Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2011

November, 2011

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Stories from November, 2011

28 November 2011

China, Macedonia: Chinese Netizens Outraged by School Bus Donation

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia, Eastern & Central Europe

The news of a Chinese government donation of 23 school buses to the Republic of Macedonia on 25 November, has outraged Chinese netizens, who are mourning for the death of 19 preschool kids in a car accident in Gansu province on 16 November.

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27 November 2011

Zambia: Cash Dug Out From Ex-Minister's Farm Shocks Nation

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia’s investigative units recently dug out nearly US$ 466,000, buried in the ground at a farm belonging to former minister, Austin Liato. Zambians on various social networking sites have reacted to these and other disclosures of suspected corrupt activities with a sense of shock and anger.

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26 November 2011

Video: Plural+ 2011 Awards Young Filmmakers

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Youth from around the globe were awarded in New York for their thought-provoking short films showing their proposals for making society more peaceful and multicultural by addressing the topics of diversity, migration and social inclusion.

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“Let Us Dream”: Demonstrating Against Unified Job Hunting in Japan

Written by Tomomi Sasaki · East Asia

On Labor Day, students gathered in Tokyo and Kyoto to rally against the practices of job hunting for fresh graduates.

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India: Youth Slaps Minister Over Price Rise and Corruption

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

On 24 November, India's Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, was slapped on the face by a youth as he was leaving a government building. Harvinder Singh was apparently fed up with the growing inflation, corruption and graft cases in the country and decided to hit out in protest.

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DR of Congo: How Will the Elections Unfold?

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa

The presidential elections in the DRC are scheduled for November 28. The stakes are evidently high, given the history of civil conflict. Many observers have highlighted the major events during the campaign, and attempted to forecast how the elections will unfold.

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Updates from November, 2011

29 November 2011

Protest

Somayeh Tohidlou, talks about the storming of British Embassy compounds by Iranian protesters. She writes [fa] in Friendfeed: “Are they wrong about the date? This is 2011, not 1979 [when protesters took the US embassy in Tehran] and the regime is 32 years old now, not new-born one.”

• Hadi Nili

Sri Lanka

Murshid introduces Project Roku, a next generation conversation system born in Sri Lanka.

• Rezwan

Nepal

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal reports that a bill seeking to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by six more months was passed today.

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D.R. of Congo

Colette Braeckman writes in her blog [fr]: “Congolese citizens have become experts in election monitoring; they are grabbing pens and notepads, going from one voting polls to the other and sharing the results they observe to friends via SMS.”

• Lova Rakotomalala

El Salvador

Danielle Mackey writes about the Encachimbados (meaning “indignant”), El Salvador's occupy movement: “They call the attention of both the U.S. and Salvadoran governments to the free trade model, regional militarization strategies, and environmental destruction and climate change—all policies that the Encachimbados see as designed by a transnational elite, and which result in a low quality of life for the majority of the population of the Americas,” Mackey explains in Upsidedown World.

• Silvia Viñas

Mexico

Guadalajara is hosting the 25th International Book Fair from November 26 to December 4, 2011. Álvaro López writes about the fair in Vivir México [es], and says he wishes Mexico had more readers and fewer TV viewers.

• Silvia Viñas