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SUMMARY:Education is Not a Crime - To Light a Candle
DESCRIPTION:
 Sponsored by the MSU Baha'i Students Association, 
 the screening of "To Light a Candle" 
 is a documentary by the Canadian-Iranian 
 journalist Maziar Bahari.\n
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 "In 2009, 
 I returned from Canada to my native Iran to 
 cover the presidential elections for Newsweek. 
 My journalism landed me in prison on trumped-up 
 charges, a brutal experience brought to 
 life by Jon Stewart in his recent film Rosewater. 
 While I cannot safely return to Iran in 
 the foreseeable future, I still want to speak 
 out for free expression and the right to hold 
 unpopular ideas there.\n
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 "Soon after 
 the 1979 revolution, Iran's new government kicked 
 Baha'i students out of all universities 
 and fired Baha'i professors. Baha'is are the 
 largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran, 
 and part of a worldwide community that upholds 
 ideas of non-violence, universal compulsory 
 education and the equality of men and women. 
 Hard-liners in the government see them and 
 their ideas as a threat to their rigid orthodoxy, 
 which can only be neutralized by removing 
 Baha'is from public life. Denying them access 
 to higher education is a key part of this 
 strategy.\n
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 This film screening is the story 
 of the struggle the Iranian Baha'is face as 
 they strive to educate themselves."\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: John Everett\n
 Contact phone: (734) 417-4550\n
 Contact email: everett.john1991@gmail.com\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.educationisnotacrime.me/\n
LOCATION:The International Center room 303
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