TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Petition to Preserve Syrian Refugee Progam in US

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Petition to Preserve Syrian Refugee Progam in US

Zaatari Camp for Syrian Refugees, Jordan

“When hundreds of thousands of people have lost everything and have nothing left but the shirts on their backs, we should not turn our backs on these refugees escaping violence in the Middle East.” ~ Bernie Sanders

Email your US Legislators to Preserve Syrian Refugee Program in the US.

Write your legislators to support continuing the refugee program that promises refuge to 10,000 Syrians, mostly women and children who are escaping violence in their home country.

USA.gov - Government Agencies and Elected Officials

Keep in mind that the Paris Attack Terrorists were European nationals, not Syrian refugees

Know that all refugee applicants to the US will be vetted very, very carefully.

Remember that 10,000 refugees is a drop in the bucket given millions of them have been driven from their homes.

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Tags: Syria, Syrian, war, refugees, US, refugee program, petition, #syrianrefugees
This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.