Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2009

November, 2009

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Stories from November, 2009

7 November 2009

MENA: H1N1, Vaccines and Conspiracy Theories

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Many countries have introduced vaccinations to help combat the spread of H1N1, or swine flu. As the sickness toll increases, so does the buzz online.

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Azerbaijan: Reaction to yesterday's blogger trial

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

As the trial of video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli continues in Baku, two English-language bloggers from Azerbaijan react to yesterday's aborted court hearing.

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6 November 2009

Israeli and Palestinian youth use video to understand the conflict

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa

Two different organizations in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are using video tools to help both Arabic and Jewish youth to understand the conflict and bridge gaps between them.

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Russia: Major Search Engine Closes Its Blog Rating

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

Yandex.ru, Russian most popular search engine, announced on November 3 that it would close its blog ranking service Yandex Blogs Top (YBT) [RUS] by the end of the month.

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Azerbaijan: Activist blogger trial resumes, delays persist (updated)

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Although not an official birthday, Global Voices Online made its first ever post on threats made against an Iranian dissident blogger five years ago today. The anniversary is also notable for another event — the continuing trial of detained video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli.

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5 November 2009

Iran: Green Movement defies regime again

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Iran's Green Movement opposition organized mass street protests on the 4th of November that were were met with a violent crackdown by security forces. As has come to be expected, Iranian citizen media didn't miss a beat, recording "history" on their mobile phones.

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Updates from November, 2009

20 November 2009

Bangladesh

Call that fusion or copying, A Bengali in T.O. informs that the tune of a popular Bangla classic song (written by Radha Romon Dutta in the year 1870!) was used by Liviu Mititelu for a Romanian song.

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India

Greatbong at Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind celebrates 20 years of outstanding contribution of Indian cricket celebrity Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin is much more than the most famous sportsman in India: “He is a cultural icon, someone who has his place booked in the history books. No not just cricketing history. National history. This is because of what Sachin represents—- the epitome of the Indian dream,” the blogger opines.

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