Million Youth March electrifies Brooklyn community
By Johnnie Stevens
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Thousands of shoppers and workers welcomed the
Fifth annual Million Youth March at Fulton and Nostrand on
Sept. 6. The MYM organizers had been in battle with New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York Police Department for
months over the right to have a permitted march and location.
This battle impacted the outreach efforts.
City Councilmember Charles Barron from Brooklyn said: "Mayor
Bloomberg should have been here. The youth is our future."
Barron and Councilmember Al Vann presented a proclamation to
the New Black Panther Party, which sponsored the rally.
Hip-hop artist Tylibah Washington helped to bring
consiousness to the youth participants and the busy Fulton
street shoppers. Tylibah, in spoken word, called for an end to
the U.S. occupation of Iraq, stating that Black, Latino and
poor white people are being victimized by the multinational
corporations.
Reprinted from the Sept. 18, 2003, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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