01/28/2026
Novare Res will be closed for business on Friday 1/30 in alignment with the General Strike to protest the continued presence of ICE in our communities.
We decided this in accordance with staff consensus, and to allow staff to participate in additional direct actions and community initiatives.
Many small businesses both in our city and in our country have been forced to close their doors due to the threat of ICE persecution. The food and beverage industry owes so much to the flavors, influences, and labor of immigrant communities; as a part of Maine’s vital and dynamic service industry we feel strongly that our friends, neighbors, collaborators, patrons, and workers cannot thrive when immigrants’ human and constitutional rights are being threatened right here in our state.
We will be closed on Friday to send a message of solidarity to restaurants and workers here and elsewhere in the US that we are willing to act collectively to protect the rights of all.
We will be closed to show our immigrant neighbors that we love and value their presence in our city and are standing with them.
And we will be closed to send a message directly to our lawmakers, local and national, that we want ICE defunded and OUT OF MAINE.