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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPens in Solidarity
Luz Peña ?@Luzpenatv 14m14 minutes ago
France standing together & holding up pencils in memory of the lives that were lost #FreedomOfThePress #JesuisCharlie
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Pens in Solidarity (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2015
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riversedge
(70,056 posts)1. Weapons of mass..........
Ester Bellón ?@ArmarioEnRuinas 23m23 minutes ago
No words ✖️ #JeSuisCharlie
riversedge
(70,056 posts)2. With pens and candles in hand, these are some of the ways Parisians flooded the streets on Wednesda
Ed Schultz ?@edshow 15m15 minutes ago
Parisians show their defiance of today's attack on #freedomofexpression. http://on.msnbc.com/14pEhrp Show #edshow your solidarity! #JeSuisCharlie
Parisians mourn terror attack in the streets
By msnbc @msnbc
With pens and candles in hand, these are some of the ways Parisians flooded the streets on Wednesday night.
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French flood Paris streets in defiance of terror
01/07/15 02:33 PM
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By Joseph Neese
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As night began to fall on Paris, Frenchmen young and old began to flock to the streets in a defiant stand against a targeted act of terrorism that left at least a dozen of their countrymen dead. While the manhunt for those who attacked satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo remained underway, the people of France made their voices heard: Their democracy would not fall to terror.
RELATED: #JeSuisCharlie: Parisians respond to Charlie Hebdo attack
Many marchers carried pens as a sign of unity with the journalists whose murder was an affront to a core democratic value: freedom of the press. Others carried signs with one simple phrase: Je Suis Charlie, or I am Charlie. The show of solidarity went viral across social media accounts in Paris, inspiring public gatherings and candlelight vigils to mourn the victims of Wednesdays shooting. One such Je Suis Charlie Facebook event had more than 22,000 marked as attendees before it began at at 6 p.m. Paris time. .....
riversedge
(70,056 posts)3. Cartoonists pay tribute to #CharlieHebdo victims
New York Magazine ?@NYMag 20m20 minutes ago
#JeSuisCharlie: Cartoonists pay tribute to #CharlieHebdo victims: http://nym.ag/14qgW97 (cartoon by @RobTornoe)
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(296,780 posts)4. Mahalo riversedge :( stunning pic