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The women of Iran have long protested the Islamic regime by dancing. We will continue this tradition of protest dancing and invite women to join us.
The human rights organisation One Law For All and radical feminist charity FiLiA are again joining forces as part of the Hair4Freedom campaign launched in November 2022. This action saw women queuing up for over an hour at Piccadilly Circus to cut their hair to the sound of drumming, chanting and singing. Our action was broadcast around the world:
The action was covered extensively, including on Daily Telegraph Australia, VOA, ABC News, Cyprus Mail, Alein Farsi, Independent Persian, Kayhan London, VOA 365, Sri Lanka News, Yahoo, Reuters and others. Attempts were made to throw the gathered hair on the regime’s embassy in London. Activists were prevented from doing so because the police said ‘it would distress the embassy personnel’.
This time we will #Dance4Freedom on International Dance Day.
#Dance4Freedom aims to defend the woman’s revolution in Iran via protest dance. The dance-in will be 45 minutes (accessible moves will be included), symbolic of the time it took for morality police to call an ambulance after Mahsa Amini collapsed when in detention. Mahsa Jina Amini is a young Kurdish woman killed for a few strands of hair. Her death is the spark of the women-led revolution in Iran unfolding in Iran.
Maryam Namazie – Spokeswoman for One Law For All:
We must continue to honour Mahsa Jina Amini and defend ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ for the women of Iran, Afghanistan and across the globe. This revolution will herald a new dawn if only we support it, encourage it, and defend it. Imagine what the world will look like when a misogynist theocracy is overthrown by a woman’s revolution.’
Freya Papworth – Spokeswoman for FiLiA Charity:
It is our duty, as feminists and as women who recognise patriarchal oppression and violence in all its forms, to stand in solidarity with the women of Iran who have been brutalised by the Islamic regime and who still fight back and believe in a better world. There is hope for real change and we ask all women who support this fight for freedom, to join us in this dancing protest
Listen to Maryam Namazie’s interview with Freya Papworth on the women’s revolution in Iran and the upcoming #Dance4Freedom.
Woman! Life! Freedom!
The Women-led revolution!
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| Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born activist and Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All. |
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