Efter folkekøkkenet vil der kl. 20 være oplæg af Shon Meckfessel om politiske fanger i Iran.

Læs Shons beskrivelse her:

On July 31, 2009, three of my closest friends - Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal - were arrested at the border of Iran. I was on the trip with them, and had I not come down with a cold before they left for their hike, the day before their arrest, I would be with them in Evin Prison instead of writing you. After nearly a year, they are still being held without charges, without a single visit from their lawyer, under allegations of espionage. The families still have no idea when they might be released. Sarah has now been held in solitary confinement for nearly a year.

The American media has given extensive coverage to the situation of my friends, but has often done so superficially, particularly omitting aspects of their life work which call into question hegemonic points of view.

Their situation is not the most important in the world, but the issues on which they've been working may well be. To give just some examples from the time of their arrest, Shane, an accomplished journalist, had just exposed US-trained death squads in Iraq in a cover story for The Nation magazine. Sarah was teaching Iraqi refugees, and was finishing an article on women's struggles in Syria. Josh was doing social justice and sustainability education for international students in China, South Africa, and India before he arrived. The four of us were living together in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, where we were deeply involved in the community.

On my tour throughout Europe this summer, I would like to share some of their projects, in some sense continuing their work until they're able to. I will be showing an amazing film (lasting 35 minutes), just released, which Shane and another friend made in Darfur, living and traveling with the Sudanese Liberation Army. I would also like to show clips from their other films, read from their journalism and writing, and present some of their stunning photography, adjusting the topic to audience interests. I would also like some of these events to serve as a forum for discussion of the issues on which the three have focused their whole lives - peace/conflict, Israel/Palestine and Iraq, women's struggles, post-colonial challenges and first-world poverty. And I hope that by drawing attention to who my friends really are - certainly not spies! - we might finally help their situation. The United States government hasn't been able (willing?) to free them, but maybe we can.