AVAAZ.org is solliciting to help keep the Internet lines open in Iran.
We have all been shocked and, let’s be honest, entertained by the clandestine emails and Youtube glimpses of the crisis there. If you want to keep the news coming through the government blackout it’s time to pay the piper.
Even those who have moved on [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 30, 2009
IRAN: BREAK THE BLACKOUT!
June 28, 2009
MICHAEL’S POSTHUMOUS PROTEST
The news cycle moves on…Iranian nights are eclipsed by Michael mourning; who’d have ever thought an Islamic Persian tyrant would be indebted to an eccentric pop star. Well, some have had the ingenuity to merge the two news events in a dramatic musical indictment on the repressive regime. This may be the best tribute to [...]
June 24, 2009
JON STEWART’S TASTEFUL TAKE ON IRAN
There is nothing funny about the events in Iran, so how could an American comedian take on the issue without offending everyone with a heart? Jon Stewart seems to have found the answer. His coverage reminds us that there is something very uplifting in the “intense and courageous display by the people of Iran.” Anything [...]
June 22, 2009
NEDA
Yesterday a young woman died on the streets of Tehran. Within hours of the tragedy the Internet was full of cell-phone images of her last breath. Today, Neda is the face of Iran’s crisis. At one moment she is a girl strolling the streets alongside her (father*) music teacher, more an observer than a participant [...]
June 21, 2009
POEM FROM THE ROOFTOPS OF IRAN
Here is a simple but shattering poem delivered with all the sensitivity of a poet speaking her words as she feels them pulsating through her body. Her film shows the depth of the darkness that falls on her people as they chant Allah-o Akbar into the heavy emptiness of the night.
Transcript [...]
June 17, 2009
NARCISSUS FLOWER
I offer this poem of loss by Majid Naficy (b. 1952) in honor of the daring democratic people of Iran. Nacify’s lyrical pen pricked the Shah’s sensibilities in the early 1970s, then drew revolutionary blood as his wife and brother fell to the bitter whim of the Shah’s pious successors. The poet fled his homeland [...]
June 16, 2009
IRAN’S ELECTION: THE ABSURDITY OF HOPE
Dane: What’s happening in Iran?
Yuji: They had an election for the nation’s president.
Dane: Who won?
Yuji: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Dane: How do you pronounce that?
Yuji: ach-ma-dina-jad
Dane: So how many votes did this guy get?
Yuji: He won 63% of the vote, enough for another 4-year term.
Dane: What kind of politician is [...]
June 6, 2009
What does the “D” in D-DAY Stand for?
D-DAY – JUNE 6TH, 1944
D for deployment
D for denouement
D for debarkation
D for departure
D is for danger
D for dread
D for drowning
D for delivery
D for disembarkation
D for duty
D for dedication
D for defiance
D for drive
D for daring
D for determined
D for deliverance
D for devastation
D for destruction
D for disemboweled
D for departed
D for deadline
D for death
On D-Day an estimated 8,443 allied [...]
