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15 January 2012

Video Highlights: Activism, Freedom of Speech, Identity and Culture

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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3 January 2012

Latin America, 2011: A Year Marked by Social Movements

Written by Silvia Viñas · Education, Environment

Citizens across the world took to the streets in 2011, and Latin America was no exception. In this post we look at the social movements that marked 2011 in South and Central America and how protests, vigils, marches and occupations were covered and analyzed through citizen media.

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29 December 2011

Colombia: Salsa Song Criticizes Bus Rapid Transport System

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Development, Humor

A salsa song and video documents the suffering that travelling in the Transmilenio public transportation system of Bogota represents for its users.

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13 December 2011

Colombia: Professor's Resignation Sparks Debate on Writing

Written by Julián Ortega Martínez · Education, Youth

Colombian journalist and university professor Camilo Jiménez sparked an international debate on writing in the digital age, Colombia's higher education system and other related issues after he posted an entry in his blog explaining why he resigned from teaching an editing class after nine years.

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16 October 2011

Worldwide: Dialogue and Peace Through Sport

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Claire Ulrich · 7 Billion Actions

Joël Bouzou, a bronze medalist during the 1984 Olympic Games and World Champion of modern penthathlon in 1987, is the founder and president of Peace and Sport, an NGO created in 2007 whose motto is "Building sustainable peace through sport".

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15 October 2011

Colombia: Palestinian Leader Mahmud Abbas Visits President Santos

Written by Robert Valencia · Translated by Louella Mahabir · Governance, History

In Latin America, the countries that don't recognise Palestine are few --including Colombia. As a result, President Abbas visited Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota to discuss relations between Palestine and Israel.

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Updates about Colombia

7 February 2012

Updates

Setty recommends the Institute of the Americas' English-language podcast series on energy in Latin America.

• Silvia Viñas

2 February 2012

Spanish

The Born on December 31st documentary by Priscila Padilla exposes a human rights violation the Wayuu indigenous group have been under. Many of their national IDs, mass produced to get important votes in election periods, state they were all born on the same date and feature offensive made-up names; which they were unable to notice because Spanish is not their native language.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

27 January 2012

Spanish

Colombian journalist Héctor Abad (@hectorabadf) [es] is one of many Twitter users who are alarmed [es] by Twitter's decision to implement “a sort of geolocated censorship”, as Periodismo Ciudadano explains [es]. On social networks in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries users are quoting and sharing related blog posts by Juan Luis Sanchez [es] and Víctor Solano [es], among others.

• Lully Posada

Spanish

Jesus Ramon Rivera Bulla, rector of the University of Tolima, resigned after 11 years holding his position just days after journalist Daniel Condell [es] accused him [es] of nepotism in an article for magazine Semana. Carlos Arturo Gamboa [es] refers to the issue in his blog, while netizens on social networks [es] and blogs [es] are echoing and analyzing the accusation.

• Lully Posada

26 January 2012

English

Intercontinental Cry has a list of 12 recommended films on indigenous issues, some made by indigenous people from Brazil, Australia, Panama, USA, Northern Kenya, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

24 January 2012

Spanish

The International Center for Arts of the Americas (ICCA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has released a digital archive of 20th-century Latin American and Latino art, which, “is now available, free of charge, to the research and teaching community as well as to the public at large.” Culture magazine Ñ [es] briefly interviewed Mari Carmen Ramírez, the project's director.

• Silvia Viñas

21 January 2012

Spanish

The Conspiracy for Peace is the new video the local rap and hip hop artists have made with the support of the local TV network Telemedellin. The song was written collectively by the artists of Medellin and the surrounding cities for the Peace One Day and is a message of peace, unity, coexistence, respect and positive energy.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

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