View Program on YouTube (edited, 1 hr)
HEROISM FOR OUR TIME -
AN AFTERNOON OF SOLIDARITY TO FREE IRAN'S POLITICAL PRISONERS
The January 9, 2022 Program was co-sponsored by
San Francisco's Unitarian Universalist Society Social Forum
and the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran' s Political Prisoners
Over 30,000 people worldwide joined via Zoom, YT Livestream, Radio Pooya, Radio Payam and Clubhouse.
To hone down this 2-hour program and correct technical problems with the recording, we have posted an edited version focused on the main presentations on YouTube; the video solidarity statements and music can also be viewed there separately.
Featured clips
Welcome by Rev. Vanessa Southern, UUSF Senior Minister
Opening Statement by Dolly Veale, co-initiator of the International Emergency Campaign
Mariam Claren, daughter of German-Iranian dual citizen and political prisoner Nahid Taghavi
Dr. Azam Niroomand-Rad, emeritus professor, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; honorary faculty Dept. of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Lawdan Bazargan, former political prisoner, family member of victims of the 1988 massacre of Iran’s political prisoners, and human rights activist
Larry Everest, a spokesperson for the IEC; author of the book “Oil, Power and Empire”; journalist and contributor to revcom.us
Closing Remarks by Dolly Veale
Video Playlist of Solidarity Statements | Text Solidarity Statements
Individual Videos:
- Taghi Rahmani, human rights activist (read by Melvin Starks of UUSF). (Original Farsi text)
- Kave Milani of Burn the Cage, Free the Birds movement in Europe
- Monireh Baradaran, writer, ex-political prisoner
- Saied Pourabdollah, activist, ex-political prisoner
- Anahita Rahmani on behalf of ex-prisoners for IEC
- Pouran Nazemi, ex-political prisoner
- Asghar Amirzadegan, teacher in Shiraz, Iran
- Letter from Colombia, read by Dolly Veale
Music Videos, with permission of performer
Shekib Mosadeq, Burn The Cage Free the Birds
Marjan Farsad, Mahtab (Moonlight)