Global Voices · Citizen media stories from August 2009

August, 2009

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Stories from August, 2009

19 August 2009

Kenya: Lion-saving Art Takes Shape

Written by Samuel Maina · Sub-Saharan Africa

The pride of Kenya Campaign, being touted as the biggest event in Kenya's conservation calendar this year, has been picking pace and excitement has been building. The Pride of Kenya...

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Cricket: Pakistan Hits A Snag

Written by Faisal Kapadia · South Asia

In last June, when Pakistan won the world Twenty20 cup championship beating Sri Lanka in the final, the fans were overwhelmed with joy. However, their recent tour in Sri Lanka proved a disaster irking many cricket loving bloggers.

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Iran: Televised Confessions Spur Video Cyber-Activism

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa

Video confessions are serving as a form of cyber activist protest for those against the forced confessions and political drama in Iran.

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18 August 2009

Bolivia: Honoring Dogs on the Feast of St. Roch

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Bolivians recently celebrated the Feast of St. Roch, the patron saint of dogs. On this day, many people give extra attention to pets that have given them so much throughout the year.

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Cambodia’s AIDS colony

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Various human rights groups have accused the Cambodian government of setting up a de facto AIDS colony when it resettled 40 families with HIV and AIDS to a village 25 kilometers outside Phnom Penh City

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Azerbaijan: Eurovision voting scandal

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Although held in May, some media outlets in Azerbaijan last week reported that 43 people who voted for the Armenian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest have been identified by police and one has even been called in for questioning. Bloggers react.

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Updates from August, 2009

27 August 2009

Dominica

Repeating Islands features Leïla Bizet and her bèlè, “a traditional folk dance practiced on islands like Dominica, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; hailing from the days of slavery, it has become a time-honored symbol of African legacy.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Argentina

In Argentina, Marcelo Klein mourns the passing [es] of fellow twitterer and blogger Guillermo Lutzky [es] @glutzky, who was also his former teacher and basketball coach.

• Eduardo Avila

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

And Still I Rise remembers Walter Porter, “a son of the Vincentian soil, calypsonian, musician and unfortunately the person seated in number 25C on Pan Am 103.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Pakistan

Talkhaba informs that “a newly formed network of Pakistani Bloggers namely Union of Patriotic Bloggers for Sovereign Pakistan (UPBSP) has started (the) ‘Containment of USA' Campaign which aims at containing US and confining it to its diplomatic role guaranteed under the international law.” Their first target was to take the name of Balochistan out of the “USCIS Online Change of Address form”, which recognized Balochistan as an independent state and they have succeeded - read this post for details.

• Rezwan

Trinidad & Tobago

“So we need to produce more corn curls, Crix and painted stones (aka GDP) per man per hour”: This Beach Called Life takes a tongue-in-cheek look at productivity in Trinidad and Tobago.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

“What good is it to glean several medals, to ride the wave of national camaraderie and unity for a few days, only to be bogged down once again by the crushing weight of national issues, such as crime, corruption, and economic chaos?”: Jamaican blogger Life, Unscripted, on the Rock wonders how to “translate what took place on the track into our personal lives, and even further into…national life.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco