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The Fifth Poison [userpic]

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June 19th, 2009 (01:04 am)


If you are reading this right now, you have more luxury than someone in Iran could ever hope for right now. If you are watching TV or a video on youtube, updating your status on Facebook, Tweeting, or even texting your friend, you are lucky. If you are safe in your home, and were able to sleep last night without the sounds of screaming from the rooftops, you need to know and understand what is happening to people just like you in Iran right now.



They are not the enemy. They are a people whose election has been stolen. For the first time in a long time, a voice for change struck the youth of Iran, just as it did for many people in the United States only seven months ago. Hossein Mousavi gained the support of millions of people in Iran as a Presidential candidate. He stands for progressiveness. He supports good relations with the West, and the rest of the world. He is supported with fervor as he challenges the oppressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

On Friday, millions of people waited for hours in line to vote in Iran's Presidential election. Later that night, as votes came in, Mousavi was alerted that he was winning by a two-thirds margin. Then there was a change. Suddenly, it was Ahmadinejad who had 68% of the vote - in areas which have been firmly against his political party, he overwhelmingly won. Within three hours, millions of votes were supposedly counted - the victor was Ahmadinejad. Immediately fraud was suspected - there was no way he could have won by this great a margin with such oppposition. Since then, reports have been coming in of burned ballots, or in some cases numbers being given without any being counted at all. None of this is confirmed, but what happened next seems to do the trick.



The people of Iran took the streets and rooftops. They shout "Death to the dictator" and "Allah o akbar." They join together to protest. Peacefully. The police attack some, but they stay strong. Riots happen, and the shouting continues all night. Text messaging was disabled, as was satellite, and websites which can spread information such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and the BBC are blocked in the country. At five in the morning, Arabic speaking soldiers (the people of Iran speak Farsi) stormed a university in the capital city of Tehran. While sleeping in their dormitories, five students were killed. Others were wounded. These soldiers are thought to have been brought in by Ahmadinejad from Lebanon. Today, 192 of the university's faculty have resigned in protest.

Mousavi requested that the government allow a peaceful rally to occur this morning - the request was denied. Many thought that it would not happen. Nevertheless, first a few thousand people showed up in the streets of Tehran. At this point, it is estimated that 1 to 2 million people were there. Mousavi spoke on the top of a car. The police stood by. For a few hours, everything was peaceful. Right now, the same cannot be said. Reports of injuries, shootings, and killings are flooding the internet. Twitter has been an invaluable source - those in Iran who still know how to access it are updating regularly with picture evidence. People are being brutally beaten. Tonight will be another night without rest for so many in Iran no older than I am. Tonight there is a Green Revolution.


For more information:
PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER:
@StopAhmadi, @ProtesterHelp


دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election


- original post by [info]one_hoopy_frood
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The Fifth Poison [userpic]

Yes, we can. And that means so much.

November 6th, 2008 (09:47 am)
hopeful like never before

feeling: hopeful like never before

To all the Obama haters out there, even to all the people that just feel mild dislike, or don't care for him either way, I cannot understand you. There is some way that things work in your brain, and I simply can't conceive of it.

November 4th was a tremendous victory for America. It was a tremendous victory for 95% of the population. Yes, even the people that voted McCain. For eight years, eight years we've had a president who not only bumbled his way through office, too incompetent to realize that he was destroying most everything that made us great and too selfish to see and care that we, as a nation, were hurting.

I am tired of hearing the upper crust tell me what to do, how to feel, where to spend my money. I am tired of being treated like less of a person because I am not rich. Because I don't own a home, a car or a flat screen TV. I am tired of the top 5% holding 40% of this nations money, and contributing less than 50% in taxes (if they even pay, and don't find loopholes out of it).

Obama is not some miracle savior. I know this. He's just a man. He's a man who felt obligated to step up, even though it will be stress and strain on his body, his family and his sanity. He's a man who knew the nation was in trouble, and decided to come forward, regardless of the fact that people would try to kill him even before he got elected.

I don't understand what there isn't to like about this man. He has an economic policy that will work, one that will give most all of us a fighting chance at building the business or career that we would all love to build. He's trying to bring back the American dream, and make opportunity possible. He plans to get us out of a war that cannot be won. Not by us, or anyone. He wants to make it so we can all get an education, become better, smarter people. This way it won't only be the rich with a shot at a career. He wants to make it so if I get sick, or you get sick, or your child gets sick, then you can go to the hospital. You can get treated, and not be scared how you'll make rent if you get something checked out. He's made Europe like us again. In one day.

So, to all the Obama haters out there, or even people who say that the choice between McCain and Obama was picking the better of two evils, I don't understand you. I cannot conceive of remaining so blind to something so rare. This is a politician who gives a shit. This is a politician who has good policies, and falls back on reasonable thinking rather than fear mongering. He speaks to the people as though they can understand reasonable thinking, and for the first time in a very long time, we've proven we can.

Yes, we can step out of this debt. Yes, we can see our boys in the military come home. Yes, we can open our eyes, and give everyone equal rights. Yes, we can remind ourselves that the community, the nation is bigger than the individual. Yes, we can have a man representing us that does not feel we owe him, but rather knows that he owes us. And yes, we can realize that we all owe our nation.

We're a part of something, like never before. We can make a difference, and we're finally getting off of our asses to do it.

The Fifth Poison [userpic]

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November 4th, 2008 (03:16 pm)
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DON'T FORGET TO VOTE, BITCHES.

The Fifth Poison [userpic]

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October 15th, 2008 (11:12 pm)
okay

feeling: okay



Obama is m-m-moe~

So, today I went to school and found out Kevin, one of the dudes in my Graphic Communications class reads One Piece. WAT. He's caught up. He was like, "Yeah, well, I read it in Chinese." And I told him, "Whatever. I read it in English. It's not like either of those are the original language it was published in." So I think that's awesome.

Also, the teacher in that class I think has a thing for me? At LEAST a, "this student does all the homework" thing for me. But he totally singled me out because I'm like, the only one who said anything during critique. I also tsked him later. So it's all good.

My English class totally sucks, though. Because my professor is the worst at giving us direction. The worst. I would like to actually... learn anything. It just feels like I'm wasting my time in there. :I

Tonight at work was fine. One of our customers asked if I lost weight. That was awesome. :D

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