Going Green for Iran

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If you're an active user of Twitter or Facebook, and have a fair number of politically active friends, you may have noticed that many of them changed hue today. The first person I saw complete the metamorphosis was our own Donna Trussell (who you can follow on Twitter here).

Slowly, throughout the day, many of my friends participated this Hulk-like transformation. No, it isn't some crazy environmental statement, it's a new Internet meme designed to show support for the protesters in Iran.

Yesterday, The Cram writer Joshua Chaney, wrote about the Iranian soccer team wearing green.

Protests of Iran's election results made their way to a soccer stadium Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea, where several members of Iran's national soccer team wore green wristbands to show their support for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.

But the meme has come to mean so much more than just support for the opposition. At PoliticsDaily, we have chosen to change our images temporarily to show support for the democratic ideal of free, open and fair elections, in Iran and elsewhere.

We have also altered our Twitter account and our Facebook page, because our thoughts are with the protesters who are struggling for the basic right to have a representative leader -- a right that can so easily be taken for granted in the United States.

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