SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY NEWS
Contacts: Funda Alp, 203-396-8241, alpf@sacredheart.edu
John Galayda, 203-371-7751, galaydaj@sacredheart.edu
For Immediate Release
March 7, 2008
STUDENTS ORGANIZE FREEDOM CONCERT FOR IRAN AT SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Students at Sacred Heart University have organized a Freedom Concert that will bring together musicians, prominent human rights activists and others to express solidarity with Iranian students, minorities, intellectuals and laborers. The concert of words and music will take place on Monday, April 7th, at 8:00 p.m. in the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred Heart University. Tickets are $3 for general admission. To purchase tickets, call the Edgerton Center box office at 203-371-7908 or visit http://www.edgertoncenter.org/.
... Mr. Sanjari is one of Iran's most recognized and well-known student activists and bloggers. The now 25 year-old was first imprisoned at the age of 17 for his activism, and has spent substantial time in and out of prison under severe torture, including 111 days in solitary confinement in Iran's notorious Evin prison. A member of the Iranian Democratic Front, he fled Iran in 2007, and with the assistance of Amnesty International and other entities he was successful in receiving political asylum in Europe. Since obtaining asylum, Mr. Sanjari has continued his steadfast activism on behalf of students, prisoners, and other victims of human rights violations in Iran.
The Freedom Concert will feature live musical performances by Honest Abe and The Emancipators, Charlie “CHAZ” Cybulski, Humble Roots, ICE Brothers, Pete Greco & Buck Mulligan, Jeff Leblanc, and Joe Beleznay.
This event is sponsored by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, HAMSA (Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance), Middle East Studies Program, and SHU’s Center for Catholic Thought, Ethics, and Culture, International/Multicultural Center, Campus Ministry, Departments of Government and Politics, History, and Religious Studies, International Club, Commuter Council, College Democrats, College Republicans, Mock Trial Team, Debate Society, Free Style Club, Amnesty International SHU Chapter, ONE Campaign SHU Chapter, Student Government, Project Nur @ SHU, Students in Free Enterprise, Omega Phi Kappa Multicultural Fraternity, and Kappa Kappa Psi.
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About Sacred Heart UniversitySacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. Approximately 5,800 students attend the University’s four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its “Best 366 Colleges: 2008,” U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2008” ranks SHU among the best master’s universities in the North, and Intel rates it #11 among the nation’s most “unwired” campuses. SHU fields 32 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. http://www.sacredheart.edu/
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+ The Committee to Protect Bloggers is happy to again co-sponsor the Iran Freedom Concert.
+ Tharwa co-sponsors the Iran Freedom Concert
http://tharwacommunity.typepad.com/index/2008/04/tharwa-co-spons.html
+ IRAN FREEDOM CONCERT
http://www.iranfreedomconcert.com/
