Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 June 08

8 June 2010

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Stories from 8 June 2010

Italy: “Every Kiss is a Revolution” as Gays Await Legal Rights

Violent assaults on homosexuals have occurred with frequency in Italy over the past year, but to the disappointment of many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists, it has not increased the chances for new anti-homophobia legislation being passed.

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Kurdistance: The Hypocrisy of Defending Turkey

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

As there is an increase of support for both Turkey and Palestine in the wake of the Israeli raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Kurdish bloggers caution against supporting a country whose human rights record leaves much to be desired.

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50 Years Later, Independence and the Resource Curse in Francophone Africa

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Francophone Africa is celebrating 50 years of independence in 2010. Many Africans voices are wondering out loud what is there to celebrate, given the mediocre level of human development achieved since independence.

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Peru: The Blogosphere Remembers Bagua

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Silvia Viñas · Latin America

A year from the tragic incidents in Bagua, where officially 34 people died (23 of them were policemen) and unofficial reports speak of a much larger number of casualties, Peruvians used blogs to express their different feelings: pain, frustration, and disenchantment were the predominant sentiments.

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Pakistan: Bloggers Reject Religious Hatred

Written by Farhan Janjua · South Asia

93 innocent lives were lost when the Ahmadiyya religious community was attacked in Lahore around a week ago. Pakistani bloggers, netizens and activists have denounced the attacks in strong words.

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Israel: Pixies Pull Show Stopper

Written by Nicole Hyman · Middle East & North Africa

In the wake of mounting international criticism and condemnation of Israel’s clash with activists intent on breaking the blockade on Gaza, the Pixies, a veteran rock band, have canceled their concert in Israel. Nicole Hyman follows the debate on the link between music and politics on Twitter.

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Armenia-Azerbaijan: Finding mutual ground online

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

As Global Voices looks back at the success of a Rising Voices project, Ceasefire Liberia, a citizen media site dealing with conflict and reconciliation, activity in the same area is starting to be noticed in the Caucasus. New and existing projects working towards establishing dialog and eventual peace in the region are starting to use new and social media in their activities.

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Updates from 8 June 2010

Arts & Culture

Giantpanda dives into Timorese culture of togetherness and reflects about the country's meagerness along the blogosphere questioning if in East Timor “for many, a personal blog would be like setting up a tent on the mountain far from the village.”

• Sara Moreira

Guatemala

The bloggers at Antigua Daily Photo have started, “a mini-series to show you some of the ‘green' initiatives available just around Antigua Guatemala.” They began by highlighting e-waste de Guatemala [es], an NGO that collects and gets rid of electronic waste.

• Silvia Viñas

Mexico

This year Mexico will hold a Census, and the blogger from Maldito Thinner [es] has compiled a list of the best 100 burlesque questions published under the hashtag #preguntasdelcenso (census questions). For example: “17.- ¿Cuál es su ingreso aproximado en las granjas de Farmville? ¿Cuántos cochinitos tiene? (17.-What is your approximate income in the farms of Farmville? How many pigs do you own?).” The site Marcianos [es] has also compiled a similar list.

• Silvia Viñas

Japan

~~Paint~~Pink Tentacle blogs a selection of Tetsuya Ishida's (1973-2005) surrealistic paintings on the dark side of modern life.

• Oiwan Lam

Haiti

The Haitian Blogger republishes a Facebook report that supports Haitian farmers “in their epic fight against the Monsanto multinational corporation.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Costa Rica

The first female president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, has been in office for 30 days; the blog Carepicha [es] analyses this first month. Among a political evaluation, the blogger congratulates Chichilla for using Open Source on her website, but calls her out for not having a Twitter account.

• Silvia Viñas

St. Maarten

Geoffrey Philp's Blogspot acknowledges the passing of the St. Martin folklorist Laurelle “Yaya” Richards.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

South Korea

Ronda Hauben from Ohmynews blogs about south Korean netizen's doubt about the cause of Cheonan Tragedy and government's move to invite bloggers and twitterers “to dispel any doubts among the young that North Korea was behind the deadly attack”.

• Oiwan Lam

Guyana

Signifyin' Guyana suggests that “its promise of a succinct, timely message relayed between friends, (and enemies), networkers, netidlers, and all other kinds of purposeful or purposempty folk, is probably why Twitter is so seductive to many.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Haiti

“If father Jean-Juste were alive, what he would say to the earthquake
survivors? What he would say to the international and Haitian government
bureaucracies?”: Wadner Pierre remembers the late Father Gerard Jean-Juste, whom he describes as “an adoptive father” to him.

• Janine Mendes-Franco