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DESCRIPTION:Ana – a revolutionary communist Iranian woman and former political 
 prisoner – speaks on Women and the Righteous Uprising in Iran\n\n“I 
 struggled, I was imprisoned, I was tortured and even murdered. I struggled 
 to bury the monarchy in the hope of freedom and equality, but you stole all 
 my struggles. You throw me into the depth of history, you sent me to hell, 
 you put a veil on my head and deprived me of my most basic rights ... you 
 insulted me, you lashed me for bad covering, using your Islamic laws you 
 gave men unlimited power to win their support … now this is me. Me, me 
 who has risen, this is me who has awakened … and I am aware that within 
 Islam there is nothing but slavery and imprisonment (for women), and I know 
 that cannot achieve even my smallest demands…My liberation, it can only 
 be achieved by my own hand, with our united and conscious rebelliousness 
 ... Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and down with compulsory 
 Hejab.”\n--from a play by Ana about Iranian women\n\nAna rebelled against 
 the Shah’s regime in the 1970s as a member of the Iranian Student 
 Association. After the 1979 revolution, she returned to Iran to fight for a 
 real revolution. She marched with tens of thousands in 1979 on 
 International Women’s Day against Khomeini’s forced veiling of women. 
 She was one of many revolutionaries, communists, and others who were 
 arrested and tortured by the Islamic Republic, spending 8 years as a 
 political prisoner and suffering horribly. She is one of the few people who 
 witnessed and survived the regime’s 1988 massacre of political 
 prisoners.\n\nToday, Ana remains a courageous revolutionary communist, an 
 uncompromising opponent of both Iran’s Islamic Republic and U.S. 
 imperialism, a fighter for the emancipation of all humanity. She’s a 
 spokesperson for the March 8 Women's Organization (Iran-Afghanistan) which 
 has organized International Women's Day demonstrations globally.\n\nFriday, 
 April 2 - 7pm\nYWCA Berkeley/Oakland*\n2600 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 
 94704\nAt Bowditch, one block east of Telegraph\n\nDonation 
 Requested\nSponsored by Revolution Books\n510-848-1196\n\n• How Iran’s 
 Islamic Republic is based on the subjugation of women\n• What it was like 
 to be a political prisoner of Iran’s Islamic theocracy\n• Women and the 
 righteous uprising in Iran today\n• U.S. wars and women in Iraq and 
 Afghanistan\n• Can the “Green Movement’s” program liberate Iranian 
 women?\n• The revolutionary communist program for women’s liberation 
 and human emancipation\n\n Break the Chains!\nUnleash the Fury of Women as 
 a Mighty Force for Revolution!\n\n\n* This meeting is not sponsored by the 
 YWCA\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/27/18643050.php
SUMMARY:Ana:A revolutionary Iranian woman speaks on the Uprising in Iran
LOCATION:YWCA in Berkeley\n2600 Bancroft Way\nBerkeley, CA	\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/27/18643050.php
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