Release Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal!

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Date:

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Time:

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Event Type:

Protest

Organizer/Author:

friends of hikers

Email:

friendsofhikers [at] gmail.com

Location Details:

12 Noon Meet at 16th St. BART (at Mission St.)
12:15: MARCH to Dolores Park
1 pm: Rally, Speakers, and Open Mic
Outreach, Music & Food

One Year of Unjust Detention: Free Our Friends NOW!

Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal are activists with deep roots in the Bay Area, who have been unjustly detained in Iran for a year.

Sarah is a teacher, writer, and active feminist. Shane is a freelance journalist published in the Nation and Mother Jones (http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/sheik-down). Josh is an environmentalist and farmer. All three are anti-war activists.

Enough is enough! Sarah has been in solitary confinement and for a year despite requests for a cellmate.

Come check out speakers giving updates on the case and discussing human rights. Your presence is needed!

*Bring your instruments, bands, dancing abilities, and poetry for an open-mic in the park!*

"Our friends, Shane, Sarah and Josh have always taken a stand for justice in the Middle East. They have organised against the Iraq war, lived and worked with Palestinian and Iraqi refugees and campaigned against the Israeli occupation. Why is Iran holding them?" - Friends of SSJ

Please note: although some of us as individuals may support the political movement in Iran, this rally is focused on releasing our friends--and their work for racial justice, peace, and against U.S. imperialism. This is not a rally against the regime in Iran. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

For more info. visit:
http://www.freethehikers.org
http://freeourfriends.eu/

Added to the calendar on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 7:44PM

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§How about asking Venezuela, Hamas and Hezbollah to intercede on their behalf?

by Aaron Aarons (indy2010 [at] aarons.f-m.fm)

Sun, Jul 25, 2010 12:14AM

Governments and organizations that have good relations with both the government of Iran and the anti-imperialist left in the United Snakes might be persuaded to intercede with Iran on behalf of these prisoners. I don't think we can directly influence Iran with our rallies and demonstrations, and I don't think the U.S. government has any interest in freeing them. But friendly pressure on governments like that of Venezuela and organizations like Hamas might get them to apply similar pressure to the Iranian government, and to convince the latter that holding these comrades as prisoners gives them absolutely NO leverage over the U.S.-Israeli Axis that is threatening war against Iran.

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