Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2005 December 15

15 December 2005

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Stories from 15 December 2005

Podcast: Global Voices Summit Session1

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Audio of the Global Voices 2005 Summit is now available in podcast form!! Each audio file is being posted as a separate entry so that everything can be captured by...

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Podcast: Global Voices Summit Session2

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Audio of the Global Voices 2005 Summit is now available in podcast form!! Each audio file is being posted as a separate entry so that everything can be captured by...

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Podcast: Global Voices Summit Session 3 Part 1

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Audio of the Global Voices 2005 Summit is now available in podcast form!! Each audio file is being posted as a separate entry so that everything can be captured by...

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Podcast: Global Voices Summit Session 3 Part 2

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Audio of the Global Voices 2005 Summit is now available in podcast form!! Each audio file is being posted as a separate entry so that everything can be captured by...

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Podcast: Global Voices Summit Session 4 Part 1

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Audio of the Global Voices 2005 Summit is now available in podcast form!! Each audio file is being posted as a separate entry so that everything can be captured by...

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Podcast: Global Voices Summit Session 4 Part 2

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

Audio of the Global Voices 2005 Summit is now available in podcast form!! Each audio file is being posted as a separate entry so that everything can be captured by...

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Updates from 15 December 2005

China

EastSouthWestNorth talks about how a “ladder blog” had just helped a post climb over the Great Firewall of China: by translating into English a post in Chinese at a blocked Hong Kong blog, which was then retranslated into Chinese on a mainland China blog.

• Jose Manuel Tesoro

Philippines

Edwin Lacierda of San Juan Gossip Mills Outlet discusses his disgust with the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, which had in the past distinguished itself by criticizing the state when no one else would. “Were it once was the harbinger of decisive action, it is now the voice of indecision. Were it once kowtowed to no one, it is now a servile serf.”

• Jose Manuel Tesoro

Singapore

Little Boy from the Heartlands asks if Singapore's stringent drug laws should be changed.

• Jose Manuel Tesoro

South Korea

Flying Yangban gives us a blow-by-blow roundup of blog posts discussing the South Korean unification minister's supposed snubbing of the U.S. special envoy for North Korea human rights.

• Jose Manuel Tesoro

Vietnam

No Star Where describes the fascinating alleyways of Saigon.

• Jose Manuel Tesoro

Mexico

Eduardo Arcos writes that yesterday morning there was a press conference (ES) held by Intel and RocketBoom to announce a competition for best Spanish-language video blog related in some way to Mexico. Arcos himself will be a judge and entries will be accepted between January 15th and February 28th.

• David Sasaki

Venezuela

Oil Wars has more excellent photojournalistic coverage or Caracas, this time focusing on a government social program which creates discount stores in the area known as El Valle. Commenters note that the foodstuffs hardly look nutritious. Venepoetics has translated two opinion pieces critical of the current government; the first by Oswaldo Barreto and the second by Jorge Preciado.