Source: www.villagevoice.com By Anita Abedian Street artist Erik Burke stands in front of his mural at the Harriet Tubman School in Harlem. On a recent summer day in East Harlem, Alexander Keto stood on a ladder…
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New York Artists Have a Five-Story-Tall Human Rights Message for Iran
Source: www.takepart.com As world leaders gather for the United Nations’ general assembly, a dozen massive murals all over New York City are trying to send a big message to the Iranian government about human rights…
NYC Street Art Makes Statement for Human Rights in Iran
Source: bigstory.ap.org NEW YORK (AP) — A woman in a head scarf gazes piercingly from the side of a Brooklyn brownstone. A flock of spray-painted birds breaks free from shackles on a Manhattan building. A Harlem…
Authorities Target Baha’is in New Arrests
Source: en.iranwire.com Friday 27, 2015 By Natasha Schmidt, Kian Sabeti Intelligence Ministry agents raided a number of Baha’i homes in Tehran, Isfahan and Kerman and arrested 16 Baha’i citizens on February 16 and 17.…
From Iran to Canada, Education Is Not a Crime
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com By Maziar Bahari Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Feb. 25 2015 Across the country, Canadian schoolchildren are celebrating Freedom to Read week, a public affirmation of freedom of expression through the process…
“Education Is Not a Crime” Gains Momentum
Source: Baha’i World News Service 8 February 2015 LOS ANGELES — Education is Not a Crime, a worldwide campaign drawing attention to the constructive response of the Baha’i community to the Iranian government’s systematic denial…
New Documentary ‘to Light a Candle’ Examines Baha’i Struggles in Iran
Source: www.worldreligionnews.com 13 OCT 2014, POSTED BY KYLE GLATZ NEW FILM TO LIGHT A CANDLE EXAMINES THE PERSECUTION OF BAHA’IS IN IRAN. For millions of people around the world, the term Baha’i will have little or no…
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