In this edition: students across the US stage protests seeking justice for Michael Brown; web users pay tribute to a young woman killed in Germany; and an Australian animal refuge looking after seven baby bats.
USA: STUDENTS STAGE PROTESTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Thousands of students in the US took part in nationwide protests 1 December, against the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on 9 August. The calls to protest were launched by the “Ferguson Action” movement and saw rallies staged at universities across the US with demonstrators urging the authorities to seek justice for the teenager. Social networkers have been sharing stories and eyewitness accounts of the protests.
Monday`s protesters have shared countless pictures and video footage under the #HandsUpWalkOut hashtag, to illustrate the extent of the mobilisation across the US, from New York to Mississippi and from Georgia to Massachusetts, with students chanting slogans criticising the police force. They have also staged “happenings”, by lying on the ground to denounce police violence.
Some students showed solidarity with Michael Brown by observing a minute of silence, as we can see from this footage filmed on the Colorado University campus for example. Students at Yale, in Connecticut, held a four-and-a-half minute silence in reference to the four-and-a-half hours the victim`s lifeless body was left in the street after being shot.
GERMANY: THE COURAGE OF A YOUNG WOMAN MOVES WEB USERS
Just several moments after intervening to defend two teenage girls who were reportedly being harassed by a group of men in a fast-food restaurant in Offenbach, Germany, Tugce Albay... Go on reading on our web site.
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