NEW YORK -- About 1,000 New York City high school students chanted "This is what democracy looks like!" and waved homemade signs and banners Friday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a plan to eliminate their free transit passes.
The students walked out of classrooms all over the city at noon and converged at City Hall Park for a rally with elected officials and transit union members.
Then they marched across the bridge for a second rally near the former headquaters of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Brooklyn.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Students fight for the free transit pass
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