The Hero Workshop

The Hero Workshop: "After an obviously rigged election, enormous groups of people are protesting. Each of them is individually risking their safety after the government promised to arrest any protesters. Last night on BBC I saw tens of thousands of people calling the government’s bluff. Much of the organizing seems to be coming via the internet. Bloggers are using Twitter to communicate, frustrating the government’s attempts to close down internet communication. Twitter’s ability to be used in many ways is causing them problems. To add to that, people around the world have been changing their Twitter icons green and more importantly, changing their location and time zone to Tehran in order to frustrate any low end targeted attacks. It’s a pretty amazing event. I would suggest reading BoingBoing or following Shel Israel on Twitter if you want to know more.

Iran shows that small individual acts of heroism can add up to make a huge difference. The students at St. Mary’s in St. Louis understand that as well. The next set of papers will be up tomorrow.