Global Voices · Citizen media stories from January 2011

January, 2011

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Stories from January, 2011

25 January 2011

Brazil: Belo Monte Dam returns to the spotlight

Written by João Miguel D. de A. Lima · Translated by João Miguel D. de A. Lima · Latin America

The Brazilian government expressed its wish to start building the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in 2011. Immediately, a virtual mobilization against the project broke out. In spite of the intense flow of information on the Internet and other media, clarifications on the socio-environmental impacts of Belo Monte are still to be provided by the government.

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Vietnam: State of Social Media One Year after Facebook Block

Written by Huyen Chip · East Asia

Surprisingly, Vietnam is on the list of 10 countries with the fastest growth of Facebook users one year after the popular social network was blocked in Vietnam. Facebook marketing is enjoying a boom in this country with Facebook marketing agencies mushrooming all over Internet

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24 January 2011

Guatemala: Challenges for First Female Public Prosecutor

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

Recent appointments of women to public administration and key political positions could shake the political scene in Guatemala. Furthermore, the appointment of the first female Public Prosecutor could help end impunity for crimes committed against women.

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Pakistan: The Veenagate Controversy

Written by Faisal Kapadia · South Asia

Veena Malik, an aspiring Pakistani celebrity, was accused by religious hardliners of immoral behavior as she took part in the Indian reality show Big Boss. Reactions on this controversy show that Pakistan now stands divided amongst its conservative and liberal forces.

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Chile: Citizens respond to natural gas crisis in Magallanes

Written by Paulina Aguilera Muñoz · Translated by Stephen Cairns · Latin America

The announcement to raise natural gas prices in the southern region of Magallanes in Chile generated an immediate reaction from citizens that forced the government to modify the measure. Protests, barricades, and mobilized citizenry were followed minute by minute on social networks in Chile.

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Russia: First Twitter Reports of Domodedovo Suicide Bombing

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

A deadly explosion killed at least 35, and wounded as many as 70 people in the Moscow airport Domodedovo. Early reports assert (ru) that the attack was a suicide bomb. Information has been coming in from many sources. Twitter is experiencing an explosion of tweets with the hashtag #Domodedovo.

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Updates from January, 2011

26 January 2011

Guyana

The Guyana Groove is concerned about “the extremely high rate” of domestic violence, especially “in those cases in which one or both of the partners left the relationship.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

El Faktor [es] posts a video portraying the work of Puerto Rican tattoo artist Krystel Ivannie.

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Namibia

Big Ear Records, Production label and new management from South Africa is releasing the much anticipated new super dance album, I am an African goddess, of the Namibian Superstar LadyMay.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Ghana

Kajsa attended a lecture by Joshua Kwesi Aikins as a part of a two-day lecture series for graduate students at Institute of African Studies at University of Ghana where free and open source softwares for academics were recommended.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Ghana

Do you know Ghana Time?: “Jokes abound about lateness – GMT stands for Ghana Man Time – and there is an assumption that nothing will ever start on time. And yet sometimes I wonder whether things don’t start on time because people are late, or because the attendees know that it won’t start on time.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Nigeria

Robinson Tombari Sibe shows how the Nigerian President has changed the face of Nigerian politics: “President Jonathan has enlarged the political workspace in Nigeria by not only playing by the rules but also encouraging perceived opponents in their quest to unseat him.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Tunisia

Yosief Ghebrehiwet explains why the Tunisian revolution cannot be replicated in Eritrea:”the wholesale eviction of the adult student population from the cities and the overall low development level of the nation make it impossible for the kind of uprising that we are witnessing in Tunisia to be emulated in Eritrea.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie

She plagiarized this story from a Croat, who is suing her. His pen name is James Braddock, but his real...
Serbs are showing their true colors with their insane reaction to this film. How shocking. Congratulations, you come off just...
I don't understand how anyone in their right mind would not have known a movie like this would have opened...