27th November

PRESS RELEASE FROM AxA (ARTISTS FOR AMINATU)

Please let Sahrawi human rights pacifist activist Aminatu Haidar return home,

… and let travel trouble free to El Aaiún–the capital of Western Sahara–illegally managed by Morocco since 1975. Please allow her to rejoin her children back home soon. Aminatu Haidar has been awarded several prizes for her fight for human rights, prestigious awards such as The Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Award, The Juan Mari Bandrés Award, and the European Parliament Award among others, as well as having been recently shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Award.
We are pleading fro solidarity with this pacifist activist woman fighting for the human rights of the Sahrawi people. Since Friday, November 13th she’s been hold at the Lanzarote airport (Canary Islands, Spain.) In protest, she went on a hunger strike, and we are giving her all our support. Appealing for a free Sahara as well as respect and observance of the UN resolutions both by the Spanish and Moroccan governments.
On this occasion, we’ve organized a concert; a solidarity gesture marathon, which will take place this coming Sunday November 29th, from 12 pm, at the Pilar Bardem auditorium in Rivas Vaciamadrid. Also, between 1:30 and 2 pm there will be a videoconference Rivas/Lanzarote airport with Aminatu Haidar.
The actors and actresses making up the support group will be bearing witness of their stay at the Sahrawi camps, reciting some Sahrawi poem, reading a manifesto and letters from other colleagues who can not be attending the action.

The list of artists already confirmed includes:

Mariem Hasan
Kiko Veneno
Macaco
Amaral
Bebe
Pedro Guerra
Muchachito Bombo Infierno
Luis Pastor
Deliquentes
Miguel Rios
Carmen Paris
Camela
Ismael Serrano
Conchita
Pedro Almodóvar
Eduardo Noriega
Fernando Tejero
Aitor Merino
Juan Diego Botto
Pilar Bardem
Ana Fernandez
Natalie Poza
Pilar Castro
Monica Cruz
Celia Frejeiro
Melanie Olivares
Chus Gutierrez
Pepe Viyuela
Sergio Peris Mencheta
Alvaro Longoria
Alba Flores
Borja Ortiz de Gandia
Luis Ostalot
Javier Fesser
Carlos Narea
Marta Miró
Alberto Amarilla
Goya Toledo
Also collaborating:
La Excepción
Kira Miró
Sabina
Amparanoia
Jarabe de Palo
Estopa
Almudena Cid
Blanca Portillo