Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 January 11

11 January 2008

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Stories from 11 January 2008

Russia: Migration and Racism

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

Moscow Through Brown Eyes writes about Russian racists and labor migration to Russia.

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Morocco: Happy (Islamic) New Year!

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

After celebrating the advent of 2008, Moroccan bloggers now have something else to get excited about...the beginning of 1429 in the Hijra calendar.

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Voces Bolivianas: Leaping forward to the next round

Written by Rezwan · Latin America

The pilot program of the Voces Bolivianas project organized in El Alto city ended last November. It helped teach the use of citizen media tools to members of underrepresented groups in Bolivia who have already emerged as bloggers cum citizen journalists. The next round of citizen’s media workshops titled El Alto II will begin this Saturday, January 12th in the same city. In addition, the organization’s first expansion is scheduled for January 19th in the city of Santa Cruz.

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China 2007: Part2

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

Here is a personal roundup of what marked mainland China's 2007, a year of controversies, changes, desperation but also hopes.

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Kenya: Bloggers seek to heal a wounded nation

Written by Rebecca Wanjiku · Sub-Saharan Africa

After a week of killings, looting and the political madness witnessed in Kenya after last month’s general elections, Kenyan Bloggers are blogging to heal a deeply wounded nation.

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China: Citizen reporter killed—by who?

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

What began as a protest against a planned urban trash dump encroaching on a residential area held by the villagers there in Tianmen, Hubei province became a murder story after...

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Updates from 11 January 2008

Ukraine

Orange Ukraine reports on the detention of journalists who were doing a story in Koncha Zaspa, “an elite suburb of Kyiv” and the current home to president Yushchenko and other prominent politicians.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Window on Eurasia reports on an article in a Russian online publication about the efforts of Stalin's “most devoted followers to revise, reprint and extend the Soviet dictator’s collected works.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

ExecutedToday.com writes about Cossack rebel Yemelyan Pugachev's execution in 1775.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about the White Guard general Yakov Slashchov: “Many years later, he became the prototype of general Khludov in the novel Flight (Beg in Russian) by M.Bulgakov — the brave but demoralized general who knew only one tool to restore discipline, the death penalty. Slashchov's reputation is still defined by this nickname. He sentenced hundreds of people to death. However, the largest part of his victims were not bolsheviks or their spies and saboteurs, but the officers of the White Guard accused of robbery, marauding, desertion or cowardice.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

The Budapest Association of Disabled People has started a campaign against illegal parking, Pestiside.hu reports.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Kenya

“When everything indicated that the crisis in Kenya was heading towards a peaceful solution, the ‘elected' president Mwai Kibabi adds insult to injury appointing his closest allies for most of a new cabinet”, comments Mozambican blogger Manuel de Araujo [pt].

• Paula Góes