Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
December 21, 2019
The people of Syria are paying a terrible price for liberating their homeland and making their nation whole again. While Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and other countries have waged and are waging similar struggles, Syria may be the first in recent times to actually succeed at driving the invaders out. Syrians are making enormous sacrifices to defend themselves against these powerful invaders and their proxy armies, and to survive the crushing economic and financial siege imposed upon them. Our own media are being weaponized to deceive us into supporting these crimes against a nation that has never been a threat to us and which asks only to follow an independent course that does not require obedience to and exploitation by the great powers.
The Syria Solidarity Movement® defends those whom our governments and media would have us despise. On a budget of less than 1% that of the government-funded White Helmets propaganda mill, we expose the lies that they purvey. This year we took a delegation of 22 journalists, trade union leaders and human rights defenders from ten countries to a major conference in Damascus. It included Black Alliance for Peace leader Ajamu Baraka, journalists Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil and Rania Khalek, labor leader Donald Lafleur, President of the South African Robben Island Former Prisoners Association Mpho Masemola and many more. It opened eyes, ears and minds in the home countries of the delegates, and forged new ties with their Syrian counterparts. [See here and here. ]
But we went farther than that. We are delivering humanitarian aid to offset the cruel effects of international sanctions against Syria. These draconian restrictions not only impoverish the devastated Syrian economy and discourage refugees from returning home; they also prevent the financial transactions that allow desperately needed humanitarian aid to get through. The only alternative is for nonprofit organizations like ours to deliver and administer it ourselves. That is what we did for the first time in September, 2019, providing a modest $2000 in aid to families in need, which Syrian charities could have done if the sanctions were not in place. We are providing another $1300 in aid in the next few days.
Learn in detail about our program: Charitable and Humanitarian Aid – Syria Solidarity Movement
In 2020, The Syria Solidarity Movement® plans to do a lot more. In addition to our continuous efforts to expose the lies, plots and crimes of our governments against Syria, we will, with your continued help, try to compensate for some of the suffering for which our governments are responsible. We will pay for a desperately needed operation for the mother of the two handicapped children, costing an estimated $3000, and we will continue to expand our aid program to the extent your donations enable us to do so.
Please help us now to meet these goals. We will keep you informed about our progress on our website and in periodic newsletters.
To support the work of the Syria Solidarity Movement with your donations, please go to http://www.syriasolidaritymove ment.org/donate-2/ All donations are US tax exempt.
