Global Voices · Citizen media stories from April 2009

April, 2009

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Stories from April, 2009

18 April 2009

Global Recession: The world is talking. Are we listening?

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia, South Asia

There is no lack of online articles about the various aspects of the global economic crisis. Many of them are written by economic experts and policymakers. What about the perspectives of ordinary bloggers? This global roundup of blogs gathers stories of people around the world who are struggling to survive the economic downturn.

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Argentina: Cleaning Up the Riachuelo

Written by Celeste Calvet · Latin America

La Matanza River, better known as El Riachuelo, flows through one of the most colorful tourist attractions in Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, the contamination from nearby industrial plants has left the waterway heavily polluted. Despite promises from local authorities, little progress has been made to clean up the river. A Greenpeace icebreaker is arriving to take part in a campaign to raise awareness and to push for results.

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Korea: Is teachers’ physical punishment toward students a crime?

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

A second grade student at a primary school was struck 27 times by her teacher because she gave the wrong answer to a math question. After her mother put a...

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Azerbaijan: Youth activist expelled from university

Written by Ali S. Novruzov · Central Asia & Caucasus

According to information spread by the Dalga Youth Movement, Parviz Azimov, the head of its Southern Regional Office, has been expelled from university. Both inside and outside Azerbaijan, bloggers are concerned by the action taken against the student activist.

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Zimbabwe: Was the ministerial retreat necessary?

Written by Eusebia Madziwa · Sub-Saharan Africa

Zimbabwe coalition government officials went for a Ministerial Retereat recently at Victoria Falls whose aim was for them to come up with a 100 day Action Plan for the implementation of the Short Term Emergency Economic Recovery Programme (STERP). Was the retreat a waste of public money or a necessary step in healing the nation?

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Peru: Recovering Memories of the Amazon

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

Historical records and memories of the Peruvian Amazon are often locked up in the archives of governmental offices or other non-governmental organizations, and often never seen by the general public. Now through the use of the internet, many of these publications, photos and videos are being shared with the world, which allows those living in the present to see how things have changed.

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Updates from April, 2009

27 April 2009

South Africa

What is Africa's best blog design?: Africa is online. The number of bloggers continues to grow daily, inspiring readers all over Africa and all over the world. We are looking for the best blog designs from the continent.

• Ndesanjo Macha

China

Lu Chuan's retelling of the Nanking Massacre, City of Life and Death, is in theaters now; according to the people at China Film Journal, “it's a hard, brutal film to watch.” Bullogger blogger Garbled Text won't be [zh] going to see it, lacking trust in Lu following mistreatment of animals in his previous film, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol.

• John Kennedy

South Africa

A South African newspaper makes a wrong results call: While clearly nowhere near as disastrous as that, I was amused this morning to find that the Weekender newspaper dated 25 April 2009 has made a similar mistake by “calling” the results of the Western Cape poll prematurely.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Kenya

Kenyan performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecturer, Bantu Mwaura, was found dead outside his gate at the Sunlight estate in Nairobi’s Lang’ata area, on Monday (today) morning., KenyanPoet reports.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Mexico

Even with the international concern over the health emergency of the swine flu, a Mexican band called Agrupación Cariño is trying to lighten the mood with a song called “The Flu Cumbia” as mentioned by Panamérika Blog [es].

• Issa Villarreal

Mexico

“The Infection is Fear” is the title of a regularly updated post on his blog Intersections about the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico City.

• Eduardo Avila

Tunisia

Blogger kuskusu, whose husband is Tunisian, makes some observations about the Tunisian people living in Japan.
Dividing them into two categories, she observes that, since 9/11, immigration laws in Japan have become more severe and illegal Tunisian residents are very few nowadays. While many of them come to Japan as students specialized in I.T. and other scientific fields thanks to the exchange programmes between the Japanese and the Tunisian universities, others come to find a job and not few are those who have opened their own restaurant in the recent years.

• Scilla Alecci

Brazil: Communities in Rio Blame Olympics for Evictions

Hi Christa, Thank you for sharing the good news. I am glad that at least one battle has been won by...
Help us bring international visibility to this issue. Please read and share the following link regarding Vila Autódromo's recent win...

Very interesting! I had no idea this was going on there as I haven't followed Peru's political situation. You've done...
Interesting indeed. I don't hear much news from Peru so this information was indeed news and something the world community...
Interesting read. Thanks for sharing!