For the last few days, hundreds of diplomats and politicians of various importance have gathered in New York to Talk About Syria. News media has been abuzz with the back and forth like high schoolers passing notes. Russia did what? …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Foreign Affairs, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentDear those who celebrate the censorship of RojTV, When an entire people are systematically oppressed and marginalized, small actions to make their story heard can have dramatic consequences. Similarly, small actions to silence their voice can have dramatic and tragic …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | 1 CommentThe death of a Kurdish youth in Harasta on Thursday morning and the injury of three protesters in Qamişlo were a result of the sniper fire of the Syrian regime, which has killed over 5,000 civilians since the start of …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Demonstrations, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria | Tagged Alliance for Kurdish Rights, kurdish rights, Kurds, Syria | Leave a commentA new stage of the Syrian revolution has begun. After nine months of brutality and a conservative death toll at 5,000, Syrians are still congregating and protesting in the usual manner, but the local coordinating committees have brought out a new tool …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Demonstrations, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentBelow are updates of the recent coverage from the Alliance for Kurdish Rights detailing abuse against the Kurdish people: Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in Istanbul: My father-in-law was one of fifty people arrested on Friday morning, and while the …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Leave a commentOn Sunday evening, Dec 4th, the world learned of yet another crime that the Assad regime in Syria has committed against human rights and freedom and dignity. Prominent Syrian blogger Razan Ghazzawi has been arrested while on her way to …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Syria, Women | Tagged Free Speech, Syria | 1 CommentThe popular revolutionary grassroots news organization Shaam News Network has launched a virtual campaign as impressive as the network itself. With the Syrian revolutions entering their ninth month, protesters on the ground have left no building, animal, or art form …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Creative Media, Freedom of Speech, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentThis Thursday, November the 17th, We’ll gather in front of the American University in Iraq-Sulaimani (AUIS) campus to support the righteous struggle of the Syrian people. Yes, we do. We support the Syrian people and their righteous uprising against tyranny. …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria | Tagged Kurdistan, Syria | Leave a commentAlmost exactly 11 months ago, Mohamed Bouazizi, the street vendor in Tunisia whose name spread like wildfire across the Middle East set himself on fire in protest of the corruption and humiliation that he had suffered his entire life. Since then, …
Posted in Bahrain, Current Events, Demonstrations, Morocco, Syria, Yemen | Tagged Arab Spring, Bahrain, Morocco, Syria, Yemen | 1 CommentQamişlo, Syria: Prominent Kurdish activist, founder of the Kurdish Future Part and member of the newly formed Syrian National Council Meshaal Tamo was assassinated by Syrian thugs in his own home on Friday. His son Marcel Tammo and another Kurdish …
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