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Weekly Worker 684 Thursday August 2 2007 Subscribe to the Weekly Worker

Growing support

Hands Off the People of Iran’s already impressive list of supporters has continued to grow during the last week. Steve Cooke reports

Comrades have kept up the good work. Last week’s healthy tempo has been maintained and we have again pulled in just under £3k - £2,934 - as these words are being tapped out on August 1.

This takes our total up to £13,864 - well ahead of where we were at the same point last year. In 2006 I had in fact just reported to readers that I was “starting to feel a little jumpy”, with just £8,567 in hand. It was only by the end of the SO’s sixth week - ie, the one we are now heading into - that we actually crept over the £10k mark. So, if we maintain our pace of the last fortnight, we are looking forward to a huge improvement on last’s year’s campaign. (... read more)

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Among the latest signatories are columnist and writer Norman Solomon (author of War made easy: how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death); broadcaster and writer Steve Lendman; Black Agenda Report editor Margaret Kimberley; Dissident Voice co-editor Kim Petersen; and journalist James T Phillips.

Joining them is Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity; Mike Stark, a Washington-based writer, anti-death penalty campaigner and International Socialist Organization member; Cary Bazalgette, writer, researcher and consultant on media literacy and children’s media; and John Ross, author and activist, who took part in the ‘human shield’ action to Iraq in 2003.

Academics who have signed up to Hopi in the last week include professor Bernard Chazelle, a computer scientist at Princeton University; professor John Hazard, who teaches at Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México; and Victor Kattan, research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London.

To find out more about Hopi or add your name to the list of supporters, visit the campaign website at www.hopoi.org or email your name, position/affiliation and contact details to office@hopoi.info.

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