Global Voices · Citizen media stories from January 2011

January, 2011

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Stories from January, 2011

30 January 2011

Egypt: Solidarity Pours in from Around the World (Videos)

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Middle East & North Africa

On Saturday, in different cities around the world, people demonstrated in solidarity with the Egyptian protesters. This is a round up of some of the videos of the marches posted online.

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Brazil: Exclusive Internet Interview with the Founder of WikiLeaks

Written by Paula Góes · Translated by Melissa Mann · North America, Latin America

Brazilian netizens were invited to participate in an exclusive and collective interview with Julian Assange, founder and editor of the polemical WikiLeaks. Assange explains why he works with mainstream media – though he never fails to criticize it.

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Egypt: Trouble for Mubarak as Protests Continue

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Mass protests are continuing for the sixth day in a row. Despite attempts at a total news blackout, against both citizen and mainstream media, news from Egypt continues to dominate the scene about demonstrations across the county, from Cairo and Alexandria. More trouble is also in store for Mubarak as journalists from government-backed papers change sides.

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Egypt: Al Jazeera Cairo Bureau Shut

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt just shut down Al Jazeera's Cairo bureau, drawing outrage online. This comes after it switched off the Internet, in a bid to stop the world from seeing its people's revolution, where demonstrations against president Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule continue for the sixth day in a row.

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Sudan: People's Revolution in the Making?

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Following mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt, a group Sudanese activists have chosen January 30, 2011 to be the beginning of peaceful demonstrations to bring down Omar al-Bashir and his government. Here is a roundup of latest tweets using the hashtag #SudanJan30.

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Maldives: In Solidarity with Egypt

Written by Saffah Faroog · South Asia

The ongoing protests in Egypt have ‘electrified’ netziens in the Maldives. These uprisings have a special significance to the Maldivians as it brings back flashbacks of pro-democracy protests held only a few years ago to bring democracy to the Indian Ocean island nation.

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Updates from January, 2011

31 January 2011

China

Safeworld, a NGO on peace and conflict, published a report on China's glowing role in resolving Africa's conflicts.

• Oiwan Lam

30 January 2011

Liberia

Jenny discusses the works of Concern Liberia, which involve constructing classrooms, separate toilets for boys and girls, providing furniture, textbooks and other essential learning items like blackboards, pencils and copybooks.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Malawi

Gregory Gondwe writes about Malawi's studio wizard: “Tapiwa Bandawe is a producer who can lionise a musician none of us have ever heard of and how he does this is a subject of conjecture.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Taiwan (ROC)

Boogier warns facebook users to think twice before clicking “like” or “share” button on those pitiful stories and photos of stray dogs and poor dog carers. He criticizes this kind of tactics used to allure people by fake animal protectors-who he'd rather call “cockroaches”, and argues that more dogs are mistreated because of these “cockroaches” are simply using people's sympathy to ask for illegal donation.

• Portnoy Zheng

29 January 2011

Nicaragua

In an interview with El Nuevo Diario [es], Global Voices author Rodrigo Peñalba was asked [es] if the phenomenon seen in Egypt and Tunisia is “far from the national reality” and if netizens would respond in the same way. He concludes that the newspaper, instead of asking “could this happen in Nicaragua?,” should analyze the national context to see where such a movement would emerge from.

• Silvia Viñas

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...