Several independent bookstores across the country have pledged to donate part of their sales over the holiday weekend to a nonprofit group offering low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees.
that the store's staff was spurred into action by reports of poor living conditions in detention facilities housing immigrants, many of them young children.
"I feel furious; I feel helpless," Treu said."I’m certainly not celebrating. To think of children very like mine living in the conditions we're seeing, in the richest country in the world, in the supposed ‘land of the free,’ that is such a deep and growing anger in me. I can't keep doing only what I have been doing.
"We kind of sat with that for a night, and then we kind of said, ‘We can donate about 10 percent of our sales for a given period of time.’ And we started just putting that together," Treu said."We were like, 'Well, maybe we can let some other bookstores know, maybe others will join us.’ That sort of snowballed.", the owners and staff of A Room of One's Own wrote that they"are deciding against hopelessness and deciding against how small we feel.
"We love books because they show us ways into other worlds, mindsets, experiences, and futures," the statement reads in part."Reading, buying, loving books — and what they do for us — is not, and has never been, a passive act but is, and always will be, an act of resistance.
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