The fight against a new curfew for teenagers at Metairie's Clearview Mall has gone viral with more than 1,000 young people organizing themselves online and calling for a boycott of the shopping center this weekend.
Rise Against the Clearview Age Ban, or RACAB, was founded Saturday, a day after officials at Clearview began strictly enforcing its Parental Escort Policy. Under the rule, patrons 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 21-years-old when arriving at the mall on Fridays and Saturdays from 4 p.m. until closing.
Seventeen-year-old Matt Shaver of Jefferson set up RACAB's online group forum on the social Web site MySpace.
Officials said they increased security and began carding patrons last weekend to control the crowds of teens and children who congregated in the food court near the ticket booth for the mall's movie theater complex.
But Shaver said the policy unfairly punishes everyone under 16 for the actions of a few.
Shaver said he created the organization to express his opposition to the escort policy, which he refers to as a ban.
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