[Mitai-announce] FW: Education is Not a Crime Campaign

[Elan Pavlov]

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From: Logan B Abel [label at mit.edu]
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 7:23 PM
To: mitai-exec at mit.edu
Subject: Education is Not a Crime Campaign

Dear MIT Amnesty International,

I am writing to warmly invite you to join us a for a film screening of To Light a Candle<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aE27GyMMo>, a 55-minute documentary that presents a compelling case for the Bahá'ís of Iran and the creation of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) in 1987.

To Light a Candle was produced by the Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned in Iran after appearing on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.  Stewart went on to make a feature film about Maziar Bahari's imprisonment, called Rosewater.

What:
Education is Not a Crime Campaign <http://educationisnotacrime.me/>

When:
Friday, February 27, 2015
7:00pm film screening
8:00pm panel discussion

Where:
Sever Hall, Room 113
Harvard Yard

Why:
Iran stops Bahá’ís from teaching and studying at university. But they do teach. And they do study. Come to the Harvard screening of Bahari’s first film after Rosewater, followed by a panel discussion about the universal right to learn.

Panelists:
Dr. Jacqueline Bhabha <http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/jacqueline-bhabha>
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Law School
Kennedy School

Farnaz Fassihi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnaz_Fassihi>
Nieman Fellow, Harvard
Deputy Mideast bureau chief, Wall Street Journal

Dr. Diane Moore<http://hds.harvard.edu/people/diane-l-moore>
Harvard Divinity School
Center for the Study of World Religions

Mojdeh Rohani<http://www.clsacc.org/staff.html>
Boston University School of Social Work
Bahá’í Institute of Higher Education

Aref Ebrahimi<http://scholar.harvard.edu/aref/home>
Former student, Bahá’í Institute of Higher Education

Dr. Albert Lincoln<http://news.bahai.org/story/968>
Former Secretary-General, Bahá’í International Community
Harvard College ‘67

Please feel free to forward the attached flyer to your friends and colleagues.

Warmly,
Collaborators of the Education is Not a Crime campaign
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