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30 protesters were killed, including 16 in Homs, 6 in Hama, 4 in Deir Ezzor, 1 in Lattakia, 2 in Jableh and 1 from an unspecified location. Riad Seif, former head of the Damascus Declaration Council was arrested during prayer at Al-Hassan Mosque in Damascus. Another prominent detainee is Mouadh Al-Khateeb, a young and well-respected Damascene Imam. Tanks were deployed in Homs. Still, Syrian activists consider todays large and widespread protests to be a sign of the futility of the violent crackdown orchestrated by the Assad regime. The demonstrations come following a week of violent crackdown that led to the arrest of over 3,000 people, and the death of 500 protesters most of whom from Deraa City. In many protests, people are now carrying banners in English in an attempt to communicate directly with the international community. On the darker side, the city of Baniyas was raided overnight. Details are still coming out now. Reuters reports the latest<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/07/us-syria-idUSLDE73N02P20110507> . *To all those who believe the protest movement in Syria to be a localized phenomenon, yes its indeed local to each and every community, city and town across Syria. * *To all those who continue to expect an Egyptian or even a Yemeni scenario to unfold, lets remember that we are dealing here with the most repressive police state in the region, each one of the thousands of protesters taking to the streets is seriously not expecting it to return home that day.* *To all those who think this is contained and small-scale, youre wrong. With over a 1,000 deaths and 8,000 arrests in less than 8 weeks, this is mass murder in slow-motion. * *To all those who still think that Bashar Al-Assad is a reformer<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/us-syria-usa-idUSTRE7455WO20110506>, you MUST be BLIND! This ophthalmologist cant restore your sight. * Damascus: 3,000 protesters demonstrated in the besieged Saqba suburb despite over 350 arrests made on the previous night. In Midan District in downtown Damascus, protesters streaming out of the Hassan Mosque were attacked by 2,000 security officers in civvies, but they kept shouting the people want to topple the regime. Once they were dispersed, the security officers staged a pro-Assad demonstration for the benefit of Syrian TV. Many Damascene suburbs took part in todays protests; the so-called Poverty Belt around the city continues to be infected with the Freedom Bug. Qamishly: 5,000 people took part in demonstration that raised slogans in support of the people of Deraa and national unity. Over 3,000 people took part in another demonstration in Amudeh (20 KM West of Qamishly) and 1,000 more in Derbassiyeh (50 KM west). Both are towns where Kurds make up most of the population. Deir Ezzor: 5,000 protesters, men and women, took part in a demonstration followed by a sit-in at the Osman Mosque. The protest started small untilo security forces opened fire and killed four young activists, which infuriated the local residents, and encouraged more people to join. Seeing this, security forces shied from clashing with protesters who carried a sit-in at the Osman Mosque. After a long internal discussion, the protesters decided to abandon plans for establishing a permanent sit-in in the Mosque fearing a scenario similar to what took place in Deraa and Homs, settling on conducting daily protests until the regime is toppled. Homs: over 10,000 people took part in todays protests, despite the tanks and security barricades that were thrown all over the main squares and intersections. The protests ended when security forces began shooting at the crowds, leaving over 16 dead. A similar scenario played out in Hama. But in Homs, the story got complicated by reports of defections in the army and skirmishes between army officers and security forces, leading to a brief of exchange of artillery fire. The details are not clear yet. But a video below does show an apartments that was apparently damaged by a shell. Banyas: the city was stormed overnight and most of its Sunni neighborhoods were besieged. There are sporadic reports of killings and lootings by security officers, but details are hard to come by at this stage. *Homs (23 minutes): <http://qik.com/video/39841816/untitled>** **the people want to topple the regime*** *http://qik.com/video/39841816/untitled* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGb_HDrF-s *Protesters carry banners appealing to the Syrian army to join them, as they chant: the people want to topple the regime. **Many banners are in English **. Protesters are attempting to communicate their message directly to the international community.*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRd2algpR08&feature=uploademail *Homs / Bab Al-Sibaa:* *the people want to topple the regime* http://qik.com/video/39841635 Homs / Bab Al-Sibaa: *Banners in English**, and protesters chant: No more forever Bashar Al-Assad*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mueeeMhT0hM Homs / Bab Dreib: ***the people want to topple the regime Leave, leave** * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcERi-V2TOI *Bye, Bye Bashar, have a nice awakening*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiFXucwzA7k&feature=youtu.be Homs / Bab Dreib: *Sniper in action. Activist asks: so, armed gang member can actually climb to the rooftop of a public building?*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskmr49XY7c&feature=uploademail Homs / Bab Amr: *despite siege by tanks, the people want to topple the regime leave, leave, one hand, one hand. Activist asks: are all those people infiltrators? Where are the gangs? Where are the infiltrators?*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fAYFnC4zbg&feature=player_embedded *Homs / <http://qik.com/video/39605226/untitled>**Al-Hamidiyyeh:** protest in the mostly Christian suburb, the activist filming, that local residents are taking part in the protest.*** http://qik.com/video/39605226/untitled Homs: *army snipers on the rooftops.*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPqMG2cb-No&feature=share Homs / Khaldiyyeh: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIJ7k8H5xmo *Protesters under fire by security keep chanting the people want to topple the regime* http://youtu.be/tcgBHo-sPzw Homs / Deir Baalba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JoCHXDV0sE Homs / Bab Amr: *protesters carry signs saying thanks Erdogan while shouting the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJ9fSEwgm4 *Protesters under fire by security keep chanting the people want to topple the regime* http://youtu.be/dVQhq2PSBI0 http://youtu.be/9XIrlekUups *An apartment that eyewitnesses claim were hit during an exchange between army officers and security forces.* http://youtu.be/CzXBrvgDlq8 Homs: *martyr* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7M-SY3SjgE Homs / Rastan: *despite the siege and the crackdown, resident still came out and shouted the people want to topple the regime and he who kills his own people is a traitor*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8CeNqt9m8 Homs: *Maher, you cretin*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fov0tZrL4OE#at=46 *Damascus / Midan: **we want to live free*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYqJiGaJ7xg Damascus / Midan: *protesters come out of the Hassan Mosque running to outmaneuver the security officers gathered outside, as they chant the people want to topple the regime.*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykbzq8T-qzY *Inside the Mosque: he who kills his own people is a traitor the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urgzsAuuhQ0&feature=youtu.be Damascus / Midan: *we will march to heaven, millions of martyrs*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHemKg77j0&feature=uploademail Damascus / Salhiyyeh: *another traditional Damascene neighborhood catches the freedom bug. God, Syria, Freedom and nothing more.* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjlVdmq_oCY Damascus / Darayyah: *the Syrian people will not be humiliated*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kKYW9FQmhM *The people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vAGr6PU1Pc *Damascus / Qadam: **the people want tom topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prVGWabUdp8&feature=share Damascus / Saqba: *Banner** Muslims and Christians, we dont want sectarianism **Chants**: Shame on you for killing your people Bashar We have no more fear of you, Bashar. We have no more fear of you Maher God is greater than the oppressor* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiZSAK5e08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbrfPEPBR94 Damascus / Douma: *We are not Brotherhood members, nor Salafis, were sick of lies and forgeries.*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKzILMsfCE *Damascus / Jairood:* *Release all detainees* http://youtu.be/r8m_-0kryyI *What are you afraid of?* http://youtu.be/qRBlkKJ9cXs Amudeh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=updzCICRt9g *He who kills his own people is a traitor*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOv1iCQTwmM Derbassiyeh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-SvYHjht8&feature=youtu.be Qamishly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq6gEq_RjrA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78nyvJCoxE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeuVFHQm_cA Raqqah / Tabaqah: *the first anti-regime demonstration help in support of Deraa. **Chant**: We take death over humiliation*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIBZG8LVYw Idlib: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QADcIx5gp2k&feature=share http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFXHjQo9yU Idlib / Kafar Nabol: *we take death over humiliation*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwhSRHpZeBQ Idlib / Sirmeen: *the people want tom topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmeK26tMn0&feature=share Idlib / Bansh: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjpnoZJaKo Talkalakh: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9LjXhpbQo Hama: *leave, leave the people want to topple the regime Banner in English: Game Over!*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vO2xEFQXno&feature=youtube_gdata_player Hama: *protesters dispersed with tear gas, water cannons, and live ammunitions.*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI8NmGSg9yY&feature=share Hama: *protesters come under fire.*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MfeqTpr9kg Hama: *the death of a protester*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZcm7ie1CWw *Hama*: *the activist taking the video shows the protesters throwing stones at the security officers outside the local Immigration and naturalization Building, while the officers are busy raiding it. He says: now theyll loot and burn it and tomorrow they will say, the protesters did it and thats why we needed to use violence. This might sound incredible to some, but this is exactly the kind of staging that the Assads had excelled at since the 1970s onward.* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvqsO-czs3g Hama / Kafar Zeta: *We take death over humiliation*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpC8lZIoMmU Hama / Al-Salamiyyeh: *the people want freedom and noting more*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ztkhM10qc Deraa / Nawa: *God is Greater than the oppressor*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11Mo_jJZSI&feature=feedu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apmZvGBo9Ek&feature=feedu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Q-e0asdmo&feature=feedu Deraa / Jassem: lift the siege on Deraa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4gqtXEOKsU Deraa / Al-Hara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQezhOWQLdE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpuoCGBwteA Aleppo / Al-Bab: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtoHQhUVkY Deraa / Ankhel: *the people want to topple the regime Long live Syria, Down with Assad*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QCXmVLEtoI&feature=youtu.be *We dont like you, so let us and take your Party with you* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At4yC5-ozhw&feature=player_embedded Deraa / Sanamein: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsiKgSJQpKs Deraa / Kafar Shams: *Long live Syria, Down with Bashar Al-Assad the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0cM9_nYFI Lattakia: *despite the small size of the crowd and the heavy security presence, security still shot opne protester dead, and injured many others.* ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTsaclzCRg&feature=share *Injured protester* http://youtu.be/KxHBUhB8NY4 Mouarrat Al-Nouman: *the people want to topple the regime*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRuousDqCeg Jisr Ashoughour: *Banner: **What the regime did in 1982 is proof of what it is doing now.* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFfhA8poVvQ *Alboukamal:* *He who kills his own people is a traitor the people want to topple the regime* http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xil0j9_yyyy-yyyyyy<http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xil0j9_yyyy-yyyyyy-yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyyyy_news> * * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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