On Wednesday October 5, 2011 Baha´'í students at the University of the
Fraser Valley staffed a display and talked to other students about the
rights of people everywhere to have access to education. They
highlighted the plight of Bahá'í university students in Iran who have
not only been banned from attending public universities there, but have
been arrested and imprisoned for creating and attending one that was
created for them.
To raise awareness the students showed videos
of people speaking out about the situation, asked students to sign
postcards that would be sent to the equivalent of the minister of
education in Iran, and took "mug shots" of students with a sign that
said "If education is a crime. I am guilty as charged." Response was
enormous with signatures on 200 postcards and great interest in the
videos of actor Rainn Wilson and Nobel prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta.
Link here to see the mug shots: http://www.facebook.com/ConspiracytoEducate
