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May 30th, 2006
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GUADELOUPE
Commemorating the Abolition of Slavery
Carole writes:
Cette nuit d'insomnie ,j'ai eu ma fille Emilie sur MSN;elle vit en Guadeloupe et m'a appris qu'aujourd'hui c'est fête en Guadeloupe pour la fin de l'esclavage ! Ou que nous soyons nous avons l'obligation morale de nous joindre à cette Fête! Dansons et rions pour cette Libération de l'homme.
UGTG Strike
TiToto of TotoM'aTuer has blogged all week about the UGTG [General Union of Guadeloupean Workers] strike and the strained relationship between the strikers and Victorin Lurel, deputy and President of the Guadeloupean Regional Council. He addresses Lurel directly:
Que c’est facile de dire que ce conflit “entrave la marche de la région qui se mobilise depuis 2004 pour développer l’économie et l’emploi”, alors que nous avons des preuves que RIEN NE FONCTIONNE depuis 2004, que l’économie de la Guadeloupe n’a jamais été à un niveau aussi bas et que la politique de l’emploi n’a jamais été aussi “foulée du pied”…
Que c’est facile, LUREL, de disposer du site internet de la région et de la mansuétude des journalistes bwa-bwa pour diffuser ton venin et ta propagande digne des meilleures années du stalinisme…
HAITI
Mothers' Day
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How to Help Indonesia Earthquake Victims
Members of International community who are very concerned with the Indonesia earthquake where the death toll exceeds 5,000 and many more thousands injured now can visit Merlyna Lim's blog where she is vigorously compiling various international and Indonesia aid relief agencies addresses.
While Indonesia Help blog, a newly setup blog by a Yogyakarta blogger whose own home was also destroyed by the quake has a very interesting earthquake news aggregator taken from Yahoo , Newsvine (in English) and Help Jogja (in Bahasa Indonesia) which will serves anyone around the world looking to keep up with the latest info on the natural disaster.
Unspun recommends what kind of relief effort agencies you should contact in case you are confused about their credibility:
Whenever there is a disaster it is sometimes difficult to know which NGO you can trust to deliver the help. If you're in such a position then consider HOPE worldwide. My office and client, Citigroup Indonesia, have been working with HOPE in several projects, including the Recovery and Rehabilitation effort in Aceh and have found HOPE reliable, efficient and effective. … If you can help, please do.
For Indonesians in Indonesia who would like to follow Unspun's recommendation, you can contact HOPE Indonesia.
India: films, cricket and monsoons and more…
There was no letup in the tempo of events in India this week either. In fact it got a bit more hectic. It was yet another action-packed week in India. We had lots of topics: reservation, film controversy, cricket, etc, etc.. The list of issues for this week is exhaustive. Here is snapshot of the zeros and ones that the bloggers used up to pen their thoughts. Zeros and ones? Well, I suddenly remembered that is the machine-level computer language and that all our scribbling's in our laptops and PCs are reduced to zeros and ones.
Instead of listing the important topics of the week you can read about if from The Wabbster and his blog Conversations with the self . The Wabbster shares his opinion on all the important and interesting issues in India.
Politics and films seem to the latest thing all over the world (sounds almost like viral campaign). First it was Da Vinci Code and Hollywood. Now, it is the turn of Bollywood in India. Politics has also seeped into Bollywood, the Hindi film industry. Last week Bollywood star Aamir Khan's new film was stopped from being released in the western state of Gujarat. The reason? Aamir's stance/statements about the Narmada Bachao Andolan movement. The non-release of this film took center stage in all kinds of media: MSM to blogs. This controversy had bloggers from all over the world (more…)
Russia: “And You Call It A Gay [Pride] Parade?”
This past Saturday marked the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia, and a number of people attempted to take part in a gay pride parade in Moscow - despite the ban by a city court and mayor Yuri Luzhkov's words from the day before: “As long as I am mayor, we will not permit these parades.”
Orthodox Christians, Russian ultra-nationalists and skinheads attacked a handful of gays who showed up by the Kremlin to put flowers to the Unknown Soldier Memorial. Riot police detained up to 120 people that day, among them journalists and human rights activists, mony of whom now intend to file a complaint to protest their unlawful detention and harsh treatment.
LJ user mnog was at the scene with a camera and posted a three-part photo series - part one, part two, part three) - entitled “And You Call It A Gay [Pride] Parade?”
LJ user onair described the failed event this way (RUS):
Moscow is the world's only city where a gay [pride] parade took place in the absense of the gays themselves. That is, there were a lot fewer of them on Tverskaya [Street] yesterday than there are at 7 PM on any workday. […]
Indonesia: Earthquake Relief
The World Wide Help team has set up Java Quake Help Wiki. The team is looking for online volunteers to help them with content and translation on the wiki as well as helping spread the word about the wiki. If you are interested you can email javaquake (at) worldwidehelp.info.
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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus
Vakhs valley, March 2006, Erik Petersson, Dushanbe Pictures.
Welcome to the latest roundup from the Central Asian and Caucasian blogosphere, brought to you by neweurasia. First off, apologies for the long delay in presenting you this edition. Now that final year exams are over, our postings should appear bi-weekly again.
As usual we take you through the countries alphabetically.
Armenia:
Onnik Krikorian writes that one of the most independent and popular TV stations has been denied a broadcasting frequency. The same blog also reports on a possible new momentum towards a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nessuna is shocked to hear that another Armenian fell victim to a racist murder in Moscow. Christian Garbis over at Notes from Hairenik writes on the strange obssesion of each and every vendor in Yerevan about the correct change. (more…)
Links for Tue, 2006-05
Francisco of Caracas Chronicles calls the Luis Velásquez Alvaray affair the “mother of all scandals.” Two days later, however, he wonders where all the coverage went.
Commenting on the detention of Former Yaracuy Governor Eduardo Lapi who was Miguel Octavio opines: “Reportedly he will be charged with misuse of funds. Thus, as the robolution robs, steals and charges commisions, opposition figures are detained for subtle charges of misuse of funds. If the same criterai were applied to the Government, they would all be in jail …”
Goleech cites the May 29 poll by María de las Heras, which has leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrado back in the lead with half a percentage point over Felipe Calderón and three points ahead of Roberto Madrazo.
Commenting on the announcement by Technorati and Edelman that the two companies will join forces to include blog posts on traditional media websites, Julio Alonso wonders how it is that the project will launch in English, German, Korean, Italian, French, and Chinese, but not Spanish [ES]. “Could it be that Edelman is less interested in our market?” Alonso asks.
In a summary of Latin American news, Western Hemisphere Policy Watch describes tension over the militarized border … the Costa Rica-Nicaragual border. Isopixel is upset [ES] by an offensive song posted on the website of the US anti-immigration group, the Minutemen, which calls President Vicente Fox - among other things - “the Mexican dictator.”
Should the St. Lucian water company be privatised? Should the mass transit system remain in private hands? Matthew Hunte weighs in. “We end up in a funny situation where (quite a few of) the same people who oppose private water are quite content to leave our transport system in the hands of a few hundred private business men who have the best of both worlds since they answer to nobody”.
Twenty per cent of live births in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are to teenage mothers. So why, asks Abeni, is the minister of education “vehemently opposing the idea of condoms being distributed in schools. At least it deserves some thought rather than a blanket refusal.”
Luke Distelhorst says that, because of the country's climate, construction is restricted to a few months of the year. Though floods and snow can strike even in late May, construction season is upon Mongolia, though Luke notes that at one site, none of the workers speak Mongolian.
neweurasia reports on a political party in Kyrgyzstan seeking to protect the status of the Russian language in the republic.
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