Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 June 04

4 June 2010

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Stories from 4 June 2010

Brazil: Landlocked Crowds set up a Beach in a Mountain Town

Written by Manuela Tenreiro · Latin America

When at the end of last year, Belo Horizonte’s City Hall published a decree banning events of any nature from taking place at one of the most popular squares in the city, it was certainly not expecting to bring “beach life” to a Brazilian inland mountain town.

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Russia: Mapping Top Bloggers and Regional Communities

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

Alexey Sidorenko shares his analysis of the data on Russia's top bloggers and regional communities.

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Lebanon: Blogosphere buzzing after Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla

Written by Antoun Issa · Middle East & North Africa

Israel's attack on a Gaza aid convoy that killed at least 10 peace activists has sparked an international outcry, no less in Lebanon. The Lebanese blogosphere reacted sharply to news that its southern neighbour had violently stormed the Turkish aid convoy, the Mavi Marmara.

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Syria: Lash Out Continues Against Israel's Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy

Written by Anas Qtiesh · Middle East & North Africa

The deadly Israeli raid on the aid convoy headed to Gaza to break the blockade has once again brought the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza into the limelight. The political and public outcry has been remarkable and has generated a heated global debate on what had happened. Syrian and Palestinian bloggers speak up.

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USA: Mourning the Loss of American Furkan Dogan, Killed on Flotilla

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Following the Israeli Defense Forces' deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the identities of the nine activists killed aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara have emerged. Eight were Turkish nationals, the other was a 19-year-old Turkish-American dual citizen named Furkan Dogan. In this post, Jillian C. York investigates American perspectives on the teenager's death.

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China: Film director beats up foreigner at swimming pool

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

A skirmish over a swimming pool lane between a Chinese film director and another man led to a fist fight but also to this blog post from the prominent director and some rather strong nationalist sentiment.

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Hong Kong: Goddess of Democracy denied entry

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Today is the 21st anniversary of the June 4 Massacre in Beijing Tiananmen and the Hong Kong public will continue their annual candle night vigil tonight. However, the preparation process...

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China: Lest we forget, Tiananmen Incident 21 years on

Written by Andy Yee · East Asia

On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Incident (‘June Forth Movement’), Chinese intellectuals, ex-protest leaders, activists, bloggers, writers and ordinary citizens tell us why they refuse...

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Updates from 4 June 2010

Haiti

“Today, tens of thousands of Haitian farmers and earthquake-displaced peasants will gather on the occasion of International Environment Day to preserve the agricultural lifeblood of the nation”: Repeating Islands blogs about protests against Monsanto and their genetically modified seeds.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago's new Prime Minister has reneged on her promise to not move into her predecessor's residence, prompting B.C. Pires to comment: “What the palace stands for is clear…and anyone who deliberately chooses to occupy the palace necessarily assumes all its trappings. You can't play sailor mas and ‘fraid powder and you can't install someone in a palace and ‘fraid emperor.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

Jamaica Salt blogs about the alleged “extortion rackets going on in downtown Kingston, linked to the power held by Dudus.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

The recently elected government of Trinidad and Tobago has promised free laptops for children about to enter secondary school; KnowTnT.com has a better idea: “Schools. Infrastructure that supports broadband internet access - not just in urbanized areas but throughout the nation. Subsidize it.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

Labrish Jamaica wonders whether the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will affect the Caribbean, while the incident has made Trinidad and Tobago's This Beach Called Life “think about our very own offshore drilling efforts”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Iran

Hossein Derakhshan's family has launched a blog for this jailed blogger. Family says that Hossein is leading prayer meetings. They also say Hussein wanted to serve his country.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Culturallogic says [fa] religious hard-liners chanted slogans against the grandson of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at a state ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the Iranian spiritual leader's death in protest at his support for Iran's reformist opposition. The blogger adds several protesters had Lebanese Hizbollah's yellow flags. Here is the film where Hassan Khomeini was interrupted and heckled.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Majid Tavakoli, an Iranian student activist, stopped his hunger strike when he was transferred from confinement cell to public prison. You can see in Nasabonline blog Tavakoli's mother when she gets the news. Koohyar Godarzi, a jailed blogger stopped his hunger strike too.

• Fred Petrossian

Guatemala

A video (in English) posted on HablaGuate shows the aftermath of storm Agatha in Ciudad Vieja, a “coffee-growing community located on the base of the ‘volcán de agua' (water volcano) just outside of Antigua, Guatemala.” The post also provides a link where donations for relief efforts can be sent.

• Silvia Viñas

Russia

Streetwise Professor reflects upon the ongoing discussion in Russia about regulating the metals' market by price fixing, and Prime Minister Putin's active involvement in this matter.

• Vilhelm Konnander