Nationwide Protests; NYC Hotel Bans Ahmadinejad
Jewlicious has signed up to be a participating organzation for the NYC protest organized by the Stand for Freedom in Iran Coalition.
Protests are planned in major cities against the Iranian dictators. Perhaps this is the year we can get him locked up for taking American hostages in Tehran.
NY hotel refuses to host Ahmadinejad
Helmsley Properties management cancels event scheduled to host Iranian president after being approached by United Against a Nuclear Iran organization. ‘Neither the Iranian Mission nor President Ahmadinejad is welcome at any Helmsley facility,’ says hotel spokesman
Protest list courtesy of StandWithUs & The Israel Project
NEW YORK:
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
Contact: info@standforfreedominiran.org or 212-983- 4800 x 152
Web site: www.standforfreedominiran.org
LOS ANGELES:
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Location: The Federal Building on Wilshire and Veteran
Sponsoring organization: StandWithUs, Signs will be provided, tell your friends! Note: There are no bathrooms on this corner
WASHINGTON DC:
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Farragut Square Park, 17th and K Streets
Contact: Arielle Farber at afarber@jcouncil.org or 301- 770-0881
Web site: www.jcouncil.org
DETROIT:
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus
28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3738
Sponsoring organization: Jewish Community Relations Council of Detroit
Contact: Allan Gale at gale@jfmd.org or 248-642- 2641; Robert Cohen at cohen@jfmd.org or 248-642- 2640
Web site: www.detroitjcrc.org
ST. LOUIS:
Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Jewish Federation, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., St. Louis, MO, 63146
Contact: Arlene Baer at abaer@jcrcstl.org or 314-442- 3871
Web site: www.jewishinstlouis.org
Special thanks to the Israel Project for helping us create this list. See below for sponsors of the NYC protest:
The Stand for Freedom in Iran coalition is led by:
Progressive American Iranian Committee
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
UJA-Federation of New York
National Interagency Task Force on Iran
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
New York City Central Labor Council: AFL-CIO
American Federation of Teachers
United Federation of Teachers
NAACP – New York Conference
New York Coalition of 100 Black Women
National Puerto Rican Coalition
100 Hispanic Women
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Partner Organizations Include:
18th of Tir Student Leaders
30 Years After
activistchat.com
AIPAC – American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Alliance of Iranian Women
America Israel Friendship League
American Association of Jews From the Former USSR
American Council for World Jewry
American Forum of Russian Jewry (AFRJ-RAJI)
American Jewish Committee
AMEINU
AMIT
American Sephardi Federation
Anti-Defamation League
Asociacion De Mujeres Progresistas
babalu
BangItOut.com
Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty
B’nai Brith International
Bnai Zion
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council USA
Center of Hope International
Chinese Community Relations Council
Community Security Service
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Congregation Beth Israel – West Side Jewish Center
Dor Chadash
East River Development Alliance
Emunah of America
Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Go Proud
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America
Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion/New York School
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
HipHopRepublicans
HRCARI
International Rabbinic Fellowship
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
ISEF
Israel Cancer Research Fund
Jewish Community Relations Council of the UJA of Northern New Jersey
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Jewish International Connection New York
Jewish Labor Committee
Jewish National Fund
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation – New York/New Jersey Region
Jewish Women’s Leadership Caucus of Brooklyn
JIDF
Justice Through Music
Korean American Association of Greater New York
Korean American Association of Long Island
Korean American Public Affairs Committee
Korean Community Empowerment Council
Log Cabin Republicans of New York
Manhattan Jewish Experience
MERCAZ USA
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Young Israel
National Jewish Democratic Council
New-York Assosiation of Holocaust Survivors, Inc
NY Divinity School
New York Persian Parade
New York Region of Hadassah
Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council
Orthodox Union
Pars TV
Pen Pal Program for Tolerance
Persian Radio
Planet Iran
Pragati
Queens Jewish Agencies Coalition
Queens Jewish Community Council
R Jeneration
Reform Party of Syria
Republican Jewish Coalition
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Stand With Us
Telos Press
The Council of Young Jewish Presidents
The Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners Iran
The David Project
The Frisch School
The Jewish Theological Seminary
The Union for Reform Judaism
Turkish American Community of New York
United Hebrew Trades
United Jewish Communities
United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Uri L’Tzedek
Velvet Revolution
Westchester Jewish Conference
World Council of the Cedar Revolution
World Jewish Congress
Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future
YJLPAC
Zionist Organization of America
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