'Guilty as Charged' campaign takes off
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 02:34AM The ongoing denial of higher education to Iran's Bahá'í community, and raids against the country's pseudo-underground Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), has lead a group of young Bahá'í activists in the United States to launch a creative public awareness initiative called "Conspiracy to Educate: Guilty as Charged."
The campaign features video and photographic mock 'mugshot' montage of Bahá'í's, who had previously or are currently attending institutions of higher education, holding up arrest placards and proudly declaring "If education is a crime, then I am guilty as charged." Often, participants even dress in graduation caps with orange jumpsuits or classic black and white striped prisoner clothing to further accentuate the imagery. The implication is that had these individuals been in Iran, they would have been violating the Islamic Republic's law by receiving a higher education - thus, "guilty as charged."
Beginning at the Association for Bahá'í Studies conference last August, the campaign has gathered images from hundreds of Bahá'í's from cities throughout the United States. Created by Justin Byrth and friends, the project is aimed at generating a movement of awareness and action among Bahá'ís and non-Bahá'í's to help resolve the Iranian Bahá'í education crisis. So far, this initiative has generated thousands of Facebook 'likes and video views.
Kevin Mehrabi
Below are video and photo examples of some of the campaign's efforts. Be sure to visit/like the Conspiracy to Educate Facebook page.
The campaign's first video, produced after the Association for Baha'i Studies conference:
Photos of a few of the participants, in full prisoner clothing and holding arrest placards - bearing their respective names, fields of study, and the institutions of higher education they attended.
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