Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2011

November, 2011

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Stories from November, 2011

11 November 2011

Peru: The First 100 Days of Ollanta Humala's Government

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Elizabeth Rivera · Latin America

Saturday November 5 marked the first hundred days of the Peruvian government of Ollanta Humala. The media and some bloggers took the opportunity to analyze the president's achivements and mistakes.

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Macedonia: Interior Ministry Responds to Invitation for Debate

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The response of the Ministry of the Interior to an invitation for public debate on ways to bring about positive social change through civic activism and reform, organized by the Movement Against Police Brutality, has caused an outrage in Macedonian social media. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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10 November 2011

Spain: Conversation with Ignasi Labastida on Intellectual Property

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Western Europe

Juan Arellano talks to Ignasi Labastida, member of Creative Commons Spain, about intellectual property and copyright in the era of new information technologies.

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Chile: Netizens Denounce Police Violence in Mapuche Community

Written by Mi voz · Translated by Silvia Viñas · Latin America

Using social media, netizens share and comment on photos that show a police deployment in the Mapuche community Wente WinKul Mapu Lof Chequenco, Ercilla.

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South Africa: Malema is Out, What's Next?

Written by Muhammad Karim · Sub-Saharan Africa

South Africa's most controversial character and politician Julius Malema has been suspended from the ANC for five years. Malema is regarded by his supporters as the genuine voice of the poor in South Africa particularly with his call for nationalisation of South African mines.

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Tunisia: Army Critic Sentenced to Two Months in Prison

Written by Afef Abrougui · Middle East & North Africa

On November 9, Nabil Hajlaoui, from Sidi Bouzid, was sentenced to two months in prison following his criticism of the Tunisian military institution. He was arrested after writing an article, in which he blamed the army for the recent riots and acts of vandalism which took place in Sidi Bouzid following the elections.

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Updates from November, 2011

21 November 2011

Kenya

Africa’s story of mobile conquest & why utility beats ‘coolness’: “Why was MPESA [mobile-phone based money transfer service] such a success? Simply put – it was a necessity. Pre-MPESA (sounds like when someone asks ‘how did we ever survive without Google?’), people still had to do all the things that MPESA has enabled them to do.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Sudan

Amanda Hsiao talks to Miriam, a Sudanese refugee in Ethiopia. The post is part of a series based on Enough interviews with Blue Nile refugees in Sherkole refugee camp and Kurmuk, Ethiopia. Details of these testimonies are impossible to verify, but accounts Enough heard have been generally consistent.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Russia

Russian photoblogger Mitya Aleshkovskiy publishes [ru] pictures taken during the South Ossetia presidential election that took place on 13 November 2011. He writes on his impressions after visiting the region and points out: “There will be a new president here, but the regime will stay the same.”

• Ekaterina

Tanzania

Missie Popular shares photos of models who rocked Swahili Fashion Week in Tanzania: “Swahili Fashion Week 2011 provided quite an experience! We witnessed all types of walks and poses on the runway….”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Malawi

Gregory Gondwe argues the Malawian president talk better in English than Chichewa, a Bantu language widely spoken in Malawi: “Whether it is a piece of fortune or a curse it is not for me to say. I believe there is evidence that two of our three Executive Heads that have presided over the country had experienced or experience problems to communicate in proper vernacular Chichewa.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Cuba

The Ladies in White were once again attacked this weekend as they tried to attend Mass, babalu reports; two of the group's members are allegedly “still being held in a Castro prison.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

Plain Talk is “flabbergasted” by a statement made by the Minister of Works calling for “an end to what he calls the ‘blame' game because there is…critical work to be done”, saying: “No Jack sorry, we cannot put an end to the ‘blame' game, it's the only game we have.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

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