On International Women's Day, the fight for freedom varies depending on who you ask.
Saturday, March 9, 2024 8:44AMLOS ANGELES --At the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, one walks past Holocaust reminders and quotes of solidarity to get to a corner of the building where an event is about to start. Once speakers take the mic, the fight for freedom clearly becomes against the echo chambers online, and the trauma that resurfaces as a result.
"We were four girls and three guys in the trailer," said Biner. "For hours we heard people being slaughtered, shouting and begging for mercy before taken captive." As soon as the event ended, another group started arriving to nearby Cheviot Hills Park for an unrelated rally under the same Women's Day theme. It's less than one mile from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, yet the two stand a world apart.
Sharif says her priority, and that of those who stand with her, is to take down all forms of power deemed oppressive. Beyond the locked arms of a protest, a just outcome in this war isn't as easily defined.
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