Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who translate and report daily on what's being said by citizens in online media around the world.
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- Global Voices Amsterdam Meetup
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Friday, June 26 at 6:00pm - Global Voices in Cairo
Cairo
Friday, May 15 at 8:00am - Global Voices @ National Taiwa...
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Friday, April 24 at 3:00pm - Global Voices Citizen Media Su...
http://summit08.globalvoicesonline....
Friday, June 27 at 9:00am
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Most banks in Brazil use revolving doors with metal detectors. But are they being used as an excuse to discriminate against people? A citizen media video reveals at least one case.
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Elena Ignatova, Global Voices author for Macedonia and Lingua Editor for Macedonian. http://mk.globalvoicesonline.org
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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.
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The Alzar las Voces (Raise the Voices) project in Nicaragua brings farmers in rural communities the possibility to speak out through video telling of their concerns, their projects, their wishes and ideas.
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A group of blogger-citizens have launched an International protest movement to demand the resignation of Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi due to scandals and corruption trials. More than 280,000 people have pledged to participate in the December 5 rallies.
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The artistic creativity of the ‘green' protest movement since the June 12 presidential election has perhaps been unique in Iran's history.
Ram Bansal Global Voices is becoming voice of the voiceless all around the globe by publicizing views and opinions of bloggers about voiceless of their regions.
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Global Voices Online has interviewed João Carlos Caribé, one of the most influential cyberactivist bloggers in Brazil and the man behind the Mega Não movement, that fights censorship in the Brazilian Internet.
Global Voices Egyptian bloggers discuss...
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Major Nidal Hassan is a US military psychiatrist of Arab origins who went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 soldiers. He is now facing the charges of premeditated murder. "Psychiatrist or Psychotic?" ask Egyptian bloggers.
Global Voices Our new "Threatened Voices" project continues to expand its database on harassed and threatened bloggers around the world thanks to helpful contributors.
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A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them.Learn more · Contact us · Submit a report · Advocacy Home
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The 5th Chinese blogger conference took place last weekend in a rural county Lianzhou in northern part of Guangzhou province. Despite the inconvenient traffic, there were around 150 participants from China and overseas attended the conference.
Global Voices Bad news for arrested Azerbaijani bloggers Adnan and Emin: 2-year prison sentences
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As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth activists, a court in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier passed sentence on Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The verdict and first reaction spread on Twitter.
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As the children's show Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, premiering its new season today, one Muppet named Kami, on its South African edition, continues to help combat and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.
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Iran's Green Movement opposition organized mass street protests on the 4th of November that were were met with a violent crackdown by security forces. As has come to be expected, Iranian citizen media didn't miss a beat, recording "history" on their mobile phones.
