Ferguson Shooting Aftermath: Thousands At College Campuses, Places of Work Join in Nationwide Protest #HandsUp!WalkOut! Campaign
College students and people from around the U.S. walked out of their schools and places of work in solidarity with those in Ferguson and around the country affected by police violence.
The walkouts occurred simultaneously at noon central, under the campaign slogan #Hands Up! Walk Out!-- a reference to the "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!" chant that has been used since Michael Brown's police shooting death on Aug. 9.
The campaign remembered those people lost to police violence, including Michael Brown, John Crawford III, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, Israel Hernandez, Oscar Grant, Ezell Ford and Ramarley Graham.
And the campaign comes with a list of demands to include an end to all forms of discrimination and the full recognition of human rights, justice for Michael Brown and freedom for all communities.
Specifically, organizers want the U.S. government to "acknowledge and address structural violence and institutional discrimination that continues to imprison our communities either in a life of poverty and/or one behind bars. We want the United States Government to recognize the full spectrum of our human rights and its obligations under international law."
And they are calling for "An Immediate End To Police Brutality And the Murder Of Black, Brown & All Oppressed People," full employment, decent housing, quality education and affordable college education, an end to the prison industrial complex and a de-militarization of local law enforcement.
They turned out at Harvard:
At Jackson State University:
At Stamford:
At Yale:
At Brooklyn outside the offices of the Arab American Association of New York:
At New York's Union Square:
Students at Washington University:
And Worcester, Massachusettes:
Others held a "Die-In" at The Department of Justice as the Supreme Court Justices held a hearing on Monday over a case involving the First Amendment.
And middle schoolers joined in: