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‘Happy Green day’
Just days before Iranians mark the third anniversary of the widely contested 2009 presidential elections, a group of opposition supporters are using the social networking site Facebook as a platform for commemorating the election and its aftermath.
In anticipation of 22 Khordad—11 June in the Gregorian calendar—the activists have launched a Facebook page called “.” The group founders say they aim to pay tribute to the spontaneous mass-protests that erupted following Ahmadinejad’s re-election in June 2009.
As such, Happy Green Day is calling on the public to join the campaign and share as many videos, audios, pictures and stories as they can from the post-election protests that rocked the country in 2009.
“So what’s the story?” the page administrators ask, “We want to celebrate the birth of the Green Movement until the 22 of Khordad [11 June 2012].”
“How do we want to celebrate? Like this: Firstly, think about anything around you that reminds you of the Green Movement. Or think, what … are you reminded of when you hear [the words] ‘The Green Movement’? … Take a picture of something that connects you to the Green Movement: like the green wristband around your wrist, or the photo of Neda [Agha Soltan] on a shelf at home, or the painting you [once] drew for the Green Movement.”
Neda Agha Soltan, a 26-year old philosophy student, was shot by a sniper on the streets of Tehran during the June 2009 demonstrations. Her last moments were captured on a mobile phone video camera, almost instantly making her an iconic symbol of the Green Movement.
The newly launched Facebook campaign adds: “Or [just] record your voice and video. Speak about your story with the Green Movement, or say anything you want others to hear or see. You don’t have to show your face. But if you make a video, [make sure] it’s short so that Iranians inside the country can also join this collective joy.”
According to Happy Green Day, Green Movement supporters from across the world can share their material by either uploading it on the group’s wall on Facebook or sending it to the following email address: happyirangreenday@gmail.com“>happyirangreenday@gmail.com.
In less than three days, the page has attracted more than 400 members.
Since the Green Movement’s inception in June 2009, Iranian authorities have resorted to mass round-ups, show trials for pro-reform figures, lengthy jail terms, grisly executions, and finally, the house arrest of its leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi in February 2011, to crush the pro-democracy movement.
In the past three years, both online and offline, the movement’s supporters have sought to keep alive the memory of fallen heroes and martyrs, and the plight of Iran’s countless political prisoners who fell victim to the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on dissenters.
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