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Suffering Syria: Torn limb from limb
Syria’s having a revolution, as I’m sure you’ve heard. Trigger events began in January and February, many of them led by women, and mass rallies in the thousands, then tens of thousands, began in late...
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Syrian Prisoners of Conscience, I Witness for You
Prisoners of conscience in Syria: the regime keeps increasing their numbers. Each one has a face, a family, a story; has dignity, beauty, courage. I am learning them by heart. Let me share a few with...
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Women's mass protests during the Syrian Revolution: A preliminary analysis
Women began protesting in large groups of women in late March However, because women were not seen street-protesting in the first few electrifying days of massive protests especially in Dara March...
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Syria's Revolution: Created by Local Women & Men Smoking Four Packs a Day
Who populates the Syrian revolution? The Syrian revolution has three core populations: urbanite survivors of the 2001 Damascus Spring, disenfranchised classes rural and urban, and the traditional...
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In the Middle of Madness, Four Women March for Nonviolence in Syria
Four young Syrian women staged a women’s march for nonviolence through the middle of Medhat Basha market in Damascus, Syria, on November 21, 2012. In the finest tradition of subversive street theater,...
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The roar of pain from my Syria
I hear the roar of pain from my Syria, hear it loud, hear it every day, in minute detail, with names of friends and relatives attached; it not only breaks my heart but in Syria it breaks whole...
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Syria: It's Still a Revolution, My Friends
No matter what your position on the potential U.S. strikes on Syria (I’m against), all I ask is, DON’T be a hater who denies the existence of the grassroots youth who began the Syrian revolution out of...
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Lack of U.S. Peace Movement Solidarity with Syrian Uprising and the “No Good...
I marched (er, clothed) with CODEPINK women when they stood butt-naked across the main strip in my Arkansas hometown protesting the U.S. military invasion of Iraq. As a longtime anti-interventionist, I...
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