Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 May 02

2 May 2006

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Stories from 2 May 2006

Bloggers Against Vandals' Disorders on May 1

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Photo by new camerons The Workers United Centre (CUT) commemorates the first of May every year, all over the main cities of the country. In Santiago a peaceful march on...

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Workers, Women, Ahmadinejad & Ayatollahs

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Iranian blogs have talked about 1 May demonstration in Tehran and Ahamdinejad’s decision to permit women to go to stadiums to watch football. President’s decision has been discussed on Iranian...

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Global Voices at the We Media Global Forum

Written by Rachel Rawlins · Ideas, Freedom of Speech

Yes, we'll be there in full effect. And we hope as many bloggers and other internet inhabitants as possible will join us via the exciting live chat page which has...

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Image from Martinique: Fort-de-France

Written by Alice Backer · Caribbean

View of Fort-de-France, capital of Martinique by VuBlog. “Calm ocean, few clouds, slight breeze, gorgeous day for a first of May” says (FR) VuBlog.

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Broadening Blogging in Africa by Radio

Written by Rachel Rawlins · Sub-Saharan Africa

Some members of the audience may have been sceptical - “blogging is too complex… where is the power for the connection, the internet is still a luxury” was the comment...

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Education in India: Different Voices

Written by Mridula Dwivedi · South Asia

India is attracting a lot of FDI and one of the reasons given for it is the educated population. The spread of education in India is quite uneven but here...

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Brazil raps about transition to digital TV

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

It is in a year where Brazilians will face a World Cup -- and hot presidential elections -- that the debate about the digital TV implementation is arriving in Brazil. The open network is one more time sheltering the most productive exchange of ideas and arguments on the issue.

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Updates from 2 May 2006

Kyrgyzstan

Matt Jay asks whether or not Kyrgyzstan is on the brink of political chaos in light of recent political developments and plummeting public confidence in the country's president.

• Nathan Hamm

Russia

Nessuna writes at Oneworld Multimedia about the rise in racist attacks in Russia against people with darker skin and how Armenians have reacted to the stabbing death of a 17 year old Armenian in Moscow.

• Nathan Hamm

Mongolia

Luke Distelhorst reports that Mongolia is worried about all the ships flying its flag on the high seas. Mongolia's has long been a “flag of convenience,” and the government is now concerned that the ships flying it may not be safe.

• Nathan Hamm

Brazil

Andrew of Comings Communiqué has posted a video a talented saxophonist he encountered at a church service in Northeastern Brazil. The verdict? “Kenny G, has nothing on this guy!” I most certainly concur.

• David Sasaki

Argentina

Martin Varsavsky, himself an Argentine immigrant living in Spain envisions “political parties made of immigrants joined by native citizens who felt that to them humanity was a stronger concept than nationalism.” In fact, he says it's already happening: “As the May 1st walkout is proving, America would suffer very badly without the hispanic participation. And when all the other immigrants join in, Asians, Eastern Europeans, Africans, it will be time for mainstream political parties that something must be done to end the tremendous unfairness of people working every day who are treated as criminals.”

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

Eduardo Ávila has posted the entire Spanish text of Supreme Decree 28701, which explains - in nine articles - the details of Bolivia's nationalization of its natural gas resources. Alvaro Ruiz-Navajas has collected reactions from news outlets across the world. We'll have more on this story in a feature post tomorrow.

• David Sasaki

Argentina

Brandan compares Maradona's recent donning of a Brazilian football jersey to “Michael Jordan wearing a CCCP warm-up during the Cold War.” Meanwhile, Argentine journalism professor Julian Gallo says that blogger and author Leandro Zanoni has published a book about Diego Maradona's life in the media. In a followup post, Gallo clarifies that “the post … about the launch of the book about Maradona doesn't show any sympathy for its subject.” Then, “according to the emails I received yesterday and the comments so far, the level of fanaticism that many Argentineans have with this ex-football player is shameful.”

• David Sasaki

Nepal

Blogdai on the culture of democracy, the place of youth and younger citizens and taking to the streets - “These protests represented the interests of the 7-party alliance, not the majority. In fact, without elections, how does one know exactly where the majority opinion lies? Majorities are keepers of the democratic process– they represent and maintain the system.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...