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Bloggers Unite for a Free Iran
Bloggers Unite for a FREE IRAN on Mon. June 29th.
Bloggers Unite to support Human Rights in Iran on Monday June 29th. Violence, arrests, crackdowns and media blackouts continue to increase in Iran in the aftermath of the recent presidential elections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_election_protests On Monday June 29th, we ask Bloggers from around the globe to Unite for a Free Iran. Please JOIN this event and use your blog to educate your readers and spread the word about how we can help support a Free Iran. Tweeting about this event use hash tag #FreeIran. What can you blog about? How can you help? * write a post about the lack of basic human rights and freedoms * ask democratic leaders from around the world to unite and stand up for the citizens of Iran * let the people in Iran know that we are supporting them and their fight for freedom * do what we can to help highlight the disappearance and inhuman treatment of Iranian citizens * arrange/promote Blogger & Twitter Meetups in your town on Monday * write a post offering moral support to the people of Iran * call on the Iranian government to stop arresting peaceful protesters and opposition supporters, and to free those it has already detained * blog to get the people of Iran free and open Internet access * blog for a fair and just election * write a post asking your readers to email the United Nations Human Rights Commission to hold an Emergency Meeting * blog to free the press and remove the controls that have been placed on media and bloggers * call for an end to the violence in Iran * blog to ask your readers to turn all avatars black to mourn those killed in the protests * add an Action Badge to your blog before June 29th and ask other bloggers to join in. Please post any other ideas you have for how bloggers can use our blogs to make a difference on Monday June 29th. To discuss the event visit http://www.bloggersunite.org/discuss/entry/what-can-we-do-to-help-in-iran Tweeting? Use Hash Tag #FreeIran
6/21/09 Rich wrote:
Check out this article in The New York Times about that subject:
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/weekinreview/21cohenweb.html
6/21/09 TonyB wrote:
Another interesting perspective is from the Economist
www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13856224
6/24/09 petercasier wrote:
On June 13, the first day of the protests in Iran - right after the results came out - I was writing a post about Twitter. For that purpose, I monitoring in real time the trends of posts on Twitter.
I saw -in real time- how the Twitter tag #iranelection came up. I started to follow the tag, and the posts about the protests. I saw how people in Iran were posting videos on YouTube and pictures on TwitPic.
I looked at the main stream media sites, I turned on the TV... Nothing...
It took a day before the Western as well as the Middle East media picked up. And mostly pushed by the social media.
In my view: this is one of the first events where the role of social media was so obvious and had such an impact up to the level where conventional media were turning to social media as a news source.
I wrote an overview of the social media in post-elections Iran on the first day of the protests: www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html
PS: As with #iranelection, also the hash tag #cnnfail became popular (as a symbol where Twitterers from Iran protested about the lack of coverage in the early days of demonstrations) CNN found it even needed to defend themselves:
www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/cnnfail-cnn-versus-twitter-on-iran.html
Hilarious...