June 2012
Theater and Activism in the Phillipines
This interview with activists Jun and Mitchy Saturay deserves focus for about 17 minutes. What they have to say about their experiences with activist theater in […]
Letter of the President: Arseh Sevom Annual Report 2011
What does it mean to have a vibrant civil society? For us at Arseh Sevom it means giving voice to women, minorities, people on the margins of society.
Yo Soy 132
Yo Soy 132 is a student movement in Mexico challenging the media and demanding free and fair elections. When the media’s preferred presidential candidate Enrique Peña […]
Remembering Neda, Workers Protest, Iran Tribunal, “You Won’t Come Out Alive,” Lions and Bears
Neda Remembered The 20th of June marked the third year since the violent death of Neda Agha Soltan was caught on film. Neda’s family was never […]
Testimony from the Iran Tribunal (Twitter)
The Iran Tribunal (http://www.irantribunal.com/) is a non-binding people’s court looking into Iran’s “bloody decade” when thousands were executed and disappeared. From June 18-20 dozens of witnesses […]
Exclusive Interview with Payam Akhavan on the Iran Tribunal Investigating Iran’s “Bloody Decade”
Exclusive Interview with Payam Akhavan on the Iran Tribunal Arseh Sevom — An international legal fact finding team led by Professor Payam Akhavan heard testimony regarding […]
#RememberIran, Labor Activists Arrested, House of Cinema, Death of a Maestro
Green Movement: Three Years On This week marked the third anniversary of the demonstrations following Iran’s flawed 2009 presidential elections, which brought the Green Movement to […]
#RememberIran
The hashtag RememberIran is being used on Twitter to share memories from the events of three years ago in Iran. A small sample of the tweets […]
Workers Suffer, Pepsi on the Moon, Cinema Slammed, Families Seek Justice, Prisoners Endangered
Geneva is Playing Host to a Summit for the International Labor Organization The Defenders of Workers Rights, an Iranian organization recognized by the ILO, wrote an […]