Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 December 07

7 December 2009

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Stories from 7 December 2009

Cuba: One Year of Blogging from the Inside

Written by Issa Villarreal · Latin America

The community of Bloggers Cuba celebrate their first year of blogging about Cuba "from the inside".

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Iran: Student Day Demonstration on YouTube

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Thousands of protesters defied the Islamic regime today by protesting during Student Day, chanting slogans against Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, and protesting the government's foreign policy.

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Featured Author: Mac-Jordan Holdbrookes-Degadjor

Written by Eduardo Avila · Sub-Saharan Africa

From his home in Accra, Ghana, Global Voices author Mac-Jordan Holdbrookes-Degadjor talks about his prolific blogging and tweeting activity and his many collaborations with online communities.

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Madagascar's forests decimated for $460,000 a day

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa, North America

As the world's nations gather in Copenhagen for the UN Convention on Climate Change, Madagascar, having already lost 90% of its original forest, faces continued threats from black market logging, threatening to destroy what is left of one of the world's most diverse ecosystems.

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Azerbaijan: Culinary Blogging

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Leyla's Room interviews Farida Sadikhova Buyuran, the blogger behind AZ Cookbook. Posting recipes, backgrounds and photographs of traditional Azeri cuisine, as well as other dishes, the interview details Farida's passion...

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Kenya: Bloggers discuss Kenyan explosive drama, Shuga

Written by Haute Haiku · Sub-Saharan Africa

Staying alive campaign being the world largest youth focused HIV prevention campaign content together with MTV bring an explosive drama for the world AIDS Day Shuga . Shuga slides away from the ordinary comfort zone and portrays life of six college students living the life on the first lane: alcohol, sex, love and money and focuses on how the youth put themselves and others at risk of contracting HIV.

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Africa: Marking World AIDS Day Poetically

Written by Njeri Wangari · Sub-Saharan Africa

Blogger poets in Africa mark World Aids Day 2009 with selective words to describe the registry of emotions triggered by a pandemic that still sees no end.

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ICT4D for Women: Opportunities and Risks

Written by Aparna Ray · Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia

Mobile phones present opportunities for development as well as risks for further abuse and marginalization of women. Gender awareness is crucial when it comes to using ICT for development.

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Updates from 7 December 2009

Pakistan

Pakistani blogger Teeth Maestro advocates a two-pronged approach towards the war against Taliban; military and the instillation of national pride.

• Rezwan

Russia

LJ-user kashamanka [RUS] posted a video [RUS] where two women tell their stories of being tricked into working for a Moscow company that never paid them salaries.

• Alexey Sidorenko

U.S.A.

“Kiva is not quite what it seems,” says David Roodman on The Open Book Blog on the Center for Global Development. And Matt Flannery from online micro-lender Kiva.org responds.

• Solana Larsen

Saint Lucia

“Under the prevailing economic situation, the region’s bookstores and publishers have little choice but to try and control their costs as best they can in order to survive”: St. Lucia's Caribbean Book Blog examines the impact of the digital revolution on the region.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

As Barbados approaches Tourism Week, Living in Barbados notices that “many people seem confused about what is happening to this sector, which is a main earner of foreign exchange and provider of jobs in the economy.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bermuda

Bermudian bloggers discuss the issue of retroactivity as it applies to the proposed Public Access to Information legislation, while Catch a fire hopes that public response to “a new community focused action group to combat the downward spiral of violence” will be as good as it has been for PATI.

• Janine Mendes-Franco