This tweet has reverberated throughout Twitter since June 24 , 2009.  Since then @persainkiwi has steadily gained followers even though all public tweets from the account ceased.

This tweet and the one just before it have been quoted and retweeted since June.  It is a tweet that with the help of people from around the world, including me and possibly you, can help to change the world so that it is safer and freer.

Click to sign into the Open Web Awards, sign in via your Twitter or Facebook account and Vote for @persiankiwi for Best You Tube Video of the Year!

It is a tweet that can help topple an illegal dictatorship has been chastised by the United Nations and Amnesty International for repeated and ongoing human rights violations, while continuing its plan to gain nuclear bomb capabilities.

@persiankiwi’a poignant tweets as the Iranian government basiji closed in seemed to leave us with little to do but pray for the safety of all the peaceful Sea of Green protesters, including @persiankiwi, plus Tweet and RT the news in hope that the media such would include stories about Iran in their newspapers and broadcasts.

Now there is more that we can do, we can vote in a meaningful way that will gain a strong media share for the situation in Iran if @persiankiwin wins the Open Web Award. It is a election that the whole international web memberships of Twitter and Facebook can participle in — a kind of worldwide opportunity for democracy.

Unlike most of the other awards and nominations, this one is not a popularity contest about one’s favorite or most enjoyed Tweet, or even one of a memorable event. @persiankiwi’s Tweet is the Tweet of the Year because it continues to reverberate and inspire a vision of a better world and freedom for Iran as it spreads.

Plus, the aftermath—what will happen as a result if @persainkiwi wins, makes our votes count for more than they do in relation to any of the other nominees.

When @persiankiwi wins one of two things will happen, and either helps defeat the dictatorship of the current Iranian regime because they will gain the attention and sympathy of the international community.

1. @persiakiwi will travel to the USA to accept the award. Since @persiankiwi has become a symbol of the brave, young Iranian protesters. This win will gain a great deal of press coverage for the awards, social media and the situation in Iran .

2. @persiankiwi will be denied permission to travel by the Iranian government. This will also gain a good deal of press and reveal more to the international community about the current regime.

Ironically, this summer another brave Iranian Tweeted out during a protest in Farsi and below in English, “My silence is more powerful than your clubs”. It was repeated in many languages and ReTweeted.

Tweet Heard ‘Round the World” (detail) by Judy Rey Wasserman

@persiankiwi’s silence since June 24th has been powerful. A comment ona regime that attacks its own peaceful people who march, unarmed, hands lifeted in V’s for victory to protest for a real and fair infection.

But the award is for @persiankiwi’s words, not the deafening,silece that followed them. The reports from the protests and continuing events were something those of us who joined in RTing under the hashtag #Iranelection knew we could count of for their honest reporting and humanity.Thosw words added up to form a disturbing image of supposedly democratic govenment that had stolen an election.

Just as all the tiny symbol strokes in one of my paintings, such as the avatar for Persian Protesta, intermingle and combine to make an image of a new reality , a painting that can help change how we see the world—so too can all of our tiny votes and tweets combine to create a vision of a new reality of freedom and tolerance for Iran.

Yes, a tweet can change the world – because it can change lives.

Join with me and the many others who have and continue to cast our votes for @persiankiwi for best Tweet of the year in the Open Web Awards.

And then Tweet out the news about your vote on Twitter of Facebook and encourage others to do likewise.

In addition the video of Neda being shot has also won the nomination for Best You Tube Video of the Year. I urge you to also vote for it. This video also deserves to win, plus, unlike any of the other nominees those responsible for capturing the event on video were also risking their lives to bring the images to the world. @persiankiwi’s last tweets chronicles a dangerous situation that led to arrest, and more that we do not yet know. Let’s help win this award for Best Tweet of the Year, hopefully bring this twitter member to the USA to accept the award and safely tell us more. Words can have great power—I know with certainty because I paint with them, their letters are all my strokes.

Sea of Green Rainbow by Judy Rey Wasserman, 2009 Strokes are letters of Bible’s Book of Esther

To quote another leader whose words were and are more powerful than the guns, hoses, dogs, lynching ropes, etc. “I have a dream…”

A tweet — 140 characters— can express a dream – and, yes, it can change the world.

Click to sign into the Open Web Awards, sign in via your Twitter or Facebook account and Vote for @persiankiwi for Best You Tube Video of the Year!

To read the current history of how @persainkiwi’s last tweet became nominated despite the then seeming fact that @persainkiwi might not be alive, plus the wonderful and encouraging new information about @persiankiwi read How You Can Help Change the World for Freedom & Tolerance with 3 Easy Clicks! and
Nominate @persiankiwi for a Free Iran .

First Click

Actually, you already successfully made the First Click. It took you here to check out this article. Good Job! Shows you are a good person who is interested in helping others and creating a better world! See how easy this is?

Second Click

The next clicks each have an before them. This article explains why and how you can help change the world by simply using those links!

First, you can l help gain a great deal of media attention for Iran ‘s freedom Fighters, bringing true democracy and tolerance to Iran. This will also mean removal from power of Iran ‘s current unconstitutional regime which seeks to have a nuclear bomb.

To do this we need to have the second to last Tweet by a @persiankiwi nominated for Mashable’s Open Web Awards. That tweet was made during a peaceful protest just before “The Kiwi” was arrested.

News of @persiankiwi

The fate of @persiankiwi has remained unknown, but on November 11, 2009 @judyrey (me) received compelling proof that @persiankiwi is not only alive (but now in hiding) and supports this nomination. The kiwi has requested that our effort to gain this nomination continue. I have a witness to this.

http://mashable.com/owa/votes?v=@persiankiwi%27s%20second%20to%20last%20tweet&c=23

This new information means nominating @persiankiwi is viable and meets all the rules for the Open Web Awards. From the information I have it seems @persiankiwi is available to attend the awards. If the Iranian government prohibited the Kiwi’s exit from Iran to accept the award that would help gain more media attention for the peaceable freedom fighters, plus gain more support from democratic countries and groups such as Amnesty International.

Below is a screen capture of @persiankiwi’s final tweets with the second to last tweet indicated. You can see it and scroll the entire tweet time-line by going to http://www.twitter.com/persiankiwi

Persian Kiwi’s Final Tweets

@persiankiwi’s second to last Tweet: “thank you ppls for supporting Sea of Green -pls remember always our martyrs- Allah Akbar-Allah Akbar #Iranelection”

Just click this link, sign in with either Facebook or Twitter to make your nomination. It’s easy! Then return to this page for one more simple click.

http://mashable.com/owa/votes?v=@persiankiwi%27s%20second%20to%20last%20tweet&c=23

Great! Two Successful clicks and just one more to go!

Third Click

As you can see from the above post I actively support freedom and religious tolerance. I am the artist who is the founder of Post Conceptual Art theory, especially the branch of UnGraven Image.

UnGraven Image is the first religious art theory founded in the USA , and being American is uniquely inclusive. I paint using symbols for each and every stroke. My symbol set is the only font or symbol set in the world that is alpha-numeric, phonic and binary. Binary is synonymous for duality, so in addition for my symbols elegantly referencing Elementary Physics” strings and branes, the strokes reference important concepts of dualities held by most all of the world’s religions and spiritual paths. Dualities include: Light/Dark, Good/Evil, Holy/Profane and also Yin/Yang.

Again with one easy click you can nominate the entertaining video, “Painting with the Big Bang of Genesis”. This video visually explains this new art theory and points to tolerance and a vision we all can and due share. As such, this new art always promotes peace and tolerance.

http://mashable.com/owa/votes?v=big%20Bang%20of%20Painting%20with%20Genesis&c=37

If you have not yet had the opportunity to see this remarkable video it is embedded below for your convenience. You can also access this video (it’s the one on top) and much more information, plus many images of this new art at http://ungravenimage.com

http://mashable.com/owa/votes?v=big%20Bang%20of%20Painting%20with%20Genesis&c=37

Want to do more?

Again, it’s easy!

1. Digg, Stumble, Mixx this article, share it in emails, post it to your own blog.

2. Tweet or post any or all of the following messages to Facebook news feeds, groups and fan pages or message it on other social media:

• How You (yes, YOU!) Can Help Change the World for Freedom & Tolerance with 3 Easy Clicks! http://bit.ly/2pGA4a

• Please nominate “Painting with the Big Bang of Genesis” for best YT video http://bit.ly/3tKW7D #OpenWebAwards RT!

• Please nominate @persiankiwi’s 2nd to last Tweet for best Tweet http://bit.ly/1D43yy #OpenWebAwards #Iranelection #Iran RT!

• Easiest free way to promote Freedom & Tolerance for ALL today without even standing up? http://bit.ly/2pGA4a#Iranelection #openwebawards

3. Share this article in email via links or cut and paste. You also have permission to use it as content for your own blog- just spread the word.hare it in emails, post it to your own blog.

Thanks!

Your clicks and support are greatly appreciated.

One category is Tweet of the Year

Three years ago it was unlikely, if not impossible to foresee some of the ways that people would use social media. Twitter was still being promoted as a place where one could go to let friend’s know you are enjoying a cup of coffee. Some people continue to use it as such.

But a large and growing number of people now rely on Twitter to meet new and interesting people, plus get or announce real time news and events.

One of those people was an Iranian known as @persiankiwi.

@persiankiwi came to be one of the people, perhaps the person who represented the unsung heroes who risked their welfare and lives to bring us reports, via Tweetcasts of the Iran Freedom protests. This Twitter member became so well respected and known that he/she merits a page on Wikipedia .

@persiankiwi’s follow count continues to grow along with his Twitter legend since his last tweet at 11:36 AM June 24 th . He is already included on 23 lists as I write this, although the list function is still in Beta testing stage.

@persiankiwi’s poignant second to last tweet deserves to win for Best Tweet of the Year – but there’s a catch that disqualifies him.

According to the Social rules: “The nominee must be publicly available.”

In other words, anyone who wins the award, or representatives of a company, has to be able to accept the award, which is generally a good rule as it excludes criminals, spammers, and fictional characters. Three years ago this was a good rule.

However, unlike the Nobel prizes, The Academy Awards, Grammys, Emmys, and many other notable awards, the rule also excludes political prisoners and those who became deceased during the year.

That rule means that nominations for any of the any of the brave Iranians who risked their lives for freedom by peaceable means by posting Tweets, videos, pictures, blogs and messages to Social Media and web sites.

NEW!  Until November 11, 2009 we only knew that @persiankiwi was arrested by the unconstitutional Iranain dictatorship forces on  June 24, 2009. Due to this article and campaign, on November 11, 2009 @judyrey received compelling evidence that @persiankiwi is alive and supports this nomination and effort.

We know that as things stand, even if “The Kiwi” as many of us called him might not be allowed to travel to the USA, where is would be an instant media darling as he reported first hand on the repressive and brutal dictatorship in Iran. However, @persiankiwi seems to be available to come to the USA, unless prevented by the Iranian government to now all the nomination criteria are met!

We can bring good publicity to the awards, social media, the ongoing cause on and beyond social media of real freedom, democracy and religious tolerance in Iran, plus be a tribute to @persiakiwi and those brave Iranian members of social media and the peaceful Green movement.

Although the brave and usually peaceful Iranian freedom protesters used many forms of social media well, it was the moment by moment Tweetcasts that upstaged and usurped the reporting of traditional media, such as CNN, BBC and NYT.

While You Tube videos are and were riveting and incredible, there is not one specific videographer who stands out. There are several shot from various angles of most of the important events. There is not one single You Tube video or Flickr picture that can be successfully attributed to any individual. What is impressive and newsworthy is that there are such a grand amount of visual materials uploaded despite the ongoing peril of injury, imprisonment, torture and even death for such activity.

There are two tweets that memorably stand out

One inspired a new large scale work of art that I am creating. Immediately after it was tweeted by an Iranian protector many people RTed it, or translated it into many of the world’s languages.

I call it the “Tweet heard around the World”. Unfortunately, I have no idea who originally tweeted it.

My own Art Tweet, using a Twitter character I created and a painting that uses strokes that are the original letters of the Bibles book of Esther, which is set in Persia is below. It is part of a large scale art piece and group of works about Social Media and the Iran Protests for Freedom that I am creating.

“Tweet Heard ‘Round the World” (detail) by Judy Rey Wasserman

Although by the Social Media Award rules we could nominate my artistic rendition of this tweet, the honor of representing the cause of Iran’s freedom needs to go to a brave Iranian not me, even though for a while my Twitter Profile sported the information that I lived in Tehran. In reality I am the American artist who is the founder of Post Conceptual Art, including the branch known as UnGraven Image.

Below is a screen capture of @persiankiwi’s final tweets with the second to last tweet indicated. You can see it and scroll the entire tweet timeline by going to http://www.twitter.com/persiankiwi

Persian Kiwi’s Final Tweets

@persiankiwi’s second to last Tweet: “thank you ppls for supporting Sea of Green -pls remember always our martyrs- Allah Akbar-Allah Akbar #Iranelection”

It is a Tweet that grabbed our hearts and imaginations as @persiankiwi tweeted while fleeing the Basiji describing the horror all around him.

What make @persiankiwi’s Tweet poignantly memorable is the grace, thankfulness and love it expresses for us, for those who are martyred and for God as he faced capture and quite possibly death.

What Tweet this year can possibly be more important or potentially world changing?

Whatever country you are a citizen of; chances are like me you do not wish to see atomic weapons in the hands of the current Iranian dictatorship government. It is a brutal government that held an illegal coup last June and holds a fully disarmed population in its grasp by police and military might not will as the real election results indicated. A free and tolerant Iran will not only benefit the Iranian people, but the whole world will be safer.

Here’s why I am asking you (Yes, YOU) to join with me in nominating @persiankiwi’s second to last tweet for best Tweet of the year

Despite the fact that @persiankiwi’s second to last tweet cannot win according to the current rules, nominating it and calling attention to the fact that you did that can in a great del for everyone involved. There is no downside or losers if we create a wave of nominations for #persiankiwi—except for the unconstitutional Iranian dictatorship.

What this free and easy act on your part can do is draw a great deal of attention and publicity to the cause of Freedom for Iran. This will also alert our own governments and Iran ‘s to the fact that we continue to stand strong for the cause of Iranian Freedom.

Peter Cashmore and the people of mashable.com (@mashable) and Mororla are web savvy and publicity hip. If they are swamped with nominations for @persiankiwi for best YouTube video of the year they will recognize the value of the publicity for themselves and run with it. It works for them to either change their rule immediately or create a special award to commemorate the Tweet and/or the brave Iranians who use Social Media in 2009 for the cause of freedom.

Media such as CNN, ABC, NYT, etc., will also have what they crave for a story: authentication, as @persiankiwi’s Tweet stream is available for anyone to see on Twitter. Their story then becomes all about a Tweet and the people on social media who are swamping the nominations with @persiankiwi. We can even make #@persian kiwi become a Trending Topic on Twitter.

You can help make a difference, by a simple click in the blue button below that will cost you only a few moments of time.

@persiankiwi’s 2nd to last Tweet for Best Tweet of the Year

Want to do more?

Please Tweet about this blog and urge others to nominate others to nominate @persiankiwi’s next to last Tweet for Open Web Awards’ Tweet of the Year. Post this request on Facebook walls, on MySpace, in emails, plus whatever you can think of. Please add any ideas or ways you have helped promote to the comments below.

You can also copy and paste this tweet or message, which has no reference to this blog:

I nominated Iran ‘s @ persiankiwi ‘s 2nd to last Tweet for Tweet of the Year! Mashable awards! Do it! http://bit.ly/3DzcdY #Iranelection