The Quemar la Jaula campaign in Colombia posted on Twitter its inspiring YouTube video in Spanish titled "Voces de solidaridad internacionalista por la libertad de los presos políticos en Irán", hashtags #FreePoliticalPrisonersInIran #20juneIran #FreeNahid #FreeToomaj, on the occasion of the week of actions for the Global Day of Support for Political Prisoners in Iran.
Background soundtrack for beginning and ending titles is Toomaj Salehi's “Battlefield” (watch "Battlefield" with lyrics in English on our Free Toomaj Resources page.)
Below is the embedded video and the spoken sections of the video translated to English by an IEC volunteer. The songs have not been translated. See Farsi resources page for video subtitled in Farsi.
[Opening title] Voices of internationalist solidarity to demand that the Islamic Republic of Iran free ALL Iran’s political prisoners NOW
Child drummer and man together:
“From the district of Aguablanca*, Cali, Colombia, we support the just struggle of the Iranian people."
Child: “Free all the prisoners!”
Man: “We all have the right to freedom of speech”
Child: “Their struggle is our struggle”
* Aguablanca is one of the most oppressed districts of Cali, where Colombian revolutionaries took “Stop the Executions!” broadly out among the masses last month.
Rapper:
“This is a message of solidarity for Brother Toomaj
From the campaign Burn the Cages, Free the Birds!
Because all the people matter
And the message of consciousness and revolution
Will come to all the corners of the globe.
Free the political prisoners.
[Poster] FreeToomaj Salehi
Singer
Well, I am José Sebastián Potes, puppet master
Often a musician too.
From here in Cali, Colombia, I support Iran’s political prisoners
Most of them artists, women…
Who have wanted to change the conditions of life in their country
I support the freedom of human beings everywhere on the planet
Because freedom has no limits, or else it wouldn’t be
And of the earth, the freedom of the earth
So that freedom for human beings can exist.
Strength and resistance to the peoples of the east,
To the oppressed peoples, to the Iranian people.