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January 22nd, 2007
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The Global Voices Show #4
Finally — the fourth episode of The Global Voices Show has landed! In this edition we feature excerpts from the following podcasts:
- The IndiCast (India) - also see Global Voices article “The Blogospheres on Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, Bullying and Racism“
- Pambazuka News (Zimbabwe)
- Palabras Libres (Bolivia) - also see related Global Voices articles “Cochabamba in mourning: Bolivian bloggers react” and “Bolivia: A Conflict Online“
- Pambazuka News World Social Forum Special
- Arté Radio (Senegal)
- ChinesePod (China)
Also featured on this show are the following music tracks: Various remixes of “Aven le Roma” from the Nomada - Tilos Rádió remix CD, “Kadar”, by Mariano Steimberg, from the Música Lliure 2 CD, and “SambiraBossubhe”, remixed by Richard III, from ccMixter South Africa.
This episode of The Global Voices Show is available in the following formats:
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Video taken by Estotaweno of the “Youth for Democracy” crowd that broke through the police line towards an eventual confrontation with coca farmers in Cochabamba.
January 11, 2007 is already being called “Black January” for the civil conflict that left 2 dead and hundreds injured in the city of Cochabamba. The blogger Carlos Gustavo Machiado Salas of Guccio’s [ES] asked in October of last year, “Which color for this October?” in reference to another civil conflict in the mining town of Huanuni, which left many more dead than what occurred in Cochabamba. The label “Black October” was already taken after the disturbances in October of 2003, which saw the resignation of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and another conflict in February 2003 is also considered “Black February”. What makes the “Black January 2007” different than the other months where Bolivians died in street violence is that it took place during the boom of citizen’s media and other participatory software. One of the few bloggers who was blogging the events of October 2003 was Miguel Centellas of Ciao!, who was spending some time on a Fulbright fellowship in La Paz. His day by day account as someone living through the blockades that made life difficult in La Paz was an important source of information during this time. Since then, very little coverage from non-journalist citizens ever made the light until now.
Fast forward to January 2007 and many more Bolivians utilized software such as Flickr and YouTube to upload their eyewitness accounts from their vantage points on that day.
Uganda: Bloggers Gathering, Best of Blogs, Ugandan Mercenaries in Iraq And Recolonization of Africa
As manic as a beat poetry gathering in New York or a circumcision ceremony in eastern Uganda, last Thursday's Ugandan Blogger Happy Hour was a mirthful gathering of creativity and wit. Poetry was recited, radical political doctrines defended, and blogging obsessions confessed. The first gathering of its kind in Uganda, the event laid the groundwork for the relationships necessary to establish a strong, meaningful and vibrant Ugandan blogging community.The event will take place monthly in Kampala, and there are plans to feature ‘Uganda Best of Blogs' awards:
At last week's Uganda Bloggers Happy Hour, I may at one point have been so overcome with spirited enthusiasm that I declared an upcoming blogging competition without real regard to who would organize, sponsor or regulate such a competition.
Jackfruity, who has the guest list and pictures from the gathering, writes:
The topics of conversation at Thursday night's Inaugural Uganda Bloggers Happy Hour ranged from cell phones to Alice Lakwena to the transvestitical possibilities of Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Jabberwocky was recited, blogging addictions were confessed, heaven was declared to be just like North Korea, and the Ugandan blogosphere gained a fanboy. Also, we unanimously agreed that Inktus is hot.
Terrorism in Assam and Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, a take in Hindi!
These last two weeks have seen fairly good amount of activity in the Hindi Blogosphere. With the political & other elections season coming up, its hard to ignore it & the resulting activity. So while Rachna composed a poem on elections describing how the environment would be in a village and Eswami is also not far behind in expressing his thoughts on Hillary and Presidentship. And elections is not all thats in for political scene. It very much has its ugly side as well, like how terrorists in Assam shot labourers from Bihar just because they are not natives and according to them Assam belongs only to the Assamese and no outsider is allowed to come there. The point those terrorists are making is that Assam is an independent region under opression of India, its just like the age-long Kashmir situation where terrorists funded by the western neighbour plunder killing one and all who do not agree with their fanatical beliefs.
Further elaborating on the Assam problem, Jitu writes that maybe this problem is arising because of regional divide as people are putting themselves and their region before the interests of the country. And that is being seeded and fueled by the Ulfa Terrorists whose leader is in the safe Bangladeshi haven while his troops march around in Assam dictating their terms. And the political leaders are doing nothing because they are concerned more with their votebank in form of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who illegally cross the borders and settle in Assam and neighbouring states, the local politicians(for their own gain) furnish them with false ids and papers which declare them as citizens of India and thus allowing them to cast their votes to form the government.
And as per Himanshu, India has been fighting the islamic terrorists till now and from now on it'll have to fight off Christian Terrorists as well which are starting to crawl out from under their rocks in the eastern states of India while Srijan Shilpi is also pondering on what can be the solution for this Assam issue. However, all this is sponsored terrorism, whether its funded by (more…)
Links for Mon, 2007-01
Pourquoi L'Afrique Claudique reflects (Fr) on the Lansana Konte dictatorship in Guinea: “This country, considered one of the 20 poorest in the world despite its economic potential, will only be hurt by a general strike which has been going on for a week along with daily arrests. May those who are in charge on this continent of acting to prevent conflicts that might hurt our peoples do so now in the interest of Guinea and of the continent. Help! Conakry is dying!”
Registan.net says that the term of Uzbekistan's president expires today, depending on how you look at it.
Ben Paarmann says that Kazakhstan, unlike other Central Asian states, is a home for world class sports.
Vadim reports that poverty and high prices for nonferrous metals are driving people in Tajikistan to steal telephone wires.
At neweurasia, Arthur reports on Roman Vassilenko, the spokesman of Kazakhstan's embassy to the United States and Canada, his innovative use of the internet, and his skillful handling of the press.
Roozmarigiha says Iranian people are so busy with high prices that pay no attention what is going on outside country's borders.The blogger says people just complain about inflation and do not listen to the news that USA is preparing for a war against Iran[Fa].
Mirko of Weblog de un chico GAY is tired of the ubiquitous “5 things meme” and so rebels by taking part in the more intimate sexual meme [ES]. We learn that he prefers the lights off, wears boxers, and his musical selection? “Bossa, Chill Out.” Could this be the start to a digerati sexual revolution? Or just too much info?
“Thursday marked four months from the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, an elderly witness who has been missing since testifying in the trial against a police official from the last dictatorship. Displayed sporadically throughout the city are posters and graffiti serving as reminders that he is still missing. Despite these efforts, there seems to be little progress in actually finding the man.” Jeff Barry has an update with photographs of last week's protest march in Plaza de Mayo.
Andres Duque describes the murder of Mexican gay rights leader José Ernesto Leal Rodriguez who was stabbed to death in his Matamoros apartment. Federal deputy David Sanchez Camacho and commenters on Duque's blog are tired of police departments describing the murders of gays as “crimes of passion.”
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