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Twitter For Fundraising
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My latest push for my fundraising goal for my Iran democracy work has been this list: Prominent Iranian Americans.
If I can get 200 prominent Iranian Americans to give me $1,000 each, that is all I need. That has been my thought. I am still thinking along those lines. But then earlier today I went on Twitter, did a search on "Iran democracy," and sent reply tweets to about 10 people talking about Iran, each time linking to my main Iran democracy page - bit.ly/irandem - and already there is some welcome chatter.
Now I think my preferred method is to get 2,000 people on Twitter to give me $100 each.
I should keep this fundraising two track. I should try both ways.
These two tracks beat trying to get the CIA - the thought did cross my mind; think Bourne - or the State Department, or some NGO to give money. I am saying no to any kind of paperwork. You look at my blog posts and you donate. That's it. Anything more is way too complicated.
My work is a netroots/grassroots thing. We netroots/grassroots people are not big on hierarchies. We want Obama to make as much data public as possible. We don't want to go to the White House. We want the White House to come to us, wherever we are. That's the spirit of grassroots governance.
That is the absolute best way to work on Iran democracy.
I have no desire to launch an organization. No NGO, nothing. So the contributions are not tax deductible.
I want to keep things simple. I have already stated where the 200K will go. And I will report periodically on how much I raise. That much transparency is all you get. And that ought to be enough.
There is no other political challenge on earth I salivate over more than the Iran democracy movement. This is what I want to put most of my time into until a regime change in Iran.
It is possible, or I would not be looking into it.
Let's go raise some money. Help me out.
Of the two stated methods, the Twitter method is perhaps the better one. You talk to people who are already explicitly interested in Iran democracy. That is a good starting point. They are interested enough that they are talking about it.
New York Times: Message to Muslims: I’m Sorry: Muslims are one of the last minorities in the United States that it is still possible to demean openly, and I apologize for the slurs. ..... “Sorry for Portraying Muslims as Human.” ..... Must coverage of law-abiding Muslims be “balanced” by a discussion of Muslim terrorists? ..... should reporting of Pope Benedict’s trip to Britain be “balanced” by a discussion of Catholic terrorists in Ireland? ..... I also want to defend America against extremists engineering a spasm of religious hatred. ...... Japanese did attack Pearl Harbor and in the end killed far more Americans than Al Qaeda ever did. Consumed by our fears, we lumped together anyone of Japanese ancestry and rounded them up in internment camps. The threat was real, but so were the hysteria and the overreaction. ...... Radicals tend to empower radicals ..... We’ve mostly learned that about blacks, Jews and other groups that suffered historic discrimination, but it’s still O.K. to make sweeping statements about “Muslims” as an undifferentiated mass.
The Ayatollah: Guilty Of Blasphemy
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Secular Democracy In Iran: Hedayat (famous Iranian writer): What Islam Brought to Iran: Our Customs were not of burying our daughters alive..... They “taught” us how to wipe our bottom and how to use the bathroom...... a true Muslim is who in hopes of superstitious sensual joys of after life would live a life of poverty to gather the luxury and pleasures of life for the leaders of his faith, live cherishing the dead and living under the grim rules from thousands of years ago, which animals would not even follow. ...... Their business is to argue their doubts and differences from dawn till sunset instead of consuming time on inner thoughts, arts and philosophy. ..... Enemy of mankind’s inner joy for success, innovation and advancement, has narrowed down to the tactic of holding their swords against throats to stop what they despise. ...... Destroying our magnificent works of art.In medieval Hinduism women were burnt alive along with their dead husbands. The Islamists' Islam is medieval. Their version of Islam can not be taken into the future. Islam has to survive and flourish, but not its medieval version. Democracy is about social progress, and you necessarily have to attack medieval religious beliefs to get there. You have to attack with words their leaders, their thoughts, their organizations. You have to wean away the masses from their false prophets. The villains who run Iran today give Islam a bad name. They misuse the name of God to rule and rampage and plunder. They misuse the name of God to bring suffering upon their own peoples. They should be socially outcast for thus misusing the name of God. The Ayatollah has been committing blasphemy on a daily basis. That can not be tolerated. That part is nothing to do with politics, or democracy or elections. That part is strictly religion. The people of Iran need to snatch Islam from the Ayatollah. The Ayatollah is an Islamofascist who is a follower of Hitler, not the Prophet Muhammad. The Ayatollah has been mercilessly going after his own peoples for close to two years now. The people of Iran have a right to peacefully protest, they have a right to speak, they have a right to shout out Allah O Akbar from their rooftops. Those rights can not be taken away by some blasphemous, bearded, good-for-nothing mullah. In every age in human history there have been so-called priests who symbolize religious corruption. In this day and age that would be the mullahs of Iran. These are not religious people, let alone religious leaders. These are blood thirsty tyrants who come out at night to drink the blood of their own peoples. These people think of nothing the tactic of using violence to try and suppress their own peoples. Islam does not belong to them, never did. The people of Iran do not belong to them. These mullahs speak neither for Islam, nor the peoples of Iran. These corrupt priests need to be dragged out of the mosques never to be allowed back in, for they give God a bad name. What is at stake in this movement is more than a political system, Iran's very religion is at stake. Faith is fundamental. Family is fundamental. Justice is fundamental. Work is fundamental. All those are at stake for the people of Iran in this movement. The green revolution has only one conclusion: victory. There can be no other conclusion. We will worry about elections later on. First the people of Iran need to reclaim their religion.
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