Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 August 17

17 August 2007

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Stories from 17 August 2007

Bahrain: Poetry Slammed!

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

This week Bahraini bloggers express their concerns about the country's electronic identity cards. With the school year about to begin, education is a hot topic. Be careful what you write when you send a job application – you might unwittingly become one of the new superheroes, The Employables! We finish with some strong opinions regarding the literary scene in Bahrain.

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Caribbean: Bracing for Hurricane Dean

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

The Caribbean blogosphere is abuzz over the impending arrival of Hurricane Dean, the first official hurricane of the season: Steve's Dominica reports: “Dean will be passing over us around 6am...

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Malagasy bloggers rally for Madagascar's children

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa

The Malagasy blogosphere was quite active on humanitarian efforts these past two weeks. It all started when Jogany at the purplecorner.com invited the Malagasy blogosphere to get involved in a...

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South Asia: Slaving in the Middle East

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

South Asian migrant workers (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal) have a notable contribution in the developments of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region. But the abuse and exploitation...

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Bangla blogs: It's all about Taslima

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

On August 9th, the firebrand Bangladeshi author-in-exile Taslima Nasrin was attacked by a group of MIM (Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) activists during a function held at the Press Club in Hyderabad, India....

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Peru: Online Earthquake Coverage

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

When disaster hits, many look to television or radio to get their news. However, in Peru, many look to the internet to find out the latest information. Within minutes, the disaster appeared on Wikipedia. Bloggers also provided stories about where they were, when the quake struck and others try to set the record straight regarding misinformation read online.

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Updates from 17 August 2007

Turkey

The popular, and free, blogging platform WordPress.com has been blocked in Turkey and those who are trying to visit it are seeing this message: “Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance.”

“I didn’t realize Turkey had a great firewall like China. This is really unfortunate because we have a really passionate Turkish community that gets about 12 million pageviews a month,” the founding developer of WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, said.

• sami ben gharbia

Argentina

Blog Pasa en Buenos Aires [ES] writes about a new site called Comparte Coche [ES], which is a way for commuters into the city of Buenos Aires to find carpooling matches, which will help to reduce transportation costs and be a little easier on the environment.

• Eduardo Avila

Latvia

Latvia Economy Watch writes about the demographic situation in Latvia. Latvian Abroad writes about Latvians in the UK and Ireland - here and here.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

J. Otto Pohl is teaching in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, now, and has posted his Russian Politics Syllabus.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Mark MacKinnon writes about yet another election campaign in Ukraine - yet “another farce.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Mark MacKinnon writes about violence against non-Russians in Russia and the Kremlin's “strategy” of making Putin look like “a least-bad option” by not discouraging more radical political views: “…the monsters it created are now out of even the Kremlin's control.”

• Veronica Khokhlova