I will avoid saying why I’m planning on doing it now only because it will color people’s interpretation of why I’m doing it.
Hopefully my Iran flag will come in time, but it will the a 3’ by 5’ flag and it will tough be 10’ in the air and I will be with other protestors.
I have waves the Palestine flag in multiple previous protests and I get the sense that people don’t recognize it like the LGBT flag
I will avoid saying why I’m planning on doing it now only because it will color people’s interpretation of why I’m doing it.
Flags are symbolic—they exist to communicate, and the only criterion to judge their appropriateness is whether they communicate the intended message to the intended audience.
Without knowing your intended message, it’s impossible to say whether or not you should use one in a given context.
I know. Kinda want to figure out what someone waving an Iranian flag at a protest would mean to an American.
If I gave my reason then it would add to meaning of waving Iranian flag
I would see it and see someone who is too smart to be caught up in nationalist bullshit: who understands that regardless of one’s feelings about the government of Iran, it’s currently the tip of the spear against the US-zionist empire threatening the world and committing genocide, and is therefore the enemy of my enemy. Because when the world hegemon comes knocking with bombs on girl’s schools, you wage indigenous struggle with the army you have, not the army you want. And the army they have has been shaping itself in anticipation of this for decades, and stands a very good chance at breaking the back of both American imperialism and the occupiers of Palestine: which is why the Resistance there supports them too.
Yeah I articulate it as Iran is another front against the Epstien class/America empire. Empire taking on more fronts effectively means more allies. Iran is fighting with violence and I’m hoping to get people organized in the US to resist in more peaceful ways
If it’s to support Iranian government, no, if it’s to support Iranian people, yes. If you are not Iranian, maybe leave that to Iranian people or those living/have lived there. Either way there will be people that interpret it one way and people that interpret it another. I’d try to understand the overall purpose of the protest and see if it’s supporting that or distracting from it.
EDIT: I guess there’s a lion and sun flag that can be used to represent the people and not the government. Maybe do a little research about it.
Yeah it just came to my mind that I should wave the old Iranian flag and not the current one since the citizens use it there to protest their government
The lion-and-sun flag is the flag of the old Safavid Empire.
If you want to use a historical flag, a more appropriate one might be the pre-Islamic Sassanid Standard of Kaveh—the flag of the legendary blacksmith who overthrew the tyrant Zahhak. (But that flag has also been used by Iranians protesting the current regime, which may not be the overtone you’re intending.)
Standard of kaveh is pretty cool. Interest to see how people of the past made their flag and history behind it is interesting, but is the average American going to understand that?
It’s hard to invoke a meaning, but I would be cool to bring to a protest and tell protestors about kaveh.
