Global Voices · Citizen media stories from August 2009

August, 2009

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Stories from August, 2009

17 August 2009

USA: “I am getting deported on Wednesday”

Written by Hoa Quach · Eastern & Central Europe, North America

Herta Llusho is a 19-year old student at risk of being deported from the United States to Albania. Bloggers at DreamActivist.org and other immigrant rights blogs are calling on Americans to help her.

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Caribbean: Bolt Does It Again!

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the 100 and 200 meter events, Jamaican Usain Bolt, sprinted to an even more impressive victory this past weekend at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, clocking 9.58 seconds to beat his own record. Regional bloggers are in a celebratory mood.

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Blogger of the Week: Haute Haiku from Kenya

Written by Rebekah Heacock · Sub-Saharan Africa

Haute Haiku is one of Global Voices' newest Sub-Saharan African authors. He writes about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) blogosphere in Africa.

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16 August 2009

Terrorism crackdown in Indonesia

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

Last week media reported a shootout between the police and the group of Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Indonesian netizens react to this issue.

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Brazil: Lawsuits force popular political blog to close down

Written by Paula Góes · Latin America

Nova Corja, one of the most popular Brazilian blogs on politics, has folded after 3 lawsuits in 5 years. Bloggers fear it is the nail in the coffin of independent, investigative and challenging blogging.

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Egypt: Limited Internet is Unlimited Backwardness

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt's Internet users joined hands to express their outrage at a new law which limits their Internet use. Now the law has been reversed and only new subscribers will be subjected to the threshold, for a two month period while the move is being assessed.

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Updates from August, 2009

27 August 2009

Sri Lanka

Prathapa Madhav posts the controversial video clip which was first uploaded in YouTube by the Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) and was subsequently removed by YouTube for violating the terms of use. The gruesome video evidences the way extra-judicial killings were executed by the Sri Lanka’s army during the recent civil war with LTTE. However, Lanka Libertarian questions the validity of the video.

• Rezwan

India

Sepia Mutiny, a South Asian diaspora blog from USA remembers how Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy affected the lives of South Asian immigrants by playing an active role in passing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

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Japan

In response to the New York Times' blog Q&A about the health care systems of the world, Cruzon from Mutant frog blogs about his experience in Japan's medical system, which is full of flaws.

• Oiwan Lam

Iran

Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a leading reformist blogger and former vice president, started [fa] to update his blog in prison. He says that the interrogation continues but he has very friendly relation with interrogator and protesters in prison know that there was no significant fraud in Iran's presidential election.

• Fred Petrossian

26 August 2009

Russia

LJ user russos posts photos (RUS) of the newly renovated Kurskaya-Koltsevaya metro station in Moscow, which now sports this line from the 1944 version of the Soviet anthem: “Stalin brought us up - on loyalty to the people, he inspired us to labor and to heroism!” The post has so far generated 782 comments; LJ user drugoi's post on the same topic has 1,329 comments (RUS) right now; and there are also 109 comments (RUS) to LJ user avmalgin's post.