I am old enough to remember the photo of the student Mary Vecchio kneeling over the body of the Kent State student shot by a National Guard. It was a photo that mobilized a generation. As powerful as that image was, it pales by comparison to the cell phone video of the death of Neda. This is a searing image and is mobilizing a generation of men and probably even more importantly--young women of Iran. What makes this even more powerful is that these young women have mothers who remember Iran…
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Posted on June 25, 2009 at 3:20pm