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-------------- --- • VOLUME 77, ISSUE 10 For the Students and.the Community APRIL 10, 2000 Baruch Salutes .. ~.;; Hundreds Gather In Park to Great Women .AVent Anger Against NYPD ------,-~--- In History Police, Taking No Chances, dents' reasons for not attending. Fears of police harassment, beat By Franck Mongbe Cordon OffUnion Square ings and ki llings have propelled Staif Writer some of the city's young people to By Macollvie .Iean-Francois take action. Since the Amadou Diallo At the close of Women's History Copy Editor verdict was announced on Feb.25, Month, the women of Baruch. led by ~: . others have died at the hands of Hundreds of high school and col- . police. Among them are Malcolm ~i:;~~:~::i:~:: a~:;~~~:~: lege stuc!ents crowded into the south Ferguson and Patrick Dorismond. 1#/" i,'·· east section of Union Square Park Only five days prior to the rally, ce~ee~.o~~peaker .~ last Wednesday to rally against police police had killed two youths in from the Women of 1-;' brutality. In response to a call to Brooklyn. According to a SLAM Color Network, discussed what she 11~~(·.;. :..;. action by the Student Liberation press release. April 5 marks the 41 st thinks the nine issues women shouid ,;;,;;::;,:.;;.. ,'. Action Movement at Hunter College, day since that verdict. be aware of are. the students. joined by parents, teach": "I'm outraged because of the way "We could have control over our : ers and others concerned, came to the police are treating us," said destiny, our lives," said Lee who voice their feelings about the killing Jessica Lowman, a 17-year-old high stressed the need for women to take of Black, Latino and other youths of school senior at Brooklyn College control of their health.
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