RC Is What My People Need
Azi Khalili, International Liberation Reference Person
for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People
I am the International Liberation Reference Person (ILRP) for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People. I was born and raised in Iran. I came to the United States when I was sixteen years old and was “undocumented” for ten years.
I have been in RC for thirty-one years and the ILRP for my constituency for the last four years. My constituency is from a big part of Asia. Some of the countries we’re from include Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian territories, Israel, and Egypt. We are Muslims, Mizrachi Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and Jains. We are a very diverse group of people.
We are deeply human. We are marvelous miracles (I heard that term today; I love it). We are beautiful, we are loving, we love our children, we love poetry. We are committed to our re-emergence and the liberation of our people.
As you are well aware, in the last period my people have been very much vilified in the United States and European countries to justify a nasty war that has been going on for the last forty years in my part of the world. This war is actually about profit.
The main problem my people are facing is distress. We need fresh, rational, revolutionary thinking to move us out of colonization, war, genocide, and climate change. RC is what my people need—to move us into a rational world that makes sense for everyone.
Brooklyn, New York, USA