On August 14, cities across the country are having demonstrations in solidarity with the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The actions have been organized on twitter under the hashtag #NMOS14, for National Moment of Silence.

Information on the actions is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y6bRJfwVL7JoJnxH8BN8O1p1ANXPEl5PjNMoELw54ME/preview?sle=true

On Sunday 8/17, "nearly 1,000 people" demonstrated in Los Angeles, Calif. in opposition of police violence.