Thursday, 5 November 2009
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
You should care about the people of the Middle East
Maurice writes: ‘Delete me from your contact list... I really don't care about the Middle East and its people!!!’
Maryam Namazie responds: Maurice, you should care about the people in the Middle East because they are doing your dirty work.
You are most likely on my mailing list because of an interest in Sharia law. Well, the people there are on the frontlines of the battle against the political Islamic movement. They are the ones that are stuck in ditches and stoned; hung in city centres from cranes for being gay or for ‘acts incompatible with chastity;’ flogged for organising May Day rallies; tortured and murdered for being political opponents or apostates; and daily losing their children and loved ones to this machinery of terror.
All because of a movement that was incidentally brought to centre stage by Western government policy of establishing an Islamic belt vis-à-vis the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Despite the decades of repression, though, they continue to refuse and resist.
Today, Students’ Day in Iran is a good case in point. Tens of thousands came out onto the streets across Iran to demand an end to dictatorship and for freedom. Hundreds were arrested and many more wounded.
There are many video clips that you should see of today’s protests and many others that the western media fails to cover but I want you to see just one of them. In this one, a woman is hit in the face by a policeman; she falls to the ground. A man rushes to her aid and is beaten (remember he does this even though it is illegal for men and women who are not immediate family to touch each other because of compulsory sex apartheid). Another woman rushes to protect the young man who once again goes to the aid of the woman who had fallen to the ground.
This brief video clip captures a passing glimpse of the brutality of the Islamic regime of Iran but also more importantly the courageous resistance and humanity of the unfolding revolution that will bring the regime to its knees and herald a new dawn not just for people in the Middle East but for you as well.
A humanity that you would do well to learn from.
Maryam Namazie responds: Maurice, you should care about the people in the Middle East because they are doing your dirty work.
You are most likely on my mailing list because of an interest in Sharia law. Well, the people there are on the frontlines of the battle against the political Islamic movement. They are the ones that are stuck in ditches and stoned; hung in city centres from cranes for being gay or for ‘acts incompatible with chastity;’ flogged for organising May Day rallies; tortured and murdered for being political opponents or apostates; and daily losing their children and loved ones to this machinery of terror.
All because of a movement that was incidentally brought to centre stage by Western government policy of establishing an Islamic belt vis-à-vis the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Despite the decades of repression, though, they continue to refuse and resist.
Today, Students’ Day in Iran is a good case in point. Tens of thousands came out onto the streets across Iran to demand an end to dictatorship and for freedom. Hundreds were arrested and many more wounded.
There are many video clips that you should see of today’s protests and many others that the western media fails to cover but I want you to see just one of them. In this one, a woman is hit in the face by a policeman; she falls to the ground. A man rushes to her aid and is beaten (remember he does this even though it is illegal for men and women who are not immediate family to touch each other because of compulsory sex apartheid). Another woman rushes to protect the young man who once again goes to the aid of the woman who had fallen to the ground.
This brief video clip captures a passing glimpse of the brutality of the Islamic regime of Iran but also more importantly the courageous resistance and humanity of the unfolding revolution that will bring the regime to its knees and herald a new dawn not just for people in the Middle East but for you as well.
A humanity that you would do well to learn from.
Protest at Islamic regime of Iran's embassy in London as act of solidarity
Bahar Milani, Behruz Bahari, Abbas Naji, Jalil Jalili, Hussain and others did their act of solidarity with the people of Iran in front of the Islamic regime of Iran's embassy today in solidarity with the protesting people of Iran on Students' Day. See photos and film footage here:
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Iran Solidarity Vancouver's act
See photos of Iran Solidarity Vancouver's act of solidarity with the people of Iran here:
Monday, 2 November 2009
Join daily acts of solidarity with the people of Iran (15 weeks have past – 37 more to go)
Join November 21 rally in London against Sharia law or organise rallies in your own cities
Every day for the past 15 weeks, people aged 16-85 have done everything from singing, doing a puppet show, blogging live, painting, banging on a pot, to giving a speech and sitting or standing still with a placard in order to show their solidarity with the people of Iran for half an hour in London’s Trafalgar Square and more recently in other city centres.
We plan to do this for an entire year to show that every day is a day of solidarity with the courageous people battling the Islamic regime of Iran and demanding a society worthy of the 21st century.
You can see photos and film footage of the various actions here.
If you would like to contribute to these daily acts during the remaining 37 weeks, contact us. We need all the support we can get! You would need to be 16 years of age or over, and spend the half hour doing whatever you’d like from 1730-1800 or earlier during the winter months.
You could also join One Law for All’s Nov 21 rally in London against Sharia law in Iran, Britain and elsewhere. The rally will be held in Hyde Park from 1200-1400 hours. You can find more details here. And if you can’t get to London, why not organise an act or rally on November 21 in your city centre? Just tell us about it beforehand.
You can also set up Iran Solidarity groups at your schools and universities, neighbourhoods and workplaces – similar to the anti-apartheid groups that helped get rid of racial apartheid in South Africa. Iran Solidarity Vancouver, Toronto, Aachen, Frankfurt, Vienna and Oslo have already been established.
Moreover, please don’t forget to sign up to the Iran Solidarity petition if you haven’t done so.
We have a responsibility and duty to unite to support a hugely important movement in Iran that will help the people of Iran and the world in heralding a new dawn and break the back of the political Islamic movement internationally.
For more information, visit our website or blog or contact:
Maryam Namazie
Iran Solidarity
Campaign Organiser
BM Box 2387
London WC1N 3XX, UK
Iransolidaritynow@gmail.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7719166731
Every day for the past 15 weeks, people aged 16-85 have done everything from singing, doing a puppet show, blogging live, painting, banging on a pot, to giving a speech and sitting or standing still with a placard in order to show their solidarity with the people of Iran for half an hour in London’s Trafalgar Square and more recently in other city centres.
We plan to do this for an entire year to show that every day is a day of solidarity with the courageous people battling the Islamic regime of Iran and demanding a society worthy of the 21st century.
You can see photos and film footage of the various actions here.
If you would like to contribute to these daily acts during the remaining 37 weeks, contact us. We need all the support we can get! You would need to be 16 years of age or over, and spend the half hour doing whatever you’d like from 1730-1800 or earlier during the winter months.
You could also join One Law for All’s Nov 21 rally in London against Sharia law in Iran, Britain and elsewhere. The rally will be held in Hyde Park from 1200-1400 hours. You can find more details here. And if you can’t get to London, why not organise an act or rally on November 21 in your city centre? Just tell us about it beforehand.
You can also set up Iran Solidarity groups at your schools and universities, neighbourhoods and workplaces – similar to the anti-apartheid groups that helped get rid of racial apartheid in South Africa. Iran Solidarity Vancouver, Toronto, Aachen, Frankfurt, Vienna and Oslo have already been established.
Moreover, please don’t forget to sign up to the Iran Solidarity petition if you haven’t done so.
We have a responsibility and duty to unite to support a hugely important movement in Iran that will help the people of Iran and the world in heralding a new dawn and break the back of the political Islamic movement internationally.
For more information, visit our website or blog or contact:
Maryam Namazie
Iran Solidarity
Campaign Organiser
BM Box 2387
London WC1N 3XX, UK
Iransolidaritynow@gmail.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7719166731
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Acts of solidarity against executions in Iran
See photos of acts of solidarity against executions in Iran.
Friday, 30 October 2009
Tom and a friend's act of solidarity
Tom and a friend joined activist Bahar Milani in acts of solidarity in support of the people of Iran:
Iran Solidarity Aachen's act
Iran Solidarity Aachen Committee's act of solidarity in Germany included a speech by Mina Ahadi on a day against execution in Iran:
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Bahar Milani and other acts of solidarity
Iran Solidarity activist Bahar Milani got an actress, a singer, and a group visiting from Germany to do acts with her in support of people in Iran and against child executions:
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Monday, 26 October 2009
Mehran Mahbobi writes: Today, 26 October, we in Toronto, Canada appeared in campus of York University in Toronto to coninue the Iran Solidarity campaign. We spent 3 hours in Vari Hall which is a center of all social and political activities for students on campus... Several students supported us in starting a club. We have a deadline of Friday this week to fill an aplication doing that. If we succeed, we shall have our own student club at York Univesity with the name of "Iran Solidarity at York University".
Here is a photo of their day:
Here is a photo of their day:
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Bahar, Behruz, Akram, Morteza et al's act of solidarity
Iran Solidarity activist Bahar Milani writes: Thanks to Behruz, Akram, Morteza and our lovely new friends for their acts of solidarity today. Here is a video clip of their act:
Iran Solidarity Toronto's act of solidarity
To see a video clip of Iran Solidarity Toronto's act of solidarity against child executions:
Friday, 23 October 2009
Muriel Seltman's act of solidarity
See photos of veteran activist Muriel Seltman's act of solidarity with the people of Iran:
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Ramin Joubin's act of solidarity
Ramin Joubin, activist of Iran Solidarity Vancouver, does his act of solidarity by reading a poem:
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