Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 November 22

22 November 2007

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Stories from 22 November 2007

Caribbean: Giving Thanks

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean, Latin America

Thanksgiving may be a traditionally North American holiday - but more and more, the Caribbean seems to be taking notice - so much so that many regional bloggers have been paying a warm West Indian tribute to Thanksgiving…

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Kazakhstan: Gangster Movie Hits Box Office

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

The first Kazakh fully commercial movie – shot, cut and promoted without state support with the purpose to extract money from the box-office – has produced a big debate in...

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Kazakhstan: Economic Crisis Aftermaths

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

In the aftermath of slight economic and financial crisis, which the government prefers to call a “correction of the market”, the bloggers keep on discussing its consequences. Sarimov says that...

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HiperBarrio: Changing Perceptions with Creativity

Written by Rezwan · Latin America

Rising Voices grantee, the HiperBarrio project, is a great example of how underrepresented communities are increasingly able to tell their stories to the world from distant and remote places. Their success lies in the use of new media tools like blogs, videoblogs, and photoblogs to enable communities to to portray their thoughts and creativity.

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Russia: “Dirty Tricks” and Opinion Polls

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Ten day to go before the Russian Duma election, Dmitri Minaev of De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis reports on the "dirty tricks" used in this year's campaign, and LJ user drugoi conducts an online opinion poll, whose results, among other things, show that the new parliament is likely to be elected by the Russian bloggers' grandmothers.

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Updates from 22 November 2007

Ukraine

Ukrainiana posts photos and video from the third anniversary of the Orange Revolution in Kyiv and criticizes president Yushchenko for not being self-critical enough: “What about our purchasing power? What about our average life expectancy? What about the AIDS epidemic? What about the casualty rate in the mining industry? What about human trafficking? As always, not a shred of self-criticism.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Croatia

Siberian Light writes on how Croatia has helped Russia to get into Euro 2008.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Macedonia

Edward Lucas shares his piece on Greece's problems with a neighboring country also known as FYROM.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Mark MacKinnon writes about Vladimir Putin campaigning at Luzhniki.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Armenia

Oneworld Multimedia reports that although the mainstream media in Armenia are covering allegations of corruption in World Bank projects in the country, it was blogs that broke the news months before any newspaper or online publication.

• Onnik Krikorian

Brazil

Moviola Digital [pt] publishes an interview with a thought provoking Brazilian filmmaker, Claudio Assis, director of Mango Yellow. “Although he is still working on his second feature film, he has shown that the underline of his work is to make films with a strong social criticism”. Assis was interviewed by Fernanda Castro e Rafael Carvalho.

• Paula Góes

Brazil

Sérgio Amadeu [pt] blogs about a draft for a law that guarantees public funding for open source software, which aims to ensure that 20% of the Information Technology Fund be applied in the production of open technologies by universities, technological institutes, research centres, cooperatives and community of developers. “This had been widely discussed on the Internet before it was presented in the National Congress”.

• Paula Góes

Mozambique

“Ian Smith died today at the age of 88 in Cape Town. The man who fought the English over the independence of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). For he is a true African Hero (there are also blond Africans!), we celebrate the man who still young went to Europe to fight Hitler and Nazism, and who, on returning to Rhodesia, contributed remarkably to transform his home country in one of the most developed in the whole of Africa”. Mozambique Para Todos reports [pt].

• Paula Góes

Cape Verde

Obikuelu Pedra [pt] is not happy to hear on the Radio that Cape Verde is not part of Africa: “What a crazy idea to think that Cape Verde's culture is different from the one of Guinea Bissau and therefore we are not part of Africa. Come on!”

• Paula Góes