An Open Letter to Professor David Harvey
“Stand By the Oppressed & Say “No” to the Oppressors”
Download as PDF Dear professor Harvey, We are a number of socialist political and social activists, writing to share with you our concerns regarding your scheduled speech in Iran and urge you to cancel it. You have been invited to give a talk at the “Women & Urban Life Conference” from December 11th through December 12th in one of the most neoliberalized cities of the world, namely Tehran, in which public spaces are highly controlled by the state and widely privatized over the recent decade. The conference is organized not by a university or an academic association, or even a non-governmental or people-based organization, but rather by the Tehran Municipality and will be held at the International Center for Conferences in the Tehran Milad Tower, which is one of the ادامه مطلب …