[ASA_PEWS] Friday Zoom Conference (tomorrow): Solidarity with Iran's Political Prisoners

[Alessandro Morosin]

Hello friends and colleagues:

As part of my *Global Movements for Social Justice *class*, *I'll be
co-moderating a panel *tomorrow* with the *International Emergency Campaign
to Free All Political Prisoners in Iran.*
<https://www.freeiranspoliticalprisonersnow.org/>

This event will be on Zoom from 2pm to 4pm Eastern Time.

We greatly appreciate your attendance and any ways you can spread the word!
FLYER ATTACHED

Thank you,
Alessandro

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*Friday, June 10: 2:00 - 4:00 PM Eastern Time*


Zoom link: *https://depauw-edu.zoom.us/j/97936424609
<https://depauw-edu.zoom.us/j/97936424609>*

*Join with this distinguished panel of activists to discuss why and how we
can win the struggle to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners!*

This will be an informative and challenging session for all participants.
It is being hosted by “Fighting the Power: Global Movements for Social
Justice” DePauw University summer session class taught by Professor
Alessandro Morosin.  Students are learning about the new wave of extreme
repression by the Islamic Republic of Iran in response to unprecedented
uprisings in 2017 and 2019 that rocked all of Iranian society.  Speakers
will discuss these continuing mass protests and intensified repression.

The aim of this Roundtable and discussion is to inform, energize, cohere
and activate students, academics and social justice activists to join with
the growing global movement to free the courageous dissidents in Iran.
Several of the panelists are signers of the recently published Emergency
Appeal <https://freeiranspoliticalprisonersnow.org/> authored and published
by the International Emergency Campaign (IEC).  We hope this event will
engage many more people to sign and circulate the Emergency Appeal, so as
to free all political prisoners in Iran.

*Panelists*

v *Shahrzad Mojab* is a scholar/activist and professor at the Women and
Gender Studies Institute and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
at the University of Toronto. She will address the extreme oppression that
women political prisoners face in Iran and the Middle East.

v *Hadi Ghaemi* has published/spoken extensively on the brutal treatment of
Iran’s political prisoners. He will focus on the current uprising and
repression in Iran, the absence of the rule of law concentrated in the
imprisonment of defense lawyers.

v *Larry Everest* is the author of *Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the US
Global Agenda*.  He is also a regular contributor to revcom.us, and a
spokesperson for IEC.  He will speak on what the Emergency Campaign has
achieved in its year and a half of worldwide efforts and what its plans are
to win this fight.

v *Satar Rahmani* (tentative) is a leader of the Mehran Raoof Solidarity
Committee, and spokesperson for International Alliance in Support of
Workers in Iran (IASWI).  He will speak on the fight for imprisoned
labor-activist and Iranian-British dual citizen Mehran Raoof and the
implications of this case.

v *Mariam Claren* will speak on her relentless efforts to free her mother
since October 16, 2020 by initiating the #freeNahid campaign. Nahid Taghavi
was a women’s right activist at the time of her arbitrary arrest and
imprisonment, sentenced to nearly 11 years in a sham trial in June 2021.


*Moderators*

v Professor Alessandro Morosin, Department of Sociology & Anthropology,
DePauw University

v Dolly Veale, spokesperson for IEC, contributor to revcom.us









*Read and Sign the Emergency Appeal*

https://FreeIransPoliticalPrisonersNow.org
<https://freeiranspoliticalprisonersnow.org/>

-- 
Alessandro Morosin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, DePauw University
PhD, Sociology, University of California-Riverside
M.A., Global and International Studies, University of California-Santa
Barbara

Recent scholarship:

(2022) *Paramilitaries in Oaxaca, Mexico: Enforcing Accumulation in a
Geo-Strategic Region*. in Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague-Silgado and Aaron
Tauss (Eds). *Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization:
Political Violence, Elites, and Security*
<https://www.routledge.com/Paramilitary-Groups-and-the-State-under-Globalization-Political-Violence/Hristov-Sprague-Tauss/p/book/9780367233532>*.
*Routledge: London.

(2020) Comunalidad, Guendaliza'a and anti-mine mobilizations in the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec.
<https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2256/> *Journal
of Political Ecology*, *27*(1), 917-938.
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