Permanently moving our blog to Wordpress

As some of you may have noticed, we operate on a number of platforms these days. Wordpress.com, this blog account, Twitter to share news, commentary and articles, Facebook to put out news, share articles, etc.

However, spreading out our work to two blogs (on wordpress and blogger) minimises our ability to spread articles and attract an audience, as they will be divided between two sites, instead of being able to focus on the one site. As a result, we are moving our blog permanently to wordpress.com, where we have already been running a blog for some time. It is a better platform for blogging, sharing articles, gaining a following (and thus spreading the word about the cause of freedom, etc).

Thus, this will be our last post on this blog, as we shift our efforts permanently to wordpress.com. You can find our new blog here, where we will post from now on. Thanks go to all who have viewed this blog and shared posts from it so far. We will continue to keep it up for archival purposes.

We will also continue to post from our Twitter account (Radio_FreeSyria), Tumblr account, and Facebook page.

Regards,
The Radio Free Syria team.

Show your support, end the siege!

Children, elderly people, and anyone who cannot obtain food, are dying of starvation and the Assad regime's brutal bombardment in Moadamiyet al Sham (a.k.a. Moadamiyeh). Not only that, but the regime has tormented and tortured the people using the disgusting tactic of claiming that they will allow food aid into the besieged neighbourhood if they fly the regime flag, only to give them token amounts. This is one of many such disgraceful atrocities: http://stopthesiege.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/a-few-brave-hearts/

Please show your support and solidarity with the starving people, and brave hunger-striker Qusai Zakarya, here, while there is still time.

Break the siege campaign on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SyriaBreakSiege?fref=ts

YouTube: 

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1GebUuayH2PlYdla36noPw?feature=watch

Solidarity with Qusai Zakarya, the hunger-striker: https://www.facebook.com/qusaihungerstrike?fref=ts

Qusai's blog: http://stopthesiege.wordpress.com/

URGENT, PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE: Press release regarding the starvation of Modamiyeh al-Sham

Children are dying of starvation and under bombardment in Moadamiyet al Sham (a.k.a. Moadamiyeh). The Shaam News Network (S.N.N), Radio Free Syria and other organisations and individuals are set to issue a joint press release to international media and humanitarian organisations calling for the immediate lifting of the siege on Moadamiyet al Sham and the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the town.
Please join us and include your name and/or the name of your organisation/group as a co-signatory. People are dying.

There is no time to waste. 

This is the body of the press release to be issued, which is also being issued in Arabic (this will be posted soon).

For Immediate Release: September 28, 2013

Assad Regime Starving City’s Children To Death Daily

The humanitarian crisis of the century is emerging across Syria, particularly in the city of Moadamiyet al Sham where civilians, including children, are being to death as part of a conscious regime policy, dying on a daily basis.
On a daily basis, activists and citizen journalists are publishing videos and pictures of children starving to death in the city of Moadamiyet al Sham as the world endlessly debates the merits of removing chemical weapons from the Assad regime. As media organizations dedicated to revealing the truth about the Syrian revolution as well as giving a voice to the people living in Syria, we are collectively launching an awareness and action campaign to combat the horrific and deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the city.

For over 300 days now, the city’s residents have had no electricity because regime forces disconnected it as collective punishment for peaceful protests. For over 270 days for the same reason, residents have had no running water in their homes and no food or medicine has entered the city due to the ongoing siege by Assad’s forces. Furthermore, the Assad regime has systematically bombarded the city on a daily basis with warplanes, heavy artillery, tanks, rockets, mortar shells and chemical weapons, escalating the crisis to a situation of unimaginable horror.

Our organizations have created this alliance to provide credible information on the number of children and other residents of Moadamiyet al Shaam who have starved to death as well as to demand that the international community take action to break this inhuman siege before yet another entire city is wiped out by the Assad regime. Please await another press statement in the upcoming days detailing the documented cases of starvation, as well as providing action items to address the crisis. It is true that media organizations typically play the role of disseminating information rather than providing humanitarian relief, but we are convinced that this is the duty of every member of the human race regardless of religion, race, gender or ethnicity.

Sign below, and share your signed post widely (via copying and pasting your signed post to Facebook, along with the link to this original post).

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