Americans Protest In Solidarity With Iranians

The streets of Iran have been filled with chants since protesters took to the streets two weeks ago in the aftermath of an election with considerable irregularities. Days after the election, Iranian Americans, along with other concerned citizens, demonstrated across America in solidarity with those demanding a fair election in Iran.

Of the over four million Iranians who live outside Iran, a large percentage of them live in the US, over one and a half million according to a recent study. Of those in California, the vast majority live in the greater Los Angeles area, where there has been a nearly constant vigil, with participants dressed in green garb and holding signs that read, "Where Is My Vote?"

This weekend, again, those green-shirted protesters were out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere to show that their support for the Iranian people continues even now, more than two weeks after the disputed election.

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[joeyfoto]

It is wonderful that Americans are taking to the streets in a public display of solidarity with outraged Iranians who risk their lives by staring into the teeth of a rouge regime that just stole the last vestige of democracy and drained the final drop of integrity from the wreckage of their revolution. i would feel more sanguine about our revolutionary spirit if Americans has similarly taken to the streets in 2000, when our presidential election was stolen. The consequences of Bush v. Gore will be visited upon our grandchildren, while we will not have a history, to pass on, that is nearly as honorable as the story that is being written in blood-on-the-street by the heroic citizens of Iran. Allah u Akbar...