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Last Updated: March 22, 2006

US Newswire Press Release: "Harvard Students Hold 'Iran Freedom Concert'"
"As tensions rise over nuclear issues, our diverse student coalition wants to spotlight the human side of the Iran crisis," said co-organizer Adam Scheuer, a senior and editor at the Harvard Middle East Review, one of the event sponsors. "Iranian students are denied basic rights Americans take advantage of every day. But there is a brave student movement in Iran working for change, and we need to support them"...

Harvard Crimson op-ed: "Support Reformers in Iran"
You may have been stressed out during finals, but at least you didn’t have to take your tests in handcuffs. That’s what Mojtaba Saminejad, a student at Tehran’s Azad University, had to do on Jan. 21. Saminejad was sentenced to two years for nothing more than “insulting the Supreme Guide”...

Boston Globe: "Harvard Rallies for Students in Iran"
...The crowd cheered as co-emcee Jack McCambridge announced that Akbar Ganji, an Iranian dissident who was imprisoned in 2000 for writing about the killing of Iranian dissidents, was released yesterday...

Boston Phoenix: "Rocking the Casbah for Iranian Freedom"
...A few months back, we told you about 127, Iran’s most popular underground band. We mean underground, like, literally. Playing music in a country where rock and roll is only semi-legal, they’re forced to practice in a soundproof bunker on the outskirts of Tehran...

Boston Herald: "Freedom is not just another word"
Here’s an event that wouldn’t get past the first few notes in Tehran: the Iran Freedom Concert, Saturday at Harvard University...

Harvard Crimson: "Students Rally for Iran Dissidents"
...Despite the diversity of political views of the speakers, the concert organizers identified themselves as nonpartisan and declined to comment on issues of military intervention. “This event does not come with an agenda,” said co-emcee Jack P. McCambridge ’06. “It is not for war. The aim is to recognize the fight going on in Iran for human rights.”

National Review: "A Concert That Cannot be Held in Tehran"
It was an unusual coming together. Gathered under a large banner that read “Iran Freedom Concert” were the leaders of the Harvard Republicans and Democrats, the campus gay-rights advocacy group (BGLTSA), and the conservative magazine (The Salient), among many others...

Harvard Crimson editorial: "Towards A Free Iran"
...“When student bodies speak as one, that’s really where we make our difference,” said Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07, who also spoke at the event. Haddock is right. We commend the concert’s organizers on the execution of the event. Events such as the Iran Freedom Concert are good for the Harvard campus...

Gay City News: "Freedom Concerts for Iran"
A national nonpartisan coalition of students has scheduled a series of Iran Freedom Concerts...

Partial Blog Listings:
Oxblog
Iranian for Human Rights and Democracy
Doug Ireland
Sobhaneh
Committee to Protect Bloggers
Juan Cole's Informed Comment
Iranian Voice
Publius Pundit
Payvand
Sandmonkey
Little Green Footballs
Pajamas Media

 

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