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11 August 2005

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 11 August 2005

Images from Brazil: Guiding Hand

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

Gregory Smith, founder of the Children at Risk Foundation, has recently posted this photo, “Fly, Hummingbird Fly” to help document the latest outreach project of the organization. You can learn...

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Israeli blogosphere

Written by Rachel Barenblat · Middle East & North Africa

In the English-language Israeli blogosphere, most people are talking about the disengagement.

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Trinidad & Tobago: Another Bombing, Evidence All Washed Up

Written by Andy Carvin · Caribbean

Taran Rampersad reports on the second bombing this summer in Trinidad & Tobago, neither of which has generally received much attention in the international press.

Speculation so far has been that nobody was injured because of the amount of rain, and the fact that it's basically an area that vagrants are supposedly found in.... Evidence is expected to be washed away with the rain (that area frequently floods), and nobody was injured. Yet, at the end of the day - who would do such a thing? And while some idiots who will try to twist the news to support their purposes (saying that it's Al Qaeda), nobody seems to have claimed responsibility again.

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India: Blogging the Deluge

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

India: Blogging the Deluge. How blogs are challenging Main Stream Media's version of events, and the government's response.

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Updates from 11 August 2005

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

Kevin Shockey isn't optimistic about the economic future of Puerto Rico.

• David Sasaki

Suriname

A little late on this one, but the University of Michigan School of Art and Design has a wonderful collection of 11 posts documenting the month-long stay by faculty and grad students in Suriname.

• David Sasaki

In a long, thoughtful post by Anarchogeek on the future of radio, he links to a pirate radio station which is broadcasted from a poor neighborhood in Montevideo, Urugay. “The station has music, radio theater, locally produced programs, international politics, and covers local events for the community and is a major force for bottom up social organization and community events in a poor and violence plagued neighborhood. The station streams over the net, some of the time, so that former residents of the bario can listen and keep in touch with home even though they were forced to become economic migrants in Brazil, the US, and Europe.”

• David Sasaki

Neeka's Backlog brings us a report from a Russian newspaper that Natalya Dmytruk, the sign language interpreter for the state TV channel, may soon lose her job. Dmytruk played a key role in Ukraine's Orange Revolution when she silently informed her viewers that initial election results were fraudulent while her speaking colleagues were toeing the party line.

• Paul Frankenstein