Global Voices Online

Jamaican Geoffrey Philp blogs about the “The Millennial Generation”: “It will…be interesting to see if Jamaican/ Caribbean Millennials, who have grown up in a time when as Chris Blackwell said, ‘technology makes a joke of geography,' will have the same attitudes towards nationalism as my generation had.”

Recent Links also in Cyber-Activism

Evgeny Morozov writes about “social media and social memory” - and a Facebook project involving a 22-year-old Lublin resident posing as a 7-year-old Jewish boy who was killed by the Nazis during WWII. Vaviblog (ENG) is a similar project, which “gives voice” to Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov: “…if Vavilov were alive today, he’d be popping into the nearest internet café at every opportunity to share his discoveries with the world.” Another similar project is a pseudo-blog of Hava Volovich (RUS), who was born in 1916 in Ukraine, spent nearly 20 years in the Soviet labor camps and exile, and died in 2000.

Stories of some Ukrainian street children who have received assistance at ChildRescue's rehabilitation center - at Scenes from the Sidewalk. Stories of some adults who have received humanitarian aid from Hope Center - at Matty's Place.

Sidney Sweeting at Weblog Bahamas says that Bahamians “are sick and tired - sick of the rampant crime and tired of the press conferences promising to do something.”