Ferguson shootiing: Celebrities call for `Black Friday` boycott Waashington: US celebrities called for a boycott to take place Friday -- one of the busiest US shopping days -- to protest a grand jury`s decision not to prosecute a police officer who fatally shot a black teen. A number of well-known figures, among them hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, have signed onto the action, under the Twitter hashtags #NotOneDime and #BlackoutBlackFriday. We have the power to change our nation. Stand up with @UnitedBlackout on #BlackoutBlackFriday, tweeted one of the supporters, actress Kat Graham, who stars in TV series The Vampire Diaries. Also backing the campaign were TV star Jesse Williams and celebrated journalist Soledad O`Brien, among others. No Just, No Profit. Corporate/public power only speaks $. So let`s talk to `em, Williams tweeted, along with a link to a video compilation of police brutality. Black Friday is a day of deep commercial discounts and frenzied shopping which takes place each year after the Thursday Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The planned campaign calls for a one-day moratorium on spending to protest what it calls staggering human rights violations in the United States, including police brutality. The boycott was prompted by widespread outrage after a grand jury on Monday failed to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri who shot and killed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. Protests erupted across the US after the decision. America`s 43 million black citizens will hold about $1.1 trillion in purchasing power by 2015, a Nielsen study said.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:01:45 +0000
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