Global Voices · Citizen media stories from September 2011

September, 2011

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Stories from September, 2011

14 September 2011

Puerto Rico: Tuning In to a New Voice For Political Satire

Written by Alfredo Richner · Latin America

En Serio is a new political satire program broadcast on TV and through the web. It’s inspired mainly by successful American political satire shows, and the team of hosts and producers have adapted those influences for a young Puerto Rican audience.

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Mexico: Mexico City Mayor and His Online Interaction with Citizens

Written by J. Tadeo · Translated by Elizabeth Rivera · Latin America

Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon is the mayor of the Federal District (Mexico City), headquarters of the union powers and capital city of the United Mexican States. He is becoming known for his interactions online with netizens about their claims and doubts.

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Brazil: Floods Hit Santa Catarina State Again

Written by Fernando Sapelli · Translated by Fernando Sapelli · Latin America

Intense rains over the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil’s South Region have once again caused floods in several cities. Since September 8, floods, flash floods and landslides have hit 96 cities in the region and, according to mainstream news, nearly 1 million people have been affected.

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Iran: Protest Art to Save Lake Urmia

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Protesters took to the streets again on Monday in Ardabil, in Iran's Azarbaijan's region, to demand that the Iranian government save Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest salt water lakes. Fred Petrossian reports.

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China: WikiLeaks Misreading Leads to Online ‘Spy' Hunt

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia, North America

The release of unredacted United States (US) diplomatic cables since late August 2011 by WikiLeaks, has resulted in an online witch hunt in China. The word "informant" in the documents was misinterpreted as "Xianren" which usually refers to a "rat" or "spy" who makes a living by selling information.

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13 September 2011

Egypt: Turkey's Response to Kurds Questioned as Erdogan Speaks in Cairo

Written by Ruwayda Mustafah · Middle East & North Africa

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's speech about the Palestinian bid for a statehood at the Arab League was translated online live by members of social networking sites, namely Twitter, for those who did not speak Arabic or Turkish. Ruwayda Mustafah reports.

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Updates from September, 2011

23 September 2011

Guyana

“My favorite short stories work like cinematic vignettes…connecting in some major way with narrative voice…is for me the key component to enjoying short fiction”: Litblogger Charmaine Valere says that Jamaican author Lorna Goodison's new collection of short stories “continues in the tradition of presenting narrative voice as a key element…”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Israel

Israeli woman Lihi Yona, a Moroccan Jew descendent, reclaims her Arab roots and complicates local identity politics on a bus ride to Jordan to attend a Lebanese band performance. The Hebrew version is followed by an English one: I am an Arab Jew.

• Carmel L. Vaisman

El Salvador

Tim recommends a blog post by Danny Burridge “about lives lived under the harsh tactics of Salvadoran soldiers patrolling a high-crime area”. Tim explains that Danny doesn't blog often because “he's too busy immersing himself in the lives of children in one of San Salvador's poorest neighborhoods, La Chacra.”

• Silvia Viñas

Spain

The website 100 medidas (100 measures) [es] is a crowdsourcing project that is collecting citizen's recommendations on how to improve the government. People will vote for the best 100 measures, which will be sent to the government elected on the November 20, 2011 general elections.

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

North Korea

Kyle Wagner from Gizmodo site wrote a post on one of the most detailed images of the North Korean concentration camps taken by Google Earth. It is estimated that over 200,000 North Korean citizens are imprisoned in the camps under unimaginably harsh conditions.

• Lee Yoo Eun

Brazil: Communities in Rio Blame Olympics for Evictions

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Interesting read. Thanks for sharing!
Great article that addressed the matter concisely and with appropriate supplemental material.