4 July 2007
Stories from 4 July 2007
Guatemala: June 30th, A Day to Remember
Every year on June 30, Guatemalans celebrate a festive day, when the Guatemalan Army goes on a parade in the city's center. This year was exceptional because bloggers were the real reporters of the event, and experienced something unusual that happened.
Congratulations, Rising Voices Grantees
We are thrilled to announce the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants. In total we received 142 project proposals from over 40 different countries. What all of the project proposals have in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell their own stories, to write their own first draft of history, to document their traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tides of globalization.
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Kyrgyzstan: From national surveys to a spy-lady in parliament
The results of a national survey strike some bloggers as too positive; the Kyrgyz head of state is the fifth-sexiest president of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Kyrgyzstan slides down the failed states ranking, and a spy scandal in the capital's parliament on the eve of an important international conference - all these are the topics that kept the Kyrgyzstani blogosphere busy over the last week.
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...