Community Rally for Treyvon Martin

“George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, igniting a national debate on racial profiling and civil rights, was found not guilty late Saturday night of second-degree murder.” We will stand together in Champaign-Urbana to demand accountability, to stand against racial injustice, and to protest the verdict that proved the injustice of the system. We stand with Trayvon’s family and we know that we are called to act—to fight for civil rights and for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws in every state, and we will not rest until racial profiling in all its forms is outlawed. Today we mourn, but tomorrow we organize.Bring your friends, your family, your children, your neighbors. We stand together as a community–all of us. Art, protest signs, candles, and messages of outrage/hope/love/solidarity are encouraged.

The above message was from Rachel Storm.