Global Voices · Citizen media stories from December 2011

December, 2011

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Stories from December, 2011

23 December 2011

Tanzania: Dar Youth Mobilise Online to Assist Flood Victims

Written by J. Nambiza Tungaraza · Sub-Saharan Africa

Dar Es Salaam’s young social media users are mobilising volunteers to assist in relief efforts following the floods that inundated vast areas of Dar es Salaam causing deaths and damage to infrastructure. Using the hashtag #Darfloods, Twitter users have been in the forefront informing and mobilising relief efforts.

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Spain: Fighting for the Right to a Home

Written by Lali Sandiumenge · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Western Europe

The housing bubble, the financial crisis, and high unemployment rates have left thousands of families without homes in Spain and the victims of foreclosures have names and stories to tell.

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Ethiopia: Swedish Journalists Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges

Written by Sven Hultberg Carlsson · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

The verdict against two Swedish journalists, Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, detained in Ethiopia has caused strong reactions from defenders of press freedom. The judge in the case has called for a sentence of at least 15 years imprisonment to be handed down on 27 December.

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Video Highlights: Protests, Elections, Culture and GV

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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Russia: Opposition Faces Online Communication Problems

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

The ability to broadcast the events of December 2011 in Russia live online, has made people around the world and in the country the spectators of a truly historical event – the December 22 gathering of some 100-150 opposition activists, who represented thousands of the netizens and millions of not-connected Russians.

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Philippines: State of National Calamity After Tropical Storm Sendong

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

A state of national calamity was declared by the Philippine president after tropical storm Sendong devastated many parts of north Mindanao Island. More than 1,000 people have already died in the flash floods and 1,000 are still missing. Here are some citizen media photos and reports of the flood impact.

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Updates from December, 2011

28 December 2011

Bermuda

The British government is reviewing its relationship with its overseas territories, writes Catch a Fire, and inviting Bermudans to share their perspectives. “I think we need a new Constitutional Convention to modernise and reform our relationship with the UK … and I would like each Overseas Territory to have a representative (an MP) in Westminster.”

• Nicholas Laughlin

Cuba

Montague Kobbe profiles Achy Obejas, a Cuban-American writer who “constantly challenging her readers to (re)think their positions in relation to the most basic principles that govern our attitudes towards each other.”

• Nicholas Laughlin

Jamaica

Where are the more than 500 children reported missing in Jamaica this year, asks Petchary — and why are more people not paying attention to “a serious issue which, at the best of times, is brushed aside as if it is nothing of great importance”? “How many are alone, hopeless, despairing, struggling? We don’t know.”

• Nicholas Laughlin

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

The Center of Investigative Journalism published a three-part series on the little known operation in Puerto Rico of the multinational biotechnology corporation Monsanto, the principle producer of genetically engineered seeds.

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle