Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 April 06

6 April 2010

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Stories from 6 April 2010

Egypt: Linux InstallFest a Success!

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is picking up in Egypt, thanks to awareness programmes being organsied by Egyptian Linux Users Group. Tarek Amr sums up reactions to a recent event in this post.

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Russian Government to Develop National Search Engine

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe

Why would the Russian government try to develop its own search engine? Bloggers and Internet experts in the country attempt to come up with explanations and possible implications of that ambitious plan.

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Egypt: Crackdown on Peaceful Pro-Democracy Protests

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

On the second anniversary of the first call for civil disobedience in the history of modern Egypt, new protests broke out through out the country. Egyptian police violently beat and randomly detained people to disperse protests calling for constitutional reform. Eman AbdElRahman reports.

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Peru: Ongoing Mining Strike

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

The national miner's strike has been spreading to other parts of the country, and also resulting in more causalities. The miners are resisting government attempts to implement environmental controls on the informal mining sector.

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Philippines: Earth Hour 2010

Written by Karlo Mikhail Mongaya · East Asia

The Philippines joined the March 27 Earth Hour as 1,076 cities and municipalities turned their lights off in a symbolic mass action for energy conservation, environmental protection, and against global warming. Filipinos post observations and comments online.

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Australia: Oil Spill on Iconic Waters a Warning to Obama

Written by Kevin Rennie · Oceania, North America

A Chinese coal ship is spilling its oil onto Australia’s icon Great Barrier Reef. GV author Kevin Rennie gathers reactions from bloggers

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Russia: War Reporter Blogs on Trauma and Politics of the Subway Attacks

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Olga Allenova is a special correspondent for the Kommersant daily, author of Chechnya is Close: War Through the Eyes of a Woman, a collection of the 1999-2007 war reportage from the North Caucasus. In the post below, she writes about the March 29 subway bombings, the subsequent pain and trauma, and the resulting political and media responses.

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Updates from 6 April 2010

Law

In an interview with Bondy blog [Fr], Malika, 28, a veiled French Muslim woman of Algerian descent, expresses her detailed views about the burqa and niqab, amidst the debate, reheated by the French government, for or against a bill that would ban the burqa.

• Suzanne Lehn

Nepal

Paramendra Bhagat at Democracy for Nepal opines that “the way out of the ongoing political paralysis in Nepal is a 10-party government under Dr. Baburam Bhattarai's leadership”.

• Rezwan

Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan police have arrested several Buddhist monks who were demonstrating against the detention of the Gen Sarath Fonseka, former presidential candidate of the opposition. Perambara has the story how the fasting monks were picked up by the police.

• Rezwan

Maldives

Rehendhi is uncomfortable with the fact that the issue of veil is becoming a focus in Maldives, due to exploitation of religion in politics.

• Rezwan

India

“The reason why Naxalites have been able to sustain their insurgency for so long is due to three main reasons: the absence or failure of governance; the romanticism and propaganda of their overground sympathisers; and, finally, due to the relatively subliminal nature of their violence,” comments The Acorn while discussing about the escalated violence by the Naxalites in India.

• Rezwan

Haiti

The Haitian Blogger calls PBS' recent documentary on the Haitian earthquake “distorted”, saying: “It would have been great if the writers and producers of ‘The Quake' had offered a documentary that was not only representative of the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake, but was also an accurate historical, political, and economic perspective on what has made Haiti so desperately poor and vulnerable to this ‘natural' disaster.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Anguilla

Corruption-free Anguilla comments on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's refusal “to accept responsibility for the decline of good government in the Turks and Caicos Islands”, saying: “The inevitable result, I fear, will be the British Government’s international embarrassment.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco