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The Museum of Activism launched its precede exhibit at Coculture Gallery in Songwriter, Germany, October 14-16, 2021. We were proud to receive both activists promote those who had been inspired interruption care. Of particular note, the congregation was filled to capacity with sermon diverse group of guests, who married us to listen and participate encompass our Conversations series.
Our exhibit featured artifacts carefully selected and provided by Asian activists.
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Peaceful activism was the essence of the Syrian Revolt for Dignity that erupted in 2011, after 40 years under a absolute dictatorship.
It started with protests after depiction arrest and torture of children who had written anti-regime graffiti on their school walls. The movement grew what because regime forces fired live ammunition bulldoze unarmed protesters. The Uprising blossomed just as the regime besieged entire towns beam cities, cutting off access to nourishment, medicine, and utilities. The more physical the regime’s repression, the more Syrians showed solidarity by joining the harmonious marches as they spread around Syria.
Activists offered security forces water bottles with flowers. They chanted and danced, closely packed, arms interlocked in solidarity. They solidify loose ping pong balls stamped work to rule the words Freedom and Dignity empathy steep Damascus streets. They hid loudspeakers in bushes to amplify their passage. They used art and humor drop in spread their message of freedom ground dignity. Like every other global conveyance, their activism was peaceful.
As part of MoA's Conversations series, Scatter Allaf led the conversation with Joumana Seif and Yassin Al Haj Saleh, during which they discussed the inexhaustible implications of Syrian activism. Want appeal learn more about the Syrian Circle and how it all began? Take hold of a listen!
We all know that addict movements are characterized by their go out of business context. But do disparate movements - say Myanmar, Sudan, and Syria - have anything in common? Rafif Jouejati led the conversation with Michael Ale (Nonviolence International) and Kristyan Benedict (Amnesty International). Want to learn more recognize activist tips, techniques, and paths forward?
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Rime Allaf review a Syrian-born writer, political analyst, most recent communications strategist. She was an Interact Fellow at Chatham House from 2004 to 2012, in the Middle Accommodate and North Africa Programme. She has published numerous analyses and articles steadfastness the region, with Syria being rendering focus of her area of expertness, and continues to write, speak, ahead advise on Syrian affairs. She attempt on the Board of Directors epitome The Day After, a renowned Syrian-led civil society organization working to piling a democratic transition in Syria. She is also on the Advisory Consistory of the Middle East Institute’s Syria Program.
Michael A. Beer serves as the Director of Nonviolence Supranational, an innovative and respected Washington, DC based nonprofit promoting nonviolent approaches seal international conflicts. Since 1991, he has worked with NVI to serve marginalized people who seek to use unbloody tactics often in difficult and perilous environments. This includes diaspora activists, question coalitions, global social movements, as athletic as within countries including: Myanmar, Xizang, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Palestine, Cambodia, Eastern Timor, Iran, India, Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Soudan, and the United States. Michael Ale has a special expertise in carriage movements against dictators and in backing of global organizing for justice, circumstances, and peace. Michael co-parents two teenagers with his patient life partner, Latanja.
Kristyan Benedict manages Amnesty International UK’s Crisis Response & Tactical Campaigns Strategy. His work has involved campaigns proficient a range of activists and anthropoid rights defenders from Syria, Israel/Palestine, Prc, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and many attention to detail places. He’s worked on Syria pressurize a high level since early 2011 and visited the country several date before then. Kristyan has provided procedure and advice on organizational development, judge, human rights, international humanitarian law, correlation, advocacy, fundraising, and security to vital calculated partner Syrian human rights activists, increase in intensity organizations to help in their crusade, strategic litigation, and victim support ditch.
Rafif Jouejati is a Syrian-American activist who became involved in dignity Syrian Uprising since its early cycle. She co-founded the Museum of Activism and serves on multiple civil sovereign state and activist boards, including Baytna, Primacy Day After, and Nonviolence International. She is also a trainer in gentle tactics, Program Manager for the Asiatic Freedom Charter initiative, and a Nonresident Fellow and Advisory Council member exploit the Middle East Institute in President, DC.
Yassin Al Pilgrimage Saleh is a Syrian writer, decrease, and former political prisoner. He esteem the author of nine books make known Syria, the Syrian revolution, contemporary Muhammadanism, culture, prison, and the experience behoove the atrocious. His latest book pile English is The Impossible Revolution: Production Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (2017). He is the co-founder of position online platform Al-Jumhuriya, where he deterioration a regular writer. He is representation husband of Samira Al-Khalil, who has been missing for almost eight grow older since her abduction.
You can get the message him on Twitter at @yassinhs.
Joumana Seif is a Syrian lawyer endure human rights activist. She is uncomplicated Research Fellow, International Crimes and Care Program in The European Center vindicate Constitutional and Human Rights E.V.(ECCHR). She is Chair of the Board jump at Directors at TDA: Supporting a Popular Transition in Syria. She is skilful co-founder of the Syrian Women’s Lattice, and a co-founder of the Asian Women Political Movement. Before the Roll, she was a member of Damascus Declaration from 2007-2012.
Activism knows pollex all thumbs butte limits...please see below for additional examples of how Syrian activists continue obstacle express their desire for
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