Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 December 10

10 December 2007

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Stories from 10 December 2007

Happy Human Rights Day

Written by Solana Larsen · Announcements

Activists around the world are finding new, innovative ways to use technology to tell their stories, and fight back against censorship and oppression. Yesterday, six Global Voices bloggers on different continents participated in a conference call with Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, and Graça Machel.

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Colombia: Bloggers Fight for Creative Commons Rights

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Colombian Flickr users and bloggers united against a regional newspaper that violated a Creative Commons license that a user placed on her photographs, a license which has full legal standing in Colombia. The campaign spread to dozens of blogs and into a Facebook group. However, this was not the first case of media that paid no attention to these licenses.

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India: Bengalooru Bangalored!

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

With due apologies to Prof. TT Ram Mohan who came up with this creative title for his post, and which I have happily borrowed from him. The emergence of Bangalore...

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Kazakhstan: Interview with Jantemir Baimukhamedov

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Jantemir Baimukhamedov, a.k.a. Jantik, is a popular Kazakhstan's musician, a prankster and an entertainer. He gives live shows with his band (gigs are booked several months ahead), hilariously re-scores blockbuster...

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Environment: Bali, Nuclear Energy and Green views from Africa

Written by Juliana Rotich · Sub-Saharan Africa

The climate change talks in Bali have been at the forefront of many blogs around the world. A worldwide protest was held on the 8th of Dec to call attention...

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Korea: Entertainers and Politicians

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

Every time before the presidential elections, politicians make use of any means to get more attention from voters, and entertainers are among the most useful means. And the number of...

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Updates from 10 December 2007

Russia

Tim Newman of White Sun of the Desert writes: “Times are changing in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and proof of this comes in the form of something I have never seen before in the town, and a few people I have spoken to on the subject say the same thing: a large banner in the centre of town advertising expatriate housing.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Sean's Russia Blog posts a lengthy review of David S. Foglesong's “The American Mission and the “Evil Empire”: The Crusade for a “Free Russia” since 1881.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

TOL's Elections in Russia writes on one blogger's take on the election: “everyone is stupid.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

TOL's Elections in Russia writes about a Russian blogger's campaign to “not recognize the results of these ‘elections’.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow posts a comprehensive review of media and blog coverage of Mishki, the new pro-Kremlin children's movement that has rendered “many Russians and Russia-watchers” “speechless.” Lyndon has also discovered Mishki's website: “Mishki.ru got a “server not found” message, but then I thought that maybe this group uses the same cringe-inducing top-level-domain as Nashi's website. Sure enough, punching in Mishki.su got me to the freshly-baked website of this teddy bear of a youth group, says it has been online since November 21.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

East Timor

Timor Online [pt] comments on a piece of news in which East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta labelled his capital the dirtiest city in the world. “Ramos-Horta forgets that it is Díli's admistration's job to look after the city's cleaning and that he has also forgotten that he has not done anything about it when he was the primer minister?”, asks the blogger.

• Paula Góes