Northern California Public Service Announcement (PSA) for the 2010 Census

Iranian-Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area have united this year for the 2010 Census to make sure we all get counted!

On Question #9 on this year's Census, be sure to check 'Some Other Race' and write-in 'Iranian' or 'Iranian-American' (Don't write in 'Iranican' even though we know you really want to ;) )

For more information, visit www.IraniansCount.org

Co-Directors: Maral Behnam, Eiman Zolfaghari
Producer: Eiman Zolfaghari
Co-Writers: Nahal Iravani-Sani, Eiman Zolfaghari
Assistance: Parisa DeFaie, Roxana Barhaghi, Paria Sedigh

In order of first appearance:

Maral Behnam (Iranican, Community Volunteer)
Ali Abdollahi (Artist, Iranican)
Dr. Farhad Sabetan (Bahá'í Community Leader)
Amir London (Artist, TV Host)
Niosha Nafei-Jamali (Niosha Dance Academy)
Masoud Sepand (Poet, Writer, and Journalist)
Hani Orangi (Shabeh Jomeh, San Jose Chapter)
Parisa Defaie (Producer, Community Volunteer)
Dr. Elaheh Enssani (Immigrant Rights Commissioner, City and County of San Francisco)
Pedram Keyani (Facebook)
Shawyon Afshar Ritter (Violinist)
Nahal Iravani-Sani (Santa Clara County District Attorney, PAAIA)
Babak (BA)2K (Graphic Designer, Artist)
Ahmad Anvari (7rooz.com, Yahoo)
Parissa Sedigh (Student)
Behrang Barzin (Activist)
Dr. Ali Zolfaghari (AT&T)
Shawn Keyani (Student)
Mery Haghighi (Kanoon-e-Banovan)
Kian Amid-Hozour (Philanthropist, Kahrizak)
Firoozeh Dumas (Author)
Alix & Juliette (French-Iranian, Students)
Paria Sedigh (Student)
Roxana Barhaghi (Student)
Mahin Zolfaghari (Accountant)

Music by Hamed Nikpay
"Moments," from the album "All Is Calm"
Setar, Hamed Nikpay
Flamenco Guitar, Daniel Fries
www.cdbaby.com/cd/nikpay2

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• PSA
• Iranian
• American
• Iranian-American
• Census
• 2010
• 2010 Census
• persian
• Question #9

[ferociousfrankie]

Who's funding this and why?

[iranican]

@ferociousfrankie: Good Question. Iranican volunteers created this without any funding from any organization. We thought it was important that the message about the Census gets out there, and we hope you share this with your friends and family.

[Byron10301]

1.39 WE ALL CUNT

[zadeh79]

All but maybe 1-2 appear reasonably Caucasoid.  Modern Iran appears to be at the end of a genetic (and hence, racial) continuum, that begins from Western Europe. However, this holds relevance if we consider the 'average' genetic value. Iran is quite heterogeneous, and surely,recent Non-Caucasoid admixture, is present through many bloodlines. There are relatively pristine types 30-40%, Mixed types 40-50%, but the rest are recent products of Arabs, C. Asians, or Hindus (Like that at 1:12)

[mohimohi1983]

lol @ 1:32 . We all CUNT.

[Spriglief]

If you lived in Nazi Germany would you say you are Jewish on the Census? If this seems silly, ask the Japanese, who were sent to concentration camps from census data. If I was Iranian, I would say I'm white. Then they can arrest you for a false statement if some Gov. or President decides he can make political capital by breaking the constitution.

[kayroo713]

OMG JUJU AND ALLIX!

[ferociousfrankie]

I appreciate it. Because of your funny video with Maz Jobrani, my family put down Iranian-American.

Thanks