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December, 2011

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Stories from December, 2011

13 December 2011

Colombia: Professor's Resignation Sparks Debate on Writing

Written by Julián Ortega Martínez · Latin America

Colombian journalist and university professor Camilo Jiménez sparked an international debate on writing in the digital age, Colombia's higher education system and other related issues after he posted an entry in his blog explaining why he resigned from teaching an editing class after nine years.

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12 December 2011

Greece: TEDxAthens, The Art of Disruption

Written by Veroniki Krikoni · Western Europe

On Saturday 3 December, TEDxAthens 2011 took place in the Cultural Center of the Hellenic World; a 12 hour long, 23 speech marathon, it was organized and supported by 38 volunteers. This year's theme was 'The Art of Disruption'.

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Peru: Congress Approves Law Criminalizing Femicide

Written by Isabel Guerra · Translated by Betsy Galbreath · Latin America

The Peruvian Congress has approved the text of a law that recognizes femicide as a crime punishable by up to 25 years of incarceration. Under the existing law, the murder of a women can result in release from jail in about two years.

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Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives?

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Marginalized by society and deprived of a voice by the mainstream media, can new media offer an alternative to refugees and IDPs in the South Caucasus?

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China: A Guangdong Village on the Verge of a Brutal Crackdown

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Illegal land acquisition has once again led to large-scale protests in Guangdong province, followed by a suspicious death and police crackdowns. One news commentator writes, "This is the first mass incident that has put forward a political agenda."

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Russia: Holy Relic Visits Nation Emerging From State-Sponsored Atheism

Written by Donna Welles · Eastern & Central Europe

People from across Russia traveled great distances and endured hardships in order to view the Virgin Mary's belt - a relic believed to promote fertility. In the decades since the fall of the USSR, religion has been reinventing itself in Russia.

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Updates from December, 2011

21 December 2011

Pakistan

Mureed Bijenzo writes about extra judicial killings in Balochistan.

• Rezwan

Brazil

Journalist Leonardo Sakamoto posts [pt] a picture and video of a protest in São Paulo, Brazil, against the construction of the Belo Monte Dam [pt], on December 17, 2011.

• Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

Brazil

Tiago Aguiar denounces the assassination of the blogger Edinaldo Filgueira, from the small town of Serra do Mel, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Edinaldo, who believed in “information as a form liberation of humanity”, was allegedly murdered due to a survey on public education he posted on his blog.

• Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

Jamaica

The ARC magazine blog reports on a recent panel on art publishing in the Caribbean, hosted by the National Gallery of Jamaica, with video clips of the discussion.

• Nicholas Laughlin

Cuba

Havana Times asks whether the Havana Film Festival has strayed from its original ideals — “Much has happened since its inception in 1978, since which time its revolutionary and emancipatory ideals have faded considerably” — and wonders if the festival could once more “encourage revolutionary and popular cinema (in the best sense of those words), not one that was for the enlightened elites or the urbane educated middleclass.”

• Nicholas Laughlin

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