Cities for Life 2009

Cities For Life / No to death penalty
Community of Sant'Egidio

EYES ONLY - João Brehm Exhibit

INVITATION - CONVITE

João Brehm convida V. Exa para a sua nova
exposição de pintura
João Brehm invites you for his new painting exhibit

EYES ONLY

Inauguração » 19h30 de quinta-feira 3 de Dezembro de 2009
Opening » Thursday December 3, 2009 at 7, 30 pm

Fábrica Braço de Prata
Rua da Fábrica do Material de Guerra, nº 1
1950-128 Lisboa
(ao Poço do Bispo)

Aberta ao público até 3 de Janeiro de 2010
Open to the public until Jan. 3, 2010

Quarta e quinta-feira » 18h às 2h
Wednesday & Thursday » 6 pm - 2 am
Sexta e sábado » 18h às 4h - Friday & Saturday » 6 pm - 4 am
Domingo » 15h às 24h - Sunday » 3 pm - midnight

João Brehm - Fábrica do Braço de Prata
http://www.bracodeprata.com/
exposicoes.bracodeprata@gmail.com

http://joaobrehm.blogspot.com/

Open letter by Zeinab Jalalian

Open letter to international human rights organizations,
by Zeinab Jalalian
who sits on death row in Iran

November 28, 2009

Dear Human right organisations

My name is Zeinab Jalalian.
I am 27 years old Kurdish female, political prisoner,
in Iran prison.

My Death sentence was confirmed by Iranian Supreme Court.
I am currently ill because of torture and I don’t have any lawyer to defend me.
I want to tell you that. Trial took only few minute.
Court told me: “You are a God’s enemies. Have to be hanged very soon”. That was all my court process.

I asked judge to give me permission to say goodbye to my mother and family before execution, he told me “shut up”
and rejected.

Zeinab Jalalian

© Planet-Iran.com

Iran: A female Kurdish political prisoner on the verge of execution
© National Council of Resistance of Iran

Save Zeynab Jalalian from Execution Petition

Death Penalty in Iran

some more info »

cover with a painting by Delara Darabi
29 September 1986 - 1 May 2009
(Juvenile executed in Iran)

» From Cradle to Coffin:
A Report on Child Executions in Iran
2009
© Foreign Policy Centre & Stop Child Executions

» Iran: A State Terror Policy 
report April 2009
© FIDH - Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme
» A Place Called Evin
© Payvand com
» Sexual minorities & HIV status
Iran Individual Documents since 2005
© asylumlaw.org
» Capital punishment in Iran 
© Wikipedia

and
» Juvenile Death Penalty
check here my previous post updated

Stop executions for homosexuality in Iran

Take Action here »

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission:
End executions for sodomy charges in Iran

and please sign and circulate »

Stop Execution of Nemat Safavi in Iran Petition

"Immediately stop the execution of Nemat Safavi, Ghasem Bashkool, Loghman Hamzepoor, Hamzeh Chavosh, Mohsen Ghebraee, Hamid Taghi, Mehdi Pooran and Mohammad Rezaee who are all charged with death sentences without any regard international human rights laws ratified by Iran."

Uganda proposes death penalty for HIV positive gays
© Times Online

National Day of Mourning
© United American Indians of New England

American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz

Alcatraz Takeover

The Alcatraz Proclamation
image source

 
today marks the 40th anniversary of
the American Indian Takeover of Alcatraz
in Nov. 20, 1969
 
some good info:

» 1969 Alcatraz takeover 'changed the whole course of history'
© CNN - published Nov. 20, 2009
» The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
© Global Campus
» Alcatraz: Occupation by The American Indian Movement (AIM) 
© 2002 - William Redhawk
» The Native American Civil Rights Movement
© 2009 AlcatrazOccupation.org
» Alcatraz: Taking Back "The Rock"
© Native Peoples Magazine
» Alcatraz is Not an Island
© PBS

» Indian of All Nations: The Alcatraz Proclamation to the Great White Father and his People 
© The Center For World Indigenous Studies
» Occupation of Alcatraz Collection
© San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

BBC News - Russia enshrines ban on death penalty

Obama on terror trials: KSM will die
© POLITICO.com

the nightmare is starting again !!! Shame, Amerika !!!!

Ocalan's decade of solitary confinement ends
© Press TV

at last !!!!!

Bella Ciao, çaw bella

Kurdish filmmaker who made film for Italian revolutionary song ( Bella Ciao çaw ) Executed in Iran
© CNN iReport

"An Alleyway in Hell"
China's Abusive "Black Jails"

report
© Human Rights Watch

Kenneth Biros - Ohio

Biros Scheduled to be First in Nation to Die by New Method
© WKBN

Ohio plans execution method untried on prisoners
© The Newark Advocate

Kenneth Biros has again a scheduled execution set » dec. 8
worst than a lab animal, must say .... i just can't believe !!!

Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York
© The Washington Post

Save Bahman(shirko) Moarefi - Iran

URGENT -
Save Bahman(shirko) Maarefi from Execution Petition

"... In preparation for his execution, Shirko Maarefi was transferred to solitary confinement at Saghez central prison. He is one of the Kurd civil activist who was arrested in Saghez last year and was sentenced to death after being interrogated and severely tortured.

He may be taken for execution unannounced as his lawyer Khalil Bahramian has confirmed the news of Shirko’s transfer to solitary confinement. Based on the unannounced and expeditious execution of Ehsan Fatahyan, the regime might take the same position and execute Shirko in 1-2 days."

updated Nov. 15 -
Shirko Moarefi execution was postponed

Alliance for Kurdish Rights »
Kurdish Political Prisoner Shirkuh Moa’refi to be Executed in Iran

Iran Human Rights »
URGENT: Shirko Moarefi, a Kurdish political prisoner at imminent danger of execution

Fattahian Presente !!!

If the rulers and oppressors think that, with my death, the Kurdish question will go away, they are wrong. My death and the deaths of thousands of others like me will not cure the pain; they will only add to the flames of this fire. There is no doubt that every death is the beginning of a new life.

- Ehsan Fattahian -
from his final letter

young Kurdish political activist hanged today by Iran ...

Execution of the Kurdish political prisoner in Iran

Execution of the Kurdish political prisoner in Iran:

EHSAN FATTAHIAN WAS HANGED EARLY THIS MORNING
© Iran Human Rights

Mullahs execute Fattahian to intimidate Iranian society
© National Council of Resistance of Iran

Iran Executes Kurdish Activist
© The New York Times

Berlin Wall Graffiti Animation

Berlin wall - the fall

i have no mood to write a lot so,
some good info about Nov. 9, which doesn't mark only the fall ....

» A Fateful Date: November 9 Marks Highs and Lows in German History
© SPIEGEL online

» Berlin wall: 20 years on
with 5 videos
© The Guardian

» Chronicle of the Berlin Wall history includes an archive of photographs and texts
© Berlin Wall Online

Attiya Dawood autobiography

NOW AVAILABLE at OUP outlets
Originally uploaded by *abro*

ATTIYA DAWOOD’s Autobiography “AEENE KE SAMNE” in Urdu published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PAKISTAN is NOW Available at OUP outlets.
Its Hindi version has already been published by RAJKAMAL PARKASHAN IN INDIA.

To buy ATTIYA DAWOOD’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY in HINDI
rediffBOOKS

congratssssssssssssssssssssss, Attiya !!!
wonderful cover by Abro !!!
big hugsssssssss and kissessssssssss

Iran: Revoke Death Sentences for Juvenile Offenders
© Human Rights Watch

published nov. 4

Beijing to adopt lethal injection for all death penalty criminals next year
© China Daily

Obama pledge to Native Americans
© BBC News

American Indian Heritage Month

November is

Native American Heritage Month
&
American Indian Heritage Month 2009
© Smithsonian Institution