Stories from 17 April 2007
Palestinian Captures Virginia Tech Shooting on Cell Phone
Blogger Rima Abdelkader reports that a Palestinian student captured the massacre that took place at Virginia Tech “One Virginia Tech student became a citizen journalist today by capturing some of the shooting through his cell phone. With a Nokia N70 camera phone in hand and a lot of courage, Virginia...
Lebanon: Two Lebanese Students Killed in Virginia Tech Massacre
Two Lebanese students were among the 32 killed in the Virginia Tech massacre, according to bloggers Nadia Gerges and Rima Abdelkader. “Two of our own died today. Reema Samaha and Ross Alameddine, of Lebanese decent, were brutally murdered by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui on Monday, April 17th. The Lebanese...
Bahrain: Blogger's Hearing Postponed
The hearing of a libel case against Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif has been deferred until May 8 because the judge's mother passed away. Al Yousif is being sued for describing a minister as an imbecile.
Qatari PM jokes about throwing a party when AlJazeera is closed
jane01 is uneasy about the Qatari Prime Minister's recent “joke” about throwing a party when AlJazeera is closed down because of the headache it has caused him as Foreign Minister. She says that “…the closing down (or even reining in) of AlJazeera would be a travesty for freedom of the...
Visiting the Peruvian Blog Village
This time around we'll visit some blogs that we haven't seen before. Blogs of another type; the sort that perhaps do not catch you attention at first glace if your interests lie in politics or cyber-activism, but blogs that have their place and their followers just the same. We must always walk with a careful eye; sometimes the diamonds are where we least expected. So let's explore a little.
Argentina: Launch of Google Argentina
Mariano Amartino pens his impressions from the official launch [ES] of Google Argentina in Puerto Madero: “beyond just the event itself, I was surprised by the presence of Google's CEO and a couple very interesting details: first the size of the operation: the Argentina office is going to be the...
Russia: Dissenters’ March Photos by Dmitry Shubin
Forty-eight pages of photographs from the Dissenters’ March in St. Petersburg this past Sunday – in a .pdf album (available for download here) created by LJ user studio204 (St. Petersburg-based Russian photographer Dmitry Shubin).
Russia: Letter to Putin
La Russophobe‘s guest-translator translates a Novaya Gazeta story about a man who wrote a letter to president Putin and, instead of receiving a reply, was summoned to a psychiatric clinic.
Nepal: The Elections
United We Blog! on the deferral of the Constituent Assembly elections. “What is the primary objective of the CA Elections? Are political leaders clear about it? If so, have they made it clear to their party cadres and their supporters in general public?”
The Balkans: Journalists
Bosnia Vault reports on BBC journalist Martin Bell's return to Bosnia and on the attack on Serbian journalist Dejan Anastasijevic.
Bangladesh: Khaleda and her hair
Biting wit at imperfect world 2007 on a politician being expelled from the country. “Well the big news is that the country is going to expel Khaleda. The main reason is that no one can stand her coiffure anymore, and she is being asked to go to a country where...
India: The Abusers
sthreeling on dealing with abusers. “However, sexual abuse doesn’t require genital gymnastics. In fact, it does not even require for a child to be touched physically. Rape is only one form of abuse. What about child pornography on the internet? What about voyeurism (where the abuser gets sexual pleasure out...
Hungary: Euro-2012 Bid
Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar and Pestcentric look at the chances that Hungary/Croatia's bid has in tomorrow's Euro-2012 vote in Cardiff.
Serbia: Peter Handke
At Belgrade 2.0, a discussion of writer Peter Handke's relationship with Serbia.
Ethiopia: March to protest violence against women.
A march was organized on April, 14th at Merkel square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This march wanted to show that women were still at risk of random acts of violence and that more needed to be done from a legal point of view to protect their well-being. The march was organized...
Cuba: Political Balance Por Favor
The publicly-funded STV network in Sweden last year broadcast a four-hour show in honour of Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. Child of the Revolution has discovered that “19 formal complaints were lodged with the Swedish Broadcasting Commission…The regulator concluded that the ‘theme evening’ had breached a requirement that television productions be...
Bermuda: Private Clinic, Public Interest?
In the context of the Bermudan Premier's power to influence public health care policy coupled with his alleged financial interest in a private medical clinic, Politics.bm writes, “In mature democracies, the elected leader of the Government, and other public officials, are required to not only declare their private interests, but...
Africa: Africa plays on
Annansi Chronicles on Puma and soccer in Africa: “Along with their sponsorship last year, Puma launched a targeted campaign in support of African football which included a huge press event with notable African personalities including Akon, a book “The African Game” by Nigerian photographer Andrew Dosunmu, a music CD, “Africa...
Trinidad & Tobago: Salt Fish
Thebookmann takes a detour from his Caribbean Fruit theme to photograph saltfish (salted cod), a popular regional dish that has also been the subject of double entendre in some of Trinidad and Tobago's most entertaining calypsoes.
Puerto Rico: Gli Gli Sails Again
The Voice of the Taino People is excited about The Gli-Gli (or Carib Canoe) sailing expedition in celebration of the 10th anniversary of its first voyage to relink the indigenous Carib communities of the region.
Jamaica: Decolonization of the Mind
Further to his post on Frances-Anne Solomon, who called creation “a form of terror, particularly when you come from a colonial context”, Geoffrey Philp examines fellow Jamaican Olive Senior's poem Colonial Girls School, which grapples with decolonization of the mind.
