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"No Justice, No Profit": Economic Boycott for Michael Brown

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014   

FERGUSON, Mo. - For months, the world has watched protesters fill the streets of Ferguson, calling for justice, but one coalition is calling for a very different kind of protest in response to the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

Zaki Baruti is among the organizers of the Leadership Coalition for Justice, a group calling for a boycott of St. Louis-area retailers during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

"We have exhausted other means; demonstrations and appeals, petitions," says Baruti. "So we see this economic protest as another extension of our struggle to achieve justice."

Baruti says the boycott, which the group has dubbed "No Justice, No Profit," will begin Thanksgiving Day and last through Sunday, Nov. 30. Some protesters will simply stay home, while others plan to walk through shopping malls in silence, holding signs but not spending any money.

Baruti says he hopes people across the state and the nation will join in this form of peaceful protest, which he says takes a page from American history and the role the Boston Tea Party played in the fight for independence.

"Once the economic forces become involved, then they can put pressure on the political entities to maybe make the kind of changes we think is necessary to achieve some form of justice," he says.

Baruti says his group had planned to go through with the boycott regardless of what decision the grand jury returned, as they feel the issues of injustice and inequity highlighted in Ferguson are bigger than any one incident.


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