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October, 2011

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Stories from October, 2011

4 October 2011

Colombia: El Puente_lab Making a Difference in Moravia, Medellin

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Stephen Cairns · Latin America

In Medellín, Colombia, the project Hiperbarrio (Rising Voices project) is being developed along with other interesting projects that attempt to improve social inclusion and citizen media training. One project we highlight in this article is the El Puente_lab, a production platform for art and culture.

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UAE: Five Activists on Trial for “Insulting” President

Written by Mona Kareem · Middle East & North Africa

Five activists from the UAE, including bloggers, are on trial for publicly "insulting" the country's president and top officials. The activists, who are in jail where they have allegedly been abused, refused to attend the hearing.

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Arab Bloggers Meet in Tunis

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Middle East & North Africa

On Monday in Tunis, the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting kicked off with a day-long public conference. The meeting is co-hosted by Global Voices, Nawaat and Heinrich Böll Foundation and is attended by around 100 bloggers from nearly all Arab countries.

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Cameroon: Anglophone Nationalism Pops-up Ahead of Elections

Written by George Esunge Fominyen · Sub-Saharan Africa

As presidential candidates campaigned ahead of the 9 October polls in Cameroon, supporters of English-speaking separatist movements attempted a protest on 1 October in Buea the former capital of British-controlled Southern Cameroons.

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China: Student Interns Or Cheap Labourers?

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

To tackle the labour shortage emerging in China, the government has started encouraging privately run institutes to expand vocational schools. Student labourers enrolled in the so-called “factory in front, school at the back” model have been sharing their grievances online.

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Bangladesh: Bloggers Will Not Be Silenced

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

Blogger Asif Mohiuddin, 28, was recently detained by police for organizing rallies through Facebook and blogs to support students protesting against the privatization of Jagannath University. Asif was later released after submitting a bond to refrain from such activities; here are reactions from netizens.

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Updates from October, 2011

17 October 2011

Malaysia

The twitter hashtag #cleanbefore13 refers to the campaign to pressure the Malaysian government to implement immediate electoral reforms before the 2013 general elections.

• Mong Palatino

Vietnam

Viet Tan reports that the trial of detained blogger and Mathematics professor Pham Minh Hoang has been postponed. The blogger was charged with subversion.

• Mong Palatino

Malaysia

Farish A Noor discusses the perceived anti-Malaysianism sentiment in Indonesia. The author hopes for better relations between the two neighbors in the Southeast Asian region

• Mong Palatino

Madagascar

Dan Berrett argues in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the ” Occupy Wall Street's most defining characteristics—its decentralized nature and its intensive process of participatory, consensus-based decision-making—are rooted in other precincts of academe and activism: in the scholarship of anarchism and, specifically, in an ethnography of central Madagascar”.

• Lova Rakotomalala