NEDA/ Martyr

Neda is a name that has now become synonymous with those fighting for Mir Hossein Mousavi to be elected. It's the plight that Iranians are faced with should they choose to stand up and speak out for their freedom. It's time for us to wake up from our disturbingly comfortable ignorant stupors and make it our mantle to inform those of us who don't know become more politically aware and in touch with the cultures of others.

Neda was a student and like many young Iranians was gathering with protesters and her father to fight for Iranian political constraints to be relinquished. She was shot down by a hidden sniper (as is now becoming the terrifying trend in Tehran) she symbolised even through peaceful protest defiance against hard line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ignorance is frighteningly celebrated in western culture and it's horrendous that it takes shocking images like this to make us see beyond our own existences and try and wrap our minds around what life means for other people, I know I'm certainly guilty of not paying enough attention. I want to be fair to our generation in the sense that I remember learning about Vietnam and it taking uncensored media in the 60's to make people of our age stand up, take note and use the tools around them to get the message out there and shine a spotlight on the tragic state of affairs... which was the push for change that was needed.

We can't know everything but we do have the Internet a powerful tool of influence that we use to fill our minds with vacuous Perez filled garbage (admittedly he is a fun to loathe) we could spare some time to do our best to get people talking, to eventually use all our voices to pressurise a government keen on oppression to stop the censorship. Iran is made up of 70% of under thirties who've placed themselves at the forefront of protests to strive for their right to choose better futures.



Great posts on My Fucking Redundancy , ATCN & all over Twitter, The Guardian, BBC. Doing something big or small is still a step in the right direction we don't have to be drastic in order for our unified support to be felt.





RT Set your Twitter location to Tehran & the time to GMT+3.30...up the traffic, create a jam & stop real talk being censored! Wise words from a fellow blogging friend of mine.