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This music sounds so familiar to me, so universal… And all these victims, all theses faces, so young, so full of energy and dreams and beauty, make me cry.

The voice of the people can sometime be turned off, for a short while, but when the seeds of liberty, sown by the breath of divine creativity, have started to grown in people’s heart, freedom is just a question of time.

It’s easy to comment on the Iranian events from our homes while all these kids are being shot in the streets. Yet I hope that Iranian people will find a peaceful way to resist and come back stronger, and prove to the rest of the world that fabulous age-old persian civilisation is still alive, and capable of revitalize Islamic Republic with fair and balanced democratic practices.

According to real Islamic core values of tolerance and respect, an islamic republic should enlighten the principles of democracy themselves, instead of fearing and fighting them.

I guess religion is vital for supporting individual faith on massive scales. But in the hands of material power seekers without scruples, religion without knowledge becomes a formidable weapon.

Iranian supporters of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi demonstrate on June 17, 2009 in Tehran, Iran

Buddhist monks, accompanied by civilians, march on a street in a protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. About 20,000 Buddhist monks and citizens demonstrated against Myanmar’s military junta in the country’s largest city Sunday, with many shouting support for detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said (AP Photo)

Source : Washington Post

Pray for the monks : what else can we from our western homes do to support those moving massive silent protest that have been daily repeated for weeks now.

‘We are marching for the people,’ one monk told the crowd, urging them not to chant political slogans and only to recite prayers of peace.

The eternal serenity of the buddhist princes of inner Kingdom of Heaven is now facing the outter world, the streets, the rain and the likely brutality of the military junta.

The fearless facing the mercyless.

The world is watching.

Pray for the monks !

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65% de la población favorece protestas, Venezuela, 11 juin 2007
Source : Tal Cual Digital.com

Depuis le non renouvèlement de la licence de la première chaîne privée vénézuélienne le 27 mai 2007 à minuit, les manifestations étudiantes se sont poursuivies tous les jours.

Ce qui est frappant, c’est le caractère spontané de ces manifestations.
L’enjeu n’est rien de moins, une fois encore, que la liberté chérie.
Le pouvoir, même élu, a soif de pouvoir et ne produit que plus de pouvoir.
Et lorsque les pouvoirs politiques tentent de politiser le mouvement, soit en le diabolisant, soit en le récupérant, les étudiants, eux, font entendre qu’ils ne cherchent pas le pouvoir, mais réclament seulement la liberté, et que la vérité soir faite.

Mais ces messages, subtils, fluides, intuitifs, peinent à émerger du vacarme majoritaire.

Lire l’article de Libération.
Leer la nota de BBC Mundo.com.