Another Peorian blogging for Iran #iranelection #neda

June 30, 2009
By Billy Dennis

Welcome to the fight, Witches Brew:

For the family of Neda Agha Soltan: Mourning is an important ritual in Iranian culture, and it is strongly tied to protest. Public mourning rituals are held 3 days, 7 days, and 40 days after a death, and they can turn into demonstrations against injustice. In an effort to discredit/suppress a young martyr, the government of Iran not only buried Neda without her family’s knowledge and banned all mourning rituals for her, but they forced the family out their apartment and cut them off from the community that would have embraced them in their grief. So we must mourn and we must protest for them

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One Response to “ Another Peorian blogging for Iran #iranelection #neda ”

  1. hot in the city on July 1, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Thanks to Billy and to Witches Brew for supporting the people of Iran. I have been tweeting as I have access and totally support the fight/right of any people for justice, a voice and victory. We the people of the USA must not abandon those who fight for the same rights we take for granted. Thanks again.

    –mfcpw (on twitter) I am only on there occasionally as I have some constraints.