
There is better coverage of what is happening in Iran on Twitter than there is on mainstream news. Check out tweets from change_for_iran for on-the-ground reporting.
Also, check out http://www.twazzup.com/search?q=%23iranelection
for up-to-the-minute tweets about this pro-democracy uprising.
Pretty amazing to see protests like this in a country that is so regressive. Change is in the air.

for up-to-the-minute tweets about this pro-democracy uprising.
Pretty amazing to see protests like this in a country that is so regressive. Change is in the air.
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Oh, on another note, I really enjoyed watching this lone dancing dude catalyze a huge dance thing. Worth watching all the way through. Shows the power that one individual can have to affect change.

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The "lone dancing dude" video has all the hallmarks of it being a preplanned flash mob, not a spontaneous event. I have seen lots of spontaneous dancing at music events and people do not coming running to join and there isn't a video camera conveniently pointed at the focal point of the dancing. It reminded me of this more thought out but enjoyable flash mob scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBepgH00GM
another favorite of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
and this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVms_sahfak
I have to admit that I love the song from the lone dancing dude video.
Great running song (and lone dancing song for dudes and dudettes!)
-->Unstoppable - the remix by drake ft. little wayne <--
Anon, You are absolutely right. I didn't even think about that, that people would set something like that up. Color me gullible. I still like it, though.
flash mob, or people are lemmings...
I am the same anon. as the 1st responder:
Roy, I would not have picked up on it being a flash mob if I had not seen the others. The first one I watched was the first I linked to above with the Sound of Music audio in an Austrian train station. The first watching I thought that actual bystanders had joined in until I ran through a few more times and saw how well coordinated the dancing was. I love flash mob events (on video) since I consider them to be a form of performance art. I almost joined the pillow fight in SF this year on Valentine's Day, but it's an hour away and was cold, damp.
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