National Hoodie Day from news reports…
June 12, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
- The Buffalo News reported: "About three dozen people, all clad in hooded sweatshirts, marched down Bailey Avenue on Monday afternoon, holding signs and chanting on the day jury selection began for the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin last year. Drivers showed approval by honking their horns at the marchers' signs, which bore slogans such as 'Stop Profiling Youth' and 'United Against Racism.' The rally was part of National Hoodie Day, an event activists around the country organized to coincide with the start of the Zimmerman trial and to call attention to racial profiling and other problems affecting urban youth in the United States." Protesters included activists and students from different community organizations and schools (photo at: National Hoodie Day brings out dozens of Buffalo marchers).
- The Chinese language newspaper World Journal in San Francisco had substantial coverage of Hoodie Day in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Fruitvale BART station. It explained to readers that the events were in solidarity with Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American teenager killed by a volunteer policeman in Sanford, Florida who was unarmed, and carrying "only iced tea and a bag of candy." It reported that protesters chanted "We are all Trayvon” and that the Fruitvale BART station was where police killed another African-American youth, Oscar Grant. (see: 世界新聞網-北美華文新聞、華商資訊 - 聲援佛州少年馬丁)
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