Fresno Catholic Workers and others support homeless woman vs. McDonald’s

[Ian David]

Fresno Catholic Workers and others support homeless woman vs. McDonald’s
Mike Rhodes writes at Indybay:

The arrest last weekend of a homeless woman at a Fresno McDonald’s led to a protest today. Protestors said Sherri Williams’s rights were violated when she was arrested for attempting to use the restroom at McDonald’s on Olive and highway 99. Speaking at the protest Liza Apper, of the Saint Benedict Catholic Worker group, said she was “here today to support Sherri and her husband Al who was discriminated against from getting service at this McDonald’s.” Liza said she would “like McDonald’s to acknowledge their policy of discrimination toward handicapped people and change. They should give the same level of service to their fully abled customers as they do to their handicapped customers.”

More:
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2007/07/25/items-80/

[book_worm]

1. I guess McDonalds would like it better if this woman went to the bathroom in the streets

Congrats to those Catholic workers for supporting simple human dignity. Shame on McDonalds and the corporate bastards who support their stand.

[pop goes the weasel]

2. Shame on them

If Torres thought Sherri and Al were a problem, you'd think she might have said something before she took Al's money. Obviously, she's happy to profit off the homeless and disabled, just not to extend them the same level of service that McDonald's gives everyone else.

[pop goes the weasel]

3. self-delete

happy computer fun makes for quizzical duplicate post

[ThomCat]

4. I'm confused.

Was she discriminated against because she's homeless, or because she's disabled, or both?

There's clearly a lot of information that's missing. I'd like to know what happened. :(

[Truthiness Inspector]

5. The worst part of this story

is that it was Christofascists siding with the homeless in an opportunistic vote-grab attempt.

:evilgrin:

[Ian David]

6. Catholic Worker is not a Christofascist group. They're a Liberal Catholic group.

Please take care not to paint all Christians and/or Catholics with the same, broad brush.

[formercia]

7. Catholics living their faith

in the true Christian spirit of Liberation Theology.