ACTION MEMORANDUM
Sept. 20, 2007

JOIN FREEDOM-LOVERS IN NEW YORK ON MONDAY

TO DEFEND GROUND ZERO FROM DESECRATION

BY TERRORIST IRANIAN PRESIDENT



 

Additional actions you may take:

 • Email the Secret Service, who will handle security for the Iranian president, to object to the Ground Zero visit. You can call the New York field office of the Secret Service at: 718-840-1000

• Visit Mayor Bloomberg's website and leave a polite comment why you urge New YOrk city to prevent Ahmadinejad from getting anywhere near Ground Zero.

• Call the office of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at 202-647-5291 to request the State Department rescind Ahmadinejad's visa on grounds that Ahmadinejad's calls for the destruction of Israel violate the Prevention of Genocide Act (50A US Code Section 1091) as well as the 1951 UN Convention on the Prevention and PUnishment of the Crime of Genocide (78 U.N.T.S. 277)

• Call or email State Department Legal Counsellor John Bellinger with the same requests. Phone: 202-647-9598.

• Call Columbia University's Office of Communication and Public Affairs (A public affairs officer is on call 24 hours a day) at 212-854-5573) to protest Columbia's speaking invitation to Ahmadinejad (see below)
 
Lee C. Bollinger
President
Columbia University
phone: 212.854.9970,  fax: 212.854.9973
 
John H. Coatsworth (Program Moderator)
Acting Dean
School of International and Public Affairs
jhc2125@columbia.edu <mailto:jhc2125@columbia.edu>
 
Monday, September 24, 2007, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Co-sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs
A keynote address followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

 

Columbia University has invited terrorist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


 
Statement by University President Lee Bollinger on the Invitation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

 
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
 
On Monday, September 24, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is scheduled to appear as a speaker on campus. The event is sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs, which has been in contact with the Iranian Mission to the United Nations. The event will be part of the annual World Leaders Forum, the University-wide initiative intended to further Columbia's longstanding tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate, especially on global issues. 
 

The Foundation for Democracy in Iran is a private, non-profit corporation registered in the State of Maryland. Contact: Kenneth R. Timmerman, Executive Director (exec@iran.org). FDI materials are available free-of-charge via the Internet at http://www.iran.org/.