Fwd: [feministsindia] Fwd: I'm locked to the Russian embassy
Abha Bhaiya
Friends,
Let's send our OBR... Campaign message in solidarity to this struggle against killings of Syrian children and families to the Russian embassy all over the globe..wherever we are located...
Let's together protest... Protest ...protest..
Abha
From: "Virginia Saldanha wom...@gmail.com [feministsindia]" <feminis...@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2016 9:14 PM
Subject: [feministsindia] Fwd: I'm locked to the Russian embassy
To: "feministsindia" <feminis...@yahoogroups.com>
Cc:
Virginia SaldanhaHello Freidns,Sharing this in case anyone in this group can support the campaign with a call to the Russian Embassy.---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Dunford, The Syria Campaign <in...@thesyriacampaign.org>
Date: 3 November 2016 at 20:49
Subject: I'm locked to the Russian embassy
To: Virginia Saldanha <wom...@gmail.com>
Dear Virginia,
Right now I am with dozens of peace activists blockading the main entrance of the Russian embassy in London. I am chained to the gate along with a giant structure that represents the killing in Syria.I want you to know why we’re doing this.
We’re here because Russian warplanes are killing Syrian children in their beds. We’re here because doctors and rescue workers are being bombed for trying to save lives. We’re here because in eastern Aleppo, more than 800 people have been killed this past month alone. That’s whole families, that’s hundreds of children, that’s more than the population of the town I grew up in.
And it’s about to get worse. All signs point to a dramatic escalation of airstrikes by the end of the week as the Russians try to take the entire city. Leaflets have been dropped on residents warning them of ‘annihilation’ and Syrian activists have launched an SOS call to the world to keep all eyes on Aleppo. They are worried that Russia will use the distraction of US elections to flatten the besieged part of the city.
Together we can make sure the Russian government knows that people around the world are watching and demanding they stop the carnage. While we are outside the embassy in London, you can take action now by flooding Russian embassy phone lines with calls from around the world telling them that you oppose the bombing of civilians in Aleppo.
The police have turned up and I’m not sure if they are going to cut the locks off and take us in or what will happen next. I’ve never been arrested before, I’ve never been to court and I know that between embassy security and the police that might be about to change.Everyone has to do what’s in their power to pressure Russia to stop these attacks. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. We can’t be those people.
From the Russian embassy with love,
John
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