Anonymous Iran

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Rule #ζʹ: first, do no harm. Start from there.

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We should all pray for the souls of Neda and Christopher Leggett. They were innocent victims of ignorance and evil. Thinking Arabs should consider: What kind of religion or government it is that does evil in God's Name.

helpfuled

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Iran is not an arab country, retard

Ginny8159

This was emailed to me today and am copying the entire message in this reply. Thought it might be a good way for those who want to help in the tech issues but can't (like me because the tech side to technology is way beyond me!). Hope this can help in some way. Hope some of you will donate to help. I deleted my personal email address at the very end for my privacy.

Praying daily for the people of Iran!

Dear friends,



The crackdown and blackout on Iran's streets and internet is silencing the voices of protesters. Iranians urgently need internet access to communicate with each other and world - let's fund simple, cheap tools to help them freely access the internet:

TAKE ACTION NOW!
The brutal crackdown on Iran’s streets is succeeding. Lethal shooting, beatings and mass arrests have driven millions off the streets, and a communications blackout is preventing them from communicating with each other and the world.1

Ruling clerics are in crisis talks -- many are criticising the crackdown and calling for reform.2

We urgently need to help Iranians get back on the internet to have their voices heard in Iran and the world. Secure and anonymous "proxy services" are helping people to bypass regime controls and get online -- but they're overloaded and running out of funds.3 A small donation of just $10 can provide bandwidth for hundreds of secure emails - if 10,000 of us donate in the next 72 hours, we can help break the blackout:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/iran_break_the_blackout

Proxy services provide people with a single link at which they can freely access the internet. The link is changed every time the regime blocks access to it. With 10,000 donors, we can scale up the proxy services massively -- providing more servers, bandwidth and advanced technical support.

The next two weeks are crucial. As Iran’s secret policemen cast their net far and wide, secure channels of communication are also critical to avoiding the crackdown. Scores have been killed and hundreds of human rights advocates, journalists, bloggers and peaceful protesters imprisoned. Although many more remain free, without safe ways to communicate they will face terrible risks.

After the crackdowns in Tibet and Burma, Avaaz members donated in our thousands to preserve the people’s basic human right to free communication and information. Overcoming censorship to make contact with each other and the world is crucial at these moments. Sharing information about the protests still flaring up around the provinces of Iran from Kurdish areas to the holy city of Qom, or uploading YouTube videos and first-hand reports of bravery and brutality to Iran’s million-plus weblogs and networks like Twitter, could make a huge difference.4 If the regime believe they can silence such reports, the crackdown will only worsen.

Legitimacy matters in Iran. From inspirational videos of million-strong marches to shocking evidence of militia violence, the truth will come out only if Iranians can communicate freely with each other.5 The clerical councils engaged in closed-door crisis talks are paying great attention to the voices being raised in their society. Let’s make sure Iran’s voices are not silenced – help break the blackout before it’s too late:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/iran_break_the_blackout

With hope and determination,

Paul, Ricken, Milena, Graziela, Paula, Luis, Brett, Iain, Rajeev and the whole Avaaz team<BR
Sources:

Updates on the crackdown:
Two weeks after: Iran rallies fade, elite split - Yahoo! News
Iran crisis: live - 25 June 2009 | News | guardian.co.uk

On the debate in the regime, Majlis Speaker Larijani criticises Guardian Council, IRIB, calls for open debate:
Larijani criticizes Guardian Council, IRIB
Conservative Tehran mayor Qalibaf calls for legalisation of rallies:
Tehran mayor asks for legalization of rallies
Assembly of Experts considers forcing a run-off election:
A Deal to Save Iran? - The Daily Beast

Many of our contacts in Iran are reporting that they have been using these services but that they are running out of bandwidth fast. Also see:
Iranians dodging government's Internet crackdown - CNN.com
Use of Censorship Circumvention Services Soars in Iran – GIF resumes anti-censorship services to Iran due to election crisis | Global Internet Freedom Consortium

See for example:
General Strike in Kurdistan « IRAN RISES
YouTube - citizentube's Channel
Twitter: What are you doing?

Regardless of the actual result of the election, the importance of basic rights to assembly and open debate, which could also help shine a light on what occurred, has been emphasised in an open letter of support to the demonstrators. Its signatories include the anti-imperialist writer Noam Chomsky:
Open letter of support to the demonstrators in Iran - iReport.com
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Do not donate or pay for proxies.

marilyn

May I clarify why not?

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Why pay for proxies when it is free?

non-sequitur, piratical statement:

Why pay for music when it is free?

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I'm going to donate. I have absoloutely no problem with doing that. It makes me feel like I'm contributing to a very worthy cause cause and to a group that really knows how to do things in a big way instead of in piecemeal patches and proxies.

And remember, nothing in life is really free.

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They key is keeping this in the public eye, is it not? If it is forgotten or swept under the carpet by our shallow media then it will simply lose momentum and Ahmadinejad will have won. There's got to be some way to kick up a fuss and make people listen.

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found this on Fark, do not know enough about the technology to verify if it is good advice:

Will someone on Twitter please tell the Iranian protesters to sneakernet their MicroSD cards? Make multiple copies. Distribute information through the means you have. Save whole web pages, too. The government can shut down networks, but they cannot prevent the sneakernet and photos and videos cannot be denied.