Fragole e sangue
14.50 C’è grande euforia tra i dimostranti perchè oggi Teheran è tornata verde. La geografia degli scontri non ha più confini: Onlymehdi scrive: Ppl in streets talking about protests from all over Tehran from TJ Uni in South to Vanak Sq, Emam Hossein sq to Azadi Sq.
Lorenzo Cairoli sta seguendo come sempre quello che sta succedendo a Teheran, ormai non solo dentro l’università
Sullo stesso tema:
Qualche considerazione. Era sui media americani ma e’ appropriata qui:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10616.shtml
These reasons explain why over recent weeks while the Iran elections were happening there has been virtually no coverage in most media of demonstrations numbering in the tens of thousands in Georgia or Peru. It has even been reported in Peru that dozens of persons have been killed during the protests, or “clashes” as they’ve also been labeled (since more than a dozen police have also been killed), more than the reported number killed in Iran.
Why are protests in Iran receiving more attention than those in other places? One logical explanation is that the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is a key ally of the US and NATO. Thus, the West and its media have remained largely silent about the opposition protests to not give them attention that would likely inspire the demonstrations to continue and grow, undoubtedly weakening the Saakashvili government.
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For years, Palestinians have organized weekly nonviolent demonstrations against Israel’s wall in the West Bank. Each week protestors face the heavily-armed Israeli military and are beaten and shot at with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas canisters, sometimes fatally. Yet, during his recent speech in Cairo to the Muslim world, Obama made no reference to these protests and instead called on Palestinians to “abandon violence” and adopt nonviolent means. Days after the speech a Palestinian was killed and a teenager wounded during the weekly protest, yet there has been no call by the US administration for Israel to “stop all violent and unjust actions” against the Palestinian people. And the media has followed and remained silent, even though covering the demonstrations would be as easy as a 30-minute drive from most Jerusalem-based news bureaus on any given Friday.
Furthermore, at the height of the Bush Administration’s call for “democracy” in the Middle East, an indigenous democratic movement arose in Egypt to challenge the corruption and failed economic policies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Comprised of workers who organized unprecedented strikes for four years that grew in number with each successive rally, the demonstrations received little coverage in the US. An odd occurrence, considering the duration of the strikes and the size of the protests, which a number of observers believe had the potential to lead to something much bigger in Egypt, perhaps even a “revolution.” The lack of media coverage of these events can only be explained by the relationship between the US and Egypt. Mubarak, who has governed Egypt for nearly three decades, is often referred to as a dictator for his repression of opposition political figures and journalists critical of his government. Yet, he remains one of the most important US allies in the Middle East, so “violent and unjust actions” against Egyptians are tolerated by the West.
che boiate, semplicemente la Georgia è uno stato che pochissime persone sarebbero trovare su una carta, l’Iran è una grande potenza mediorientale.
I media se ne fregano di chi è amico di chi, guardano quello che fa notizia.
ci vuole coraggio per parlare di non violenza palestinese.
E’ vero, ci vuole moltissimo coraggio.
Israele usa contro i manifestanti pacifici forza che al confronto l’Iran sembra un picnic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm_btvBgZLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKXlu9c_Fo
E arriva a sparare contro i giornalisti di Al Jazeera che sono gli unici che filmano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34jPNN0qdF8
Ovviamente non si tratta di stati che conviene condannare, quindi i media
occidentali se ne fregano.
Non ti piace guardare a Israele? Ecco la repressione dei golpisti Onduregni di manifestanti pro-Zelaya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy39LL7nKbI&feature=related
Vorrei sapere perche’ sono meno sexy dei manifestanti Iraniani.