Survivor of Syrian Chemical Attack to Speak in Minneapolis May 4th and 5th

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Survivor of Syrian Chemical Attack
to Speak in Minneapolis

Internationally known Palestinean-Syrian activist and citizen journalist Qusai Zakarya will be in Minneapolis on May 4 and 5, the first Syrian from the war zone to speak here.

Zakarya survived the August 2013 chemical attack in Syria, over a year of life under siege in Moadamiya, and numerous death threats. After the chemical attack, Zakarya reported to the international media – giving interviews to the NY Times, the BBC, NBC, CBS and others. He is scheduled to provide testimony about the starvation sieges on April 23 at the United Nations.

Last December, Minnesota members of Friends for a Nonviolent World and Representative Keith Ellison, in partnership with the Syrian Nonviolence Movement, kicked off the International Solidarity Hunger Strike for Syria, a campaign to support Zakarya’s 33-day hunger strike to lift the siege of towns across Syria. Other Minnesotans and people around the world did one day hunger strikes in solidarity.

Zakarya will be telling his powerful story on Sunday, May 4, at 6:30 pm at Crescent Moon Bakery, 2339 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis. Afghani buffet dinner at 5:30 pm for $10.

Congressman Keith Ellison will introduce Zakarya on Monday, May 5, at 7 pm at Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis.

Sponsored by: Friends for a Nonviolent World, Global Affairs Committee of Plymouth Congregational Church, the International Solidarity Hunger Strike; Minnesota Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria (CISPOS).