NEW YORK Authentic Artemi Panarin Jersey , Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands of protesters across the United States took to the streets on Saturday to protest against two separate grand juries' decisions not to indict white officers involved in killing unarmed African-Americans during arrests.

In a massive protest in New York City on Saturday, thousands of protesters chanted slogans such as "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!" "No justice, no peace." as they matched from Washington Square Park to the New York Police Department headquarters.

The New York event, named as "Millions March NYC", was the latest of a series of protests in a response to recent decisions by two separate grand juries in Ferguson, U.S. State of Missouri, and Staten Island, New York City, which declined to indict the white police officers responsible for the deaths of 18-year-old Michael Brown and 43-year-old Eric Garner.

Organizers of "Millions March NYC" said in a statement that they hoped millions of people would go peacefully into the streets all over the country to express their anger and demand justice for victims of police violence and institutionalized racism.

"We are continuing where the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights Movement left off. We are a new generation of young multi-racial activists willing to take up the torch and we're not going to stand for this anymore," said the statement.

Among other demands, the "Millions March NYC" said it also wanted the establishment of an independent prosecutor office to handle cases of police misconduct and excessive use of force.

That same message was echoed by protesters in "Justice For All" march in U.S. capital Washington, where nearly 10,000 protesters marched through the city to call for justice and decry racial discrimination.

The "Justice for All" march, organized by the National Action Network, a civil rights organization, was joined by families of police shooting victims, including relatives of Garner, Brown and other victims in racial profiling such as Tamir Rice and Akai Gurley.

Other cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, also held similar protests on Saturday.

In recent weeks, protesters around the country have participated in demonstrations to decry racial injustice and police brutality. Many of their signs and chants contain the slogan that has become synonymous with the movement: "Black Lives Matter".

One African-American man from Chicago, Michael, told Xinhua that black people "are consistently being attacked" and they "are victims of mass incarceration."

"We want the police to be our police in each district. We don't want to be profiled anymore. We want the system to change, and we want the power and ability. As voters, we have the right to do that," Michael said.

Garner, a father of six, died in July after police officers attempted to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes in one of New York's boroughs Staten Island.

In another case, Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in August.

The decisions by grand juries in two different states not to charge the white officers involved in both cases have so far triggered weeks of protests across the country.

JAKARTA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia have taken steps to reduce the high logistic cost that has been widely complained by employers, a senior official.

Speaking in his remarks to open a major trade expo event here on Wednesday, Indonesian Vice President Boediono said improving seaport capacities and intensifying infrastructure projects will improve transportation across the country, which will in turn improve the country's competitiveness eventually.

Boediono said major projects to boost up the capacity of the capital city's seaport Tanjung Priok are underway at the moment, and are expected to help reduce the logistic cost within the next two years.

He added that similar projects were also underway in seaports located in far-flung region of eastern Indonesia to address high logistic cost problem.

On land transport, Boediono said part of double railway track projects in the country were scheduled to finish and commence its service in 2014.

"With the double railway tracks, people and goods can be transported double as much by trains. It can significantly reduce transportation cost, thus reducing burden of roads," the vice president said in the opening of the event scheduled to last through Oct. 20.

On road infrastructure, the vice president said the government and private sector are now intensifying road expansions and starting new toll road projects.

He, however, said the construction of road infrastructure has been hindered with difficulties on land compensation, particularly in Java. "It makes the projects run a bit sluggish," he said.

He added that the expansion and construction of new airports were also underway, citing the recently-opened North Sumatra province's airport of Kuala Namu that has commenced service as major hub for the western part of the country.

"Capacity expansion projects were now underway in Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport, and the other ones in Surabaya (east Java), Semarang (central Java) and Balikpapan (east Kalimantan)," Boediono said.

According to the data released by the trade ministry, logistic cost takes up to 24.64 percent from the country's gross domestic product (GDP), reaching 1,800 trillion rupiah (about 185.6 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011.

Indonesia ranked No. 59 in Logistic Performance Index survey carried out in 2012, below Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Chairman of Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) Sofyan Wanandi said earlier that logistic cost takes up to 17 percent of overall industrial cost in the country, the highest in Asia. It was higher than that of Malaysia and Japan, which stood at 8 and 5 percent respectively, he said.