Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 May 08

8 May 2006

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Stories from 8 May 2006

Kifaya Under Arrest

Written by Elijah Zarwan · Middle East & North Africa

There's a gentle spring breeze blowing in Brooklyn, and the sounds of kids playing basketball are coming in through the window from the schoolyard next door. It's early evening, at...

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Peru: Toward the Second Round

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

And so the elections in Peru have passed, but they will return because they have no officially announced what we all already knew: there will be a second round of...

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Afghan Whispers: To Celebrate or not!

Written by Fred Petrossian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Afghan bloggers talk about anniversary of Kabul's fall in hands of Mujahedin. They disagree about whether or not to celebrate. Why should the Afghan people celebrate this day? Did they...

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Internet Censorship in Pakistan

Written by KO · South Asia

The Pakistan govenment has been attempting to censor the Internet, in fits and starts over the years. Pakistan has a long history of censorship, from banning books & magazines to...

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Alaa detained for 15 days “pending investigation”

Written by Haitham Sabbah · Middle East & North Africa

Today, the Egyptian blogsphere is loaded with anger and appeals for urgent actions. All what you need to know to feel the pulse is watching the Egyptian Blogs Aggregator (maintained...

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Ghana: Health Care

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Trials and Tribulations of a Freshyly Arrrive Denizen debates public v private health care in Ghana... A lot of people, including myself, appreciate the efforts of public health care, but...

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Africa: Religious miracles

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa Unchained points to an article on the rampant spread of belief in religious miracles in Africa….” From the Gambia to South Africa, Africans believe in miracles are legendary. In...

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Voices of African Women

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Afromusing continues her excellent reports on solar power in Africa. She has opened up her blog to take questions on alternative energy in Africa and here she answers a question...

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Updates from 8 May 2006

Venezuela

Liz Henry has translated a portion of Venezuelan-born Meibell's account (ES) of purchasing a live chicken in Harlem, New York.

• David Sasaki

With a title quoting the Commissioner of State Security, Wilfrido Robledo Madrid who said that “in Atenco the police did not carry firearms,” Eduardo Arcos posts a photo of a policeman pointing his pistol. Enlace Zapatista has an audio speech, photo gallery, and transcription (ES) which accuses Mexico's mainstream media of “manipulating images, photos, and words” in their coverage of the riots that broke out last week in the small town near Mexico City.

• David Sasaki

D.R. of Congo

Prince du Fleuve du Congo reflects (FR) on foreign involvement in Congolese politics: “We made a big mistake when we accepted to sit around a table with foreigners to engage in power sharing at Sun City… Today we must recognize that the transition was not a solution, that elections will generate more problems than solutions … Foreigners from the East want to rob us of our country via so-called free, democratic and transparent elections.”

• Alice Backer

Cape Verde

Barbados Free Press posts a follow-up to an earlier entry concerning the boat found adrift off the Barbados coast containing the corpses of 11 men. It would appear the men were en route from Senegal to the Cape Verde islands.

• Georgia Popplewell

Haiti

Parlons Peu uses the blog medium to publish (FR) his father Marcel Salnave's journalistic works from the 40s and 50s. Recent posts include a raving review of Haitian musical prodigy Ernst Lamy written in 1940 and reflections on the Haitian National Bank written in 1946.

• Alice Backer

South Africa

Black Looks reports that Jacob Zuma has been aquitted of rape……..”The verdict is a loss for the Khwezi and for all the other women who will now be deterred from reporting rape knowing that they cannot expect justice to be done. That their personal lives will be invaded in the courtroom should it reach that far. That their credibility as sane people will be challenged. That she will be abused and denigrated in the media. That other women will stand against her and heckle her.”

• Sokari Ekine

Ukraine

Pawlina of Nash Holos writes about an Australian internet scam that involves Ukrainian folk music instruments.

• Veronica Khokhlova

India

Akshay has a breathtaking collection of photographs that he took in Kashmir. He writes “This was not the Srinagar we read about in the papers or see on the news channels. This is not the Srinagar of curfews and bandhs, of grenade attacks, of bomb blasts, of shoot outs, of encounters, of security checkpoints and bunkers, of armed men in uniform, of abandoned buildings, of sniffer dogs, of military convoys, of lurking fear and of 6000 missing young men.”

• Neha Viswanathan

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...