We demand of the Islamic Republic of Iran: FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW
We say to the U.S government: NO THREATS OR WAR MOVES AGAINST IRAN, LIFT U.S. SANCTIONS
Join the close to 5,000 people who have signed the Emergency Appeal or an earlier Statement.
A partial list*:
- Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus MIT; Professor, Univ. of Arizona
- Ariel Dorfman, Author, Death and the Maiden
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize 2003
- Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize 1997 for her work to ban landmines
- Gloria Steinem, Writer, feminist activist
- Cornel West, Scholar-activist, Union Theological Seminary
- Daniel Ellsberg, Author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor, Citizen Ambassador Free Rohingya Coalition
- Judith Butler, Professor, author, University of California, Berkeley
- Kia Corthron, Playwright, Novelist
- Jeff Kaufman, Director, producer, writer of NASRIN documentary
- Marcia Ross, Producer, NASRIN documentary
- Naomi Wallace, MacArthur Fellow, Obie award-winning playwright
- Jean Ziegler, Sociologist, writer, Switzerland
- William Bourdon, Lawyer, Paris
- Dr. Saroj Giri, University of Delhi, India
- Dieter Karg, Spokesman, Iran Coordination Group of Amnesty International Germany
- Mariam Claren, Daughter of political prisoner Nahid Taghavi, campaigner to #FreeNahid
- Raymond Lotta, Revolution Books NYC; revcom.us
- Mansoureh Behkish, Mothers of Khavaran
- 30 former political prisoners of Iran
More signers, including*:
- Father Bob Bossie, Priests of the Sacred Heart
- Rev. Dr. Robert L. Brashear, Pastor Emeritus West Park Church, NYC
- Carol Gay, President, New Jersey Industrial Union Council
- John Lonsdale, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge, UK
- Gary Pak, Writer, filmmaker, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai’i
- Jill Godmilow, Filmmaker, Emeritus Professor, University of Notre Dame, IN
- Dr. Warren Gold, MD, Cardiopulmonologist, Emeritus professor, University of California, San Francisco
- Kit Kittredge, Steering Committee Women’s Boat to Gaza
- Shekib Mosadeq, Revolutionary Afghan artist, activist
- Nicholas Mottern, Coordinator Knowdrones.com
- Liz Bernstein, Human Rights Activist, Canada
- Father Claude Mostowik, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Australia
- Cecile Pineda, Novelist
- Gordon Rogoff, Theater director, professor Yale School of Drama
- Larry Everest, author, journalist, contributor to revcom.us
- Several members of Veterans4Peace and Santa Fe, NM chapter
* Institutions for identification purposes only
Full list of signers