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• Ethiopia: Standing With Ethiopias Tenacious Blogger

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Standing with Ethiopias jailed blogger : “It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger has been detained at least seven times by Prime Minister Meles Zenawis government over the past two decades, and was put back in ...
  10 hours ago

• Africa: How Africa Tweets

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Young people Tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, according to How Africa Tweets , new research launched by Portland: “In the first ever attempt to comprehensively map the use of Twitter in Africa, Portland and Tweetminster analysed over 11.5 million geo-located Tweets ...
  11 hours ago

• Egypt: Reactions to Revolution First Anniversary

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Greek blogger Asteris Masouras shares this Storify collection to mark the first anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian revolution on January 25. It includes links to news stories, photographs, videos and Twitter reactions. Written by Amira Al Hussaini · comments (0) Share: Donate · ...
  2 days ago

• Jordan: Let it Snow

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  The long awaited white visitor has arrived to Jordan, after a couple of dry cold fronts it came and quickly melted. It didnt even accumulate but it brought in lots of joy and happiness to people eager for it. As soon as it started snowing in the mountainous regions of Jordan (around 1,000 meters above sea level), a ...
  2 days ago

• Kyrgyzstan: MPs told to ride the bus

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
    The MPs of Kyrgyzstans Jogorku Kenesh parliament are not generally associated with self-sacrificing behaviour. Nevertheless, a suggestion from within the legislature that MPs should give up their state-funded cars and take a minibus to work has moved Kyrgyz netizens towards a re-appraisal of what their ...
  4 days ago

• Tunisia: ”Do Not Censor Pornographic Content”

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Once again, in the post Ben Ali era, censorship and freedom of speech , is at the centre of debate. The reason this time is a complaint lodged by three lawyers against the Tunisian Internet Agency [Eng] (known as the ATI by its French acronym) calling upon it to filter pornographic websites. Early next month, the ...
  6 days ago

• Brazil: Toll Roads, Constitutional or Too Much?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted. After the approval of the Urban Mobility Law at the beginning of 2012, a discussion surrounding toll roads in all national territory came back into play. According to the law, cities will be able to charge an “urban toll” with the ...
  1 week ago

• Turkey: Post-Murder Trial, Thousands Remember Hrant Dink

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Thousands have marched in Turkey to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink . Angering Turkish nationalists with his outspoken position that the 1915 massacre and deportation of as many as 1.5 million ethnic Armenians as the Ottoman Empire ...
  1 week ago

• Romania: “A Tsunami” of Protests Against Austerity Cuts and Corruption

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  After five days of protests in Romania , representatives of the Romanian police are assessing the resulting material damage, the number of weapons confiscated and people held in custody at police stations. The Romanian on-line community is trying to explain why people have taken to the streets, what the authorities ...
  1 week ago

• Spain: Electricity Cut Off for one School in Alicante

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Power was cut off [ca] for 800 pupils in a secondary school in Alicante due to outstanding payments. The Valencian Community is currently mired in financial difficulties after years of extravagant spending. MPs Esther López Barceló [ca] from the United and Alternative Left and Mireia Mollà [ca] from the ...
  1 week ago

• Latin American Sites and Bloggers Protest PIPA and SOPA

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Several Latin American blogs like SitioCero [es], alt1040 [es], and Sentidos Comunes [es] have joined the online protests against U.S. anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Some are speaking out against similar local laws, like the bloggers behind the Mexican blog network Indie Weblogs [es]. Popular series and ...
  1 week ago

• NO to SOPA and PIPA

  
  MobileActive.org — Authority: 110
  We here at MobileActive believe that it is critical to protest and raise awareness of detrimental pending legislation in the United States: House Bill 3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S.968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Legislation such as SOPA and PIPA directly affect sites like ours that curate, ...
  1 week ago

• Sudan: Sudanese Activist, Alim Boushi, Freed from Prison

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  A case that Sudanese bloggers and tweeps have been highlighting in recent days, indicating the current repressive state of affairs in Sudan, is the arrest of the Sudanese political activist and engineer Mohamed Hassan Alim, nicknamed Boushi. Alim was released on January 17, 2011 after 24 days in jail. He was ...
  1 week ago

• Cuba: Whither Gay Rights?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  While Havana Times reports that Raul Castros daughter “hopes the upcoming January 28 conference of the country’s communist party will help end the stalemate around a draft law intended to grant rights to transsexuals and homosexuals on the island”, babalu counters: “While…Mariela Castro, is busy jetting ...
  1 week ago

• Caribbean: Solidarity with SOPA Protest

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  A few regional bloggers have joined “the largest online protest in history” , against the proposed PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), here , here , here and here . Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · ...
  1 week ago

• Trinidad & Tobago: “Disturbing” Laws

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Globewriter points out some “strange and disturbing laws” that are still on the books in Trinidad and Tobago, saying: “Yes, T&T can’t deal with LGBT rights but it is so on the ball for child marriage rights.” Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook ...
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• Cuba: Hunger Striking Prisoner Close to Death

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Cuban bloggers are concerned that there could be a repeat of what happened to political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, and draw attention to the plight of Wilman Villar Mendoza, who “has been on hunger strike since November, when he was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in prison for the supposed crimes of ...
  1 week ago

• Bermuda: Lack of Political Dialogue

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  politics.bm thinks that tIt speaks volumes about the PLPs interest in informed dialogue that two brief fact based and civil comments that I posted on their Facebook page were deleted and I was removed from the page entirely…not all comments were deleted. Only those that didnt echo the official line.” Written ...
  1 week ago

• Trinidad & Tobago: Sidestepping Motherhood

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Suszanna.com explains why she thinks kids may be overrated. Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper
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• Iran: Iranian site is striking against censorship in U.S.A

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 670
  Amsterdam based Iranian Arseh Sevom site is striking against SOPA and PIPA which seek to deploy online censorship and surveillance in the name of enforcing copyright, employing the same tools used by authoritarian regimes. Arseh Sevom promotes civil society in Iran. Written by Fred Petrossian · comments ...
  1 week ago

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