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1. b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 14:15:51 UTC b9AcE

   I simply won't be able to keep posting on the topic at same magnitude as I did on the topic over at birdsite, where I made >1500 posts in a bit over a month just on the topic of the ongoing revolution against the Iran-regime since Zhina/Jîna/Mahsa Amini/Emînî died, but I'll do some.

   Today, the regime had declared and Reuters/AP/etc republished their outlets' propaganda-statements, that the protests were over, because... it had decreed it so, after having murdered hundreds for demanding their basic human rights of freedom and equality.

   It seems the people didn't care.
   Today so far in 4 examples out of very, very many more, Tehran, Sanandaj, Zanjan and Marivan, antiauthoritarian feminist slogans and declaring the president a murderer and the regime illegitimate:

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:20 UTC b9AcE

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     In case you were wondering "what does the antiauthoritarian feminist revolutionaries against the Iran-regime want then?", you can get a good idea from the statement specifically on that for the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (Eastern=Rojhelat, Iran-held Kurdistan) which is one of the three cooperating major organizations that there established the antiauthoritarian feminist ideas known worldwide now from the slogan "Women! Life! Freedom!" first heard worldwide as in Kurdish "Jin! Jiyan! Azadî!" from the victorious Women's Revolution in Rojava (=West Kurdistan) and now via Rojhelat also in Persian "Zan! Zandegi! Azadi!" throughout every part under the Iran-regime, huge demos worldwide like the at least 80000 in Berlin, etc, etc.
     https://pjak.eu/en/our-perspectives-to-approach-the-new-revolution-of-the-iranian-people/

     A hint?
     A very nice PJAK-member in Stockholm summarized their goals over a decade ago to me as something like "if you're an anarchist, you'll like it".

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:37 UTC b9AcE

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     Here's a good start to any day:
     Subtitled singing of a liberatory feminist revolution classic of Iran,
     at the Tehran University of Art's Faculty of Music at the branch in Karaj, northern Iran, this Saturday.
     <3 :-)

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:38 UTC b9AcE

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     The State's forces at war tonight against the people of Kuhdasht, western Iran.
     Sounds like at least some assault rifles, possibly submachine guns and shotguns to me.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:38 UTC b9AcE

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     More tonight from the city Saneh/Sine/Sanandaj of Rojhelat/NW Iran.
     As for the previous 1½ month:
     Death to the dictator/Kamenei!
     Women! Life! Freedom!
     Freedom! Freedom! Freeeedom!

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:39 UTC b9AcE

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     House of the oppression-enforcement "basij" of the counter-revolutionary IRGC paramilitary of the Iran-regime in Saneh/Sine/Sanandaj of Rojhelat/NW Iran also somehow caught fire tonight.
     Total mystery.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:40 UTC b9AcE

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     Whhoops.
     Someone dropped their cocktail at police station in Torbat, NE Iran.
     Seems tonight they were having a... Molotov cocktail.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:41 UTC b9AcE

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     Also latest 1½ month there has been an absolutely inexplicable epidemic of cop cars flipping, oppression-enforcement motorcycles catching fire and idolization portraits/statues apparently self-combusting out of shame.

     Tonight also in Borujerd, western Iran, the rides of brutal "basij" oppression-enforcement unit of the counter-revolutionary IRGC paramilitary repression forces of the Iran-regime.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:41 UTC b9AcE

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     Flowers tonight to arbitrary strangers in appreciation for daring to fly free flowing hair, a newly returned normal since some weeks back in Shiraz, southern Iran.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:42 UTC b9AcE

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     One and a half month now of demands for "death to the dictator" and fiery street barricades in every part of Rojhelat (Eastern, Iran-held) Kurdistan and all of Iran, from first protest in Tehran about two hours after Jîna/Mahsa Amini died, to then spark major protests against the govt trying to rush a sneak burial to avoid protests back home in Saqqez of Rojhelat early next morning after having stolen the body on pretext of "autopsy" claiming "it's the family wishes", while the actual family were the ones blocking the ambulance from unloading until the father collapsed and was hospitalized from pure fury against the State, but they held on until the general populace arrived and a proper funeral could be held.
     During that day the PJAK, KJAR and KODAR called for general strike the next day, followed by other opposition parties and opposition groups, incl teachers' union, petrol workers' and other unions and that's how it's been since then, with the only major change that spontaneously high schoolers and even younger joined and then started driving the protests in the mornings, then universities in the afternoon/evenings until the streets catch fire again for popular fury through the night.

     Tonight in Sanandaj, Rojhelat and two neighborhoods of Tehran (east and west):

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:43 UTC b9AcE

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     The Iran-regime's infamous motorcycle gang repression force did a drive-by shooting against the University of Kurdistan [Province of Iran] in Sanandaj to squash the protests for their usurped basic human rights.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:44 UTC b9AcE

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     My favorite bit is how the Free Life Party even while under artillery bombardment not only outlined their visions for a revolutionary new feminist, egalitarian, ecological, secular and radical direct-democratic self-rule society, as everyone expected, but also took the time to "announce our opposition to idolization of any flag or symbol",
     so proposed all opposition-partied in Iran-held Kurdistan unite under flag of the "Republic of Kurdistan" (a flag probably widely forgotten since the Soviet betrayal in 1946) in spite of several other parties (like KDPI, PAK, Tudeh and others) clearly gaining more "political capital" by their suggestion.
     It's the free life that matters, not under what colors cloth.

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:44 UTC b9AcE

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     This video apparently popular in Iran now is also quite representative of the current revolution against the Iran-regime, I think.
     I believe the location is Kasra Hospital, where Jîna/Mahsa Amini died and the end text is "Women • Life • Freedom".

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:45 UTC b9AcE

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     Shiraz has been free for a couple of weeks now, people being able to choose what they want to wear in the southern Iran city, sometimes dancing in the streets without gender segregation and no reports of anyone having any problems with it as far as I've heard.

     Now, the people wrote one word on the mountain next to the city, presumably choosing the one valued most highly:
     freedom

   • b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 16:46:46 UTC b9AcE

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     It is very important to note that the antiauthoritarian feminist revolution against the Iran-regime is NOT in ANY way "anti-muslim" or anything like it.
     It is secular, which means it does not matter which religion any person has if any, as that is a personal matter just as any other opinion.
     It is not "anti-hijab", but is pro-choice.
     One of the earliest and most popular slogans also remains "death to all oppressors, whether King (Shah) or Leader (Rahbar)" where "Leader" is as in the "Supreme Leader" Khamenei so it is also equally not for a return of the "Imperial State of Iran" of any Shah, even though some longtime émigrés like to think and loudly claim otherwise in their name.

     It is specifically that every part of society and land stands united against their common enemy, the government and its State-structures, that has made this uprising more successful than any since 1979, so if you see people trying to claim such opinions as theirs, please counter them.

     Right now at the University of Kurdistan [Province of Iran], Sanandaj, united as always: