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NEWS & LETTERS, August - September 2009
Free Iran protest
Los Angeles--On July 25, 700 to 1,000 supporters of the two-month-long massive green wave movement in Iran gathered at UCLA in a "Global Day of Action" to "stop the disappearance, stop the torture, stop the killing" by the government. There were poets, artists, singers and speakers who urged freeing all political prisoners in the struggle for human rights. Among the supporters were women, men, youth and elderly and contingents of Amnesty International and Code Pink.
Other events in the past two months here included a July 12 demonstration at the Westwood Federal Building. Two different tendencies against Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei were present. One was Iranians for the Green Movement, with signs that read, "Free all political detainees," and a long green scroll that read, "Ahmadinejad is not Iran's president," with hundreds of signatures. Supporters came and added their names.
The competing group flew an Iranian monarchic flag (red, white and green with a symbol of a lion with a sword). Their spokesperson stated that they were for the abolition of the Islamic Republic in Iran.
--Supporter
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