Protests for Tuesday, 140 Characters or Less

The new haiku:

NYC lecture/QA: Tues, 6/23, 6:30-9:30p, NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street

WASHINGTON D.C. protest: Tues, 6/23, 6-9pm, Iran Interest Section, 2209 Wisconsin Ave NW

PITTSBURGH vigil: Tues, June 23, 8-9:30pm, Market Square, bring flashlight/candle

CAMBRIDGE (MA) lecture/discussn: 6/23 6-8p, Amnesty Int’l, MIT student center 3rd fl lounge, 84 Mass. Ave.

TAMPA protest: Tuesday, June 23, 6-9pm, Home Depot/Target, 1712 N Dale Mabry Hwy

DALLAS protest: Tues, June 23, 1-3pm, Dallas City Hall, 1500 Marilla Street

LANSING (MI) protest: Tues 6/23, 6-8p, On the lawn in front of the Capitol building, 100 N Capitol Ave

PORTLAND (OR) protest: 6/23, 6-9p, Pioneer Courthouse Square Park, 701 SW 6th Avenue by SW Broadway

SACRAMENTO protest: Tues, 6/23, 11a-1pm, Fremont Park, 16th St & Q St in Midtown, wear green/bring signs

TORONTO march: Tues 6/23, 8-10p, Gole Sorkh (6184 Yonge Street) to Mel Lastman Square (and back)

CALGARY Alberta protest: Tues June 23, noon, Stephen Avenue by Bay, 8 Ave at 1 St SW, wear grn/blck

DUBLIN protest: June 23, 12-2 pm, Irish Parliament-Leinster House, Merrion St

PARIS protest: Tues, June 23, Eiffel Tower, 13:00

FRANKFURT Germany vigil: Tues June 23, 6pm, @ Römer, bring candle
FRANKFURT Deutschland Mahnwache: Dienstag Juni 23, 18:00, am Römer, die eine Kerze

Tuesday marks the third day after the death Neda Agha-Soltan (wiki) .  The third day after a death (along with the seventh and fortieth) are important in the Shi’ite cycle of mourning. I am proud to light a candle for this woman, and I hope you will do the same.

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