Global Voices · Citizen media stories from March 2010

March, 2010

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Stories from March, 2010

4 March 2010

Kazakhstan: Bloggers Discuss Olympian Results

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Kazakhstan's performance at the Vancouver Winter Games was pretty humble with the only silver medal won by Elena Krustaleva in the women’s 15km biathlon. Elena is from Russia and until...

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Poland: Students Suing Former Minister of Education

Written by Magda Pilat · Eastern & Central Europe

Last year, two Wroclaw students signed a petition asking the headmaster to remove religious symbols from their school building - but he refused. The minister of education called these students "spoiled brats" - and they are suing him now. Magda Pilat reports on Polish bloggers' reactions.

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3 March 2010

Uganda: Hundreds feared dead in landslide

Written by Rebekah Heacock · Sub-Saharan Africa

A mudslide in eastern Uganda Monday evening left at least 80 people dead and over 300 missing. The mudslide, triggered by a day of heavy rain, has buried three villages in Bududa district and displaced more than 2000 people from their homes.

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Palestine: Outrage At Israeli Announcement About Ibrahimi Mosque

Written by Mays Dagher · Middle East & North Africa

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently announced his government’s intention to designate Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Ibrahimi Mosque/Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, both in the occupied West Bank, as Jewish heritage sites. The statement has led to outrage amongst Palestinians. Mays Dagher tells us more in this post.

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Colombia: Transportation Strike from Pedestrian Eyes

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Citizen videos record the situation lived these past three days of city-wide transportation strike that has Bogota paralyzed. Citizens have resorted to walking, riding bicycles, hitchhiking and climbing into the backs of pickup trucks that will take them closer to their places of work.

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Russia: “Merry Gnome” Medvedev. Story of the Meme

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Russia

The Russian blogosphere can create a significant political effect threatening the image of Russian government officials. It doesn't even require an actual news story with a critical approach to the government.

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Updates from March, 2010

19 March 2010

South Africa

Thomas Kwenaite reviews the 2010 Confederation of African Football Awards: “Last week, I watched in utter embarrassment as none of the finalists in the Caf awards turned up for the event.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Cuba

Uncommon Sense confirms that Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying, “There should be little doubt that if he were to be named this year's recipient, it would elevate his status and that of the entire dissident movement on the island. And it would be a big win for the cause of Cuban freedom.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

Boyce Voice and B.C. Pires blog about the public outcry surrounding the appearance of Jamaican dancehall performers, Vybz Kartel and Mavado, in Barbados.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

Guyana-Gyal has a theory about “how tongues all over the world latch on to the I-Talk.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Netherlands

Dutch foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen tweeted [nl] in reaction to a claim by a retired US general that “gay soldiers contributed to the Bosnian massacre” in Srebrenica in 1995: “Extremely weird statement about Srebrenica. I fear this has more to do with the discussion in the US about homosexuality in the army.”

• Percy Balemans