Archive for the ‘Demonstration’ Category

Week of Activities around Ahmadinejad’s Visit to the UN

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

The Campaign to Prosecute the Islamic Republic

for Crimes Against Humanity presents:

A Town Hall Meeting to Denounce Murder, Torture, Rape, and Forced Confessions in the Islamic Republic of Iran

TIME: Saturday, September 26, 2009: 9AM-4PM (doors open @ 9:00am)

PLACE: Riverside Church, South Hall, 490 Riverside Drive, New York City (near the 116 Street 1 and 9 trains)

Speakers include (in English and Persian): Reza Baraheni, Hamid Dabashi, Mansour Farhang, Shahrnoush Parsipour, Ahmad Sadri, Abdolkarim Soroush, and others.

Musical Performance by Faramarz Aslani, KIOSK, and …

Systematic repression by the Islamic Republic has now become so explicit that even Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader who is chiefly responsible for these crimes, has acknowledged the widespread torture and murder of Iranians at Tehran University’s dormitories and Kahrizak Detention Center. The military and paramilitary forces of the Islamic Republic have openly murdered Iranian citizens. But instead of putting those responsible for these crimes on trial, the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic has arrested, incarcerated, tortured, and raped the brave men and women of the country while holding them in solitary confinement.

Even if the earlier crimes of the Islamic Republic are excluded from consideration, those committed in the aftermath of the June 2009 presidential election alone provide ample evidence to prosecute Iranian authorities for crimes against humanity.

All the leaders of the Green Movement have repeatedly demanded that those responsible for these crimes be put on trial. This demand has become so pervasive that even Ali Khamenei, the principal person responsible for plotting and implementing these crimes, has publicly declared that they will be officially investigated.

But we believe it is futile to expect the unjust courts of the Islamic Republic to redress these injustices. We have therefore launched the Campaign to Prosecute the Islamic Republic for Crimes Against Humanity, an initiative that has attracted thousands of signatures by Iranians from around the globe. This campaign seeks to help bring to justice those responsible for incarcerating, torturing, and raping innocent Iranians, who have done nothing but express their democratic aspirations for their homeland.

The Campaign invites all concerned citizens to join a town hall meeting on September 26, 2009 to discuss these crimes and bring them to the attention of the world at large.

* NO TO ECONOMIC SANCTIONS OR MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF IRAN!

* YES TO PROSECUTING THE ISLAMIC REPUBIC

FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!

For updates see: www.strike4iran.com

ALSO:STAND-BY-IRAN-UN

Tue. 22 September 6:30pm“Iran Alive”
47th St. & 2nd Ave.

Art installation and performance dedicated to the people of Iran. A short film projected on a 300-person human screen with audio featuring recorded messages from Iranians inside Iran.

Wed. 23 September

12:30pm – Rally outside the Iran mission to the United Nations
40th St. & 3rd Ave.

The Iran mission serves as Ahmadinejad’s NYC headquarters when he visits the United Nations. Ahmadinejad will be meeting with allies throughout the week, so this is a chance to make our strong presence felt.

3:00pm – Procession to the United Nations Plaza
Walk north on 3rd Ave. to 47th St., and east into the main rally area.

4:00pm – Rally outside the United Nations Building
Enter from 2nd Ave. & 47th St.

Ahmadinejad is to speak before the UN General Assembly around 5:00pm; our rally will last the duration of his speech.

Thu. 24 September 10:30am – March with the Green Scroll across the Brooklyn Bridge
Gather at Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn.

For a downloadable flier for this event, click here (pdf)

Thu. 24 SeptemberMusic for Iran, social event fundraiser
Location and time TBA

MESSAGE

Call upon the international community to support human rights in Iran and reject the policies of military aggression and economic starvation. Say no to torture, killings, and rape. Say yes to freedom of speech and assembly. End the show trials. Free all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, and hold the real criminals accountable. Remember Neda and Sohrab, and all the victims of state violence. Oppose war and economic sanctions.

Ahmadinejad Gets Curried

Watch the full interview here.

Closed for the Fast

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Dear readers, I do not anticipate posting anything for the next three days, as I’ll be fasting in front of the United Nations in solidarity with the Iranians who are struggling for their freedom.
For further information, click here. I am adding random notes about the UN vigil as it proceeds. 

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Hunger Strike for Iran in front of the UN

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Hunger Strike in Support of the Iranian People and Recently Arrested Political Prisoners

The noble people of Iran have, with their vast presence in the June 12 presidential elections, showed that despite the fundamental faults of the electoral system in Iran, they preferred to change their fate by peaceful and democratic means. Unfortunately the government ruling Iran did not respect the right of Iranian citizens to effectively participate in determining their fate. With widespread fraud, it violated this basic right of the Iranian people on a vast scale and blatantly launched a coup against its own people. Even more regrettably, the government that emerged from the coup resorted to extreme and merciless brutality against the wave of peaceful protests and arrested a large number of political activists, intellectuals, reporters, and ordinary people, in violation of legal procedures, and dispatched them to solitary confinement. According to reliable reports, the detainees are subjected to various forms of extreme psychological and physical pressure to confess to crimes they have not committed.
In solidarity with the Iranian people’s Green Movement and condemning the widespread electoral fraud, the merciless repression of the popular protests, and the illegal arrest of hundreds of citizens and activists in Iran, we the undersigned are going on hunger strike between 22 to 24 June in front of the UN building in New York. We intend to have the voice of the long-suffering Iranian people heard. We ask the responsible members of the world community to demand the release of all the recent arrested prisoners. Considering the alarming condition of the recently detained, with their health and even lives in jeopardy, we demand they be visited by representatives of the General Secretary of the UN and immediately freed.
In addition, we the undersigned call on all our compatriots living in the United States to join this protest, meeting on the above-mentioned dates in front of the UN, to declare their solidarity with Iranian people’s Green Movement during these dangerous and crucial days.

Click here to see the signatories to this statement.

Routes for the July 9 Demonstration

Friday, July 10th, 2009

The following is a list of rallying points for the demonstrations of July 9, 2009. Given the extremely decentralized character of these demonstrations it is unclear how closely this reflects what actually transpired on that day. It was posted to Facebook by Ezatollah Entezami, the famous director.

In the middle of my work, I have found that one Xarene Iskandar has been far ahead of me and has been doing work in much greater detail. See her excellent posting here.

Tehran:

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