Broadcasting 145 bring us all together. In front of the Federal Building, it was like hundreds of people against the Shabiha. And in front of the hotel where Bashar Jaafari1 came, all organizations decided that we’re going to go over there. The enemy was bringing us together, unifying us. Hussam of SAC attested that it was easier to bring people to protest against a specific pro-regime target “because you’re channeling anger at the regime,” rather than in an “open-ended” way to the public at large. figure 5.2. Anti-Assad posters adorned poles around the Federal Building in Los Angeles in 2012. This was a common site of protest for pro- and anti-Assad diaspora members to face off against one another from different sides of the intersection at Wilshire and Veteran avenues. The small print of the poster reads, “He killed 15,000+ in 15 months!” (Photo credit: Dana M. Moss) 1 Bashar Jaafari was the permanent representative of the Syrian Arab Republic under the Assad regime to the United Nations in New York from 2006 until 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009272148 Published online by Cambridge University Press