06/17/09: World Cup Soccer Trials
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Soccer is a very big deal in Iran…much bigger than the Lakers championship win this week.
ABOVE LEFT: Iranian athletes don’t make tens of millions like Colby, but if they shutup and become government propaganda they will enjoy a comfortable life. But Tuesday, seven of the team stood up against tyrants and a bogus election with green tape around their wrists in support of reformist Mousavi. ABOVE RIGHT: Iranian fans agree.
I am ashamed…these players of Team Iran and their fans are more courageous and better constructive anarchists than I could ever hope to be.
Was there ever a moment like this in American sports? You betya!
1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
On the morning of October 16, 1968 U.S. athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race in a then-world-record time of 19.83. Australia’s Peter Norman placed second and the U.S.’s John Carlos was a close third. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two U.S athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride. Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar workers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described “Were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred.”
The two Americans shared a pair of black gloves for the salute.
Click here for our archive on Iran’s Bogus election
Governments will never GIVE you freedom…Freedom is won in the streets
Our favorite Constructive Anarchists: Gandhi left, MLK center, Anti Vietnam war demonstration (1969).Iran 6/15/09
06/15: The important event that took place in Iran is that it wasn’t an election; it was a coup d’etat. [They] stole 24 million votes of the nation and took them away for themselves. If there were really a winner, they would have to celebrate, but instead they beat people. From Now On, Democracy Doesn’t Exist Anymore
Iran Post Sham-Election Bloodbath- 06/ 14:
TAGS: Iran election 2009, Joseph Stalin, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Reformist Mir Hossein Musavi
.Stalin is turning over in his grave as new technology threatens every tyrannical dictator.
Iran recognized the problem and shut down the internet (including Musavi’s facebook page) and clamped down on mass-media days before the election, but it was too late. When the government announced that Ahmadinejad had won in a landslde before the votes had been counted the world knew that the election was a fraud. Mahmoud’s popularity in Iran is about the same as Dick Cheney’s in the USA (10%). He is hated by:
1) Sane Iranians who do not wish to “Blow Israel off the map” because they know that they, in turn, would suffer the same fate.
2) Iranian women. Ahmadinejad considers them as property…Musavi treats them as equals.
3) The young…and Iran is one of the youngest countries (more than half of the population is under 25). The kids want ipods, blackberries, rock&roll, Iranian Idol, etc.
Ahmadinejad was a hero when he stood up to bully George W Bush who named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil and invaded and occupied neighbor Iraq for his American Big Oil buddies. But, times have changed and Iran is swinging Pro-West…Pro-American…
The transition won’t be easy:
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Iran 6/13 Post Election:
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Protests erupt in Iran over dictator after vote irregularities alleged
Riot police clashed with protestors in unrest not seen for a decade as thousands of supporters of main challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi took to the streets shouting “Down with the Dictator” after final results showed Ahmadinejad winning almost 63 percent of the vote.
6/12- Left: Iranian women today…Right: American women in the 1960s
With the unexpected defeat of Lebanon’s Hizbullah-led coalition, some regional analysts are wondering if Mr. Obama’s approach – a respectful stance towards Islam, coupled with a firm rejection of the kind of violent extremism that has attracted some Muslims – might also have an impact in Friday’s presidential elections in Iran.
Published by Greg at 05:40 AM on June 18, 2009