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DESCRIPTION:Gather with family, friends, neighbors, and fellow community members for a 
 candlelight vigil for the Syrian people. Please bring candles from home if 
 possible as we will have limited supply.\n\nThis vigil is organized by 
 local community members who wish to pay respect to the Syrian people. If 
 there are other vigils or protests planned regarding Syria, please share 
 below.\n\nIf you can't make it to the vigil, please consider donating to 
 SAMS, IRUSA, or other organizations that provide emergency relief in/around 
 Syria. (https://www.sams-usa.net/)\n\n--------\nExcerpt from 4/4/17 New 
 York Times article entitled "Survivors of Syria Gas Attack Recount ‘a 
 Cruel Scene’":\n\n"On Monday, Mr. Trump’s administration signaled that 
 it no longer saw the departure of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as a 
 priority. On Tuesday, Mr. Assad appeared to unleash one of the worst 
 chemical attacks of the war.\n\n“If Donald Trump is happy for this to 
 happen to his own people and his own children,” said Mr. Youssef, “then 
 we’re happy to keep Bashar al-Assad.”\n\nShuffling around in the 
 hospital parking lot, several of Mr. Youssef’s relatives buried 
 themselves in their phones, watching the videos of the morning’s 
 atrocities over and over.\n\nThe clips have been widely circulated on the 
 internet. They show the pale corpses of dead toddlers, or the retching 
 bodies of men who appear to be close to death.\n\nOne gray-haired woman lay 
 on her back, her purple leggings exposed. A young boy, perhaps 12, lay 
 motionless except for his mouth, gasping for air. None had visible marks of 
 injury. Some of the sickened and dying were nearly naked, as rescuers, many 
 with their bare hands, stripped them and hosed them down.\n\nA man 
 narrating a video of motionless children, lined up as if sleeping, was able 
 to come up only with sentence fragments. “A whole family,” he 
 repeated.\n\nUnlike the people around the globe who found these videos on 
 social media, several of those watching them outside the hospital in 
 Reyhanli had witnessed the scenes in real life.\n\nYou wouldn’t have 
 known it, however, by looking at their blank faces. “We’ve seen so much 
 of this,” Mr. Abu Amash said. “It’s normal. We see this every day. We 
 had six years of 
 it.”\n\nhttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/middleeast/syria-hospital-airstrike-gas-attack.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/09/18798150.php
SUMMARY:Oakland Vigil for the Syrian People
LOCATION:Pergola at Lake Merritt in Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/09/18798150.php
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