His brave commitment to confronting the regime's despicable violence with peaceful protest serves as an example for the Syrian people and for all those who suffer under the yoke of oppression.
Alexei Sakhnin, 30, an assistant to the lawmaker who led the rally on Thursday, said the protest served as a message to the authorities that the scattered opposition movement would hold together.
The protest served a two-fold purpose: It encouraged PBE to enter into a dialogue with the community and it made the freshmen who did pledge PBE very aware of the issue of racism, Henderson said.
Spokesman Chris Delforce, who also directed the documentary Dominion for which Monday's Flinders Street protest served as advertising, says practices that are legal in Australia are nevertheless horrifically cruel.
A silent protest serves to bring this fact into unavoidable light.
That was a small distraction: the protest served its purpose of calling out a pair of old hypocrites.
How does this nature of dissent and protest serve as the crux of a democracy and a healthy, functioning civic society?
Many people were killed by government forces in anti-regime protests, serving only to fuel the violence in a Shīʿite country where martyrdom played a fundamental role in religious expression.
The clothes worn to protests serve purposes for the protesters themselves, the subjects of the protest, law enforcement who may be monitoring demonstrations, and onlookers.
He said the protests served those in power, who could use the violence to reinforce their claims that stability is paramount.
