this revolution, baby, proves who you work for lately

[misora]

Thanks to evilhanyou for discussing news events in her eljay that I actually care about, instead of, you know, the US media spouting the fact that Kobe Bryant led the Lakers to another victory the other night, or that Kate Gosselin hired police to chase paparazzi away from her $1.1 million mansion.


I think this pic says it all.




More pictures are here.


Edit, 11:15pm:

And this is a great resource for up-to-date information, believe it or not: here, at ontd_political.

Comments

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, having only just commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacres, I am so fucking apprehensive and scared. :(

[misora.livejournal.com]

It is scary; I hope people aren't taking unnecessary risks with their lives.

But to see a protest march that's five miles long, and to see how passionate they are in defense of Mousavi, it's stunning.

Apparently they're coordinating their protests/marches via Twitter. It's amazing to watch this unfold.

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

It is stunning. And fascinating to watch new technology (Facebook and Twitter) circumvent extreme government censorship and propaganda.

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

May I take a moment here to say how disgusted I am at how slow our media has been about catching on to how important this is.

[misora.livejournal.com]

This is a great timeline that evilhanyou provided in her post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html

It's true, there's a sad lack of coverage. It disgusts me what a bubble we live in, sometimes.

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

Have you heard that Twitter is suspending their daily maintenance so that Iranians can keep on using it to communicate.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Yay! :D I'm so glad the Twitter organizers are on board. :)

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

By sureasdawn

[misora.livejournal.com]

My God, it's full of stars. XDDDD (literally!)

I love that.

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

I found it on FARK, while reading one of their Iran-centric news threads. XD The funny thing is that I don't watch enough television to identify half of these people.

[xmurcielagox.livejournal.com]

We live in a box *sigh* but I have been keeping up with it through BBC because we'll probably break out into something like this if things keep going the way they have been.

We are sheltered people who are afraid of seeing a breast on TV but fine with our children seeing a guy get his head blown off.

[misora.livejournal.com]

I don't know if we as a country are going to do anything about the situation in Tehran; Obama has been staunchly non-engaging about his stance on the entire thing. I wish he'd speak up a bit more about it.

[xmurcielagox.livejournal.com]

He wont do anything unfortunately because he's too worried about what he's going to spend our tax payers money on next. I once believed in him but he's like all our last presidents, the same with a bit of socialism mixed in.

[misora.livejournal.com]

LOL, well I think it's still a little early in his presidency to declare he's like all of our last presidents...he's probably between a rock and a hard place in regards to mending the fences with Tehran, and he can't be pissing off the Iranian president-elect if he hopes to continue in that path. Of course it's no thanks to the last few presidents who basically put Iran on the backburner and ignored them for about 20 years.

According to Obama, it's going to be up to the people of Iran to change their country -- I wish it didn't have to be that way -- and while I think they have a long road ahead of them, an official inquiry (perhaps with EU/outside help) into this election would be a great start.

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

He might end up doing a disservice to the protesters if he came out strongly in their favor. The US is NOT popular in Iran; Obama may be trying to change that perception, but it remains the situation (and for reasons that go beyond the recent invasion of Iraq). If the government spun it as if the US was trying to manipulate or influence the elections, it might seriously dent the credibility of the protests among the Iranian people, esp. those who may be sitting on the sidelines at the moment.

[misora.livejournal.com]

You're exactly right; intervention might very well hand a propaganda weapon to Ahmadinejad. That said, I hope the photos and reports keep coming in from inside the country...because if there's a communication silence, some very bad things could happen there and the world wouldn't be witness to it.

I'd like to think that Ahmadinejad's not that evil, but... I don't know.

[maggotpunk.livejournal.com]

I'm loving the revolution but I'm upset that there isn't more coverage. I tend to get most of my news from Air America and they cover it quite well, but my local paper hardly mentions it. I'm wondering if the lack of coverage is because the media doesn't want Americans to realize that Iran is a Democracy where the people tend to dress as Westerners. If people realized the Persians lean towards a Western secular democratic nation then they can't be the bogeyman the media wants to portray them as.

[maggotpunk.livejournal.com]

I forgot, a lot of great pics here:
http://tehranlive.org/

[misora.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link!

God, that is so inspiring. It's incredible for me to watch these Iranian women protest. They are fearless. I love it.

[vitani]

I'm sad for the people who were shot at this rally, and the fact that they're now going into hospitals to get at the protesters there.

[misora.livejournal.com]

The fact that they're breaking down hideouts/universities/hospitals to tackle protestors is despicable.

I wish we could do something about this.

[romanitas.livejournal.com]

The protest in that picture was also initially banned, I believe. But they came out anyway.

I'm just awed.

[misora.livejournal.com]

I know, it's inspiring and heartbreaking all at once.

Especially this pic:



That moves me to tears.

[romanitas.livejournal.com]

I love that image so much. That's the sort of picture that's going to end up in a history book. Have you seen the follow up to it?

[misora.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure; what was the followup?

[romanitas.livejournal.com]

It's just basically a picture that was taken a few moments later, with the same guys. Let me see if I can dig it up.

[romanitas.livejournal.com]

Okay, it may have come before, looking at it again--but either way, it's from the same moment basically.

[misora.livejournal.com]

He looks like he's saying "Watch that step!!!"

I'm so impressed with this entire movement. It shames me that we as Americans basically sat by and did nothing when George Bush won the 2000 election with questionable ballot counts. :/

[infinitygoddess.livejournal.com]

Our media slept on the job. If they had been more about being "investigative reporters" than about access to those in power, we would have taken the SCOTUS decision making the Shrub our president to the streets.

Now, they just parrot whatever the Republicans are saying (including the bigot-talk and Torture is Good BS...which sadly, my parents have swallowed hook, line, and sinker). Fortunately, I don't entirely rely on the corporate media and look to other outlets for my news Course, my parents are thinking that if I "get out in the world", I might understand, which is a stupid argument, because if the world includes becoming a xenophobe and a torture apologist, I think I'll pass, thanks.

[maggotpunk.livejournal.com]

It's kinda hard to cover this. I was watching early BBC reports and they had to stay in their cards since the reporters were being arrested on sight. The first step a dictatorship needs to take is to take control of the media. In America the media went silent and refused to cover any anti-war/anti-Bush protests unless it was to mock them.

Iranians are probably getting all their news from the internet and from the BBC like everyone else.

[infinitygoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear they're getting organized and covering events through Twitter. Cellphones are being jammed.

[dddkiddd.livejournal.com]

i found waldo!

[misora.livejournal.com]

....LOL

[robinsena.livejournal.com]

ROFL.

I have to agree though, it is pretty awesome seeing all of this unfold. And I too am so sick and tired of the usual superficial bullshit we see on our media. Who gives a fuck about some retarded shrew who broke up her own family/marriage because she's a moneywhore? :(

[dddkiddd.livejournal.com]

yeah i just have a fucked up sense of humor. modern times give me a lot of faith in humanity. i think our old animalistic ways are on their way out the door. slapstick will always be around tho :)

[v-thundermuffin.livejournal.com]

This is very inspiring - these people are taking such risk, and for such a good cause.
It makes me think long and hard about our rights and the liberties that we're blessed with here in the USA and how, more often than not, our electorate takes the right to take to the streets to support a candidate for granted.

Thanks for posting this great picture!

[misora.livejournal.com]

♥ There are so many great (and yet so many horrifying ones too) pictures of these demonstrations. I'll try to post more information/links as I get them.

[moko-moko.livejournal.com]

This has been such an awesome event to watch coming to life - we've been keeping up with the happenings at work between clients and really, this picture says it all . It's just incredible :D

Time to go toodle through those other pics now! *wee little squee*

[misora.livejournal.com]

It is incredible; I feel so terrible for the Iranian people that are going through this, but at the same time it's so powerful to watch, I can't stop reading about it.

[singingaway.livejournal.com]

US media spouting the fact that Kobe Bryant led the Lakers to another victory the other night

*smells like CNN (which I don't bother watching) LOL*

Wow, that is just, wow.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Yeah. When CNN is giving indepth coverage about "Cheeseburger in a Can", that's when I throw in the towel for any hope for our media.

*facepalms like Sokka*

[singingaway.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not saying all our media is, just CNN

CNN is annoying to me and so is NBC

X_X

[misora.livejournal.com]

I also was watching my local news station this morning before work, and was treated to yet ANOTHER description (complete with newscasters tasting the crap) of Cheeseburger in a Can.

I swear to god, I want to punch someone right now. I've never in my life heard of anything more retarded.

[singingaway.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!

That is just sad... but hometown news is, lmfao, it makes me laugh

my town is so small so there isn't much for them to say

Congrats!

[delariean.livejournal.com]

Congrats on Works In Progress Honorable Mentions at the dotmoon.net's annual UFO awards!!!

Re: Congrats!

[misora.livejournal.com]

Oooo thank you! :D I haven't checked that place out lately, but I really should. Thanks for mentioning it!