I know this is a very short diary and I'm sorry. Over the last several days I have spent hours per day on spreading the news on the extreme bravery and fortitude the people of Iran have shown. They have inspired the rest of the world by their willingness to accept injury and even death for freedoms we sometimes take for granted. I have been forwarding tweets, pictures and video from Iran in every single direction in the hopes to encourage those who yet have to feel solidarity with these cries for freedom to do so. I have been organizing action here at home and have spoken to everyone I can about these brave people. However, nothing has brought me to tears like this video and the sound of her tears. I don't know what she is saying, but I know why she is crying.
Directly from Mir Hossein Mousavi's Facebook Page
A Call to Stand with the People of Iran
This Sunday, wear green in solidarity!
What: Wear green, and gather in solidarity
When: Sunday (June 21st), 3pm
Where:
NYC – Union Square - http://www.facebook.com/...
Washington DC - Dupont Circle - http://www.facebook.com/...
New Haven, CT -- The Green, Temple and Chapel http://www.facebook.com/...
Boston, MA -- Boston Common Bandstand
Cambridge, MA -- Harvard Square T stop
Write with your city's location and we'll post it!
Why: To show solidarity with the people of Iran.
The people of Iran have spent the past week risking life and limb to have their voices heard. In America, there have been scattered demonstrations of support, but nothing national, nothing coordinated, nothing large enough to adequately show the people of Iran that we are watching, and that we stand with them: until now.
This Sunday, people all around the country, liberal and conservative, young and old, will gather at 3pm. There will be no speakers, no signs, no slogans that might appeal to some and offend others. Just a mass of people, wearing green, and in doing so letting our brothers and sisters in Iran know that though they stand against a powerful regime, they do not stand alone.
Our government’s hands are tied, and many believe that if the administration condemns Iran’s actions too forcefully, it will only hurt the protesters. But you and I can speak freely. Because our government cannot speak too forcefully on our behalf, the onus is on us, the people, to make it perfectly clear what we think of political repression and violence against peaceful demonstrators.
To be a protester on the streets of Tehran right now is undoubtedly a scary experience, and it will be easy for the movement to lose steam. Seeing images of thousands of Americans – rain or shine -- gathered in solidarity with their opposition to tyranny might hearten them, and give them strength to continue in their struggle. Perhaps that’s all we can do, but so be it.
Forward this to everyone you know. Call your friends. And on Sunday, meet up and wear green.
I also apologize if this video has already been diaried and please no tips for this short post.
I would like to thank Nazakhstan for the translation and for putting this up in a diary first. But it is imperative that as many people see this and understand the profound courage being displayed here.
Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow is a day of destiny.
Tonight, the cries of Allah-o Akbar are heard louder and louder than the nights before.
Where is this place? Where is this place where every door is closed? Where is this place where people are simply calling God? Where is this place where the sound of Allah-o Akbar gets louder and louder?
I wait every night to see if the sounds will get louder and whether the number increases. It shakes me. I wonder if God is shaken.
Where is this place that where so many innocent people are entrapped? Where is this place where no one comes to our aid? Where is this place that only with our silence we are sending our voices to the world? Where is this place that the young shed blood and then people go and pray -- standing on that same blood and pray. Where is this place where the citizens are called vagrants?
Where is this place? You want me to tell you? This place is Iran. The homeland of you and me.
This place is Iran
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