Poem for the Rooftops of Iran: "Let Us Not Forget" - June 21 2009 - 31 Khordad 1388

Subtitled version of "IN ROZHARO FARAMOSH NAKONIM! - 31 KHORDAD" - The last "poem" recorded (of 4) by a woman in Iran over the background sound of people chanting Allah-o Akbar (God is Great) from their rooftops in protest against the fraudulent results of the June 12th election. It was recorded the night of June 21st, the second day of the brutal crackdown by the Iranian regime. She speaks of the diversity of the protesters, and of the need to never forget them, their voices, what they have endured.

There are three additional "poems" recorded like this one,

On June 16th ("Defenseless People"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6bbEMxo2Xo

On June 19th ("Where is this Place"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUZuv6_bus

On June 20th ("Listen Closely"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5runbYOfwfc

See ALL FOUR in the same place:
http://www.bit.ly/roofpoems

Original version of this video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcJE0xo24OM

VISIT http://mightierthan.com/rooftop for a collection of Iran's rooftop chanting videos, updated with each days new footage.

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[raultalbot7]

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day;

Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

[OthoDaFe]

Those poems are beautiful.

I hope the world will open his eyes on what is happening to Iran and help the people regain there dignity.

Mes amitiés à vous tous, keep on fighting.

[CurrenTube]

I will NEVER forget.

[VthatsME]

yes I heard about it... terrible

[prokaion]

Just google Neda Agha-Soltan, you will find everything you need to know...

[VthatsME]

What do you mean with neda?

[VthatsME]

Yes, but those who have no fear to die are in my opinion more powerful than those who have no fear of killing. Every one of us can kill, but most of us disgust it (they don't want to, this doesn't equal fear). Killing takes a brief moment of crossing a line and it expresses fear of the one you kill, while having no fear to die takes a lot more courage and you have to keep this courage all your life...

[prokaion]

All this reminds me to some sentences, i've read long time ago. (think it was some kind of buddhist context):

they were something like this:

"There are only two kind of people in this world who have real power:

There are those who have no fear to kill. This gives them great power as most of us have a natural fear and disgust to kill.

And there are those who have no fear to die. These are the only ones who can really oppose the others."

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