Million Hoodies March and petition started by Trayvon Martin's parents

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1. Thanks for posting. News links here

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/317519/20120321/million-hoodie-march-protest-trayvon-martin-nyc.htm

The Million Hoodie March will take over New York City's Union Square Wednesday night in a massive protest over the handling of the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin three weeks ago on the streets of a gated Florida community.

The rally is the latest -- and perhaps the larges t-- such protest to date in response to the death of the teen, which has brought the issue of race in America under a magnifying glass and ignited tensions as police have failed to arrest or charge George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old, self-appointed neighborhood watch captain who admits that he shot the unarmed teen to death on Feb. 26.

The event, which was organized in conjunction with the Occupy Wall Street movement, comes on the heels of an announcement by the U.S. Justice Department that it will conduct an investigation into the teen's shooting death.

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"You're seeing the reactions from people in New York and elsewhere because it's a national storyline. It's something that resonates. This is a young man that by all reports was doing nothing wrong and someone from the community shot him and now there are concerns about how the investigation is going," Williams spokesman Stephan Ringel told The International Business Times Wednesday. "It's really issues not just of gun violence in communities of color, but also how they're being policed. There are problems with both."

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Trayvon's parents will be there.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Trayvon-Martin-Million-Hoodie-March-Union-Square-NYC-143649686.html