Jewlicious has signed up to be a participating organzation for the NYC protest organized by the Stand for Freedom in Iran Coalition.
Protests are planned in major cities against the Iranian dictators. Perhaps this is the year we can get him locked up for taking American hostages in Tehran.
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Protest list courtesy of StandWithUs & The Israel Project
NEW YORK:
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
Contact: [email protected] or 212-983- 4800 x 152
Web site: www.standforfreedominiran.org
LOS ANGELES:
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Location: The Federal Building on Wilshire and Veteran
Sponsoring organization: StandWithUs, Signs will be provided, tell your friends! Note: There are no bathrooms on this corner
WASHINGTON DC:
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Farragut Square Park, 17th and K Streets
Contact: Arielle Farber at [email protected] or 301- 770-0881
Web site: www.jcouncil.org
DETROIT:
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus
28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3738
Sponsoring organization: Jewish Community Relations Council of Detroit
Contact: Allan Gale at [email protected] or 248-642- 2641; Robert Cohen at [email protected] or 248-642- 2640
Web site: www.detroitjcrc.org
ST. LOUIS:
Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Jewish Federation, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., St. Louis, MO, 63146
Contact: Arlene Baer at [email protected] or 314-442- 3871
Web site: www.jewishinstlouis.org
Special thanks to the Israel Project for helping us create this list. See below for sponsors of the NYC protest:
The Stand for Freedom in Iran coalition is led by:
Progressive American Iranian Committee
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
UJA-Federation of New York
National Interagency Task Force on Iran
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
New York City Central Labor Council: AFL-CIO
American Federation of Teachers
United Federation of Teachers
NAACP – New York Conference
New York Coalition of 100 Black Women
National Puerto Rican Coalition
100 Hispanic Women
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Partner Organizations Include:
18th of Tir Student Leaders
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AIPAC – American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Alliance of Iranian Women
America Israel Friendship League
American Association of Jews From the Former USSR
American Council for World Jewry
American Forum of Russian Jewry (AFRJ-RAJI)
American Jewish Committee
AMEINU
AMIT
American Sephardi Federation
Anti-Defamation League
Asociacion De Mujeres Progresistas
babalu
BangItOut.com
Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty
B’nai Brith International
Bnai Zion
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council USA
Center of Hope International
Chinese Community Relations Council
Community Security Service
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Congregation Beth Israel – West Side Jewish Center
Dor Chadash
East River Development Alliance
Emunah of America
Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Go Proud
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America
Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion/New York School
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
HipHopRepublicans
HRCARI
International Rabbinic Fellowship
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
ISEF
Israel Cancer Research Fund
Jewish Community Relations Council of the UJA of Northern New Jersey
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Jewish International Connection New York
Jewish Labor Committee
Jewish National Fund
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation – New York/New Jersey Region
Jewish Women’s Leadership Caucus of Brooklyn
JIDF
Justice Through Music
Korean American Association of Greater New York
Korean American Association of Long Island
Korean American Public Affairs Committee
Korean Community Empowerment Council
Log Cabin Republicans of New York
Manhattan Jewish Experience
MERCAZ USA
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Young Israel
National Jewish Democratic Council
New-York Assosiation of Holocaust Survivors, Inc
NY Divinity School
New York Persian Parade
New York Region of Hadassah
Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council
Orthodox Union
Pars TV
Pen Pal Program for Tolerance
Persian Radio
Planet Iran
Pragati
Queens Jewish Agencies Coalition
Queens Jewish Community Council
R Jeneration
Reform Party of Syria
Republican Jewish Coalition
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Stand With Us
Telos Press
The Council of Young Jewish Presidents
The Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners Iran
The David Project
The Frisch School
The Jewish Theological Seminary
The Union for Reform Judaism
Turkish American Community of New York
United Hebrew Trades-New York Jewish Labor Committee
United Jewish Communities
United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Uri L’Tzedek
Velvet Revolution
Westchester Jewish Conference
World Council of the Cedar Revolution
World Jewish Congress
Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future
YJLPAC
Zionist Organization of America
I’m speaking a little out of turn here, admittedly, because I can’t reach my Iranian friends quickly enough for this comment thread. Report back I will.
There was a separate protest against Ahmadinejad yesterday by the Iranian community. And so I find today’s rally really disingenuous. Months ago the rhetoric from the Jewish community was that Iran as a whole is full of religious fundamentalists hellbent on blowing Israel off the map. Now the language is all about freeing a democratic people from government oppression?
Why wasn’t the Iranian diaspora at the Jewish-led rally today? Because this coalition was assembled out of self-serving pro-Israel groups. Ahmadinejad has no authority over the nuclear program or any foreign policy, and yet the Jewish community made him our new Hitler. Even if Mousavi won the election, there would still be a nuclear program and Jewish groups would still be saber-rattling against Iran.
This rally is disingenuous. I don’t beleive caring for Iranians’ elections is anything but the anti-Iran flavor of the week. It’s really discomforting this level of fooling ourselves.
Again, I can only speak for myself. I don’t have anything against the Iranian people. The Mullahs clearly have an interest in keeping Ahmadinejad around, why else would they allow him to pull off that farce of an “election?” I know many Iranians are disenchanted with their current leadership, anyone with half a brain knows that and knew that prior to the electoral unrest. “We” didn’t make him into our new Hitler, he did that himself, and with the approval of the Mullahs. “We” don’t put words in his mouth. “We” don’t force him to deny the Holocaust, make incredibly anti-Semitic speeches about Jews and vow to wipe Israel off the map. I don;t think we’re sabre rattling against iran, just against those elements in the government hell bent on pursuing a policy of supporting terror groups and acquiring nuclear capabilities which every moron knows will be used for the creation of offensive weapons. The Iranian government hasn’t even pretended to begin to build the infrastructure necessary to make peaceful use of their nuclear energy capabilities. So yes, I am opposed to those in power in Iran, but that doesn’t mean I do not care for the people.
I find this coalition really objectionable, particularly because it’s not Iranian. This isn’t a rally to free the people of Iran from Ahmadinejad because we care about Iranians, it’s a rally to beat up on Iran in the public’s eye because we care solely about Israel’s nuclear superpower. There’s a hundred Jewish groups on there and a handful of Iranian groups that aren’t Persian Jews.
My cousin is dating an girl from Tehran and I’m really curious what she thinks about all these Zionists coming to her countrymen’s “defense”.
Sigh. So uh… only Darfurians should protest against what the government of Sudan is doing in Darfur. And all those Jews protesting on behalf of the Palestinians should just fuck off. All I can do is speak for myself… when I saw what went down in Iran after the elections, when I saw innocent civilians beaten and shot by the Iranian police, what can I tell you? I felt sincere empathy for the people of Iran. I tweeted news coming out of Iran for days, I did whatever I could. Of course Ahmadinejad and his nukes scare me. They ought to scare everybody. But I have never met a Persian/Iranian non-Jew I didn’t like and I just went with my gut. That’s what our membership in the coalition was based on.
This is very important cause because “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”