[Reader-list] Global Electronic Sit-in In Solidarity with Iranians Protesting against the Rigged 2009 Presidential Elections

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

>
> -- please forward widely --
>
> Global Electronic Sit-in In Solidarity with Iranians Protesting
> against the Rigged 2009 Presidential Elections - 18June2009 - ongoing
> until further notice
>
> http://iran2009election.opinionware.net/
>
> Please join us in this urgent action in solidarity with the large
> numbers of Iranian people who have been taking to the streets since
> June 13, 2009 to claim their right to free and fair elections. This
> electronic sit-in targets the websites of the Guardian Council, the
> Interior Ministry, the Presidency of Iran, Ali Khamenei,
> Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Republic of Iran
> Broadcasting.
>
> Our demands:
>
> * Ahmadinejad must resign immediately.
> * All political prisoners, including all of the people who have been
> arrested on political charges in the past several days must be
> immediately released.
> * A new and independently monitored election must be held.
> * The list of presidential candidates must be open and free of
> interference by the Guardian Council.
>
> This action is NOT in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi or other
> presidential candidates in the 12 June 2009 election. The race for
> presidential candidacy was itself fundamentally flawed. The Guardian
> Council, a clerical body overseeing the governance of Iran, rejected
> 90% of eligible candidates the right to run in the election, leaving
> only 4 candidates on the list, all of whom are connected to one or
> other of the factions of the ruling theocracy and should equally be
> held accountable for the atrocities committed against Iranians over
> the past 30 years and for the countless social and economic ills that
> are inflicting the country.
>
> This action is in solidarity with hundreds of thousands of Iranians
> from diverse social groups and classes who, since Saturday, 13 June
> 2009, have been defying the official ban on mass rally and taken to
> the streets in many cities across Iran to voice their anger at seeing
> their right as citizens to have their votes counted trampled upon in
> a rigged election.
>
> Sirens of Solidarity
>
> http://iran2009election.opinionware.net/
>

Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
shuddha at sarai.net
www.sarai.net
www.raqsmediacollective.net