Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2011

November, 2011

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Stories from November, 2011

18 November 2011

Australia: Obama Charm Offensive Not Everyone's Cup Of Tea

Global Voices author Kevin Rennie gathers news reports, blog reactions, and Twitter comments on the recent visit of United States President Barack Obama to Australia.

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Egypt: The Mini-States Of Cairo

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

So you thought Cairo was a city? Actually it's a series of mini-states that operate independently of each other. In this post, blogger Karim Shafei explains how Cairo really works.

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USA: Will Occupy Oakland Activist “Pancho” Be Deported?

Written by Elizabeth Rivera · North America

Francisco "Pancho" Ramos-Stierle was arrested while meditating at the Oscar Grant Plaza during a raid on the Occupy Oakland, in California, encampment on November 14. After intense public pressure, all criminal charges have been dropped but he still faces deportation.

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Gabon's UNESCO Bailout: International Solidarity at What Price?

Written by Julie Owono · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ali Bongo, President of Gabon, has agreed to offer $2 million USD to UNESCO, following the launch of an emergency fund to compensate for the loss of funding from the United States and Israel. Activists in this oil-rich Central African nation urge the public to look beyond the announcement.

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Kuwait: Protesters Storm the National Assembly

Written by Mona Kareem · Middle East & North Africa

Thousands of angry Kuwaitis stormed the National Assembly building on Wednesday 16 November, after police and security forces clashed with protestors. Kuwait's political sphere has been extremely tense in the past few years, and with the Arab Spring earlier this year, the situation took a new turn.

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Yemen: Reuters Yields to the Power of Twitter!

Written by Noon Arabia · Middle East & North Africa

Yemeni netizens scored big time when their Twitter campaign 'Shame on Reuters' pressured the international news organisation to stop its stringer Muhammad Sudam, who has also been the Yemeni President's personal translator and secretary since 2009, from reporting.

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Updates from November, 2011

25 November 2011

Ecuador

Ecuador's indigenous communities hold traditional knowledge of natural medicines and therapeutic use of plants. This documentary by iosphera shows the importance of preserving this knowledge from biopiracy for the future of these communities. (via cinealoido)

• Juliana Rincón Parra

Trinidad & Tobago

“International Men's Day kind of came and went without much fanfare here, even though the darn thing was actually ‘inaugurated in 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago'”, says West Indian Mother, who wonders whether “we [are] denying good men their role.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

The rumour turns out to be true: Trinidad Carnival Diary says that designer Anya Ayoung-Chee's section in the Carnival band TRIBE's 2012 offering launches tonight.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bahamas

Womanish Words would like the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women to be called what it really is - the International Day for the Elimination of Male Violence Against Women, and posts a rant poem in an “honest attempt to contribute to the naming and defining of male violence against women, of defining it so that we can recognize it, and stop it.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

“It seemed that the majority of online readers, if you read the comments following the Express' first article on the alleged assassination threats, chose not to believe the government of Trinidad and Tobago”: Guanaguanare thinks that “the lack of evidence helped to destroy the credibility of this latest threat to national security”; Jumbie's Watch agrees.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Cuba will apparently soon have a 24-hour news channel; Regina Coyula says: “Despite so much supposed information, we are the most disinformed people in the world.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Greece

Spyros Karatzoulis from Florina, Northern Greece, intends to start a bike marathon from Florina to Athens, in order to reach the Ministry of Education; his goal is to protest the lack of special school infrastructure in Florina for 33 disabled children (aged 14-28 years). On his blog [gr], he describes the route he plans to follow, as well as the reasons that led him to this initiative.

• Veroniki Krikoni