Leaving here because of Delara (with changes and self-portrait by Delara)

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Leaving here because of Delara (with changes and self-portrait by Delara)
by rosie is roxy is roshan
20-Apr-2009
 

SELF-PORTRAIT  DONE IN PRISON BY DELARA DARABI WITH THE SCALES OF JUSTICE IN HER EYE

PHOTO OF DELARA BELOW WITH HER POEM ON FREEDOM ON THREAD WITM MY COMMENTS

 

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I write tihs blog completely independent of SCE or anyone associated with them.

  I have been compelled to leave this website because over the course of the critical four days before the scheduled execution on Monday of Delara Darabi, during which I participated in the Stop Child Execution campaign to save her life, Delara was treated disgracefully by the publisher. No materials submitted by SCE  intended to reach the general audience were published, despite arduous efforts to get them published.The Iranian of the Day which finally appeared was submitted by someone close to the publisher at the very eleventh hour, while the SCE one was submitted several days before, along with her paintings and poetry which speak to the soul and can move people to action. They have done so in the international campaign against her execution. These materials were necessary. They were unpublished.Materials submitted by several other people were also rejected. A gifted young woman almost certainly innocent was practically a nonentity on this forum. 
 
As early as Thursday a regular member of the blogging community sent in a visual about Delara for the top of the homepage which did not appear, and as late as early Saturday another member sent in an article wihch did not appear. On Saturday, out of desperation, I contacted members privately and asked them to prevail upon the publisher to publish the Delara submissions. Several did but to no avail. I contacted the publisher many times. It was at that time that I made the extreme decision to change my avatar to Delara's and desperate tried to post about her on various threads. I want to stress that Delara's Iranian of the Day was only posted when someone close to the publisher sent it in late Saturday, the eleventh hour. TOO LATE.

Anyone who tries to excuse these 'decisions" is being flagrantly dishonest. They were unethical, dangerous and cruel. As I explained many times, when there is an international campaign, executions havee been stopped but almost always at the eleventh hour and only if the campaign reaches a critical mass. We needed those four days, This website is the largest Iranian online community in the world What if Delara had been hanged Monday as scheduled? We would all feel very differently knowing we could have perhaps made a difference..This CANNOT be rationalized away. What was particularly disturbing was that other human rights submissions for far less critical situations appeared at this time, along with the publisher's strong statement of his mission and passionate commitment to human rights. This was contemptuous of our efforts.It was sickening.

In the past year, my work here has been featured erratically with no discernible pattern as to its importance or quality to such a point that I have not written one single article  for fear it would not be published. Long submissions that took an extraordinary amount of time, even weeks, to write, have had to be blogs instead. The amount of effort I put into this website far exceeds the impact I am able to have. Unfortunately, I know that this situation is personal on the part of the publisher, despite my continuous best efforts toward reconciliation The situation would be ridiculous if it weren't so sad. But any attempt to write off the contents of this blog as “something just personal” is disingenuous. The suppression of materials trying to halt a young woman's hanging is indefensible under any circumstances, These recent events have brought home the futility of my remaining on this site.

Delara is owed an apology from the publisher for the disgraceful treatment she received. The members of the website community who were deprived of knowledge of her desperate plight who would have helped her are owed an apology. The people of Iran, who have been victims of a full frontal attack on human rights in the past weeks, are owed an apology.  This is also the only thing that could possibly reassure me that this would be a safe and valuable place for me to devote my efforts to as it formerly was in days which I sorely miss.

I thank those of you who have supported me in my year and a half as a member of this community..

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Delara's execution has been postponed for two months. All I ask, Jahanshah, all I beg, is that with my having left this website, that in the ongoing campaign to save her life, you grant Delara the compassion, decency and respect that she deserves.

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rosie is roxy is roshan

ps happy to let you know..

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Thu Apr 23, 2009 04:35 PM PDT

that several people have responded to my offsite e-mail with link, and they've been very supportive, and that is very gratifying.


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rosie is roxy is roshan

i know,

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Thu Apr 23, 2009 03:41 PM PDT

Those things are EXACTLY what I've been saying. Boy, did you NAIL it.

Delara is a MISSION. Her poetry is GREAT. Her eyes have such depth..her paintings are so moving..she embodies the soul of a nation. She can be an icon, a symbol, for people to rally around. She is no more important as an individual than many innocent people who've been killed or may be killed, but she REPRESENTS all the people..and that's why she's so important.

AND I WROTE THAT TO JAHANSHAH WITH A CC TO NAZY AFTER THE IRANIAN OF THE DAY FINALLY APPEARED and asked him to PLEASE put up the paintings..and guess what, he'd ALrEADY put up the paintings in November of 2006, and I SENT HIM HIS OWN LINK and  i said everyting we just said about her enormous importance and the importance of this website for the campaign AND I SPECIFICALLY SAID IF THE PAINTINGS DON'T GO UP WE WILL FAIL. That's the word I used. Fail. And he still wouldn't do it..He wouldn't even change a lsimple link that Nazy had unknowingly put on the Iranian of the day which came from a spurious website and had a statement that was VERY DAMAGING to the campaign..and THESE WERE with a cc to Nazy..IF SHE HAD NOT DONE THAT IRANIAN OF THE DAY AFTER MY CONTACTING HER, there would've been..nothing...nothing..for the general reader.

now about that gossip blog, I'm well aware of the gossip blog. The writer made me go into how did I change my avatar on the eleventh hour Iranian of the Day thread and you KNOW how when you descirbe technical things, it's ALWAYS detailed and time-consuming... and I did it, it's there on the thread... do you think that woman has written me privately to thank me for my efforts and say good luck since my posting this blog? No. she's baby-sitting a gossip column. She has become the Rhona Barrett of expatria.com. And there ain't nobody here but us chickens..and the real chickens are... 

And that's WHY I'm not finished yet. I'm not leaving this girl stranded without a fight. i'll go down kicking and screaming if I have to but I am not leaving this girl stranded without a fight.


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anonymous fish

i do understand and i will look forward to your remaing posts.

by anonymous fish on Thu Apr 23, 2009 02:17 PM PDT

there really aren't any words to describe how such an important issue as this one has received such little support versus issues involving nude bodies and JJ's personal sex life (or lack thereof).

a gossip article is gathering members right and left discussing azadehs sexual preferences and souri's hurt feelings but such a monumental issue as this... such a GLOBAL issue as this... is relegated to a non-featured blog.

a chance for all iranians to put their hearts and voices together for an issue with such wide reaching ramifications, both internally and externally, and everyone wants to discuss whether or not the UN was racist in walking out on AHMADENEJAD for god's sake.

oh well.  what more can you do?


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rosie is roxy is roshan

no there's only one possible way i could come back here

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Thu Apr 23, 2009 02:01 PM PDT

this time, and it's exactly what i said at the end of this blog. a full apology to delara, the general readership of the website, and all the oppressed people of iran for the damage he could've done.

i don't know if he really thought it'd be final. it's because he so lacks ethics that he can't imagine that there'd be a point where he'd trespass a boundary from the personal to the ethical.

this man has been so personally harmful to me and to my work, which in turn has harmed the website because my work matters to some people. but when he suppresses something about peace in Israel/Palestine, say, it's not going to have an immediate impact on whether or not Israel uses white phosporus. So no matter how important the suppressed work was, how ethical its dimension, it clung, no matter how tenuously, wthin the boundaries of the personal.

this time he trespassed those boundaries. this incident falls squarely within the realm of the ethical. he harmed the work of david and of sce, and he was willing to put someone's life in danger.just to hurt me. i will never forgive him.

unless he atones for his sins.

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i love you too.. you right winger you.

i do have a couple of things to post but it's only because i refuse to leave without taking care of loose ends.you needn't comment on the remaining threads. better on aol.

take care.

r.


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anonymous fish

part of me is saying

by anonymous fish on Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:27 PM PDT

"oh, she'll be back".  it's like an addiction.  you just can't stay away.  i even saw anonymouse yesterday!!!!  the other parts says "if you can get away... RUN FOR YOUR LIFE".  i am so utterly and emotionally drained by being here. no matter how just and fair you try to be, you're accused of being "something".  a zionist if you defend the jews.  anti-iranian if you DARE criticize iran.  an arrogant american if you try to defend your own country. 

there are good and bad americans and there are good and bad iranians.  there are simply bad and evil people.  and some have found a home here.

MPD is right. and at least you'll know in YOUR heart what you've done for so many people here. 

i wish there was some other interaction website... not necessarily an iranian one.  but one that enjoys some of the same features as IC.  if you find something interesting.. let me know.  this just isn't the place it used to be.  too many ugly sentiments.  you can feel the hatred coming through the keyboard and life is too short to spend reflecting such animosity. 

i love you roiban and it's been one of the greatest pleasures knowing you.  we'll remain in contact via email and quite possibly we'll see each other here again. 

until we meet again... take care of yourself.  

remember... YOU are your greatest treasure!


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Multiple Personality Disorder

No good deed goes unpunished

by Multiple Personality Disorder on Thu Apr 23, 2009 07:55 AM PDT

No act of charity goes unresented


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Fish..

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Fri Apr 24, 2009 08:32 PM PDT

I kinda doubt I'll hear from Marge, if she ever comes back because I won't be here...and if she doesn't come back there'd be no reason for her to contact me either...

But I wouldn't encourage anyone to come back here. And anyway, Marge was becoming very unhappy here, disturbed by the things she saw..she's very sensitive, you know, I mean REALLYsensitive, not the schmalz and goop you usually get around here..what i love about all this is that out of all the people who read this blog here --and you have to understand that the comment i wrote to AI was a dayafter this blog went up..you'he the only one who answered me here, and you're the "ugly American"...and that guy down there..well, at least he recognizes that i exist.

not even good-bye...good luck, or thanks for what you did for delara..and the one who took up my time getting me to explain to her onsite and off, how to change her avatar to delara's,,and oh it was so sad, so terrible..posted a blog on gossip at the same time i posted this, and within a few hours it had sixty comments...from people gossiping about gossip.

this says nothing about me, except that i wasted a year and a half of my life--and i ain't gettin' any younger--pissing into the wind..you know that wind, that same wind of the Revolution that "swept them up" like innocent leaves..like poor fragile innocent leaves..while Khomeini promised them freedom and beach parties "under Islamic law"..and they never once stopped to find out iif that meant Shariah...


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anonymous fish

you're right

by anonymous fish on Mon Apr 27, 2009 09:54 AM PDT

i haven't seen her for awhile.  i personally thought she was getting a little wired up but you know... everyone reacts differently.   i do hope she's well.  she was an interesting and mostly delightful addition to iranian.com.  if and when you reconnect... please encourage her to return. 


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rosie is roxy is roshan

I just wrote you an e-mail. Well actually two..one of them

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Wed Apr 22, 2009 06:02 PM PDT

was in reply to an old one, like two months old, that for some reason I'd never seen, I think it was the first one you wrote to me. As you can imagine, I'm not a happy camper right now.

I'm very concered about Margie. I'd noticed the other day she no longer had a contact button. I thought maybe it's because she's so well-known here, she might've gotten "untoward", unsolicited e-mails. That sometimes happens to single women here you know, and also to controvertial pepple. And she is both..

Anyhow,I tried to e-mail her from my regular e-mail and it bounced back to me. and I dont' have her phone number. And I'll probably never find her again. We were close, you know. i wish I had her number.


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anonymous fish

roiban!

by anonymous fish on Wed Apr 22, 2009 05:40 PM PDT

have you been bashing jews again?   bad bad girl!  :-0

seriously, i didn't see the word jew or israel one time.  this subject is inclusive of one thing and one thing only.  too bad it's not respected for what it's truly intended... the execution of this young woman.


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Now you have put many people in a quandary...

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:30 PM PDT

They'll be torn between trying to rationalize away and repress the knowledge that everything I just said here is true, and their legitimate disgust of you. They'll have to face, for at least five minutes, the fact that I have always stood for the best of the values they espouse, with intelligence, decency, and as best as I could, integrity. 

Thanks for giving me a leg up.


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Artificial Intelligence

I don't believe you

by Artificial Intelligence on Wed Apr 22, 2009 05:59 AM PDT

I am sure you will return again once the Israelis have to defend themselves soon against Arab agression and terrorism. You will return to show off your crazy leftist badge of honor and your pride in the following while you bash and bad mouth Israel/jews:

1) "My uncle was in the Irgun"

2) "I'm a Jew"

3) "I'm a non Zionist jew"

4) " I was thought the slogan  A Land without a People for a People without a Land"

I suggest you get some serious help lady. 


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