Seattle: High School Students Walk Out to Protest Grand Jury Decision
November 25, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
November 25—Students in at least four Seattle area high schools walked out November 25 to protest the refusal by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown. According to the Seattle School District, 1,000 students walked out of Garfield High, 250 from Roosevelt High, and 75 students walked out of West Seattle High School. Students from Garfield joined a march called by the NAACP that converged on the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle. Another walkout was called by students at Cleveland High School for this afternoon.
The Garfield students chanted “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” and “Black Lives Matter” as they marched. The Seattle Times quoted senior Alyssa King, president of the Garfield High School Black Student Union that organized the march: “We are out here to support Mike Brown’s family and show our support to African Americas all around.” Roosevelt students, organized by the Black Students Union there, went to the University of Washington, where they rallied in the center of campus in Red Square. These high school walkouts are very significant at this moment when the country needs to be ground to a halt and the outrageous murders of our youth put an end to.
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