#1 Event: Letter Writing for Political Prisoners (with Amnesty International)
Date: Monday Dec. 7th: 12pm-2pm
Where: Columbia University (in front of Butler Library) & New School for Social Research
About: University Students’ Day is a day for global solidarity with Iranian students and activists. Where Is My Vote‐NY is working with Amnesty International to produce letters for this event. Each letter will highlight a specific human rights abuse (i.e a specific political prisoner) and will demand the Iranian government respect the human rights and dignity of students and activists. We are inviting students from across the globe to sign these letters.
Green bracelets, pins, and/or ribbons will be distrubuted to show support for human rights in Iran. This is part of a global project to compile images from campuses across the world to show solidarity with Iranian students and activists.
#2 Event: Iranian University Students Day with Batebi, Dabashi, & Joynes
Join Where Is My Vote NY for a conversation with:
Former Iranian student activist AHMAD BATEBI
American student activist ELIZABETH JOYNES
Professor HAMID DABASHI
Date: Monday Dec. 7th, 8:00 pm
Where: NYU Gallatin Place, Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 715 Broadway (entrance on the corner of Washington Place)
About: topics will include Batebi’s personal experience as an imprisoned student activist in Iran, the current climate of the Iranian student movement, and a look at international student solidarity.
AHMAD BATEBI is a prominent former student activist who became the symbol of the student movement during the summer of 1999. He subsequently spent 7 years in prison.
ELIZABETH JOYNES is a law student at Fordham University School of Law and student activist for human rights and civil rights.
HAMID DABASHI is the Hagop Kavorkian professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
VIDEO: in the fourth episode of “The Week in Green”, Hamid Dabashi interviews civil rights and student activists, Bitta Mostofi, Civil Rights and Immigration Lawyer and Sadra Shahab, Pratt University student who discuss the role of youth in the civil rights movement in Iran.
