Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2006

November, 2006

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Stories from November, 2006

29 November 2006

The Blogoma retaliates while Blaise LLorca calms the angry e-crowd

Written by Farah Kinani · Middle East & North Africa

Moroccan bloggers under fire! The Moroccan blogosphere (Blogoma) is very angry. Why? Well a Moroccan blogger qualified the Moroccan blogging as being still in the “teen aging period”(Fr). Mohamed Lachyab,...

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Voices from Zimbabwe

Written by Zimpundit · Sub-Saharan Africa

With the rainy season now underway in Zimbabwe, most of the nation's time and attention is given to pontificating and prognosticating what the agricultural prospects have in store for us....

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28 November 2006

Text Theft in Caracas

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

On November 17 Venezuelan architect and blogger, Guillermo Amador, jotted down a post titled “Traffic and Civilization” in which he criticized the Chief of Transit in Chacao [a neighborhood of...

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Lebanon: Minister Pierre Gemayel Assassinated

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

Lebanon witnessed this week the brutal assassination of its minister of industry and trade. This terrorist act overshadowed all other events and topics in the Lebanese blogosphere. Nevertheless, the posts...

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Ethiopia's bloggers disappear again

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

The bulk of Ethiopia's bloggers disappeared from Ethiopian computer screens for the second time in seven months this week. All sites hosted by the popular Blogspot platform stalled when internet...

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Haiti: Impunity, President Preval and Farah Dessources

Written by Alice Backer · Caribbean

On November 15, Farah Dessources, a 20 year old first year University student was kidnapped and killed despite the payment of part of the ransom by her mother. Saturday during...

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27 November 2006

Tanzanian bloggers' virtual conference

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Tanzanian bloggers held their first virtual conference on November 18th, 2006. The aim of the conference was to discuss various steps to be taken to make the community more effective...

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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Central Asia & Caucasus

Astana (Kazakhstan) - Waiting for a bus - photograph taken by Richard Messenger (Many more bus stops here) While we're waiting for the bus, why not check out some of...

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Arabisc: Bahraini Elections, Dying Children and Confusing Freedom!

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Bahrain held its second Parliamentary elections in its modern history this week, with about 300,000 voters going to the polls. Amongst them was Bahraini blogger Haythoo, who hoped his ‘party'...

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26 November 2006

China: What pols blog, where subways end

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Hexun blogger Guan Jiantao on a city in eastern China's Jiangsu province, where twelve senior government leaders were told to take up blogging, in their own names, following the flood...

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Updates from November, 2006

30 November 2006

Jamaica

Geoffrey Philp pays tribute to Perry Henzell, director of the Jamaican cult classic The Harder They Come, who passed away today.

• Georgia Popplewell

Haiti

Karlito writes (Fr): “[We] hold the police and government responsible for not doing enough to fight insecurity. But we forget the role that artists can play in helping that fight. One organization that has caught my attention is ONE. An organization filled with international artists whose goal is to help fight poverty … I am always thinking about ways in which our artists could be more involved.”

• Alice Backer

India

Dateline Bombay on rude airline staff and why the one of the best airlines in India will lose its grip. “So you can have the best technical staff, the best equipment and the best food (in the airline business). But when your number one position gets to you and arrogance begins to creep in, then people lose respect for you. And they will opt out the moment they can.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Bangladesh

Or how I learned to stop worrying on a Muslim reaction to the situation in Iraq. “Who says that Muslims, just like everyone of good conscience, are not horrified by the violence and killings in Iraq? Who says that Muslims are not opposed to this chaos? I feel no inclination to draw a line here between me, a supposed “good” Muslim, and “them”, who are the “bad” Muslims in Iraq.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Bangladesh

drishtipat on a concert called Take Back Bangladesh. “The idea behind Take Back Bangladesh is to reconnect the people, especially the younger generation, who are turned off by politics as usual and feel that their voices are never heard by the political parties. … The first step in this direction is a free concert today at 2:30.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Mexico

Mark in Mexico fills his latest report from embattled Oaxaca with accustomed satire. Colin Brayton, meanwhile, shows a video from La Jornada reporting that paramilitary members fired shots into the Medical Department of the Autonomous University of Benito Juarez.

• David Sasaki

Egypt

Commenting on the new attempt at local English-language news reporting in Palestine (Palestine Times), Matthew Carrington says: “If, as the editor claims, the Palestine Times isn't going to be beholden to any particular political or commercial interest, then this could a good thing. Palestine, as much as Egypt, needs a way of laying out local events from a local perspective in a way that is comprehensible and credible to a western audience.”

• Haitham Sabbah

Turkey: Poetic Commemoration of Uludere Airstrike Victims

turkey uses usa's predators , napalm and chemical bombs to kill kurd people easily.if usa give predators combined with weapons,then...

Thank you for weighing in Muza, your blog was an inspiration for this post. A few people on twitter...
A survey of African science blogging would be useful to see who is blogging, where and about what and as...

@Absatou-How can you not "identify" with a romantic comedy? You people are amazing...lol
obviously these are more than opinions. stating that the movie was banned is a bold statement. did he say by...
"the unfounded assumptions and allegations" you are talking about are some French bloggers 'opinions and reactions. Our goal at Global...