President Biden not only supported the protesters vocally - in a speech to the United Nations, no less - but levied massive sanctions on the host nation and has been vigorous in trying to build a network to allow protesters communicate through their government's information blockade.Really? I can't say I have seen much in the news about it. Has President Brandon or the first lady commented? Has the VP made a statement? I'd like to see more from our institutions about how this is unacceptable.
I genuinely don't understand how the death of drug addled felon George Floyd gets people all worked up but this incident, not so much.
Floyd was a trigger for the release of long buding issues with balcks on policing. That would be another thread.
President Biden not only supported the protesters vocally - in a speech to the United Nations, no less - but levied massive sanctions on the host nation and has been vigorous in trying to build a network to allow protesters communicate through their government's information blockade.
From the speech: "[The US] stands the brave citizens and brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
I find your sudden interest in women's rights and freedoms totally credible and not some bad faith shitty argument trying to own the libs.Yea, it’s not much though, a one sentence acknowledgement slipped into a speech about Russia mostly. Sanctions, weren’t they already planned due to Iran’s support of Putin? Probably.
Yes, the 1979 revolution was a result of US meddling and oil theft.Waiting for Barbos to blame this on the US.
Yeah. The US cold war policy was anything but communism; and that's what it got.Yes, the 1979 revolution was a result of US meddling and oil theft.Waiting for Barbos to blame this on the US.
You're welcome.
Ahhhhh! I get it now. Had Kaepernick been kneeling over Iranian treatment of women... that'd been okay.Floyd was a trigger for the release of long buding issues with balcks on policing. That would be another thread.
Swizzle doesn't see the connection between people in America protesting for basic rights and Iranians protesting for Basic rights. Swizzle thinks Iranians should be protesting for basic rights for blacks in America and Blacks in America should be protesting for Iranians for some reason swizzle can't possibly explain.
ISW said:Circumstantial evidence suggests that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is at least temporarily unable to perform his normal duties. Khamenei has been unusually absent in recent days amidst countrywide, anti-regime protests, which began on September 16. Rumors have circulated that Khamenei’s health has deteriorated significantly since early September.
Uh, check with your supplier. Your dope level is getting up there. As a twenties something in the sixties I'm pretty sure youth activists don't make things better. My kids proved it again in the eighties, nineties, and two-thousands.Iran is a young country, in the demographic sense. They're the ones in the streets. Hopefully as this young generation ages and takes over the levers of power, Iran will become more free.
Solidarity with the courageous women of Iran fighting for their freedom and liberation.
Mahsa Amini was senselessly murdered for challenging patriarchal and autocratic systems of control. From the United States, Latin America, Iran, and across the world, women and allies are rising up to confront and resist state systems of misogyny and abuse of power.
Bodily autonomy is about our essential right to choose and make decisions over our own bodies, from a hijab to an abortion. Our struggles are connected (fist)