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		<description><![CDATA[Yoaní Sánchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo.  Bloggers make their feelings known about the incident.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps it was only a matter of time, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoani_S%C3%A1nchez">Yoaní Sánchez</a>, Cuba&#39;s <a href="http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/">most famous blogger</a>, who has received <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/08/cuba-blocked-blogger-yoani-sanchez-receives-prestigious-award/">countless international awards</a> for her activism, was <a href="http://momento24.com/en/2009/11/07/yoani-sanchez-cuban-blogger-was-arrested-and-beaten-by-the-police/">detained briefly and beaten</a> by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, <a href="http://www.octavocerco.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Claudia Cadelo</a> (a Global Voices <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/claudia-cadelo/" target="_blank">contributor</a>) and <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/03/23/cuba-interview-with-blogger-orlando-luis-pardo-lazo/" target="_blank">Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo</a>. The three were on their way to <a href="http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2009/11/cuban-marchers-shout-peace-and-love.html" target="_blank">an anti-violence march</a> in the Cuban capital, Havana.</p>
<p>Spanish blogger Rosa Jiménez Cano, who works at the Spanish news daily <em>El País</em>, <a href=" http://www.rosajc.com/2009/11/07/yoani-sanchez-detenida-y-golpeada/">reported</a> that she received the following SMS text meessage from Yoaní around 2am Madrid time:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fui detenida junto a Orlando L. Pardo y  Claudia Cadelo nos llevaron a la fuerza estilo siciliano. Golpes. Nos dejaron tirados en una esquina.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">I was arrested along with Orlando L. Pardo and Claudia Cadelo they carried us off sicilian style. Knocks. We were left lying in a corner.</div>
<p>The morning after the events, Yoaní <a href="http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/?p=2468" target="_blank">posted</a> the following account on her blog:</p>
<blockquote><p>Cerca de la calle 23 y justo en la rotonda de la Avenida de los Presidente, fue que vimos llegar en un auto negro –de fabricación china– a tres fornidos desconocidos: &#8216;Yoani, móntate en el auto&#39; me dijo uno mientras me aguantaba fuertemente por la muñeca. Los otros dos rodeaban a Claudia Cadelo, Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo y una amiga que nos acompañaba a una marcha contra la violencia. Ironías de la vida, fue una tarde cargada de golpes, gritos y malas palabras la que debió transcurrir como una jornada de paz y concordia.  Los mismos &#8216;agresores&#39; llamaron a una patrulla que se llevó a mis otras dos acompañantes, Orlando y yo estábamos condenados al auto de matrícula amarilla, al pavoroso terreno de la ilegalidad y la impunidad del Armagedón.</p>
<p>Me negué a subir al brillante Geely y exigimos nos mostraran una identificación o una orden judicial para llevarnos. Claro que no enseñaron ningún papel que probara la legitimidad de nuestro arresto. Los curiosos se agolpaban alrededor y yo gritaba &#8216;Auxilio, estos hombres nos quieren secuestrar&#39;, pero ellos pararon a los que querían intervenir con un grito que revelaba todo el trasfondo ideológico de la operación: &#8216;No se metan, estos son unos contrarrevolucionarios&#39;. Ante nuestra resistencia verbal, tomaron el teléfono y dijeron a alguien que debió ser su jefe: &#8216;¿Qué hacemos? No quieren subir al auto&#39;. Imagino que del otro lado la respuesta fue tajante, porque después vino una andanada de golpes, empujones, me cargaron con la cabeza hacia abajo e intentaron colarme en el carro. Me aguanté de la puerta… golpes en los nudillos… alcancé a quitarle un papel que uno de ellos llevaba en el bolsillo y me lo metí en la boca. Otra andanada de golpes para que les devolviera el documento.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers. &#8216;Yoani, get in the car,&#39; one told me while grabbing me forcefully by the wrist. The other two surrounded Claudia Cadelo, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, and a friend who was accompanying us to the march against violence. The ironies of life, it was an evening filled with punches, shouts and obscenities on what should have passed as a day of peace and harmony. The same &#8216;aggressors&#39; called for a patrol car which took my other two companions, Orlando and I were condemned to the car with yellow plates, the terrifying world of lawlessness and the impunity of Armageddon.</p>
<p>I refused to get into the bright Geely-made car and we demanded they show us identification or a warrant to take us. Of course they didn’t show us any papers to prove the legitimacy of our arrest. The curious crowded around and I shouted, &#8216;Help, these men want to kidnap us,&#39; but they stopped those who wanted to intervene with a shout that revealed the whole ideological background of the operation, &#8216;Don’t mess with it, these are counterrevolutionaries.&#39; In the face of our verbal resistance they made a phone call and said to someone who must have been the boss, &#8216;What do we do? They don’t want to get in the car.&#39; I imagine the answer from the other side was unequivocal, because then came a flurry of punches and pushes, they got me with my head down and tried to push me into the car. I held onto the door… blows to my knuckles… I managed to take a paper one of them had in his pocket and put it in my mouth. Another flurry of punches so I would return the document to them.</p></div>
<p>Yoaní&#39;s post goes on to describe further brutality inflicted on herself and Orlando, and their eventual release:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nos dejaron tirados y adoloridos en una calle de la Timba, una mujer se acercó &#8216;¿Qué les ha pasado?&#39;… &#8216;Un secuestro&#39;, atiné a decir. Lloramos abrazados en medio de la acera, pensaba en Teo, por Dios cómo voy a explicarle todos estos morados. Cómo voy a decirle que vive en un país donde ocurre esto, cómo voy a mirarlo y contarle que a su madre, por escribir un blog y poner sus opiniones en kilobytes, la han violentado en plena calle. Cómo describirle la cara despótica de quienes nos montaron a la fuerza en aquel auto, el disfrute que se les notaba al pegarnos, al levantar mi saya y arrastrarme semidesnuda hasta el auto.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">We were left aching, lying in a street in Timba, a woman approached, &#8216;What has happened?&#39;… &#8216;A kidnapping,&#39; I managed to say. We cried in each others arms in the middle of the sidewalk, thinking about Teo, for God’s sake how am I going to explain all these bruises. How am I going to tell him that we live in a country where this can happen, how will I look at him and tell him that his mother, for writing a blog and putting her opinions in kilobytes, has been beaten up on a public street. How to describe the despotic faces of those who forced us into that car, their enjoyment that I could see as they beat us, their lifting my skirt as they dragged me half naked to the car.</div>
<p>At the time of writing, Yoaní&#39;s post had attracted 1,412 comments.</p>
<p>Claudia also quickly entered her version of the incident <a href="http://octavocercoen.blogspot.com/2009/11/march-where-i-wasnt.html" target="_blank">on her blog</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>We refused to get in the car, there were three of them and they threatened us:</p>
<p>&#8216;Get in the car, now.&#39;<br />
&#8216;Let us see your documents, or bring a policeman.&#39;</p>
<p>Orlando had his cell phone in his hand. &#8216;Pardo, don’t record,&#39; said the one in the orange shirt, and I got my cell out. Nobody noticed me, I sent the first Tweet… In less than three minutes a patrol car came up with a couple of cops—a woman and a man—completely dumbstruck by the scene. They carried out their orders almost in slow motion, the woman told me:</p>
<p>&#8216;Don’t resist.&#39;</p>
<p>&#8216;They are undocumented,&#39; it occurred to me to enlighten her.</p>
<p>Yoani was clinging to a bush, I was clinging to her waist, and the woman was pulling me by the leg. They had already dragged Orlando off, outside my field of vision. A man at the bus-stop looked on with an expression of terror, people didn’t say a single word. The officer, very young, got me in an armlock that immobilized me. I could have kicked a little but I was too astonished at seeing Yoani’s legs sticking out the rear window of the State Security car.</p></blockquote>
<p>Her post goes on to relate the chain of events in great detail, but she ends on a triumphant note:</p>
<blockquote><p>Then the first call came, with a 00 international prefix, and I knew nothing had been in vain, even if we had all been arrested and the march suspended. When, later, I saw the video that Ciro brought me, I knew for certain: They lost; it&#39;s the countdown.</p></blockquote>
<p>Commenting on the incident, diaspora blogger <em><a href="http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2009/11/cuban-bloggers-arrested.html">Uncommon Sense</a></em> expresses some surprise, since &#8220;those of us overseas who presume that because Yoani, Claudia and the others are so well known, the Castro dictatorship would never dare arrest them.&#8221;  Yet arrest them they reportedly did.  He continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Of course, we should never be surprised at what the regime does when it comes to trying to silence its opposition on the island.</p>
<p>And we should never underestimate the importance of the protection we provide every time we read one of their blogs. Obviously, it doesn&#39;t provide them absolute immunity, but it is conceivable that someone like Yoani Sanchez would have a long ago been locked away in the Castro gulag were it not for the fact that she is so well known.</p>
<p>What you provide them with each click is the moral support vital for their continuing struggle for freedom.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://babalublog.com/2009/11/breaking-news-yoani-sanchez-arrested-in-cuba/" target="_blank"><em>Babalu Blog</em></a>, after publishing the story as breaking news, kept updating the post as more details became available, including an 8:15 am entry showing evidence of physical abuse via a photo that was sent to <em><a href="http://www.penultimosdias.com/2009/11/07/knuck-knuck-knuckin%E2%80%99-on-my-nuca/">Penultimos Dias</a></em> by Orlando Luis Pardo.  <a href="http://cubanamericanpundits.blogspot.com/2009/11/beer-ice-cream-and-beaten-bloggers.html" target="_blank"><em>Cuban American Pundits</em></a>&#8216; John R. learned of Yoani&#39;s detention from <a href="http://babalublog.com/2009/11/breaking-news-yoani-sanchez-arrested-in-cuba/" target="_blank"><em>Babalu</em></a> and goes on to comment:</p>
<blockquote><p>It can only be said that the Cuba Governement is afraid, and that these heirs to Cuba&#39;s future are extremely brave.</p></blockquote>
<p>The blog also searched mainstream media sites to determine how big the story was and was disappointed to learn that &#8220;the only thing <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/04/cuba.trade/index.html">CNN</a> is covering on Cuba is how Miller Beer and Haagen Dazs ice cream may be sold in Cuba &#8212; for a premium nonetheless. As Cuban citizens are sequestered and beaten for their exercising of free speech, Chicago Foods (and other companies) are negotiating how beer and ice cream are to be sold on the island.&#8221; (<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/07/cuba.blogger.detained/index.html" target="_blank">CNN eventually went on to cover the story</a> of the bloggers&#39; seizure.)  The post goes on to comment on the U.S. economic embargo against the island, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>For those who claim that a new era has dawned on Cuba should take a close look at the incident that happened with a peaceful group of Cuban bloggers. Nothing has changed. Oppression remains in the cities while luxury and freedom exudes in the resorts.</p>
<p>I don&#39;t know about you, but I&#39;m no longer eating Hagen Dazs ice cream nor drinking Miller beer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oswaldo Payá of the Movimiento Cristiano Liberación issued <a href="http://www.oswaldopaya.org/es/2009/11/07/mcl-se-solidariza-con-yoani-sanchez-darsi-ferrer-ylas-demas-victimas-de-la-represion/">a statement</a> expressing solidarity with Sánchez and other victims of repression. <a href="http://www.mybigfatcubanfamily.com/my_big_fat_cuban_family/2009/11/standing-with-yoani.html" target="_blank"><em>My big, fat Cuban family</em></a> is also standing in solidarity with her Cuban sisters:</p>
<blockquote><p>I have the supreme luxury of writing about anything that excites or amuses me at any given time. And I do.</p>
<p>Today I want to make you aware if you&#39;re not already, of a group of dissident bloggers presently under fire for blogging in Cuba.</p>
<p>Unlike me, they write about the everyday indignities of living in castro&#39;s gulag. You understand, of course, that in a communist country, dissension is not just discouraged, it is oftentimes attacked.</p>
<p>Yet these brave bloggers persist&#8230;Tonight, Yoani Sanchez and a group of dissidents were picked up, harassed, detained and beaten as they prepared to attend, ironically, a demonstration against the use of violence.</p>
<p>They knew and called her by name and forced her into a car where she figured that this was a kidnapping  which would end in her execution. Although she and her dissident companions were beaten severely they were subsequently released.</p>
<p>Her safety lies here. On blogs like mine.</p></blockquote>
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<a href="http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2009/11/cuban-blogger-yoani-sanchez-shaken-up.html" target="_blank">Along the Malecon</a></em> gives some background to the incident and firmly believes that &#8220;the legend of Yoani Sanchez grew Friday after Cuban authorities snatched her off the street, shoved her into a car and roughed her up before freeing her&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>Luis Eligio, of the counterculture group OMNI-Zona Franca, and two rappers organized the march. On Oct. 20, Sanchez was one of more than 10 bloggers who staged a &#8216;virtual protest&#39; using Tweets, cell phone text messages and blog posts to call for the release of political prisoners. All this puts the socialist government in a tough spot. The more force authorities use, the easier it will be for opposition activists to recruit followers. These incidents also help galvanize international support for Sanchez and other bloggers. This support grows at an exponential rate, colonizing cyberspace and making it difficult for the Cuban government to effectively counter.</p></blockquote>
<p>In <a href="http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2009/11/peace-march-rather-shady-pro-government.html" target="_blank">a separate post</a>, the blogger highlights the views of those who are a tad sceptical about the whole event, one of whom is Cuban journalist Vladia Rubio Jiménez, who writes in <a href="http://vladia.blogcip.cu/2009/11/07/huele-a-quema%C2%B4o-en-calle-g/" target="_blank">her blog</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Francamente, me resulta bien oscuro el asunto. ¿A partir de ahora seremos testigos de “espontáneas” marchas de protesta? ¿Contra qué violencia estaban pronunciándose esos muchachos con sus abstractos carteles? ¿Sería contra la que está ocurriendo en Afganistán, Honduras,  o contra lo acontecido en la más importante base militar norteamericana donde un enloquecido disparó y dejó muertas a 13 personas y varios heridos?</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Frankly, I find the matter rather shady. From now on will we have to witness &#39;spontaneous&#39; protest marches? Violence against what were these guys demonstrating with their signs? Would it be against what is happening in Afghanistan, Honduras, or against what happened on the biggest U.S. military base where a madman shot and left 13 people dead and several injured?</div>
<p>She continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Por lo que leo, parece haber sido una manifestación organizada sobre todo a través de algunos blogs, entre ellos Octavo Cerco; y también me asombra ver las posibilidades tecnológicas de que disponen: teléfonos celulares, rápidas conexiones a Internet que incluso les permiten subir los videos… En ninguna parte dice con claridad quién convocó esa marcha.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">From what I read, it seems to have been a demonstration organized mainly through some blogs, including Octavo Cerco and it also amazes me to see the available technology at their disposal: cell phones, fast Internet connections that even allow them to upload videos&#8230; Nowhere does it say clearly who called for that march.</div>
<p><em><a href="http://yohandry.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/yoani-sanchez-fuera-de-temporada/">Yohandry&#39;s Weblog</a></em> echoes her sceptisicm:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pero bien, Claudia Cadelo dejó este vídeo en su blog. No comprendo cómo pueden subir sus videos a Youtube tan rápido, pero allí está. Ella misma por Twitter dijo que no había llegado hasta el performance, además de que explicó que estaba detenida.</p>
<p>Cómo pudo hacer Twitter detenida, cómo subió el video desde un carro de la policía?</p>
<p>Entra en acción Yoani Sánchez.  Ahora bien, Yoani Sánchez cuenta a las siempre listas agencias y emisoras que tienen la misión de cubrir sus actividades lo ocurrido con ella y otros bloggers que se encaminaban al performance, quizás con el objetivo de provocar, nadie sabe.</p>
<p>Les dejo la grabación, ¡esos medios tan ágiles al servicio de Yoani! Adelanto que cuenta que ella tiene celular, computadora y seguirá haciendo Twitter, cosa que no acabo de comprender, cuando ella misma dice que no tiene libertad para trabajar en Cuba.</p>
<p>Y yo esperaré ahora  la otra versión de lo ocurrido. Como dice el dicho, siempre hay un ojo que te ve.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">But well, Claudia Cadelo left this video on her blog. I do not understand how they can upload their videos on YouTube so fast, but there it is. She even said on Twitter that she had not been able to get to the performance, and she explained why she was detained.</p>
<p>How could she have been on Twitter while she was detained? How did she upload the video from a police car?</p>
<p>Yoani Sánchez enters the scene. Well, lets see, Yoani Sánchez tells the agencies and stations, whose mission is to readily cover her events, what happened to her and to other bloggers who were going to the performance. Maybe with the intention of provoking. No one knows.</p>
<p>Here is the recording. These media act so rapidly to service Yoani! I must say that she has a cell phone, a computer, and she will keep on using Twitter, something I simply cannot understand when she says that she has no freedom to work in Cuba.</p>
<p>And I will wait for the next version of the incident. Like the saying says: there is always an eye that sees you.</p></div>
<p>Social media users are certainly keeping a close eye on developments.  Even as <a href="http://twitter.com/ClaudiaCadelo" target="_blank">Claudia tweeted about the incident</a>, apparently while it was happening - &#8220;<span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Estoy detenida</span><span class="meta entry-meta"><a class="entry-date" rel="bookmark" href="http://twitter.com/ClaudiaCadelo/status/5490743504"> <span class="published timestamp">about 22 hours ago</span></a> <span>from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&amp;id=75">txt</a></span></span></span>&#8221; was her first entry - her <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter</a> followers have shown their support, with one user calling her &#8220;<span class="status-body"><span id="msgtxt5501566171" class="msgtxt es">muy valiente&#8221; (&#8221;very brave&#8221;). </p>
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<div class="contributors"><em>The thumbnail image used in this post, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/2901480891/">&#8220;The Freedom of Speech&#8221;</a>, is by Caveman 92223, used under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en">a Creative Commons license</a>.  Visit <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/">Caveman 92223&#39;s flickr photostream</a>.</em></div>
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<div class="contributors"><a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/georgia-popplewell/">Georgia Popplewell</a> and <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/firuzeh-shokooh-valle/">Firuzeh Shokooh Valle</a> contributed to this post.</div>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisian blogger Fatma Riahi, who blogs as Fatma Arabicca, has been charged with defamation on her own blog and is now being detained. A group has been formed on Facebook in support of the 34-year-old blogger, who is also being accused of blogging on Debat Tunise (Tunisia Debate). 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tunisian blogger Fatma Riahi, who <a href="http://fatma-arabicca.blogspot.com/">blogs</a> as Fatma Arabicca, has been charged with defamation on her own blog and is now being detained. A group has been formed on <i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=171535170769&#038;ref=nf">Facebook</a></i> in support of the 34-year-old blogger, who is also being accused of blogging on <i>Debat Tunise </i>(Tunisia Debate). </p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Mendes-Franco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Copyright violation is still a troubling one on the internet&#8221;: Signifyin&#39; Guyana explores the issue.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Copyright violation is still a troubling one on the internet&#8221;: <em><a href="http://signifyinguyana.typepad.com/signifyin_guyana/2009/11/is-it-really-theft-if-you-steal-it-from-a-blog-.html">Signifyin&#39; Guyana</a></em> explores the issue.</p>
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		<title>Russia: Markelov&#039;s Alleged Killers Arrested</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/06/russia-markelovs-alleged-killers-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronica Khokhlova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia Blog reports on the arrest of the alleged killers of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Russia Blog</em> <a href="http://www.russiablog.org/2009/11/stanislav-markelov-anastasiya-baburova-killers-found.php">reports</a> on the arrest of the alleged killers of <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/20/russia-lawyer-markelov-and-journalist-baburova-shot-dead-in-moscow/">lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova</a>.</p>
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		<title>Kosovo, Hungary: More on the Tisza River Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/06/kosovo-hungary-more-on-the-tisza-river-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronica Khokhlova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fistful of Euros discusses the story of tragic death of 15 Kosovo Albanian illegal immigrants, who were trying to cross the Tisza River into Hungary and the EU. More about it - in Marietta Le&#39;s Oct. 28 GV post.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>A Fistful of Euros</em> <a href="http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/transition-and-accession/death-on-the-tisza/">discusses</a> the story of tragic death of 15 Kosovo Albanian illegal immigrants, who were trying to cross the Tisza River into Hungary and the EU. More about it - in Marietta Le&#39;s <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/10/28/hungary-serbia-tragedy-at-the-border/">Oct. 28 GV post</a>.</p>
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		<title>Russia: Drug Abuse and Alcoholism</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/05/russia-drug-abuse-and-alcoholism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronica Khokhlova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OpenDemocracy.net writes about Russia&#39;s drug abuse problems. The NYTimes&#39; The Lede and Eternal Remont write about the Russian government&#39;s attempts to fight alcoholism.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>OpenDemocracy.net</em> <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/russia/article/russias-drugs-problem-blame-the-west">writes</a> about Russia&#39;s drug abuse problems. The NYTimes&#39; <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/tackling-the-russian-god/"><em>The Lede</em></a> and <a href="http://eternalremont.blogspot.com/2009/11/vodka-was-is-and-every-shall-be-in.html"><em>Eternal Remont</em></a> write about the Russian government&#39;s attempts to fight alcoholism.</p>
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		<title>Cuba: Gays Arrested</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/05/cuba-gays-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Mendes-Franco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As six Cuban homosexuals are reportedly arrested, Uncommon Sense says: &#8220;their real &#8216;crime&#39; — like that committed by all Cubans, gay or straight, labeled as &#8216;pre-criminal social dangers&#39; — is that with their lifestyle, [they] have chosen to not conform with the &#8216;revolutionary ideal.&#39;&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As six Cuban homosexuals are reportedly arrested, <em><a href="http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2009/11/6-cuban-gays-jailed-as-precriminal-social-dangers.html">Uncommon Sense</a></em> says: &#8220;their real &#8216;crime&#39; — like that committed by all Cubans, gay or straight, labeled as &#8216;pre-criminal social dangers&#39; — is that with their lifestyle, [they] have chosen to not conform with the &#8216;revolutionary ideal.&#39;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: Blogger Arrested?</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/04/sri-lanka-blogger-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rezwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indi.ca wonders about the authenticity of a news report that a netizen named Gayan Rajapakse was arrested in Sri Lanka for ‘web comments’.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Indi.ca</em> <a href="http://indi.ca/2009/11/blogger-arrested/">wonders</a> about the authenticity of a news report that a netizen named Gayan Rajapakse was arrested in Sri Lanka for ‘web comments’.</p>
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		<title>Japan: Debating the fate of Shimokitazawa</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/04/japan-debating-the-fate-of-shimokitazawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Salzberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo's neighborhood of Shimokitazawa is well-known for its complicated spaghetti-like web of shop-lined streets, train tracks and back alleyways, but that web may be in for a big change. Plans to redevelop the area to make way for a 26-meter wide thoroughfare had already aroused opposition among some of the area's fans, but a proposed new design scheme for the local train station has added fuel to the flames. Blogger Hideaki Matsunaga explains why.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tokyo has no lack of small, winding streets. <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo/Shibuya">Shibuya</a> has its maze of criss-crossing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dtengai">shōtengai</a>, <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo/Roppongi">Roppongi</a> its club-lined back alleyways, <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo/Ueno">Ueno</a> its open-air <a href="http://www.galenfrysinger.com/ueno_market_tokyo_japan.htm">street markets</a>. But no neighborhood  in Tokyo packs more complexity per square foot than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimokitazawa">Shimokitazawa</a>, a neighborhood whose layout bears closer resemblance to a ball of thread than to anything an urban planner would come up with.</p>
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<p>Shimokitazawa&#39;s spaghetti-like mess of streets and train lines evoke passion among some, frustration among others. The area has earned a name for itself as a breeding ground for creative young artists with its <a href="http://shimokitareviews.blogspot.com/">dozens of small theaters, art galleries and music venues</a>. While eccentric characters like <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/10/10/rikimaru-toho-the-first-manga-narrating-cantastoria/">Rikimaru Toho</a> fit perfectly into this urban environment, others see the maze of narrow streets as a dangerous fire hazard and a giant urban congestion knot in need of unwinding.</p>
<div id="attachment_104460" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://www.airoots.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ShimokitaMAP.gif"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/route54-small.png" alt="Planned route through Shimokitazawa (Urban Plan Subsidiary Route 54)" title="Planned route through Shimokitazawa (Subsidiary Route 54)" width="400" height="227" class="size-full wp-image-104460" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Planned route through Shimokitazawa (Subsidiary Route 54)</p></div>
<p>The entire area happens to lie in the path of a would-be thoroughfare running through Shimokitazawa to Shibuya, originally set forth in a &#8220;War damage revival plan&#8221; drafted all the way back in 1946. After several changes,  <a href="http://www.airoots.org/2008/10/urban-ecology-man-made-disaster-in-shimokitazawa/">that plan was brought back to life in 2003</a> and demolition and construction work has been slated to start in 2010. Should it be executed, the plan will <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/world/asia/02tokyo.html?_r=1">split Shimokitazawa apart</a> with a 26-meter wide expressway, Subsidiary Route 54 (補助54号線).</p>
<p>While the basic shape of those redevelopment plans had been known for some time, it was only a few weeks ago that the first glimpses of the new design finally <a href="http://www.yoshi-kuni.jp/index.php?id=09100001">emerged on the blog of Kuniyoshi Yoshida</a>, a local landowner and head of the <a href="http://www.shimokitazawa.org/">Shimokitazawa South</a> [ja] shopowners&#39; union. Comments which began to appear on the blog, blasting the new design for its failure to respect the Shimokitazawa atmosphere, were swiftly deleted, but hostility against the plans only grew.</p>
<div id="attachment_104092" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-eki1-300x207.jpg" alt="New shimokitazawa station design" title="New shimokitazawa station design" width="300" height="207" class="size-medium wp-image-104092" /><p class="wp-caption-text">New Shimokitazawa Station design</p></div>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html">blog entry</a> [ja] that drew a <a href="http://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry/www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html">large response</a> [ja], blogger and writer <a href="http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%B0%B8%E8%8B%B1%E6%98%8E">Hideaki Matsunaga</a> [ja] explained why:</p>
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リリー・フランキー氏をはじめとして、下北沢の文化や町並を愛する人たちが、下北沢再開発に反対の意見を表明している。そこには、住人も、住人以外も含まれる。しかし、今、下北沢で何が起こっているのか、なぜこのデザインがこんなに反発を受けるのか、その経緯について簡単にまとめてみる。
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<p>A great number of people who love the Shimokita culture and streets, starting with <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20080612r2.html">Lily Franky</a> and including both residents and non-residents, have voiced their opposition to the Shimokitazawa redevelopment project. What I want to do here is to outline the details of what is going on right now in Shimokitazawa, and why there has been such opposition to this design.</p>
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<p>The blog entry starts with a bit of history:</p>
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下北沢は「Ｘ」の交点に当たる。新宿から伸びる小田急線がその一つのラインであり、渋谷から吉祥寺に伸びる京王井の頭線がもう一つのラインである。新宿・渋谷・吉祥寺、そして小田急線で成城の東宝撮影所や祖師ヶ谷大蔵の円谷プロ旧本社などとつながる交点、それが下北沢である。
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<p>Shimokitazawa is located at an X-shaped intersection. One of the lines in this X is the Odakyu line from Shinjuku, the other is the Keio Inokashira line stretching from Shibuya to Kichijōji. So Shimokitazawa is at an intersection connecting Shinjuku, Shibuya, Kichijoji, as well as places such as the Toho Studios in Seijo and the former headquarters of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuburaya_Productions">Tsuburaya Productions</a> in Soshigaya.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-x1-small.jpg" alt="Shimokitazawa (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" title="Shimokitazawa (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104113" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-x2-small.jpg" alt="Shimokitazawa (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" title="Shimokitazawa (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104115" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-x3-small.jpg" alt="Shimokitazawa (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" title="Shimokitazawa (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104116" /></a></p>
<p><small><em>(Note: all photos of Shimokitazawa reproduced with permission from the <a href="http://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry/www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html">blog of Hideaki Matsunaga</a>.)</em></small></p>
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かつて農村地帯だった駅周辺は次第に郊外の宅地化していった。やがて、横光利一、東郷青児、宇野千代、萩原朔太郎、斎藤茂吉らが住み、「下北沢文士町」という要素も持つようになっていく。萩原朔太郎の『猫町』も下北沢地域を舞台としている。この街と切り離せない作家として、森茉莉らもいる。（→萩原朔太郎 猫町 散文詩風な小説）</p>
<p>戦後の闇市の時代を経て、下北沢は住宅地から繁華街へと発展していった。さらに本多劇場をはじめとする小劇場やライブハウスが次々と生まれ、演劇・音楽・サブカルの街、あるいは演劇や音楽を目指す若者たちが多く集まる街となる。</p>
<p>闇市の記憶を残す下北沢北口の駅前食品市場は、やがて衣料品「アメリカ屋」ブームを起こし、その記憶は下北沢に多く見られる古着やファッションの小さな店に引き継がれているといえよう。
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<p>Once a farming district, the area around the station gradually transformed into a residential area. Before long, it had taken on the character of &#8220;Literary Shimokitazawa&#8221;, home of the likes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riichi_Yokomitsu">Riichi Yokomitsu</a> (横光利一), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiji_Togo">Seiji Tōgō</a> (東郷青児), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiyo_Uno">Chiyo Uno</a> (宇野千代), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakutar%C5%8D_Hagiwara">Sakutarō Hagiwara</a> (萩原朔太郎) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokichi_Sait%C5%8D">Mokichi Saitō</a> (斎藤茂吉). The Shimokitazawa region is also a stage for Sakutarō Hagiwara&#39;s &#8220;Nekomachi&#8221; (猫町). Another group of writers inseparable from Shimokitazawa are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mori_Mari">Mari Mori</a> (森茉莉) and company.</p>
<p>After the post-war black market era, Shimokitazawa developed from a residential era into a shopping district. Starting with the <a href="http://www.honda-geki.com/">Honda Gekijo</a>, small theaters and music venues started appearing, and Shimokitazawa became a city of theater, music and subculture, and a gathering place for young people with an interest in theater and music.</p>
<p>The market in front of the station, which embodies the memory of the black market era, soon gave rise to a boom in &#8220;America stores&#8221; selling clothing, and this memory has been kept alive in the used clothing stores and small fashion shops that can be seen all around Shimokitazawa.</p>
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迷路のような、とたとえられる下北沢。狭い路地が複雑に走るゴチャゴチャ感あふれる街は、徒歩によって回遊できる空間として親しまれてきた。</p>
<p>この下北沢の街が大きく変わろうとしている。そして、その変化は下北沢を「破壊」するものであると考える人が、下北沢住人にも、あるいは下北沢に来る人にも、非常に多い（一方で、その変化を歓迎する商店主もいる）。
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<p>Shimokitazawa is like a labyrinth. Tangled in complicated ways, its jumble of narrow alleyways conveys a sense of disorder, but one that is walkable by foot. It this atmosphere that people are so fond of.</p>
<p>This neighborhood, Shimokitazawa, is on course to be drastically transformed. And there are a large number of people &#8212; both local residents and people who have come from other places &#8212; who feel that this transformation will destroy Shimokitazawa. (On the other hand, there are also shop owners who welcome this transformation.)</p>
</div>
<p>In the next section, Matsunaga points out that there are actually two parts to the redevelopment plans for Shimokitazawa. The first part, which he does not personally oppose, is already underway and focuses on expanding the number of tracks on the Odakyu line and burying them to reduce the number of crosswalks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-eki1-small.jpg" alt="New Shimokitazawa Station design" title="New Shimokitazawa Station design" width="400" height="276" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104128" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-eki2-small.jpg" alt="New Shimokitazawa Station design" title="New Shimokitazawa Station design" width="400" height="150" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104129" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-eki3-small.jpg" alt="New Shimokitazawa Station design" title="New Shimokitazawa Station design" width="400" height="223" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104130" /></a></p>
<p>The second set of redevelopment plans are of a different kind:</p>
<blockquote><p>
さて、この小田急線地下化工事はすでに始まっているが、一方でこれとセットのようにして進められているのが「都市計画道路補助54号線（以下、補助 54号線）」という26メートル幅道路の建設計画、ならびに下北沢駅前にバスロータリーを造るという計画（世田谷区画街路10号線）である。この道路・バスロータリーが、下北沢の街を根底から破壊するものとして反対されている。そして、小田急線地下化と道路事業がセットで行なわれることで世田谷区は補助金をせしめたと考える人たちもいる。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
Now, this construction work on burying Odakyu Line has already started, but they are also pursuing plans for a 26-meter wide road referred to as the &#8220;Urban Strategy for Subsidiary Route 54 (Sub-Road 54 below)&#8221;, along with a plan to construct a bus roundabout in front of Shimokitazawa station (Setagaya District Street 10). The road and bus roundabout are being opposed on the grounds that the project will destroy the city of Shimokitazawa from its very foundations. Some even believe that Setagaya Ward may have packaged the burying of Odakyu line tracks and the road construction plans together as a way to wrangle more subsidies.
</div>
<blockquote><p>
補助54号線は、下北沢演劇文化発祥の地ともいえる「スズナリ」を背後からたたきつぶし、北沢タウンホールの北側を抜けて本多スタジオを踏みつぶし、下北沢北口の街のど真ん中を貫いて、環七と同じ幅の自動車道で街を分断・破壊しようという計画である。そして、環七と都心を結ぶ道路となる。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
Sub-Road 54 is envisioned in plans as coming from behind to crush the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/guwashi999/2351882894/">Suzunari</a>, an area of Shimokitazawa which might be called the birthplace of the local theater culture, carving through the north side of Kitazawa town hall to flatten all of <a href="http://www.honda-geki.com/">Honda Studio</a>, and then running through the middle of the area around the north entrance of Shimokitazawa station, dividing and destroying the city with an expressway as wide as Kan-nana [Tokyo&#39;s No. 7 ring road]. The new road would thus connect Kan-nana to the urban center.
</div>
<blockquote><p>
また、この補助54号線から旧小田急線路跡地に沿って下北沢駅北口に伸びる道路は、駅前食品市場の雑然とした空間を取っ払って作られる駅前ロータリーにつながる。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
Also, a road stretching from Sub-Road 54, along the site of the former Odakyu line tracks, to the north entrance of Shimokitazawa station, will connect to a bus roundabout to be built in front of the station, sweeping away the disorderly atmosphere of the current station-front market.
</div>
<p>In the next section of the blog entry, Matsunaga points out some implications of the redevelopment project:</p>
<blockquote><p>
駅前ロータリーができることで、高層ビルの高さ制限が大きく緩和される可能性も指摘されている。下北沢一帯の建物は低いものが多く、これも歩く街としての性質を生み出しているが、これが一転して高層ビルの町へと変貌する可能性もある。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
<p>With the completion of the station-front roundabout, it has been suggested that the height limitation imposed on tall buildings could be considerably relaxed. There are a lot of low-rise buildings in the Shimokitazawa area, and these buildings lend themselves to creating a pedestrian-friendly environment; this may all at once be replaced by a city of high-rise buildings.</p>
</div>
<p>And he explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>
もちろん、再開発については（今回の白髪爺さんを筆頭に）「地元」でも歓迎する声がある。今回の衆院選前に各陣営に確認したところ、自民党は再開発こそが地元の活性化につながると全面的に賛同していた。民主党は、本当に必要な道路か再調査して不要不急であれば計画見直し、という、どちらともとれる見解だった（一応、無駄を省くという趣旨ではあるのだが、八ツ場ダム中止のように明確な態度を示しているわけではない。ある民主党都議会議員は、「消防車が入れない狭い道は防災上問題」と、事実上再開発賛成を表明している）。みんなの党は、下北沢については詳しくないが、下町風情は残したい、という見解であった。それはさておくとしよう。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
<p>Of course, there are also locals who welcome the redevelopment (with Kuniyoshi Yoshida being first on this list). When I last checked the positions of every [political] camp prior to the lower house elections, the LDP [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)">Liberal Democratic Party</a>] was completely in favor of the redevelopment, arguing that it would rejuvenate the local area. The DPJ [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Japan">Democratic Party of Japan</a>] position was that if a re-examination of the plans found that the road was nonessential and not urgent, then they would review the current plan, and thus the DPJ is not firmly in either camp (of course the aim is to eliminate wastefulness, but they have not expressed a clear position in they way that they did when they <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/world/asia/16dam.html?_r=1&#038;hpw">halted the Yanba Dam project</a>. One DPJ Diet member has in fact indicated their support for redevelopment, [on the grounds that] &#8220;roads that are too small for fire trucks are a fire hazard&#8221;.) Your Party [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Party">Min&#39;na no Tō</a>] have not elaborated their position on Shimokitazawa, but their position has been that they want to protect the old city atmosphere. Let&#39;s put that aside for now.</p>
</div>
<blockquote><p>
この再開発歓迎派は、要するに、今までのゴチャゴチャした下北沢が大嫌いなのである。闇市の記憶を受け継ぐような、北口食品市場が平成の今に至るまで残存していることが許せないのである。自動車が入ってこれないのが発展と進歩を阻害していると感じているのである。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
<p>In short, those who welcome the redevelopment plans are the same people who hate the messy Shimokitazawa of the past and present. They cannot accept that the market by the north exit, which carries on in the tradition of the old black market, has survived to this day. They feel that development and progress are being hampered by the lack of car access to this area.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-ichiba1-small.jpg" alt="Shimokitazawa Market (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" title="Shimokitazawa Market (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104484" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita-ichiba2-small.jpg" alt="Shimokitazawa Market (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" title="Shimokitazawa Market (photo by Hideaki Matsunaga)" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104486" /></a></p>
<p>Returning to the original topic of the design for the new Shimokitazawa station, Matsunaga writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>
下北沢という街の記号として存在するもの、たとえばそれはスズナリであり、駅前食品市場であり、車の入ってこない（タクシーさえもなかなか入って来たがらない）「徒歩空間」の路地であるが、そういうものが補助54号線と駅前ロータリー計画によって、文字通り「ブルドーザーでならされようとしている」。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
<p>The things which symbolize Shimokitazawa, the Suzunari, the shops by the station entrance, the alleys that create the area&#39;s pedestrian atmosphere and which cars cannot navigate (and even taxis have a difficult time navigating) &#8212; all of this is to be literally flattened by bulldozers under the plan to create Sub-Road 54 and the station-front roundabout.</p>
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<blockquote><p>
そしてその後にやってくるものとして提案されたのが、よりによって今回の「下北沢駅駅舎整備イメージ案」なのだ。なぜこんなガラス張りの幾何学的な（つまり非人間的な）ものが「下北沢にふさわしい」のだ。「きれいさっぱりすっきりで直線的な、清潔で明るい駅舎」のどこが、ゴチャゴチャくねくねチマチマでジグザグの、雑然としているが活気のある下北沢の街にふさわしいのだ。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
<p>And then, of all things to come after this, they present this picture as a proposal for the new station design. What is it about this glassed-in geometric (in other words dehumanized) thing that is &#8220;befitting of Shimokitazawa&#8221;? What in the world does this clean and neat, linear, immaculate, bright station building have to do with the jumbled, meandering, zig-zagging little neighborhood around Shimokitazawa, chaotic but also full of life.</p>
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<blockquote><p>
多くの下北沢フリークがこの案に対してほとんど反射的に反発を覚えたのは、決して偶然ではない。まさにそれは「今までの下北沢」のイメージ（あるいは下北沢を守ろうとする人たちの持つ下北沢のイメージ）と、「今までとは根本的に異なる下北沢」を作りたい人たちの願望するイメージが、まさに正反対、明らかに対極に位置するものであったことを意味する。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
It is by no means an accident that so many of Shimokitazawa&#39;s hardcore fans [&#8221;Shimokita freaks&#8221;] have reacted with such knee-jerk revulsion to this proposal. What it is, in fact, is an indication that the image of &#8220;Shimokitazawa of past and present&#8221; (i.e. the way that people who are trying to protect Shimokitazawa see the neighborhood), and the image envisioned by those who want to create a &#8220;new Shimokitazawa&#8221; thoroughly different from what came before it, are in complete and total opposition to each other, at polar oppose extremes.
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<p>Reflecting on his own relation to Shimokitazawa, he continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>
別に下北沢に生まれ育ったわけではないが、その街の雰囲気を楽しみ、好きになってきた一人の人間として、そんな感傷やノスタルジーを感じている。そして、それを共有する地元の人たちと、そうではない地元の人たち、あるいは外部の人たちがいる。</p>
<p>下北沢再開発問題は、決して（八ツ場ダム問題のような）地元VS外部の闘いではない。街とは何か、街の発展とは何かについてのイメージの対立である。
</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">
<p>It&#39;s not that I was born and brought up in Shimokitazawa, but as someone who has enjoyed and become very fond of the neighborhood&#39;s atmosphere, I feel sentimental and nostalgic about the area. And there are people in the area who share this feeling, as well as people who are not from the area, who are from outside.</p>
<p>The Shimokitazawa redevelopment problem is not at all a battle of &#8220;locals&#8221; versus &#8220;outsiders&#8221; (like in the case of the Yanba Dam problem). It&#39;s an opposition between visions of what a neighborhood is, and of what neighborhood development is.</p>
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<p>(In response to many bookmark comments, Matsunaga wrote a <a href="http://www.kotono8.com/2009/10/03shimokitazawa.html">follow-up post</a> [ja] in which he clarified his position on a number of points. In particular, he emphasized that while he is personally against the Sub-Road 54 plans, he is not against the expansion/burying of Odakyu line tracks. He also responded to many comments claiming that the redevelopment is necessary for safety reasons.)</p>
<p><strong>Update (Nov. 7)</strong></p>
<p>Some more pictures of Shimokitazawa:</p>
<div id="attachment_105160" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanakotokita/447889334/in/set-72157600754268199/"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/suzunari.png" alt="The Suzunari theater in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)" title="The Suzunari theater in Shimokitazawa" width="400" height="266" class="size-full wp-image-105160" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Suzunari theater in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)</p></div>
<div id="attachment_105164" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanakotokita/447889370/sizes/m/in/set-72157600754268199/"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita.png" alt="Building in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)" title="Building in Shimokitazawa" width="400" height="266" class="size-full wp-image-105164" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Building in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)</p></div>
<div id="attachment_105169" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanakotokita/447955318/in/set-72157600754268199"><img src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/shimokita2.png" alt="Cafe in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)" title="Cafe in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)" width="400" height="266" class="size-full wp-image-105169" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cafe in Shimokitazawa (photo by mamacharikinoko)</p></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oleg Kozlovsky writes about this past Saturday&#39;s opposition rally in Moscow: &#8220;I was arrested while trying to tweet what I saw. Apparently, one of the officers recognized me. Along with some 20 more people in the bus I was taken to a police station where we were charged with… lighting flares, chanting slogans and throwing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oleg Kozlovsky <a href="http://olegkozlovsky.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/human-rights-protesters-arrested-in-moscow-for-demanding-freedom-of-assembly/">writes</a> about this past Saturday&#39;s opposition rally in Moscow: &#8220;I was arrested while trying to <a href="http://twitter.com/kozlovsky">tweet</a> what I saw. Apparently, one of the officers recognized me. Along with some 20 more people in the bus I was taken to a police station where we were charged with… lighting flares, chanting slogans and throwing leaflets–the ones that Putinyouth were throwing.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Balkans: Another Open Letter To Amnesty International</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/02/the-balkans-another-open-letter-to-amnesty-international/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronica Khokhlova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another open letter to Noam Chomsky and Amnesty International - at Americans For Bosnia, Greater Surbiton, and Srebrenica Genocide Blog.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another open letter to Noam Chomsky and Amnesty International - at <a href="http://americansforbosnia.blogspot.com/2009/11/society-for-threatened-peoples.html"><em>Americans For Bosnia</em></a>, <a href="http://greatersurbiton.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/noam-chomsky-and-amnesty-international-two-open-letters/"><em>Greater Surbiton</em></a>, and <a href="http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/2009/11/prof-noam-chomsky-is-genocide-denier.html"><em>Srebrenica Genocide Blog</em></a>.</p>
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