Someday

As part of the stream of videos being broadcast, there is a music video from an artist, Nazanin Afshin-Jam for her song titled "Someday," an anthemic call for the toppling of the mullah's theocracy in Iran. Turns out Afshin-Jam is a bit of a renaissance woman. Born in Iran in 1979, she is a model, actress, former Miss World Canada and Miss World 1st runner-up, pilot, and human rights activist. Go to her wikipedia page and read the section on "Activism and Awards." You will freak out, and wonder what you have to do to help get her elected the first President of a democratic Iranian republic, or perhaps the Secretary General of the UN (which perhaps would stop being so useless when headed by someone, a woman, who actually does something).

This is the new feminism I was talking about months ago, before everyone started blowing each other up again...women not fighting for their rights, but assuming the leadership, taking action, generating policy, and effecting change; not asking permission from the boys...just doing it.

Whatever progress is made by the Iranian people in the face of this burgeoning revolution whose birth we are witnessing, I hope for their sake that Afshin-Jam is a part of it.