things are hotting up in honduras as the exiled president Manuel Zelaya is minutes away from landing (or not) - depending on what the military will do. its been a week now, and as tom watson says, he’s a brave man indeed. the protestors are being tear-gassed by the army and police so they’re pretty brave too. Witnessing people’s bravery as it happens- after all, when people stand up for something, they bloody well want the world to sit up and take notice! i’m following what’s going on out there through real-time updates via twitter. twitter (which i have just been figuring out fairly recently) is useful i think particularly at times like these, especially in following the the iran election and subsequent dramatic protests and clampdown. direct communication in these kinds of conflict situations, can make all the difference. Imagine if we’d had something like this back in the days of the Iraqi invasion! No, that was the point back then - armies could control and clamp down on communications, curfews at night, keeping people from talking to each other to maximise the ‘blackout’ feeling. the Net and social media are making that an increasingly difficult thing to accomplish.

For a background to the situation on Honduras, read this blog - River’s Edge