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eissa

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1. Judging by the responses, no,
Mon Aug 4, 2014, 01:39 PM
Aug 2014

no one is listening. I took part in a march in San Francisco this past weekend, part of an international campaign to draw awareness to the atrocities by ISIS targeting the Assyrian/Chaldean Christian population of northern Iraq. There were approximately 1,500 people who marched from Embarcadero to Union Square (a 6-mile loop.) I've been trying to find any coverage of that event in local or national news (the organizers contacted both.) Nothing. The media blackout has been baffling. I get that Gaza is the main attraction these days, but there other atrocities being committed in the region and the victims deserve just as much attention.

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