Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Heroes, Immigrants, International Women's Day, Iranian Women's Activism, Love Between Women, Million Women Rise!, Mother-Right, Motherhood, Mourning, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Sisters, Prayers, Revolution in Iran, Rural Womyn, Single Moms, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women and Creativity, Women and Food, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's History on Mar 8th, 2010
Warriors and Heroines
This is the Time
International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 1
International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 2
Women and Water
Women and Land, and Food
Immigrant Mothers and the Children Left Behind
Million Women Rise 2010
The Women, The Women, the Amazing Women
For Women and in Sisterhood,
Heart
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Photo from Payvand, originally from here
According to the Feminist School in Iran, 19 more Iranian women’s rights activists were arrested January 14; fourteen were members of Mothers for Peace; also among the arrested was the sister of Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi. According to Ebadi, her sister was not involved in political activism:
“I am not aware of [...]
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Iranian blogger and journalist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested June 30, is still in prison and has been tortured. According to Revolutionary Road:
An informed source in an interview with the “green waive” reporter talked about a disturbing torture of a journalist by investigators. According to “green wave” this source who didn’t want to be identified, [...]
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On November 7, 2007, I posted Iranian women’s movement leader Delaram Ali’s eloquent Open Letter written on behalf of the movement’s Million Signatures Campaign, which came together in the wake of the brutalities against, and arrests of, women demonstrating peacefully in Iran on June 12, 2006. The background of this protest is [...]
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If you go to the Million Signatures Campaign site, you can respond to this statement of the Million Signatures/Change for Equality Campaign of Iranian activist women. I hope everyone reading will do so to encourage these amazing, amazing women who have really spearheaded the revolution in Iran, quiet as it’s kept (and [...]
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Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, above, freelance reporter, editor-in-chief of Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women, a feminist newsjournal), and winner of the 2009 International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award, has been arrested in Iran, according to Reporters Without Borders. Her husband was also arrested and their home searched by police. [...]
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According to the most recent reports, Neda Soltani, whose murder at the hands of Iranian police was caught on film and broadcast throughout the world, was 27 and a philosophy student. She was demonstrating with one of her professors and with some other students.
The youtube video above shows her standing next to [...]
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Tehran, June 21, 2009, from Revolutionary Road.
The people are chanting, “Have no fear, we are all together,” and “Down with the dictator!”
Below are some of my earlier posts about the Iranian women’s movement or in support of women in Iran:
Urge the Iranian Government to Commute the Sentence of Journalist Roxana Saberi
Tehran: Women’s Peaceful Demonstrations Being [...]
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Patti Smith, now 60, reciting from her classic rock song, “The People Have the Power”
Patti Smith, rocking it out.
People Have the Power
by Patti Smith and Fred “Sonic” Smith
I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of [...]
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Videos up today at Revolutionary Road show security forces shooting directly into the crowd.
Revolutionary Road has also been tweeting the revolution in Iran. Today there is bad news:
5:02
special guards confronted with people, attacked them with batton dispersed them into small ally ways
5:10
Thousands of people attempting to enter Tehran protest site have been blocked by [...]
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