Free Lantern

The Chinese government not only is suppressing the Tibet activists with military force, but also they’ve started cyber attacks against pro-Tibet activists. If you want to read more about this read it here. Thanks to Jadi.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

This is awesome, a friend sent me this video which is the casting for the Bulgarian Idol. She is trying to sing “Without You”. I specially love the way she sings “if leaving is without you”.

I saw this effective alternative logo for Beijing 2008 Olympic games in Osocio as an alternative for the original logo. In the same post there are 4 pictures which suggest the way the original logo was designed.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

Yesterday was 8th of March, I read an article(Persian) by an Iranian women rights activist. She reminded me that during the last year in Iran, 100 women right activists spent at least 1 night in prison. What was their sin? They were demanding their rights using different Nonviolent methods, like gathering signatures. A friend of mine Farnaz, has been between one of those that spent time in prison. She has also written about how the so called police was searching inches of their house to find her last year on the 8th of March.
I also hope that there will be an International women’s day which we can just be happy of our achievements, which discrimination and violence are just bad past memories, like how my good friend Jadi has also described it (in Persian).

Today was the action day for Osanloo, a trade union activist (head of Bus driver’s Union of Tehran) that is in Evin prison for demanding his and his coworkers rights. This day was organized by International Transport Worker’s Federation.

If you want to know more of his story you can see here. In the rest of this post you can watch a video entitled “Freedom Will Come” which introduces Osanloo, his mission and the reason he has spent more time in prison than outside.

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