Women's March Cleveland activists, led by Kathy Wray Coleman, led rallies in Cleveland against the Syrian war and join Congress against President Trump's military withdrawal strategy there.... Coleman said that "we continue to also demand a prudent end to the civil war in Northern Syria and the support and protection of women Syrian refugees and their families".....Read here for the Cleveland 19 Action News live coverage of Cleveland activist rallies on the Syrian war, led by Coleman....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman prepares to lead a rally against the war in Northern Syria and in support of Women Syrian refugees and their families on Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, an event Coleman organized for Women's March Cleveland, for which she is a member. Go to Cleveland19News   for the full story and video on rallies on the issue led by Coleman in Cleveland (Photos by and at the courtesy of Sarah Parotti and Suzy Scullin)

Shayne Terry (center) reads a statement that 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 Women's March Cleveland and the Imperial Women Coalition (second from left), who organized the event and led the associated rally, Arnold Shurn of the Cleveland Peacemakers (second from right), Juanita Brent of District 11 Indivisible (far right), Brent now a state Rep from Cleveland, 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 war in Northern Syria (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, Brent now a state Representative from Cleveland, carries a sign during the rally in downtown Cleveland  relative to Syrian refugees.  (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  air strikes there by the United States government

Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade was also among the several speakers

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Women's March Cleveland activists, who with support from area community activist groups, spearheaded rallies in Cleveland in support of women Syrian refugees and their families and called for an end to the civil war in  Syria, are siding with Congress in its stance against President Trump's strategy of hastily withdrawing U.S. military troops from Northern Syria (Go to Cleveland19News   for the full story and video on the rally led by Coleman on a demand for the end of the civil war in Northern Syria and support and protection of Syrian refugees and their families).

The president has called on other countries  to stand up and fight Isis in Syria along with the U.S., though he says the U.S. has won its battle there, the House voting overwhelmingly last Wednesday to condemn his decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, a non-binding resolution that passed 354-60, and in a bipartisan fashion.

The Congressional resolution sasy Turkey should cease its military action in Syria and demands a serious and comprehensive plan for the withdrawal of American troops from the Arab nation.

U.S. officials have accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of being a war criminal. 

Meanwhile, Turkey military forces continue to bomb villages with women and children in Northern Syria

A longtime Black activist of Cleveland and a community organizer, Coleman, who organized rallies in Cleveland for Women's March Cleveland relative to the war in Syria and the mistreatment of women Syrian refugees and their families, said that Women's March Cleveland activists " join Congress in condemning the president's military withdrawal strategies in Northern Syria and continue to also demand a prudent end to the war and the support and protection of women Syrian refugees and their families." (Go to Cleveland19News   for the full story and video on the rally led by Coleman on a demand for the end of the civil war in Northern Syria and support and protection of Syrian refugees and their families).

The war began in 2011 and during the first year alone an estimated 400,000 Syrians were killed.

"We don't think we should go bomb a country and then allow children to be held hostage before a government that is disenfranchising them,"  Coleman told Cleveland 19 Action News at a rally she led on Public Square in downtown Cleveland on the Syrian war and U.S air strikes.

In addition to Coleman, the other speakers at that rally included  activists Shayne Terry, Lucinda Garmus, Cheryl Lessin, the Rev. Pamela Pinkney-Butts, Arnold Shurn, Juanita Brent, who is now a state Rep from Cleveland, Melissa Svigelj-Smith, Genevieve Mitchell, Kari Oatman Nicholson, and Valerie Robinson.

Cleveland activists, led by Women's March Cleveland, had been calling for President Trump and the federal government to allow more than 75,000 Syrian refugees into the country. 

"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 at one of the rallies in Cleveland.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.