Iranians for Peace and Justice

“Preliminary casting for short film entitled ‘The Day of Judgment.’ The film is an action-adventure, taking place in Iran in 1896. The following characters need to be cast:

This film is currently non-paid, but standard meals/copy of DVD are offered. Shooting is currently planned for the month of April. Auditions will be held on an appointment-only basis. Please email Philip Kreyche at pkreyche@gmail.com with inquiries.”

Where: Shoe drop off at 6^th and Lamar in front of Waterloo Records

When: 4-6 PM, Friday, February 5^th

Take a Green Step for Iran’s Green Freedom Movement

“Green Steps of Iran” is a collaborative Green shoe installation piece in support of the Iranian Green Movement.  The Iranian regime has elevated its brutal crackdown on the defenseless population.  In an unprecedented move, the regime executed two imprisoned demonstrators a few days ago.  As the international community, we feel obligated in keeping the Green struggle alive as the stakes become higher and more costly for our brothers and sister inside Iran.

With this in mind, “The Green Steps of Iran” welcomes your collaboration:  Please participate in this Green Communal event by donating your unwanted shoes. Our goal is to collect 500 pairs of shoes.  The shoes you donate will be colored green and installed on the UT campus (West mall) on February 12^th, 2010.  Every kind of shoes is welcome; pairs, singles, small, big, old, basically any shoe that you do not need, we will happily accept.

A drop off station will be set up Friday the 5^th of February at the intersection of 6^th and Lamar in front of Waterloo Records.

Sponsored by Austin for Iran UT, Iranians for Peace and Justice UT, Austin Permanent Peace Protest.

For more information visit austinforiran.org

For Immediate Release: December 31th, 2009

Press Contacts:

Roja Najafi (609) 712-1193  rojanmn@gmail.com
Banafsheh Madaninejad (979) 525-9366 bmadaninejad@gmail.com

ROLLING PROCESSION IN REMEMBRANCE OF IRAN’S GREEN ASHURA, AUSTIN, TX

What: Commemorative Automobile Procession.
Where: First rendezvous point: Mozart’s café (3825 Lake Austin Boulevard) at 11:00am.Second rendezvous point:  Central Market parking lot (4001 North Lamar Boulevard) at 12:00pm.
When: Saturday, January 2^nd 2010, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm.

The day of Ashura, a day of mourning for Hossein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, has been commemorated by Muslims for more than a thousand years.  Hossein, who was brutally killed at the hands of the corrupt caliph of the time, has come to symbolize the struggle against injustice, tyranny, and oppression in the Shi’i world.

This year’s Ashura, Dec 27 2009, millions of Iranians gathered in many cities to mourn for Hossein.  The Iranian regime brutally suppressed what was also being used as an opportunity for protest against the fraudulent elections of June 22nd.  Since Dec 27^th, the Iranian security forces have injured hundreds, arrested nearly a 1000 and killed 12 people.  Due to the regime’s brutal response, Dec 27^th, 2009 is now being called Iran’s Ashura.

To condemn the Iranian regime’s cruelty and to show solidarity with the families of the people who have been killed, injured and imprisoned, we invite you to follow our mourning procession on January 2^nd.

Please join us at Mozart’s Café from 9-11am for decorating your cars to be followed by the procession at 11:00am.  If you can’t make it at 11:00am to Mozart’s meet us at noon at the north Lamar Central Market location.  For route details please visit austinforiran.org.

We will provide the material needed, just show up.

Please refrain from placing any flags or using inflammatory slogans to decorate your cars.

This event is sponsored by AustinforIran.org.

RSVP online:
 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176464591094

For more information visit: marchforabolition.org

EXONERATED PRISONERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF INNOCENTS ON TEXAS DEATH ROW TO LEAD 10TH ANNUAL MARCH TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

On October 24th, the Iranian-American community of Austin will march in solidarity with the people of Texas to call for an end to this barbaric tradition around the world. We will hold signs calling for an end to stoning, execution of children, and political prisoners in Iran (you are welcome to bring your own signs and posters). CNN and several European TV channels are going to cover this march. This will be a great opportunity to raise awareness about the human rights conditions in Iran and also in our own state of Texas.

Saturday, October 24th 2pm: (AUSTIN) Family members of Reginald Blanton, Jeff Wood, Luis Castro Perez and Rodney Reed, Texas Death Row cases with strong innocence claims, will lead the “10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty” in Austin October 24th. Speakers at the annual march include Shujaa Graham and Curtis McCarty, who served more than 20 years combined on death row before being fully exonerated and released. Eugenia Willingham, mother of Cameron Todd Willingham, will be among the special guests at this year’s march. In three independent reviews over the last five years, seven of the nation’s foremost arson experts have found that the forensic analysis that led to Todd Willingham’s conviction and execution in 2004 was completely wrong — that there was no scientific basis to find that the fire was anything more than a tragic accident. All of the non-scientific evidence against Willingham has also been discredited.

Speakers and other confirmed attendees at the march also include Jeff Blackburn (Chief Counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas), Jeanette Popp (a mother whose daughter was murdered but who asked the DA not to seek the death penalty), Elizabeth Gilbert (the pen pal of Todd Willingham who first pushed his innocence and helped his family find a fire expert to investigate), Walter Reaves (the last attorney for Todd Willingham, who fought for him through the execution and continues to fight to exonerate him), Terri Been whose brother Jeff Wood is on death row convicted under the Law of Parties even though he did not kill anyone, and Anna Terrell the mother of Reginald Blanton who is scheduled for execution in Texas on Oct 27 three days after the march.
The march starts at 2 PM on October 24 at the Texas Capitol. Supporters will gather at the Texas Capitol at the gates leading into the Capitol on the sidewalk at 11th Street, march down Congress Avenue to 6th street, then back to the South Steps of the Capitol for a rally to abolish the death penalty.

The Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty has been held each October since 2000 in cooperation with several Texas and national anti-death penalty organizations. It is a coming together of activists, family members of those on death row, community leaders, exonerated prisoners and all those calling for abolition.
Each October since 2000, people from all walks of life and all parts of Texas, the U.S. and other countries have taken a day out of their year and gathered in Austin to raise their voices together and loudly express their opposition to the death penalty. The march started in Austin in 2000. In 2007 and 2008, the march was held in Houston. This year, it is coming back to Austin.

The annual march is organized by several Texas anti-death penalty organizations, including the Austin chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Texas Moratorium Network, the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, Texas Students Against the Death Penalty and Kids Against the Death Penalty and sponsored by over 50 various organizations.

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