Cleveland 19 News video and coverage of the April 13, 2017 women's rally and vigil in Cleveland for Syrian refugees and pictures of the 11 speakers : Article: Women's March Ohio holds rally and vigil for Syrian refugees, a rally led by activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition and organized by Shayne Terry of Women's March Ohio.....The women want President Trump to allow in more Syrian refugees....Speakers included Coleman, Terry, Lucinda Garmus of Women's March Ohio, activists Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade, Valerie Robinson of Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Cheryl Lessin of RefuseFascism.Org, Juanita Brent of the District 11 Indivisible, the Rev. Pamela Pinkney-Butts, Arnold Shurn of the Peacemakers, Melissa Svigelj-Smith of Ohio BATS, and Kari Oatman Nicholson of East Cleveland.....Get the link to the Cleveland 19 News (WOIO) video here with its extensive story by WOIO Reporter Shelby Miller on the women's vigil and rally in Cleveland for Syrian refugees, with coverage also of the war in Syria, and recent U.S. air strikes on Syria....www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digitlal news leaders

Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, head of the grassroots group Imperial Women Coalition and editor-in-chief at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, speaks to the media as she prepares to lead a rally for Syrian refugees on April 13, 2017 on Public Square in downtown Cleveland relative to Women's March Ohio. The event was part of a larger group of the National Women's March that spearheaded vigils and rallies in cities across the nation to call for President Donald Trump to allow some 75,000 Syrian refugees into the country. (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

Shayne Terry (center), the key organizer for the Women's March Ohio vigil and rally for Syrian refugees, reads a statement on behalf of her group and demands that President Trump allow some 75,000 Syrian refugees onto American soil. Also pictured are activist Dr. Stewart Robinson of the grassroots group Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor (far left), activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition and Cleveland Urban News.Com (second from left), Arnold Shurn of the Cleveland Peacemakers (second from right), Juanita Brent of District 11 Indivisible (far right), and Brother Robert "Bob" Saffold (sitting). Coleman, Shurn and Brent also spoke at the event, among others (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

A member of the greater Cleveland- based grassroots group Refuse Facsim.Org carries a sign in support of Syrian refugees and against the recent air strikes in Syria by the United States (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)
The Rev Pamela Pinkney Butts of Cleveland prays for the Syrian refugees and for peace in Syria
(Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)
Valerie Robinson of Cleveland Heights, who leads Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, was among the several speakers (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

The event concluded with a candlelight vigil on behalf of the Syrian refugees (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

Cleveland activist Juanita Brent of the group District 11 Indivisible carries a sign during the rally in downtown Cleveland on April 13, 2017 relative to Syrian refugees. Brent is a niece of the late Vermel Whalen, a former state representative out of Cleveland (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)
Longtime revolutionary activist Cheryl Lessin of Refusefascism.org spoke at length against the war in Syria and the recent air strikes there by the United States government
Activist Kari Oatman Nicholson of East Cleveland was among the several speakers
Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade was among the several speakers
Melissa Svigelj-Smith, a Cuyahoga County public school teacher, children and women's rights activist, and member of Ohio BATS, speaks for justice for Syrian refugee children and their families (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

(Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)



Some of the women who were in attendance at the vigil and rally on Public Square in Cleveland on April 13 complimented Women's March Ohio organizer Shayne Terry (third from left) and Women's March Ohio member Lucinda Garmus (fourth from left) for a successful event  (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

ARTICLE  BY CLEVELAND 19 NEWS REPORTER SHELBY MILLER
GO TO Cleveland19News   (WOIO) for the full story by WOIO Reporter Shelby Miller  and the affiliated video, comprehensive coverage of the rally and vigil by Women's March Ohio and Public Square in downtown Cleveland on April 13, 2017, including the war in Syria and recent air strikes on Syria by the United States per executive order of President Donald Trump

The 11 speakers at the rally were activists Shayne Terry, Kathy Wray Coleman, Lucinda Garmus, Cheryl Lessin, the Rev. Pamela Pinkney-Butts, Arnold Shurn, Juanita Brent, Mellissa Svigelj-Smith, Genevieve Mitchell, Kari Oatman Nicholson, and Valerie Robinson.
Cleveland WOIO
Reporter Shelby Miller

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -Women's March Ohio members gathered Thursday evening in downtown Cleveland to respond to the crisis in Syria. 
"The civil war has been happening for six years in Syria and it just keeps getting worse and worse," said Shayne Terry, Women's March Ohio organizer.
Terry said the government should do more to help Syrian refugees.
"Women's March National has declared that they want the government to allow 75,000 Syrian refugees into the country," she said.
Many of the men and women who gathered in Public Square Thursday called the suspected Syrian chemical attack the final straw.
"What's going on over in Syria is just completely intolerable and we have to accept more of them here because there's no end in sight for what's going on over there," said Lucinda Garmus, Women's March Ohio member. 
Garmus, and others, said they're choosing to step up now, in reaction to the recent US-led air strikes in Syria. Many said they want a clear plan from President Donald Trump.
"We don't think we should go bomb a country then allow children to be held hostage before a government that is disenfranchising them," said Kathy Wray Coleman, Imperial Women Coalition head. "It's not land of the free if you keep people out based on suspicion."
Organizers said the downtown Cleveland rally was part of a larger message put together by Women's March National to support Syrian refugees.

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