Mudar a vida

A senhora que caminha à minha frente à saída do metro, fá-lo de cabeça baixa, quando a passo reparo que continua a ler. Lê decerto o livro que lhe tem feito companhia por estes dias...Lembro-me de icebergues, de correntes profundas, coisas que não se vêm mas influenciam as nossas vidas, as de cada um e as de todos.
Ontem, envolvi-me numa série de comentários sobre um post do Facebook, onde se realçava a importância da participação das mulheres na luta pela democracia no Irão. Muitos silêncios terão passado, muitos baixar de olhos e suspiros de resignação, mas cheio o saco, feito o caminho, a parte visível do icebergue, brilha agora à luz do dia e é branca e pura, aguçada como um punhal e já começaram a mudar vidas.

Neda

Is Neda the face for something new ?
Let us all hope that at least her tragic death help us all improve.
This is true globalisation.

street fighting man

No matter what battles are won on the field, because there'e where you fight them :
read this, please

Freedom, technology, people

A very interesting read

Cyber Activism

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marching in support for the presidential opposition candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi.

"The crackdown on communications began on election day, when text-messaging services were shut down in what opposition supporters said was an attempt to block one of their most important organizing tools. Over the weekend, cellphone transmissions and access to Facebook and some other Web sites were also blocked.

Iranians continued to report on Monday that they could not send text messages.

But it appears they are finding ways around Big Brother.

Many Twitter users have been sharing ways to evade government snooping, such as programming their Web browsers to contact a proxy — or an Internet server that relays their connection through another country.

Austin Heap, a 25-year-old information technology consultant in San Francisco, is running his own private proxies to help Iranians, and is advertising them on Twitter. He said on Monday that his servers were providing the Internet connections for about 750 Iranians at any one moment.

“I think that cyber activism can be a way to empower people living under less than democratic governments around the world,” he said."

Social networks bloom under duress

Iranian elections

Khamenei Calls for Inquiry as Demonstrators Defy Ban

Can a regime choose to change from the inside ? Well, it has happened before : Spain in the seventies, China a bit, even the death of the USSR...so why can't Iran, which has a population fresh with youngsters...