July Theme Day: Empty

Empty swings on a local playground. Don't they look lonely?

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Special Theme Day: Iran Protests

The City Daily Photo Blog community chose today as a special theme day to show support for the ongoing Iranian protests.


There were a number of suggestions as to how we, as individual CDP bloggers, could choose to participate.


I chose to select photos which did not show the violence that is currently taking place there, but which show the courage and determination of the protesters.


A recent letter of support by Peter Hallward of Middlesex University in the UK, and signed by a number of fellow scholars, has a very good statement:



. . . a government which claims to represent the will of its people can only do so if it respects the most basic preconditions for the determination of such a will: the freedom of the people to assemble, unhindered, as an inclusive collective force; the capacity of the people, without restrictions on debate or access to information, to deliberate, decide and implement a shared course of action.



My thoughts and prayers are with those courageous enough to stand up for their beliefs in the face of such violence and oppression.

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