Making It Up As They Go Along

 Radio Farda gets an e-mail from Tehran:

There is great deal of confusion and a lot of rumors flying around. These students have relied heavily in the past on SMS and other communication devices. In their absence, they are having a hard time coordinating and mobilizing effectively. However, I must add, they are amazing and brilliant in the way they are using emails (with much frustrations for slow connections), e-chats, and good old telephones in getting organized (their own word is ‘sazeman-dehi’). Theirs is truly a ‘grassroots’ as of now self-organizing / self-generating in complex ways (‘khod joosh’). And they are smart with theirs words and their chants in the streets in that they are reclaiming the revolution’s claim to freedom, independence and justice and even its leader: ‘Khomeini kojaee, Mousavi tanha mondeh’ (‘Khomeini, where are you, Mousavi is all alone’).