Revolution U
The Serbian capital is home to the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), an organization run by young Serbs who had cut their teeth in the late 1990s student uprising against Slobodan Milosevic. After ousting him, they embarked on the ambitious project of figuring out how to translate their success to other countries. To the world's autocrats, they are sworn enemies, but to a young generation of democracy activists from Harare to Rangoon to Minsk to Tehran, the young Serbs are heroes. They have worked with democracy advocates from more than 50 countries. They have advised groups of young people on how to take on some of the worst governments in the world. In the summer of 2009, Mohamed Adel, a 20-year-old blogger and activist, went to Belgrade, where he took a week-long course in the strategies of nonviolent revolution. He learned how to organize people -- not on a computer, but in the streets. And most importantly, he learned how to train others. He went back to Egypt and began to teach.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u
Chinese, Venezuelans Join Twitter Revolution
Hundreds of Chinese dissidents and activists had joined hands with Iranians and non-Iranians to fight for the same goal -- human rights for Iranians. There were dozens of Venezuelans doing just the same -- spending hours upon hours translating English tweets to Spanish -- in an organized effort.
No mercy
As the Iranian authorities vowed "no mercy" to its opponents -- i.e., the people, -- the regime herded thousands of its supporters to state-sponsored rallies. As expected, there were chants to execute the leaders of the opposition Green Movement.
Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran's deposed Shah, urged countries to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran to protest against the regime's bloody crackdown. He noted the "revolutionary atmosphere" in Iran, saying that people wanted a secular democracy. At the same time, a group of British MPs, the "British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom," issued a statement parroting the propaganda of the "Rajavi cult." Alas, the Iranian revolution is finally here, yet nobody wants Rajavi to lead it.Venezuela blamed the US for "destabilizing Iran" by instigating violent protests there. Hugo Chavez's Foreign Ministry condemned the destabilization attempts "by the US government against the government and people of Iran."
Meanwhile, five people with the same surname as that of the speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, were reported to have entered Canada on 30 December 2009...http://twitter.com/kerkko/iran
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