Tuesday, May 15, 2012

A global petition to Asma Assad

Being a bystander is a choice: A global petition to Asma Assad

NEW YORK: Today, we are all real time eyewitnesses to what is happening in the world, and this puts us in a position of responsibility. Those courageous Syrians who are uploading videos on YouTube about the horrendous violence they are facing every day, are risking their lives in doing so. They do not want us to ignore their message. They hope we will not only watch it, but react. “With thousands of children killed, wounded, detained and left without families, the world must know about this atrocity for medical aid and humanitarian assistance to reach them,” claims the NGO Rise 4 Humanity (rise4humanity.org).

In this digital age we decided to write an online petition to Asma Assad in which we urged her to stand up for peace in this very crucial moment in Syria. The petition was combined with the film “Stop being a bystander,” which was produced independently without any sponsorship. It poses the question “When your children ask you what did you do to stop the bloodshed, what will your answer be?” We still hope she will say: “I waited too long to speak out for peace, but in the end I did.”
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