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Sharpton announces Washington march on hate crime issue
By KEN SUGIURA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/23/07
Rev. Al Sharpton announced plans Tuesday for a march on the U.S. Justice Department in Washington on Nov. 16.
Sharpton, speaking at Atlanta's Richard B. Russell federal building, is protesting what he believes is the Justice Department's failure to prosecute a series of recent hate crimes across the country.
"We feel that the federal government has failed to intervene in the cases of hate crimes — swastikas and nooses," Sharpton said. "Since the federal government won't come to the people, we're going to bring the people to the federal government."
Sharpton was joined at Tuesday's news conference by Martin Luther King III. Both noted what appeared to be a string of copycat crimes involving nooses following the well-publicized Jena 6 episode in Mississippi.
Warren Ballantine, a radio host appearing alongside Sharpton and King on Tuesday, also called for a "blackout" on Nov. 2, asking people to not spend money on that day in hopes of sending a message to the federal government.
Said Sharpton: "We'll continue to mobilize until there's justice, and that has to come from the federal government."
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