Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 February 21

21 February 2006

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Stories from 21 February 2006

Non Violence, Conservatism & Human Rights

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Fanousian , a collective blog, has done an interview with Dr. Brian Martin writer in nonviolence, and associate professor in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Wollongong. This...

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KenyanSphere this week

Written by Marc · Sub-Saharan Africa

Bankelele is moving house, and is finding it more time consuming and frustrating than he had thought — the ranks of real estate agents are stuffed with crooks and conmen...

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Benin: Angelique Kido

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Jangbalajugbu-Homeland Stories writes about Benin artist, Angelique Kido - in particular her 1994 album, Aye which he says could have been released yesterday…….”I wikied her name and I learnt the...

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Zimbabwe: increasing costs of univeristy

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

This is Zimbabwe reports on the increasing costs of attending university in the country. In January fees went up 400% and now in February they have gone up a further...

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The silencing of Cayman Cop

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Caribbean

Finally — a Caribbean blogging controversy. Involving a blogging policeman, a local newspaper and a witch hunt by an irate constabulary. In — of all places — the mild-mannered Cayman...

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Reflections on Blogging with Fernando Flores

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Chilean Senator

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Updates from 21 February 2006

Ukraine

Ukraine, faced with threats now from Turkmenistan that it will raise gas prices, is reacting aggressively, reports neweurasia

• Nathan Hamm

Was 1905 in Estonia a prelude to 1917 or the year Estonia's independence movement was born? Bonjour l'Estonie links to a review of a photo exhibit capable of shedding light on this neglected and potentially divisive historical period: “Manors are Burning!: The 1905 Revolution in Estonia.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Bonjour l'Estonie links to an article in Free Estonian Word about how the choices made more than 60 years ago still reverberate today: “People defend and excuse collaboration with the Nazis while condemning any sort of contact with the Soviets. Others, including prominent members of Estonia's political life, take the opposite view and defend collaboration with the Soviets. And all the while, they all maintain that their collaboration was in fact intended to help Estonia. Perhaps the truth is that it helped only themselves instead.”

• Veronica Khokhlova