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>> we are bringing in the live feedback throughout the show. this is called one of the most humanitarian crisis on the glob and it is amazing that something that profound can still kind of drop off the radar. >> we often read and see the headlines, open space, and i looked to the right and see the tents and what is that, this is thousands of refugees coming into the country and it is sobbering to put faces on that. the community cares, we should care as americans because thousands including children are killed in syria and 130,000 dead with millions displaced and we are unable to do much as a country and the u.s. is weary and people are suffering. if the united states or anyone had done enough you would have a death toll, a crisis like you

mentioned and saying, so what, we are supposed to police the world and be blamed for starting a world war, no thanks. >> if you ask if people care, of course we care, it is translating into what i do about it. i'm excited about show tonight and i know you are too. >> yes, solutions. >> it is a grim anniversary that is not markd with a celebration, three years since the uprising fighting is consuming the streets of syria. explosions like that are common place when the government forces cracked down on the opposition. human rights organizationsst mate that the fighting claimed more than a 140,000 lives, and fo forzed 9 million people to flee. peace talks are stalled.

officials agreed a third round of talks and no date is set and leaving people to wonder what's next? it is time for countries like the u.s. to take military action, and an option that president obama is likely not to consider. >> our commitment to the opposition and care for the displaced and our pursuit of a political resolution that achieves a government that respects the people. >> polls are showing that americans are reluctant of getting involved and weary of placing the forces in conflict. americans are launches efforts to help and many americans are finding ways to mobilize forces to help out what is happening in syria. we have some of them with us that is turning passion into action. we have a former congressional staffer turned director of a

task force. we have director of the u.s. relief and travelled to the area and the mayor for prospect park in new jersey. welcome to the street. you have travelled the syria and you are returning soon once again and we have seen the images since 2011 and what are you seeing we haven't? >> there is lot of attention paid to the refugees in the neighboring countries and what really sort of shocks is that the internally displaced people are higher than the refugees and their state is awful. the need is really, really desperate and at the same time we have seen things like

diseases coming back, polio and so on that we thought were cured and over and incurable diseases, high blood pressure and diabetes are becoming fatal where no basic needs are. >> that is something we are going to talk about later in the show. mayor, talk about the experiences that people you know, friends, family, in syria have gone through. >> well, it is an experience of terror, basically. i have been to syria four times since the uprising started and the situation is rapidly deteriorating and i go every three to four months and the situation is deteriorating and on the last visit, i visit an

internet store and what i have noticed at that point is everybody is there to contact the outside world and asking for a way out. the last communication with my friends inside basically they told me the only people who are left there are the people who can't afford to leave. so it is rapidly deteriorating. that is closer to anybody, everybody than before. >> for people there seeking solutions, it is dangerous for you, i know that you have been attacked online and received death threats for the work you are trying to do and do you know the source of those threats? >> the sources are from lebanon, the army, and they are at it again. they have started recently. but they have changed their tone

from threats to labelling me with assisting terrorism and that is the tone for the regime, everything is terrorism, so you know, unfortunately the regime has the resources to pay people to put out the propaganda. as activists we don't have the resources, we barely have the people, to help the people on the ground. >> they are far fatigue. after ten years of iraq and afghanistan we have buyer's remorse. we need to fix our shattered democracy before spending the tax dollars for the wars for freedom abroad. in more wounded warriors.

majority of the americans saying we should mind our own business and not going to other countries, we have afghanistan and iraq and now to ukraine and how do inspire the americans to care about the syrians? >> being a photographer and almost a story teller of sorts and bringing those stories when we go over there and see the devastation and see the death and see the disease and the true hardship and bring that back here and show the people how serious that the situation is and making it human, not about the other things but human suffering that we can't bare to see. as syrian americans they are friends, family and relatives and people we know. we need to make that apparent to the world in any way we can and we are doing that in our ways.

>> you connect governments to opposition leaders and do that for things like civil defense training and training and when americans hear opposition, do you think what they hear is milltans. are they not connecting on the level they need to connect on? >> syria is at a time when the other revolutions didn't benefit, all though benefitted each other, coming in a region where we have iraq and afghanistan. when we work on the ground, we work with the local civilian governing structures. they are not oppositions. they are going back to reach a state in syria they are hoping for and beginning the revolution. it is not ruled by the police that take the bribes or run by

the war lords and we support them by getting the resources to the civilians that are running the local communities and growing bigger within the counciling and integrate and trying to work on civilian governing from the ground up. when you go in and see this amazing work they are doing, the civilians under the miserable conditions and trying to get their country to the vision that they see and the reason they have come out with a revolution in the first place and investing in the country and not a clan ruling over them. >> to the average syrian it manes peace and democracy. they look at the opposition, you know, i know that when americans think of syria, this is far away land and not relating, but this

is a country not like afghanistan or iraq. we are westerns here, but they had the same jobs back there, their children went to school and pharmacists and so and these i don't want to say opposition, they are the syrian people and they work to try to get their country in a liberated and no more regime and to a state of functioning and that is while fighting the extremists and sitting down as the bombs are dropping and with zero support. >> the community is deeply cynical. it is too late, highly unlikely that doing so will make thinses worse nor better. >> o for kids in syria,

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welcome back. we're discussing innovative ways >> welcome back. we are discussing ways that syrian americans are combatting apathy and drawing attention to the on going conflict. you are listening to dillon conner and using music to raise awareness and joining us using the power of art and bringing huma huma humane aid to syria. welcome to "the stream." >> thank you for having me. >> you went to syria to help the kids in conflict and were you prepared? >> absolutely not. shock is an understatement. i think i had an idea because of what you read and you know it is going to be bad, but the first time i was on the syrian

ceremony and in a tent city and a refugee cap camp, when you look around and you see these are your fellow syrian people and you are looking at how this happened, and i remember coming back from that trip, i was there for two weeks, and i wasn't disturbed but came back and trying, so much information going there for the first time. you are so traumatized what you are seeing for the first time, that it is a lot of to digest all of once. >> a lot to take in? >> absolutely. >> o you work with kids and what you are doing is so much more than arts and crafts and what is the project giving to the kids of syria? >> we are trying to give them a sense of hope and a sense they are not forgotten. i recruit a team from around the world, the experts in the fields

and we go there and make sure that the kids know we are here for you, we care about you, and we are there to inspire them to be better and the program is a way to give positive memories. we are investing in creating positive memories for these kids who have been traumatized and seen so much as a young age. >> this trauma on twitter and talking about it, as far as new health concerns, polio, tb, other diseases, but mental health is important too for example why the polio so important? we have a graphic. thank you, check this out. no cure for polio but prevented by vaccines and 95% of the people with no visible symptoms. the average age is under the age of five.

50% reduction in the vaccination rates. humanitarian crisis, standard of living the plummetting. talk about some of the new medical concerns that are emerging and the solutions that emerged from the syrian americans that are trying to help. the problem is that the area is under siege in syria. we have the refugees and again, we are there and i think that people are trying to figure out ways to pure the water and sanitation the conditions at the camps and trying to fix the issue,but the problem is we can't get medicines to a loot of the people in these areas. during the geneva talks there was talks of letting in the aid and the regime only allowed the people out and making them refugees. we have 800,000 people in the

southern parts. these people have no water and no food and no medicines. whether treatable disease like high blood pressure and so on, so there are creative syrians of tunnelling and getting so some of the aid in. you know, what i have seen syrian american groups and americans going there to help, their bravery to cross the border, for example, and going into the area, and trying to get the people help and at any point they could drop a bomb or ran don ways of harming people. these are the people making a difference but at the end of the day the heroes are the people there and watching as the wormed is watching the ordeal and getting sick and dying out of diseases that they never thought would be fay toll to them and

the horrible weapons, is starvation and watching your child die in front of you because of no food or medicines. breaking the siege, those are the ways, those are the ways on the ground getting things in. >> mayor, you are part of the syrian americans trying to come up with solutions, and talk a little bit about your connection to syria is doing in the community where you are mayor. i'm guessing it has to have inspired your constituents? >> absolutely. i am receiving positive feedback and they are supportive where in the local community, county wide or statewide from even elected officials. the problem is the american public it is not about fatigue,

i think it is the lack of knowledge of what is going on there. if they see the things that we see, if they know the magnitude of the suffering, nobody would be opposed to alleviating the suffering of the syrian people. because of my involvement, the people around me know what it is like and i don't think many of them oppose involvement but the average american doesn't really know what is going on there. again, that has to do with the lack of resources for us to convey to tell our story. but just to go back to the aid situation, one of the problems that we are having on the ground is also the control of ices of certain areas which puts many roadblocks in front of us. aid coming from what they

consider nonmuslim countries. i was told don't declare your aid coming from america. even if it is coming from muslims in america to the syrian people? don't. we are just bringing the aid. >> the mayor talked about how important to tell your story and getting people to understand what is going on and what is the trick here to connecting the dots for americans? >> i think it is all about when we go over a there and the number one thing you hear is you ask the people what do you want me to tell the world, just tell them that we are here and we need help. tell them we have survived and we are going to continue to survive but we need help. it is putting a face to this huge issue. it's, we see it and hear the huge numbers, hundreds of thousands, millions displaced, it's about still about a person at the end of the day.

so it is putting faces to the people instead of the grand numbers and grand things. people can't relate to. >> i totally agree just to touch on the number, the idea of a number, it is just a number, no face to it. when you say one or a thousand or a hundred thousand that doesn't mean anything. as syrian americans or people on the ground, it is sort of a responsibility and i felt the moment that you are there your take away is now i am responsible to relay the message of what i have seen through documentation, dialogue, conversations and i feel like we take that away with us and we try and present it to the average american to people that have not been there. it is not the kind of thing you can pick up and go and be there on the ground and see this. >> so speaking about the human face, it is humanitarian problem

and those that are human have a vested interest in helping. what is next for syria and is there a solution in sight. tweet us your thoughts and we'll share them right after the break. ♪ nlon al jazeera america.

>> oh my! ♪ >> enough. >> enough. >> enough. >> to all involved in this brutal conflict, and to all them. >> use your influence now. >> to save the syrian people -- >> and save the region -- >> from disaster. >> welcome back. >> welcome back, we are discussing the on going crisis in syria, in march it is entering the 4th year, this video was produced last year and 300 days later the plea is yet to be fulfilled. so, what does it take to end the conflict. we posed the question to the community. >> it is a community that cares, we created hash tag for the refugee coin and americans can give aid directly. saying see them working at work

for syria. but it shouldn't be just up to them. and not just up to the u.s., we need more of the regions act, egypt, israel and more. what is the average american supposed to do? we don't have a lot of money to donate. this gives the same anxiety as global warning, what do we do to help. >> gives ideas? >> everything and anything. honestly. it is not just a matter of money. it is about tweeting and getting, having a dialogue and starting a conversation and more knowledge on the situation on the ground and speaking to someone that has been there. the foundation, the foundation that goes there twice a year and works on the syria borders with the kids, hope is a game changer and in baby steps and those baby steps that you put together that

create a bigger picture for the kids. >> why is it in the u.s.'s interest to act? >> well, the syria at this point is becoming a hot bed for radicals, specific al qaeda. we have appealed to the administration two years ago to get involved before al qaeda becomes stronger in syria. it fell on deaf ear but now we see clald becoming stronger and stronger. on the other hand, they have a partner in the syrian people, syrian people have proved they are not prone to radicalism and they are fighting al qaeda while fighting the regime. i think that the syrian people are a peace loving people. you know, if we think economically along it opens new

markets and creates friends, united states is losing credibility and we have to stand for what wu always preach, peace, democracy and freedom and librarierty. >> just to say quickly, as far as why the united states should act and puting the situation aside, you have a regime that doesn't cater to the western societies or values that supports terrorist organizations and that is a magnet for extremists like al qaeda and so on. we must be -- we must be on the table in a realistic way and forcing to a police solution as soon as positive >>. >> thanks to all of the guests. see you online.

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