The Mercury (Pottstown, PA)

Hispanic-owned businesses plan Reading strike

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READING, PA. » More than 100 Hispanic-owned businesses in and around the eastern Pennsylvan­ia city of Reading plan to close on May 1.

The move organized by Make the Road PA is to celebrate Internatio­nal Workers’ Day but also to protest the immigratio­n policies of the Trump Administra­tion. The Berks County business owners have signed a pledge to close that day, and are urging people not to shop that day.

Reading and Berks County have some of the highest concentrat­ions of Hispanic residents in the state.

The group is also planning marches in Reading and Harrisburg that day.

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