Global Voices · Citizen media stories from June 2011

June, 2011

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Stories from June, 2011

10 June 2011

Sri Lanka: Protests In Katunayake Free Trade Zone

Earlier this month clashes at the Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Sri Lanka between protesting workers and police claimed the life of an young worker and injured many workers and policemen. The following protests of citizens against the killing send a strong signal to the Sri Lankan government.

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North Korea Threatens to Disclose Recordings of Talks with South

Written by Lee Yoo Eun · East Asia

In an apparent act of blackmail, North Korea threatened South Korea on Thursday that they would release secret audio recordings from Inter-Korean talks reportedly held on May 9, 2011. The secret meeting, initiated by the South, was meant to lead to an agreement on talks for how to move forward after two deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010.

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Peru: Aymara Indigenous People Announce Resumption of Protests in Puno

Written by Isabel Guerra · Translated by Louella Mahabir · Latin America

After a temporary truce to allow for presidential elections to take place in the Puno region, the Aymara Indians in said region have announced that they will resume their strike indefinitely, with which they demand the cancellation of all mining concessions in Puno.

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Cuba: Released Journalists Offer Their Testimonies

Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · Latin America

As part of the Committee to Protect Journalists series "After the Black Spring: Cuban Stories of Prison and Freedom," Cuban journalist Omar Ruiz Hernández, who was recently released from jail and exiled to Spain, tells his story.

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Kazakhstan: Setting Up Borders Online

Written by Sergey Park · Translated by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Earlier this week Kazakhstani internet users began to observe a curious phenomenon. Google.kz now redirects to the main Google.com website with a Kazakh language interface.

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Cambodia: Women Entrepreneurs and Social Media

Written by Sopheap Chak · East Asia

Women entrepreneurs in Cambodia gathered last week to discuss the role of social media, particularly Facebook, in expanding their businesses. Sopheap Chak highlights the important points raised during the meeting

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Updates from June, 2011

23 June 2011

El Salvador

El Salvador From the Inside reports on the rising cost of corn, an important and basic staple for Salvadorans: “June 2011 newspapers report a quintal [100 lb bag of corn] costs up to $40 , due to last year’s bad harvest and growing season starting late this year. Maize had already doubled from the April 2010 price of $13.50 to $26 in April 2011. So, maize has TRIPLED in price in one year and 3 months.

• Silvia Viñas

Nicaragua

Ronald Hill says [es] that “Nicaragua carries a social debt with the countryside, with thousands of peasants who live precariously.” He summarizes the hardships Nicaraguans in the countryside face every day and wonders why conditions there do not improve, even when the country's economy grows every year.

• Silvia Viñas

Macedonia

Sina (meaning “Blue female”) started a blog to spread the word about the protests against police brutality to a wider global audience. Her first post is in Spanish.

• Filip Stojanovski

Thailand

Democracy for Burma uploads a labour registration brochure in Burmese and Thai languages provided by the International Organization for Migration. There are thousands of Myanmar migrants living and working in Thailand.

• Mong Palatino

Armenia

Ianyan says that a photoshoot for an Armenian singer is drawing controversy in Armenia. Featuring photographs of Sako Balasanyan (Super Sako) in a “series of photographs featuring violent, misogynistic imagery of a faceless woman and him in various settings,” it also includes a picture of the singer in front of a prominent religious monument “with a gun in one hand and a barely clothed woman in the other.“

• Onnik Krikorian