Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the President of Iran.
Meeting with U.S. Peace Activists
On September 21, 2010, Ahmadinejad held a meeting at a midtown hotel with approximately 130 members of the U.S. "peace and social justice movements", as well as "major figures in the Black activist community."[1]
The following organizations were represented by the individuals who met with Ahmadinejad:
- International Action Center
- A.N.S.W.E.R.
- National Assembly to End U.S. Wars & Occupations
- United National Anti-War Committee
- Code Pink
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- United for Peace & Justice
- Al-Awda-New York
- Women Against Military Madness, Minneapolis
- Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran
- Women for Peace & Justice in Iran
- StopWaronIran.org
- American Iranian Friendship Committee
The following individuals attended the meeting:
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
- Robert Naiman, Director, Just Foreign Policy
- Yoshie Furuhashi, Editor, MRZine.org
- David Swanson, War Is A Crime.org
- Kenneth Stone, Ontario, Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, and the Canadian Peace Alliance
- Amiri Baraka, poet/activist, leader in the Black Liberation movement; and wife, Amina Ramona Africa, leading supporter of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Minister of Communication for The MOVE Organization
- Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party USA presidential candidate
- Alton Maddox, New York civil rights attorney; and his wife, Shafeah M'Balia, longtime North Carolina community activist
- Rev. Graylan Scott-Hagler, Washington, D.C., minister/activist
- Brenda Stokely, Northeast Region Co-organizer, Million Worker March Movement
- Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan African News Wire
- Anthony Van Der Meer, Committee leader, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day
- Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations
- Phil Wilayto, Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran
- Sara Flounders, co-director, International Action Center
- Norman Stockwell, AlterNet, a freelance journalist and operations coordinator at WORT-FM community radio in Madison, Wisconsin[2]
- Ramona Africa, of the MOVE organization[3]
The following individuals made opening remarks at the meeting:
- Phil Wilayto, Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran
- Sara Flounders, co-director, International Action Center
- Brenda Stokely, Northeast Region Co-organizer, Million Worker March Movement
- Shafeah M'Balia, longtime North Carolina community activist
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
- Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party USA presidential candidate