late to the party, as usual, but this is important

[falcongrrl]

I think this is primarily for velvetpage, but other people may be active, so I wanted to throw it out there in public.

What do we do to help the protesters in Iran? I've already changed my Twitter location. Are there other things that will help? Can someone link me to instructions? I'd really like to RTFM, but I don't know where it is.

TIA for any help anyone can provide.

Also, I got this icon here.

Comments

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew. I'm retweeting the things that seem real and important, and I lit a candle for the girl who was killed - Neda was her name. Other than that, all we can do really is bear witness.

It looks like the protest from Canadians has had an effect - the rumour on Twitter is that the Canadian embassy will be open to protesters in the morning (just a few hours away - it's already 4:30am there) and meanwhile, my friend midnightsangel has a Toronto Star reporter writing an article about Canadians' call for their embassy to be opened in Tehran.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that the Canadian embassy is open. Do you know if the USian one is too?

It just feels heartwrenching. :-/

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

There is no American embassy, and hasn't been since the hostage crisis in 1979. They operate through the Swiss embassy, and the Canadian embassy has a history of being the people the Iranians talk to when they want to talk to the Americans without being obvious about it.

The reports about the embassies are conflicting. Some reports say they're open, most reports say they're surrounded by police who are keeping people out, a few tweets have pointed out that diplomatic neutrality should dictate that they don't interfere at all. It's so hard to figure out what is going on. At the end of the day, those protesters are all alone, as everyone is during a revolution. All we can do is bear witness.

[men-in-full.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the icons ... I am not sure what we can do here, except hold them up to the light, and hope.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Lovely icon.

I wish I knew what to do. I try not to retweet because I've not the time to separate wheat from chaff and I don't want to add to the signal-to-noise ratio. But I am paying utmost attention. (It helps that I have some contact with several expatriated Iranians.)