Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 April 17

17 April 2007

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Stories from 17 April 2007

Visiting the Peruvian Blog Village

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

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.

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Ethiopia: March to protest violence against women.

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa, North America

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...

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Russia: Dissenters' March in Moscow (1)

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

The volume of blog coverage of the weekend's opposition rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg is truly overwhelming - as overwhelming, perhaps, as the number of riot police deployed from all over Russia to disperse these rallies - but nowhere near as shocking.

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

The day I lost my hair mother had dragged me out to shop the wait for lulls in incessant crossfire had not come to a stop and the children were...

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Turkey is Typing…Presidential Protests

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

As the Turkish Presidential race begins to gear up, the Republic of Turkey once again finds itself torn between the ideals of a secularist or Islamist state. This week was marked by protests and editorial after editorial of speculation about the future of Turkey and whether the ideals of democracy will survive the next election.

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Taiwan: Transport what to where?

Written by I-fan Lin · East Asia

In the essay on outdoor recreation, ‘Conservation Esthetic,' Professor Leopold wrote, ‘Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the...

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Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Bombastic?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have been baring their teeth at each other recently over two major issues. The first is that Trinidad Cement Limited acquired a 43.5% stake in...

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Interview with Digital Kalashinkov, Journalist and Blogger

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Blogs are the most free media in Iran and have found their own place in society. The blogs have pushed the boundaries ... Reformist politicians have given importance to bloggers. And conservative politicians, little by little, have disocovered the importance of being part of this new media. Of course they have a lot of enemies too.

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Updates from 17 April 2007

Palestine

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 Tech student, Jamal Albarghouti, of Palestinian descent from the West Bank in Palestine, recorded the shooting of an unidentified gunman, downloaded it and then sent it to CNN i-Report, where everyday people get the chance to become citizen journalists by posting video of events affecting them and their communities,” she writes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Lebanon

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 Foreign Ministry said Samaha, a Virginia resident, and Alameddine, a Massachusetts resident, were both 19,” they wrote.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bahrain

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.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Qatar

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 press, free speech and democratic values of the region. It would also be the biggest PR mistake that Qatar could make. It is currently known as progressive and principled. God knows what the world would think if it stifled one of the most important global journalistic institutions over a couple of barrels of oils and a few unhappy diplomats.”

• Mohamed Nanabhay

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 third largest regional headquarters in all of the world after California and Ireland. Second, the reach of it, because not only with the Argentina offices operate Google here, but also the operations for Latin America and “some of the operations of Spain”: a great “defense” of the quality of technological education in Argentina.

• David Sasaki

Russia

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).

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

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.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Nepal

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?”

• Neha Viswanathan

Bangladesh

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 her bouffant will need to be encased in a hijab or some such.”

• Neha Viswanathan