Green Movement activists have lobbied the Empire State Building to turn Green, but they have been denied since the building does not make political statements. Yet conviently this Thursday the building will turn Green to mark the anniversary of the Wizard of Oz. A previous time the building turned Green gives you an idea of what it will look like:
Organizers have notified their email lists, and many demonstrators plan to stand under the building and cheer when it lights up in the evening. Photographers documenting the protests plan to post the view online for inspiration around the globe, organizers said.
"The universe is smiling and the stars are aligned!" wrote one blogger, named Anonymous Iran. "I'm so happy I could cry!"
The green lighting will happen the same day demonstrators plan to unfurl a nearly mile-long green banner across the Brooklyn Bridge. Sadra Shaba, a 24-year-old graduate student and protest organizer for Voices for Iran, said protesters "consider anything that's green part of our movement. Even the Statue of Liberty is green."
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