This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011.
As the uprising in Syria enters its eighth month, activists are getting creative to ensure global attention toward the situation does not cease. An initiative by the popular Sham News Network–a grassroots news organization that emerged during the Syrian revolution to aggregate and publish news footage–asks individuals to submit videos in solidarity with Syrian protesters. The videos, which are then posted to the SyrianSitIn YouTube account, contain versions of one statement:
I am in solidarity with the Syrian people. I reject the brutality and killing that the Syrian authorities are committing against the unarmed Syrian people. And because silence is participation in this crime, I declare my participation in the Syrian Sit-in on Youtube.
تضامناً مع مطالب الشعب السوري، ورفضاً للقتل
والإعتقال والإستبداد، ورفضاً للطائفية التي يحاول النظام زرعها بين أبناء
الشعب السوري الواحد، لذلك، فإنني أعلن إنضمامي إلى اعتصام الأحرار على
اليوتيوب، وأدعو جميع الأحرار حول العالم للمشاركة بهذا الاعتصام
In this video [ar], a Syrian from the Occupied Golan Heights, expresses his solidarity:
I am in solidarity with the Syrian people. I reject the brutality and killing that the Syrian authorities are committing against the unarmed Syrian people. And because silence is participation in this crime, I declare my participation in the Syrian Sit-in on Youtube.
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