Only in Iran, the government makes a movie about cracking down on its protesters and shooting at them, then blames it on foreign spies and the people themselves. A new movie called Ghaladehay-e-Tala or The Golden Collars, premiered for the Persian New Year, is telling the story of the 2009 presidential election and its aftermath which led to what the West knows as the Green Movement. See the trailer here . Screening of this film at this time is significant since two other Iranian movies scheduled to be screened at the time of Persian New Year celebrations were banned while one in particular depicts the activities of  Gasht-e-Irshad or Morality Police which harasses the Iranian youth for not following Islamic codes of clothing and conducts. As the screening of the movie have raised a lot of criticism and anger, this time, Iranians feel betrayed by some of their favorite actors and actresses who have played in the movie and call on the boycott of the film and its characters. Comments on YouTube also have been overwhelming. Those who personally participated in the protests compare the movie with their own experiences. For example, one comment asked how could people be carrying guns when he even didn’t see anyone carrying a stick?! Others, just simply shower the filmmakers, the actors and the government of Islamic Republic with their colorful language. However, my favorite reaction to the movie was this photoshoped poster I found on Facebook which I had to share: Is there any other way I could convince you that Iranians will always find a way to prove they are not their government?

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Only in Iran: The Green Movement Movie

Dance, in its very essence of live movement, can never keep still. As performers on stage shift their bodies, using them to fill visual and musical spaces that most never even realized were empty, we audience members evolve along with them. The opposite of dance is stasis, atrophy, the crippling that comes when one cannot or will not move, because it’s safer to keep still rather than risk breaking free or connecting with another. But in that safety also creeps loneliness, because dialogue thrives on conversational motion.

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Dance the Gap: An Interview with Choreographer Parijat Desai

He has seven children , attends a Latin Mass and has driven issues of reproductive rights back into the center of American politics. In 2002, he traveled to Rome to express his support for the founder of the ultra-conservative Catholic lay movement called Opus Dei. Read full article > >

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Rick Santorum, cafeteria Catholic?

DeKALB, Ill. — The tea party movement is on the verge of devouring one of its own. Freshman Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the young Air Force spy pilot who defeated a Democratic incumbent in suburban Chicago to become one of the fresh-faced shining stars of the Republican Party, is now under attack from the same conservative activists who propelled him to victory less than two years ago. Read full article > >

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Tea party using member vs. member races to flex political muscle

Suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement were arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America, Interpol said on Tuesday.

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25 Suspected Hackers Arrested in International Raids

NEW DELHI — A top lawyer for the Indian government on Thursday called homosexual sex an immoral act that threatens social order, a dramatic reversal that outraged activists in this country’s nascent gay rights movement. Read full article > >

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Indian government officials denounce homosexuality, outraging activists

In an unnoticed 1992 speech, Newt Gingrich in a single utterance took aim not only at a beloved conservative icon but also at a core tenet of the conservative movement: that government must be limited. Read full article > >

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Gingrich archives show his public praise, private criticism of Reagan

The political leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, is due to visit Jordan, 13 years after it expelled Hamas leaders.

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Hamas leader goes back to Jordan

There is no doubt that incomes are unequal in the United States — far more so than in most European nations. This fact is part of the impulse behind the Occupy Wall Street movement , whose members claim to represent the 99 percent of us against the wealthiest 1 percent. It has also sparked a major debate in the Republican presidential race, where former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has come under fire for his tax rates and his career as the head of a private-equity firm. Read full article > >

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Angry about inequality? Don’t blame the rich.

SARASOTA, Fla. — Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich assailed his chief rival for the party’s nomination on Tuesday by using a local insult, calling Mitt Romney the “Charlie Crist” of the candidates. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich using energy, power of tea party movement

The director of the National Park Service said Tuesday that U.S. Park Police will “very soon” begin enforcing a no-camping law at McPherson Square but that the Occupy D.C. movement has a prevailing First Amendment right to continue its vigil there. Read full article > >

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Park Service says it will begin enforcing ‘no-camping’ law for Occupy D.C. protesters at McPherson Square

As Libya’s interim government struggles to bring security, stability and democracy to the country, a burgeoning protest movement is rocking the fragile nation, venting grudges and challenging the legitimacy of the ruling authorities. Read full article > >

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Libyan government faces growing frustration

As Libya’s interim government struggles to bring security, stability and democracy to the country, a burgeoning protest movement is rocking the fragile nation, venting grudges and challenging the legitimacy of the ruling authorities. Read full article > >

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Libyan government faces growing frustration

Members of the Occupy protest movement plan educational outreach sessions in schools as they prepare to be evicted from their camps.

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Occupy movement turns to schools

To reflect the movement of the “unemployed graduates.”

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5 Moroccans Self-Immolate