Posted on Monday, 4 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
The emerging movement of movements.
United4Iran (thanks for the link Austin!) is full of news, photos, video and more by Iranians in and out of the country. It’s a clearing hours of information from around the Web as well as some decent original content. There are a few ways to get involved at the site, with some downloads, petitions, etc.
“We believe that building a global mass movement will not only give strength to the people of Iran, but will also place pressure on the government to conform to international human rights and civil rights standards, as guaranteed by the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Iran is a signatory. Such movements in the past have led to success in many countries with similar struggles including Guatemala, the Philippines and South Africa.”
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Beta launch of Shafaf.org: Crisis mapping for the people of Iran.
Beta launch of Shafaf.org: Crisis mapping for Iran.
Shafaf.org is still under development but the crisis map tool is working, and we’d really appreciate it, in light of events in Iran, if the URL for it was spread around some. Using a beta version of Ushahidi, we’ve started the crisis mapping service for Iran in Farsi, English and French at http://shafaf.org/ushahidi/.
Please pass this around to people inside and outside Iran who have up-to-date information to add regarding acts of repression, violence and censorship.
Shafaf will be undergoing revisions in the new year and will be fully launched with the 1.0 release of Ushahidi. In the meantime, we’d like to see it start becoming a resource for grassroots information gathering.
Posted on Thursday, 5 November, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Iranian opposition demonstrators resumed mass street protests in Iran on the day traditionally reserved for state-run protests at the U.S. embassy and were hit with a bloody resoinse. Protests took place in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan and elsewhere. The Guardian’s live blog has an account of how it all went.
The enduring demonstrations in Iran are getting very little attention partly due to state censorship, but in great effect because of misguided attention to the non-issue of the nuclear impasse. If you want to see change, get behind and support the people working on it there now.
Snip:
10.17am:
Riot police are seen violently attacking protesters in this video after about two minutes of chanting. Protesters were shouting slogans in praise of Karoubi and Mousavi and were calling for political prisoners to be released.
10.32am:
Twenty people have been arrested and several injured in the southern city of Shiraz following clashes between protesters and the security forces, according to the reformist website Rahesabz, writes our former Tehran correspondent Robert Tait.
10.39am:
New video purports to show protesters dressing bleeding head wounds after clashes with the security forces.
Posted on Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
The Guardian is compiling a database of missing Iranians, those who have been either abducted or killed by the government. It’s a remarkable graphic display of what people who protest their governments can face and also another example of The Guardian’s great use of flash as an actual educational tool.
This format could be used for a number of other campaigns focusing on the disappeared or massacred.
Hundreds, probably thousands, have been arrested in Iran since the presidential election on 12 June. Human rights and campaign groups such as Human Rights Watch, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Reporters Without Borders have been collecting and publishing the names of those dead or detained.
We have brought those lists, and reports from trusted media sources, into a database that we are asking readers and those elsewhere on the internet to contribute too.
• Can you do something with this data? Flickr: Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on the Flickr group or email it to datastore@guardian.co.uk
Posted on Thursday, 25 June, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Every now and again it’s a good idea to turn on your own just to see what it’s like on the other side. It helps to have something to actually disagree with them over. This post goes over my recent days spent arguing with the “liberal” commenterati (obsessive commenters on websites. A google search tells me I didn’t coin this word. Damn) about the protests in Iran. It wasn’t a pretty time, but it was an interesting one. If it’s not a tech. or nerd site I tend to avoid these areas anymore.
In this case, it’s regarding the ever changing situation in Iran. The battle ground in question is the comment area at Common Dreams, a usually progressive left news site. It was a wholly satisfying experiment. I learned a lot about a lot about the nature of comment areas, their addicting qualities and how quickly the conversation sort of descends into self-parody. I learned something about myself: According to these people I must work for the Mossad or CIA.
It’s absolutely deplorable that this country treats ideology and intellectual debate the way it does. But: we owe to this its ironies. Its tolerance. Its decision not to take too seriously what in other countries have proved fatal challenges. It is my conviction that had the infinite rhetorical genius of Adolf Hitler been tested on Hyde Park Corner, people would have said, ‘Ah, come off it,’ and walked away. — George Steiner
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It’s absolutely deplorable that this country treats ideology and intellectual debate the way it does. But: we owe to this its ironies. Its tolerance. Its decision not to take too seriously what in other countries have proved fatal challenges. It is my conviction that had the infinite rhetorical genius of Adolf Hitler been tested on Hyde Park Corner, people would have said, ‘Ah, come off it,’ and walked away.
