June 21: Massive crowd floods st. chanting "Don't be afraid we are together" & "Death to dictator!"

[Turborama]

Run time: 01:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VWk5RGYgjA   Posted on YouTube: June 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 21, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1654

 
This video shows fresh opposition at June 21 rally in west Tehran, Forsat shirazi street close to Tohid square, people are shouting "Do not be afraid we are all together" and "Death to dictator" .

Source:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-278094

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http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/2009/06/all-we-want-is-better-world.html

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As someone said on CNN earlier, it's important that these videos from Iran get through so that the world knows what's happening. Otherwise it'd be like a tree falling in the forest with no-one around to hear it...

[Grown2Hate]

1. That video gives me CHILLS. We're truly witnessing history, no matter the outcome. NT

[Turborama]

4. My thoughts, exactly. This footage is being broadcast on CNN International right now

They're saying it's from today, too.

[jkshaw]

2. The chant sounds like the cries of young Neda's

father -- "Don't be afraid, Neda! Don't be afraid!" not realizing that she was already dead.

[patrice]

3. .

:cry:

[zeemike]

5. Wow n/t

[bloomington-lib]

6. Yesterday the crowds didn't seem as big

maybe some stayed home to avoid the violence. Today though, the people are standing back up.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. To paraphrase Imam Khomeini at the onset of the hostage crisis in 1979 . . .

O, you brave people! You have chosen to rub America's the dictator's snout in the dust.

[northofdenali]

8. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

It means the same now as it did in 1966, 1967 and 1968.

[Peregrine Took]

9. Where was our outrage and passion in 2000?

That's when we lost it all.

[ananda]

10. Yes, if that kind of movement had happened ..

.. eight and a half years ago, we'd
be living in a different country.. and
world.

[Left Coast2020]

13. Well then damnit, keep this and other video's like it in your minds

for a time when we need to speak out here. And never, never, never forget Neda. She is a life lost who could have been someone important: a teacher, a mother, a doctor. She should be honored for her courage.

[MADem]

11. It was a subtle, small theft. Not someone getting thirty percent and claiming seventy.

Bush "won" because he cheated around the margins of error, and he gamed Gore into accepting a partial instead of a full recount, and he maneuvered the election to his pals on the Supreme Court.

We didn't vote. The Supreme Court did.

If Gore had won sixty five or seventy percent of the vote, we may well have seen the same objections, here. Unfortunately, though, the nation was divided and there was plenty of passion--only it cancelled itself out.

That's not the case in Iran. There's a clear trend away from the third place holder, Ahmadi, and Khameini is backing the wrong horse because he hates the guy who came in first and he feels his power and authority slipping--and he knows it would slip even more swiftly if he allows his enemy to take the role of President.

[shadowknows69]

12. Those aren't protesters anymore. That's an army forming.

If I were Khameni(sp?). I think I'd be on a plane somewhere already.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. :36+ in..."Anarchy?"

:skeptical:




eta: change :40 to :36

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. dupe

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. k

[riverwalker]

17. goosebumps

the courage of these people humbles me.
Thank you for all the video posts to update us. Not all of us are tech savvy and can find them. I really depend these.

[graywarrior]

18. Walking the walk

[Divine Discontent]

19. are they marching merely because their election was stolen, or are they marching because they want

a truly wholesale change in the philosophy that governs their country? Like I wonder what the crowds would do if they saw people marching for abortion rights? I know there are some that truly know the feelings of these people - are they wanting progressive changes in Iran, or merely to get rid of the dictator for stealing their election, because, I've heard Mousavi (sp) still wants the same type of governing situation. Anyone care to elaborate?

[Turborama]

20. Hi DD, check out this article...

I posted it in the TYT thread, interested in hearing your thoughts: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=327539&mesg_id=327797

[Divine Discontent]

21. ty

[DUlover2909]

22. This reminds me of the movie "Battle in Seattle"

It's a good movie.

[knixphan]

23. " Never doubt

...that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."