About 50 second graders marched from Chinatown to City Hall demanding a library for their neighborhood, the only one in Boston without one, reports the Boston Globe.(photo by jester100)
“If you read to your child for an hour every night, by the time your child is 5 years old you will have read 900 hours,” said second grader Lonnie Zapata.
The protest was organized by Young Achievers School in Mattapan who approached the Chinese Progressive Association about the idea.
You can read more about the campaign to get a library in Boston Chinatown in the Boston Globe.
RE: Second graders protest lack of library in Boston Chinatown: I watched a video that was produced I guess by the protest organizers, but no Chinese kids or adults were interviewed in it….