Bushwick’s Molasses Books is fundraising for anti-Trump organizations

Now it’s a bookstore, bar, coffee shop, AND a place to get involved. via Facebook There isn’t a lot of good news these days, and this morning proved no different as beloved Cobble Hill bookstore BookCourt announced it was closing after 35 years of serving the neighborhood. But not all indie bookstores are facing extinction just yet, and one such bookstore in Bushwick refuses to let the death march of 2016 portend a four-year sentence in Trump’s America. Molasses Books (770 Hart St.), the bookstore that doubles as a coffee shop by day and a bar by night, announced a rolling weekly fundraiser wherein 10 percent of the bar’s profits on Friday nights are donated to a different cause or organization. These have included Standing Rock, Planned Parenthood and the American Immigration Council. This Friday, Molasses will donate 10 percent of the bar to Black Lives Matter. You’re gonna be drunk until the end of 2016, anyway, and this way you’re getting… Read More

Bushwick’s Molasses Books is fundraising for anti-Trump organizations : Brokelyn