Global Voices · Citizen media stories from March 2011

March, 2011

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Stories from March, 2011

13 March 2011

Japan: “Why do we need nuclear power?”

Debates over the risks and benefits of nuclear power plants have sparked worldwide, since an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Friday, 11 March causing widespread fear that the nuclear reactors of at least two power plants near Fukushima may be at risk of melt down.

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12 March 2011

El Salvador: Thoughts on International Women's Day

Written by Omar Nieto · Translated by Marco Veliz · Latin America

2011 finds El Salvador with the highest rate of femicides in the word, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais. Some Salvadorean bloggers have made their own reflections on the day and what it means for women in El Salvador.

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Azerbaijan: More Protests, More Arrests…

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Following yesterday's protest by youth activists in Azerbaijan, opposition supporters today staged their own. Also inspired by pro-democracy protests in Egypt and Tunisia, the demonstration might not have been as large as those, but it was certainly intense.

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Egypt: Leaked Documents Reveal Dirty Games of Former Regime

Written by Afef Abrougui · Middle East & North Africa

When a number of Egyptian protestors attacked the headquarters of the hated State Security in different Egyptian cities, their aim was not to show their contempt for the unpopular institution, a symbol of Mubarak’s regime, but it was rather to rewrite history.

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Japan: Onagawa, the Hometown I Once Knew

Written by Tomomi Sasaki · East Asia

A personal account of evacuation in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture: Twitter user @kombu_s evacuated to Sendai City and posted tweets and images from her journey, saying "I am an ordinary person that went to pick up her family."

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Japan: Fear in Fukushima

Written by Solana Larsen · East Asia

The day after a 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, an explosion at Fukushima Daiichi power plant, 150 miles north of Tokyo, is causing both fear and confusion on Twitter about what may happen next.

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Updates from March, 2011

21 March 2011

Colombia

Albeiro Rodas writes about hip hop in Colombia: “In the last decade, Colombian hip hop is developing among young people of the poor barrios as a way of expression. I met Mcleoud, a Medellín rapper who talked to me about this music culture in the country.”

• Silvia Viñas

Peru

Juan Arellano in Globalizado [es] writes about the Observatorio del Voto-E en Latinoamérica (Observatory of E-Voting in Latin America) which seeks to track the progress of electronic voting in Latin American countries.

• Silvia Viñas

Cuba

“I am ashamed that my country is anxious to defend Gadaffi”: Iván's File Cabinet says that “there is no justification for being friends with such characters” and points fingers at several factions that he thinks deserves the blame.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

As the brother of Brother of a former Turks and Caicos Finance Minister is arrested on allegations of fraud and money laundering, Barbados Free Press says: “In Barbados when elected or appointed public officials or their family members are found to be engaged in corrupt activities, the politicians will trade some insults in the press or in Parliament but no one is charged. Ever.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco