05:40 AM
Response to Reply #97
114. my question- how does an anarchist "run" a business in the first place?
   

proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 05:41 AM
Response to Reply #114
117. I would guess hypocrisy abounds in the Red and Black cafe.

   

Hannah Bell (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 07:49 AM
Response to Reply #117
153. i'd guess you don't know a thing about it.

   

proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 08:33 AM
Response to Reply #153
160. What does an anarchist need of profit?
   
Tell us comrade!
"For centuries philosophers and theologians have debated what it means to be human. Perhaps the answer has eluded us because it is so simple. To be human is to choose."

Hannah Bell (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 08:35 AM
Response to Reply #160
163. there is no profit. the shop is run by a workers' collective. comrade.

   

proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 08:40 AM
Response to Reply #163
165. There is always profit.
   
Some comrade at the top has a new bicycle chain or second-hand guitar.

Workers of the world unite! :crazy:

 

Hannah Bell (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 08:45 AM
Response to Reply #165
166. you don't understand what profit is, apparently.

So many denunciations, so few rebuttals.
   

proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 08:57 AM
Response to Reply #166
168. Oh, of course not.
   
Certainly not any better then a pack of vegan anarchists in Portland. Global force that they are.

Hannah Bell (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-05-10 09:05 AM
Response to Reply #168
171. which has nothing to do with anything except your antipathy toward them.

   
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8490017

[NHSparky]

Hannah Bell is rapidly climbing the charts in her quest to wrest Pam's title of DUmmie of the Year away.

[JohnnyReb]

Hannah Bell....prime example of a liberal public education.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Hannah Bell is rapidly climbing the charts in her quest to wrest Pam's title of DUmmie of the Year away.

And Proteus is going to get his ass banned if he doesn't start getting back in line.

Last week I thought about having my mole start a fight with him just for some street cred.

[vesta111]

And Proteus is going to get his ass banned if he doesn't start getting back in line.

Last week I thought about having my mole start a fight with him just for some street cred.

This has to be a brilliant  but stupid publicity stunt to advertise the business.

No one in their right mind pisses off the Police, Fire Department or local Ambulance service.  May as well place a sign in the window,   " Come rob us and our customers, no cops allowed."