Global Exchange
With a brief summer hiatus from my new FOX television show "Dollhouse" before me I sat down, opened up the newspapers, and began to scroll world news headlines in order to figure out where I felt I might put myself. Next, I clicked on probably my favorite group of human rights advocates’ website: Global Exchange (.org), compared the papers and the site, side-by-side, and the place emerged clearly: Iran. Citizen Diplomacy was calling. Axis of evil, terrorist/Al-Qaeda/Taliban supporting, WMD harboring, anti-American, Islamic, radical misogynist Iran… (if you listen to local news coverage and even some close friends, co-workers and family). Admittedly, at first, I too felt a bit uneasy, afraid even, and quite overwhelmed based on all the images that have been ‘imprinted’ in my mind through recent news coverage and media reports. Iran had become one of the most demonized countries in the world today. I had to go and see for myself.
All of us who travelled hope that our government and others will continue to favor talks, diplomacy and communication to reach a resolution of any disagreements with Iran, resolution that does not cost human lives with weapons and war.
