While Iran sits over 7,000 miles away from Austin, local activists are bringing attention to the revolution that has swept that country.
Banafsheh Madaninejad
, an activist and self-described recovering professor with a Ph.D. in philosophy from UT."I think the most important thing I can say is we, especially in Texas, are teetering towards possibly standing at the precipice of stepping into a theocracy. And here we see a very failed 43-year-long, painful, lots-of-lives-taken experiment, and we should heed the message that's getting to us.
– the first known execution stemming from a protest – on Dec. 8. With the escalating brutality, Madaninejad is calling for greater urgency from the Austin and international communities. She is asking Texas elected officials to contact her to sponsor prisoners who are unjustly on death row, as the international attention can help reduce the chances of execution.
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