Iran's Nonviolent Movement for Constitutional Change

[Somi]

Hi everyone, Steve kindly has allowed me to post this on the forum, can I ask everyone please to support Iran’s Nonviolent Movement for Constitutional Change and let all your friends and family know about it too, in case they might know Iranians around them.

Anyone who has seen this 16 second video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=792Oz...eature=related will know how we are all feeling at this time. I personally have barely slept or eaten in the past 48 hours as I've been trying to find email addresses of anyone in academia and politics that I thought could help raise awareness about the importance of us doing this through nonviolence to stop such tragedies from happening again.

This is our facebook group you can all join us and let everyone else no about it:
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Thanks all, I really appreciate your support.

[Brutha]

What action do you actually want from non-Iranians?
A package of embargos?
Covert CIA action inside Iran?

I'm not sure what Western pressure on Iran can archieve.

[vMike]

Pretty much everyone is already aware of the situation, but doesn't look like this could change anything there.

[Somi]

I am not asking for anything from the West!!! I'm only asking everyone to inform any Iranians they know to join the movement because this is something we have to do by ourselves. I assume since you say this that you didn't read what I have written on Facebook so I will paste it below,

(I have received many emails and phone calls that indicate aiming for a constitutional change at this stage will cost us the price disintegration among currently unified groups. Since at this time our common interests are more important than our differences I merely ask for the right of people to make their own free choice)

What is going on in Iran, today, is an urgent condition that requires immediate action regardless of our differences of opinion in who we support, as future leader of the country. We do not have the luxury of time so let us not waste it.

The message here is about mobilising unanimous non-violent national strikes. We want to create a situation that, over several days, initially in 24 hour Periods every Saturday (the beginning of the work days in Iran), followed by a 48 hour period, and finally throughout an entire week (if needed), all of the country goes on a strike; all work places and schools and universities close down; all shops and supermarkets close down; not a single car goes into the streets; and people help each other by sharing whatever they have with their neighbours until this critical time is over, and we see the emergence of a meaningful democracy in the Iran.

What can you do to help us mobilise these nonviolent actions? Please join and support our group for Nonviolent Movement and inform all the Iranian friends and family members that you may have. As Iranians outside the country, most of us have access to internet and phones. We must reach out to as many Iranians as possible, via email or telephones, to inform them about periods of strike, every Satarday, as of 27th of June. In order to ensure the people in Iran that this is not about supporting any specific leader, but simply it is to display our solidarity, we will have to turn this nonviolent movement into a self organising one where everyone become an active part of it. The way to this is very simple as I explain below:

• Firstly, everyone who speaks Farsi records their own voice in a 2 minutes message in MP3 format expressing their solidarity with their own friends and family members in Iran and informs them about the beginning of Saturday Strikes reminding them that the periods of strike are meant to be one of complete silence in the entire country.

• Then, everyone asks their friends and family members to whom they send the emails in the first place to re-record the message in their own voice and send it by email or record them on CDs and distribute them among as many people as they can reach and, and so on.

In this way everyone becomes a messenger for their own circle of friends and family; and in a matter of days the news of peaceful Saturday strikes will spread throughout the country and soon everyone will be participating and will prepare to not leave the house for 24 hours every Saturday. We have to practice patience at this time; we cannot risk losing the only chance that is now left to us – nonviolent action.

Until the will of people has not been paid attention to, whether by means of re-elections, or Ahmadinejad’s resignation, the strike will continue and will increase to 48 hours and even an entire week if needed. By staying in their houses people will not get killed, but their unanimous movement will finally bring about the change we have all hoped for, for 3 decades and the world will hear the sound of the Iranians’ nonviolent strike through their silence. We have got to be unified in this critical time, to scream our loudest scream with the most resilient silence and stop the bloodshed in the country.

Once again it is absolutely vital, for the periods of strike to be completely peaceful and for people not to leave their houses unless for very urgent reasons. It is the absolute silence that will break down the toughest of powers into pieces.

Please send this message to all your friends and family members who may have access to the Iranian community to inform them about Saturday strikes commencing from 27st of June onwards.

Thanks for all of your support

[liamona]

Originally Posted by Brutha

What action do you actually want from non-Iranians?
A package of embargos?
Covert CIA action inside Iran?

It looks like that's exactly what's happening. I recommend the following articles on this issue:

Paul Craig Roberts: Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated "Color Revolution?"

"The protests in Tehran no doubt have many sincere participants. The protests also have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine. It requires total blindness not to see this."

Twitter: US confirms it made request to keep Iran tweeting | World news | guardian.co.uk

"Obama administration, while insisting it is not meddling in Iran, yesterday confirmed it had asked Twitter to remain open to help anti-government protesters.

The company had planned a temporary shutdown to overhaul its service in the middle of the night on Monday but the US state department put in a request to postpone this."

OpEdNews » Iran Falls to US PSYOPS

"We are now witnessing in Tehran US "attempts to foment a popular revolution" in the guise of another CIA orchestrated "color revolution." It is possible that splits among the mullahs themselves brought about by their rival ambitions will aid and abet what the Telegraph (May 27, 2007) reported were "CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs." It is certainly a fact that the secularized youth of Tehran have played into the CIA's hands."

Flashback: Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran - Telegraph

Truthdig - Reports - Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

[Brutha]

"Obama administration, while insisting it is not meddling in Iran, yesterday confirmed it had asked Twitter to remain open to help anti-government protesters.

Trying to keep twitter open is hardly a hostile act.

While I wasn't convinced at the beginning that it's fraud, I am now because of articles like washingtonpost.com which analyse the numbers with statistical methods.

I'm only asking everyone to inform any Iranians they know to join the movement because this is something we have to do by ourselves.

Above you wrote something about contacting politicians and academics.

Once again it is absolutely vital, for the periods of strike to be completely peaceful and for people not to leave their houses unless for very urgent reasons.

Are you asking people to stop demonstrating?

[liamona]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Trying to keep twitter open is hardly a hostile act.

Yeah, it may be just a propaganda ploy aimed at Westerners. I just read an article about the twitters, and apparently most of them were in English, NOT Persian—isn't that strange?

Destabilization 2.0 | The Corbett Report

"It's the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can offer the most hyperbolic denunciation of the vote and President Ahmadenijad's apparent victory (BBC wins by publishing bald-faced lies about the supposed popular uprising which it is later forced to retract). On June 13th, 30000 "tweets" begin to flood Twitter with live updates from Iran, most written in English and provided by a handful of newly-registered users with identical profile photos. The Jerusalem Post writes a story about the Iran Twitter phenomenon a few hours after it starts (and who says Mossad isn't staying up to date with new media?). Now, YouTube is providing a "Breaking News" link at the top of every page linking to the latest footage of the Iranian protests (all shot in high def, no less). Welcome to Destabilization 2.0, the latest version of a program that the western powers have been running for decades in order to overthrow foreign, democratically elected governments that don't yield to the whims of western governments and multinational corporations."

Then there's this:

The Raw Story | US lawmakers target Iran gasoline imports

[Somi]

Originally Posted by Brutha

which analyse the numbers with statistical methods.
Above you wrote something about contacting politicians and academics.

Yes, but not so that they do anything directily but because they're the ones who are more likely to have access to a large number of people and can help spread the word.

Originally Posted by Brutha

Are you asking people to stop demonstrating?

Yes, I am asking them to stop protesting and go on strike by not leaving their houses and not going to work, not even go into the street unless its an emergency. A lot of times protest is not the best method. I'm asking them to stay in their houses and get the country to go into a completely silent mode. 1- That has a much harsher psycological effect on the government. 2- People won't get killed in demonstrations.


Silence speaks louder than words if everyone does it all over the country - complete disobedience. Have you ever noticed when you're angry with someone and they don't respond to your anger by raising their voice instead they just go completely silent and stop talking to you, that is much worse than somebody swearing at you. Silence is the best method of non-violent protest.

[Peek]

Interesting things happening in the world.
If USA is involved in the Iran issue, they sure learned from their Iraq issue. It is definitely a more peaceful approach of getting the same thing done.

Sorry for the irony here.

I just hope that things can go better in a way that is good for the people. How, is not my expertise, I'm not Iranian, I've never been there, and I checked, I only have one Iranian friend, so I can NOT support any movement. I trust the majority will do what they can to do what's best for everybody.

Let' pray to your god of choice

[liamona]

Originally Posted by Peek

If USA is involved in the Iran issue, they sure learned from their Iraq issue.

"Involved" is a nice word, sounds much better than "destabilizing."

Sickening Hypocrisy: the CIA's Dirty War in Iran

Jack Bratich: You Provide the Tweets, We'll Provide the Info War

Iran ambassador suggests CIA could have killed Neda Agha-Soltan | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

[Brutha]

Iran ambassador suggests CIA could have killed Neda Agha-Soltan | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

The funny thing about the interview is that it seems perfectly normal for the interviewer to suggest that the Iranian government killed her but he gets angry when the embassodor would suggest that the CIA might have done it.

Silence speaks louder than words if everyone does it all over the country - complete disobedience.

Silence isn't a good principle for self organisation.
Organisation requires people doing things together.

A lot of times protest is not the best method. I'm asking them to stay in their houses and get the country to go into a completely silent mode.

When did you think that approach worked before?