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Hundreds of protesters marched in Washington on Saturday to demand “Justice for Trayvon,” the Florida teen who was shot and killed in February.
The protest was largely organized by Howard University students. Corryn Freeman, one of the organizers, said, “We want an arrest [in Martin's death], but that’s not where it’s going to stop. George Zimmerman [who said he killed Martin in self-defense] is just a symptom of the big problem. Racism is the big problem.”
The "hoodie" was once just a staple of casual streetwear. Now it's a symbol of racial profiling. Protestors sporting "hoodies" marched through the nation's capital Saturday, demanding justice for African-American youth Trayvon Martin who was fatally shot while wearing a "hoodie" in late February by community watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
“Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till: How many more youth will they kill?” the protesters chanted as they marched more than two miles from Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, to Freedom Plaza.
Humam Abdul Malik of Southeast Washington, who marched Saturday with his 13-year-old son, said protests would continue in the District and across the country until Zimmerman is tried before a jury.
“It ain’t a race issue; it’s a justice issue,” Malik said. “Let him go to court, and if he’s innocent, let it be proven there. That’s the system.”
Hundreds of people joined in Saturday’s march, which stretched nearly a city block at times.
The protest was largely organized by Howard University students, who said they want more than Zimmerman’s arrest. They are seeking reform of the justice system that so far has allowed Zimmerman to walk free — and that has resulted in what they said is the racial profiling and wrongful deaths of too many young black Americans.
“We want an arrest, but that’s not where it’s going to stop,” said Corryn Freeman, a Howard University senior who helped organize the march. “George Zimmerman is just a symptom of the big problem. Racism is the big problem.”
Upon reaching Freedom Plaza, the marchers sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often called “the black national anthem,” and watched a reenactment of Martin’s shooting and its aftermath by Howard’s theater group, the Howard Players.
The mother of 26-year-old Emmanuel Okutuga, who was fatally shot by a Montgomery County police officer last year, clutched a photograph of her son. “This happens too often,” she said. “There are too many Trayvons out there.”
More than a dozen speakers, many of them local university students and activists, urged members of the crowd to harness their anger and turn it into durable change through community organizing and advocacy.
“It’s time to stop complaining; it’s time to get to work,” said Rashiah Greene of the National Black United Front, a national coalition of activists.
D.C. environmental justice advocate Kari Fulton said marchers need to start lobbying politicians and lodging public comments with local, state and federal agencies.
“We gotta take our hoodies to the Hill,” she said. “Don’t let this be the day that you put your right fist up, and then you walk away.”
Martin was fatally shot in February as he walked toward a home in a gated community while wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea.
His shooter was volunteer neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who has said he acted in self-defense and has not been charged.
Real Shocking Crimes caught on camera: "Warning Graphic."
What your mainstream media never tell you: Marvel at the al-Jazeera film crew whipping the crowd to hysteria. This is what most UK/american mainstream media do ; get the crowds TO ACT for the cameras. Ever noticed the STAGED gun shots or in-the-lens chanting? It's all fake, staged propaganda for the liars at Sky/ITN/BBC?CNN/Fox. اسامہ بن لادن ہلاکओसामा बिन लादेन को मार डाला قتل أسامة بن لادن Oussama Ben Laden tué Osama Bin Laden getötet Usama bin Ladin dödas DURBAN, South Africa -- “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve. Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers out of what they lovingly call “the process” have been beavering away at what is now a 138-page document. Its catchy title is "Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action Under the Convention -- Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of [one imagines they mean 'for'] a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its seventeenth session: note by the Chair.” In plain English, these are the conclusions the bureaucracy wants. The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN's skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call “transparent impenetrability”, are not just off the wall – they are lunatic. Subscribe to VesInteL World News by Email
Hundreds of protesters marched in Washington on Saturday to demand “Justice for Trayvon,” the Florida teen who was shot and killed in February.
The protest was largely organized by Howard University students. Corryn Freeman, one of the organizers, said, “We want an arrest [in Martin's death], but that’s not where it’s going to stop. George Zimmerman [who said he killed Martin in self-defense] is just a symptom of the big problem. Racism is the big problem.”
The "hoodie" was once just a staple of casual streetwear. Now it's a symbol of racial profiling. Protestors sporting "hoodies" marched through the nation's capital Saturday, demanding justice for African-American youth Trayvon Martin who was fatally shot while wearing a "hoodie" in late February by community watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
“Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till: How many more youth will they kill?” the protesters chanted as they marched more than two miles from Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, to Freedom Plaza.
Humam Abdul Malik of Southeast Washington, who marched Saturday with his 13-year-old son, said protests would continue in the District and across the country until Zimmerman is tried before a jury.
“It ain’t a race issue; it’s a justice issue,” Malik said. “Let him go to court, and if he’s innocent, let it be proven there. That’s the system.”
Hundreds of people joined in Saturday’s march, which stretched nearly a city block at times.
The protest was largely organized by Howard University students, who said they want more than Zimmerman’s arrest. They are seeking reform of the justice system that so far has allowed Zimmerman to walk free — and that has resulted in what they said is the racial profiling and wrongful deaths of too many young black Americans.
“We want an arrest, but that’s not where it’s going to stop,” said Corryn Freeman, a Howard University senior who helped organize the march. “George Zimmerman is just a symptom of the big problem. Racism is the big problem.”
Upon reaching Freedom Plaza, the marchers sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often called “the black national anthem,” and watched a reenactment of Martin’s shooting and its aftermath by Howard’s theater group, the Howard Players.
The mother of 26-year-old Emmanuel Okutuga, who was fatally shot by a Montgomery County police officer last year, clutched a photograph of her son. “This happens too often,” she said. “There are too many Trayvons out there.”
More than a dozen speakers, many of them local university students and activists, urged members of the crowd to harness their anger and turn it into durable change through community organizing and advocacy.
“It’s time to stop complaining; it’s time to get to work,” said Rashiah Greene of the National Black United Front, a national coalition of activists.
D.C. environmental justice advocate Kari Fulton said marchers need to start lobbying politicians and lodging public comments with local, state and federal agencies.
“We gotta take our hoodies to the Hill,” she said. “Don’t let this be the day that you put your right fist up, and then you walk away.”
Martin was fatally shot in February as he walked toward a home in a gated community while wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea.
His shooter was volunteer neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who has said he acted in self-defense and has not been charged.
Real Shocking Crimes caught on camera: "Warning Graphic."
What your mainstream media never tell you: Marvel at the al-Jazeera film crew whipping the crowd to hysteria. This is what most UK/american mainstream media do ; get the crowds TO ACT for the cameras. Ever noticed the STAGED gun shots or in-the-lens chanting? It's all fake, staged propaganda for the liars at Sky/ITN/BBC?CNN/Fox. اسامہ بن لادن ہلاکओसामा बिन लादेन को मार डाला قتل أسامة بن لادن Oussama Ben Laden tué Osama Bin Laden getötet Usama bin Ladin dödas DURBAN, South Africa -- “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve. Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers out of what they lovingly call “the process” have been beavering away at what is now a 138-page document. Its catchy title is "Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action Under the Convention -- Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of [one imagines they mean 'for'] a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its seventeenth session: note by the Chair.” In plain English, these are the conclusions the bureaucracy wants. The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN's skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call “transparent impenetrability”, are not just off the wall – they are lunatic. Subscribe to VesInteL World News by Email
