Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 October 19

19 October 2009

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Stories from 19 October 2009

Armenia: Oligarch's staff allegedly implicated in animal cruelty scandal

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Facebook users today posted links to a video shot at what is alleged to be the private zoo of a local oligarch and MP. No stranger to controversy, the latest scandal reportedly linked to members of his entourage saw the light of day via Twitter.

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Ghana: Blog Action Day ’09

Written by Mac-Jordan · Sub-Saharan Africa

On Blog Action Day, Ghanaians interrogated world leaders, took issue with World Bank papers, introduced new web sites and wondered why there was so little discussion about climate change in the country—while acknowledging that there are certain things countries like Ghana are doing right.

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United Kingdom: ‘Super injunction' lifted on Côte d'Ivoire waste dumping report

Written by Judith Townend · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

Trafigura, the British oil trader, has finally released The Guardian newspaper from a secret injunction preventing it from reporting the so-called Minton Report, after an extraordinary week of online activity.

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Russia: Election Fraud and Blogging

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Reports of vote-rigging in the local elections, which took place in 75 of Russia’s 83 regions on Oct. 11, spurred protests by citizens and politicians in Moscow - and quite an outrage among some of the country's bloggers.

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Africa discusses Climate Change

Written by Juliana Rotich · Kenya, Ghana

Blog Action Day 2009 was an online event organized by Change.org. It was a virtual gathering of voices discussing climate change. Bloggers from a sampling of countries in Sub Saharan...

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Guadeloupe: The Water Days

Written by Fabienne Flessel · Caribbean

In The French-speaking Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, also dubbed “the Island with Beautiful Waters”, water is vital. Bloggers share their thoughts on the recently concluded les Journées de l'Eau en Guadeloupe (Water Days in Guadeloupe) conference.

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Updates from 19 October 2009

Argentina

In Argentina, the First Travelcamp Buenos Aires took place on October 13. Jorge Gobbi of Blog de Viajes [es] summarizes the event, and states that one of the most controversial topics was the means to pay for travel because of the bank costs and credit card fees that increase the overall price.

• Eduardo Avila

Honduras

Irina Orellana celebrates Honduras' qualification to the 2010 World Cup [es] and writes that for those that do not believe in miracles, then the goal scored by the United States in extra time, which vaulted her side to the finals, proves that miracles do exist.

• Eduardo Avila

Trinidad & Tobago

As the Trinidad and Tobago government is criticized over the sub-standard living conditions of Chinese labourers brought in to work on state construction projects, Survivein' Trinidad says: “If a private company offers me a fully loaded contract (housing, travel allowance, etc.) to work in Germany and I get there only to realize that my living conditions are sub-standard, who is in the wrong? The German government or the company that contracted me?…Common sense before book sense people!”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

India

“With the changing times, we should revamp the way in which the festivals are celebrated. Maintaining the essence of a festival is crucial for continuing our age old traditions and customs, but extravagance can be curbed in order to preserve our fast depleting ecology,” comments Adastrian at Unravelling the Enamoured Enigma blog.

• Rezwan

Trinidad & Tobago

“In Trinidad and Tobago…copyright culture is confused. Fortunately, most people who are creating content on the Internet from Trinidad and Tobago seem to at least have a clue about how copyright works. But even with that,” says KnowTnT.com, “a lot of people don't realize the power of open content.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Suriname

For Paramaribo SPAN, Chris Cozier visits Dhiradj Ramsamoedj’s home to view the artist's Adji (which means ‘maternal grandmother') Gilas cups and notes: “This is a very personal navigation of his experience — his own memory and relationship to family and place. This processing and reconfiguring defines the current moment in which many contemporary Surinamese artists are proceeding.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

As referendum day approaches for a new constitution in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Abeni says: “These days it is so hard to find a Vincentian as people prefer to identify themselves as NDP or ULP.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

Annie Paul blogs about everything from Jamaican coffee to reggae star Buju Banton's meeting with gay activists: “Yeah right, the Jamaican public is going to listen and learn from a castrated Buju when he tells them he has recanted and they should all follow suit by becoming ‘pro-gay' whatever that means.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bangladesh

Taz at Sepia Mutiny informs that the 3rd Street between Alexandria Ave and New Hampshire Ave in Los Angeles, USA will be officially called as ‘Little Bangladesh' from now on.

• Rezwan

Maldives

The president of Maldives Mohammed Nasheed and his fellow ministers were 5 meters underwater for a cabinet meeting to make people realize the threat of global warming and Ali Adam posts some pictures of the event. Mohamed Abdulla Shafeeg posts some pictures taken minutes before the meet.

• Rezwan