The following is an extended excerpt of a radio interview, edited for readability. Listen to it in its entirety: On 2 May 2015, host Chuck Mertz of This is Hell! Radio (Chicago) spoke with activist Salma Kahale about the Syrian revolution-using that very term, in fact, which has so shamefully disappeared from many of our vocabularies when we talk about Syria. As the conflict entered its fifth year two months ago, we posted on our Facebook page a compendium of articles-including several from our own archives-by activists who persist in using the word. These were our thoughts at the time: It isn't the Syrian Revolution that failed, we have failed. Failed to inform ourselves, to share the importance of the continuing Syrian Revolution and to stand in solidarity with it. One day we will recognize the legacy of a struggle for justice, freedom and self-determination that has very few equals throughout history. The heroes of the Syrian Revolution are well and alive and remain forever an inspiration for courage and resistance and humanity. Today we salute all of those who struggle for freedom and justice and remember the 15 arrested schoolboys of

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Still a Revolution: Solidarity Among Syrians

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