Youth plan Dec. 1 protest

Youth and students in New York City are being encouraged to join a day of absence on Dec. 1, the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala.

This day of absence means no work, no school and no shopping in order to protest war, racism and poverty throughout the United States.

Fight Imperialism-Stand Together (FIST) is organizing a youth march and rally that will end up joining the Wall Street demonstration later in the day.

FIST will gather on the corner of 19th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan before marching to 14th Street at Union Square. At 11:30 a.m. speakers and entertainers will kick off the rally. There will also be a fund-raising donation box for Katrina survivors.

Following the rally, a second march will leave from Union Square at 3:20 p.m. heading for the major 4 p.m. rally at Wall Street. FIST is calling on everyone to work together to get military recruiters out of the schools and bring the troops home from Iraq. For more information on this FIST action, e-mail [email protected] or call the Troops Out Now Coalition at (212) 633-6646.