June 17th, 2009

Okay, Dublin peeps, I know there are a few of you out there on my flist. If you have been keeping up with the events unfolding in Iran - the election fraud, the demonstrations, and the firestorm of violence - there is a protest planned: Thursday 18th June, 2pm-4pm, outside the Iranian embassy, 72 Mount Merrion Ave.
Please come if you can, and please get the word out regardless. Ireland is not as wired a country as we'd like to think we are, and every little helps. If you're not in Dublin, but know people who are - or have Dubliners on your flist, as friends on Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Twitter, wherever - please let them know that this is happening.
And if you haven't been following what's going down in Iran? You should be.
From the Twitter of an Iranian medical student in Tehran:
( i am holding her little dress )
(This twitterer's username has been purposefully redacted. As the violence worsens, Iran is under a near-total communications blackout, and reports have come in that a number of 'dissident' twitterers in Iran have already been arrested.)
For more information - including a detailed timeline, dedicated liveblogging, mainstream coverage, photos, testimonies, and more - follow the wealth of links here.
And now, after staring at those tweets for the past half hour as I capped and cropped, I am feeling a little ill. I need to sleep - and I'm lucky that I can.
I'll see you tomorrow.
