The People’s Color

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The People’s Color

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The New York Times reports on politics and style mixing at a recent musical fund-raiser to broaden awareness of the post-election turmoil in Iran. Instead of taking to the streets like protesters in Tehran, these Iranian New Yorkers and their supporters followed the lead of performers like Ali Eskandarian, flaunting green wristbands and armbands in a show of solidarity. Johnny Azari, a k a Johnny B., the Iranian-born lead singer of the band Electric Black (left, with guitar), said that green, initially linked with the campaign of the presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi, “has completely moved on to become the color of revolution and resistance.”



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