Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 December 08

8 December 2010

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Stories from 8 December 2010

Africa: Painting Cultural Portraits with Remixed Radio and Video

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa

Radio Continental Drift has an interesting proposal: with audio from radio workshops and videos shot around several cities in Kenya and Uganda they've made a series of remixed videos meant to fuel conversations around activism, culture and arts in Africa.

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Puerto Rico: Tense Prelude to the Student Strike

Written by Alfredo Richner · Latin America

A 48-hour blockade organized by students from the state-run University of Puerto Rico in protest against a proposed $800 annual fee got off to a tense and violent start early Tuesday morning, as students raising barricades around the Río Piedras campus clashed with private security guards hired by the administration.

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Angola: Where is the national airline TAAG headed?

Written by Clara Onofre · Translated by Janet Gunter · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

A year and a half after having been authorized to resume flights to Portugal, the Angolan airline TAAG, is again involved in serious problems related to the safety of its planes.

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Debate on the China Model

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Last month the British Prime Minister David Cameron visited China. After he had delivered his speech at Peking University, a student asked him what he could learn from China. The episode has triggered a hot debate among bloggers and public intellectuals in China. So what exactly is the meaning of "China Model"?

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Puerto Rico: Artist Collective Paints Pixel By Pixel

Written by Alfredo Richner · Latin America

The blog UNDOdigital has become a unique space in which digital artists can interact with the broader online community, share their creations, promote their exhibits, and expose their readers to all types of art related news, interviews, and works. Global Voices interviews one of the creators and editor of the website.

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Updates from 8 December 2010

Pakistan

A cleric in Peshawar has publicly offered a reward of Pakistani Rs500,000 to anyone who will kill Aasia Bibi, a Christian brick-kiln labourer,who was sentenced to death for blasphemy by a district court. Adil Najam is outraged by the inaction of the government.

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Bhutan

Tshering Tobgay informs that the Bhutanese National Assembly has endorsed the government’s proposal to increase the salaries of public servants.

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Zafar Mehdi informs at Kafila that “The peaceful processions on 8 and 10 Muharram have been banned in Kashmir since the outbreak of insurgency in 1989.”

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Burundi

One changed life in Burundi: “Beginning with a loan of just $48, Adelaide Barutwanayo grew her clothing sales business in the markets of Gitega, Burundi, to a point where she could comfortably provide for her two children, ages 6 and 13.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Zimbabwe

Can you be an African woman, a feminist and an African feminist?: “I think many African women, like my mother and even myself have struggled, or are struggling with the notions of being an African woman, a feminist and an African Feminist. We struggle to translate an academic concept into reality in our own lives…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Kenya

One brain drain phenomenon you haven’t heard of: “As it turns out, both in Kenya and Tanzania, flight controllers seem to be leaving the country for other regions and airlines. For various monetary reasons, the numbers of controllers have not been increased for quite a while.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

“So hot hot story is the issue with the PS of Agriculture and his company that sells goods to his own Ministry for exorbitant prices”: Discuss SVG says that rules governing transparency need to be put in place.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

B.C. Pires comments on the FIFA Vice-President's explanation as to why England did not win their World Cup bid: “It would have been nice if there was a journalist amongst the crowd of sycophants…who could have asked Jack if there was any insult at all involved in having lunch with the British PM, the second in line to the throne and getting David Beckham to hold a football camp in Trinidad, when there was never any intention to support the England bid.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense reports that this Friday, on International Human Rights Day, “Dr. Darsi Ferrer…will again lead a peaceful march in Havana to demand respect for human rights on the island.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco