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Solana Larsen

Managing Editor

About Solana Larsen

53 posts · joined 2007-05-30

I am a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist, and I live in New York. I am the managing editor of Global Voices (this website), and used to be an editor with openDemocracy.net. My personal blog is solanasaurus.com. Hablo Español.

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November 18th, 2009

And the best country in the world is….

We thought: "The Economist doesn't know everything!" and launched our own global survey of what the "best country" in the world is. Global Voices will award a Putumayo African Reggae CD to whoever offers the best nomination.

November 17th, 2009

Denmark: The Climate Debt Agents are Coming

The Climate Debt Agents are group of men and women from Denmark and Africa who are taking on the challenge of getting developed countries to pay their climate debt to the developing world.

November 12th, 2009

Americas

Spot.us shares a photo of an immigration data wishlist compiled on a white board at the California Data Camp.

November 11th, 2009

Americas , Central Asia & Caucasus

Brave New Foundation posts a petition and YouTube video with young veterans asking Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.

Denmark: Immigrants offered money to leave the country

Denmark is offering immigrants from “non-Western” countries 100,000 Danish kroners (US$20,000) if they volunteer to move “home”. A Facebook group protesting the law has been set up to collect 100,000 kroners to pay the leader of the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to leave the country instead.

Americas

The murder of an Ecuadorian man in Suffolk County, New York in 2008 is one of dozens of hate crimes against Latino immigrants in the past 10 years, say Restore Fairness.