From Iran today: Friday, September 18, 2009 Driving Through the Gauntlet: We left the village today, Qods Day, on our way back to the city. As we were leaving the city the Qods Day demonstrators were dispersing and returning home. Among the crowds were a number of boys in karate classes, all dressed in their [...]
Archive for September, 2009
9/30/09 Today’s letter from Iran: Driving through the gauntlet
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged Basij, Children, dress code, family, Iran update, Karate Class, morality police, mother, Ninja, Qod's day, Ramadan, religious school, school, summer recess, swine flu, women on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
9/29/2009 Green Movement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christina aguilera, civil disobedience, dance, fighter, green, green movement, guerilla dance, hope, Iran on September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
First in a series of guerilla dance videos: movement inspired by the green wave.
“i am not here to take back my vote, i am here to take back my country”
Posted in Events Outside Iran, Who We Are, tagged green movement, Iran update on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
9/25/2009 –it hits the fan
Posted in Events Outside Iran, tagged 9/25/2009, Ahmadinejad, Cars, Environment, GA Summit, Global Warming, green, New York, NPR, Obama, oppression, Petroleum, sanctions on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today the world buzzes with reports of a secret nuclear site somehow unearthed in Iran (I haven’t heard how exactly this unfolded quite yet), and the dilemma: how to “punish” a country that is already knee deep in sanctions? An NPR piece summarized the following problem: even with the current multilateral sanctions on Iran, Iran’s GDP is estimated to [...]
9/24/2009 Dear Grandmother:
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving, tagged Ahmadinejad, Emotional Impact, New York, survival on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You had so much faith in United Nations and in the human rights and dignity of all people. I know the events of the last thirty years would have hurt, to watch your nation become the enemy of the world. But today, the member states of the United Nations did something good. They walked out [...]
9/23/2009 He takes the stage . . .
Posted in Events Outside Iran, tagged 2009, Ahmadinejad, Crazy, insanity, New York, September 23, UN General Assembly on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Noble sentiments such as the following resonated across the halls of the U.N. General Assembly today: It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other [...]
9/20/2009 Inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civil disobedience, civil rights, Iran, Malcolm X on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. Malcolm X
9/18/2009 Uprising
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving, Events Outside Iran, First Hand Accounts from Iran, tagged 2009, Ahmadinejad, green, green movement, Israel, Mousavi, MSNBC, Peace, propaganda, Qod's day, September 18, tazahorat, United States, uprising on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is Qods day in Iran. What is Qod’s day? Yet another precious day of life wasted on hatred, and fabricated by the hatred-experts, the Islamic Republic of Iran. They say it is a day to remember the injustices suffered by Palestinians, an explanation embarrassingly rife with propaganda. A day to commemorate the suffering [...]
From Shiraz today: September 14, 2009 Back in the Saddle
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, tagged Ahmadinejad, Basij, civil disobedience, Dictator, freedom, graffiti, hope, Iran, Iran update, Shiraz, small village, tolerance on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a wonderful two-week hiatus driving around the country and abroad, we are back in the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran], or should I say ICC (Iran Correctional Center). We could feel the difference between a free and unfree country right away. I, of course, entered my personal cell as soon as I neared the border – scarf and manteau.
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