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On June 6, 2007, Global Voices' Advocacy Director Sami Ben Gharbia appeared at an event in London marking the one-year anniversary of the Amnesty International-Observer-Irrepressible.info campaign. The video above is of Sami's address. Global Voices' co-founder Ethan Zuckerman also participated remotely — a video and transcript of Ethan's contribution are available at this page.The webcast of the full proceedings is archived here, and Kevin Anderson offers an overview of the event at the Corante weblog.

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3 Responses to
“GV's Advocacy Director at AI-Observer-Irrepressible.info's June 6 meeting”

  1. June 12th, 2007 at 15:15 pm
    Ben:
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    It was great to meet you in London Sami!

  2. June 12th, 2007 at 21:20 pm
    Sami Ben Gharbia:
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    Thanks Ben, it was great for me too.

  3. July 12th, 2007 at 22:54 pm
    El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Around the Global Village:
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    [...] warfare and welcomed robot overlords. Director of Advocacy Sami Ben Gharbia visited the UK where he spoke at a conference put together by Amnesty International. He also met up with Karim, a friend he hadn’t seen in 14 [...]

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