Stories about Digital Activism from December, 2006
Russia: “The Dissenters’ March”
Marsh Nesoglasnykh (“The Dissenters’ March” or “The March of Those Who Disagree”) – screenshot from the rally's website, www.namarsh.ru According to news reports, over 2,000 people showed up at a...
Russia: The Blogosphere
ZheZhe [dot] us – a blog run by people who position themselves as “neither Russophiles or Russophobes, but Russorealists” – has a lengthy review of the Russian blogosphere. It also...
Iran:Student Protest Movement in 35 Photos
Jomhour has published 35 photos, all showing student protest movement during Ahmadinejad's speech in Amir Kabir University.For the first time he faced a strong protest group who burned his photos...
South Korea: demand apology regarding racist programme
Michael Hurt has written an open letter to demand an official apology from Korean T.V station (KBS) regarding their earlier Global talk show programme which is considered as “racist and...
Hong Kong: star ferry demonstration
Inmediahk.net has a citizen report (with pictures) on how citizen demonstrators successfully stop the demlition of star ferry yesterday (zh).
Global Voices Delhi summit – only a few days to go!
The last details are being put together for the Global Voices annual summit being held in Delhi on Saturday 16 December. But the physical location shouldn't make a difference –...
Student Protest, Election and USA-Iran Talks
According to the mainstream media and bloggers thousands of Iranian students demonstrated on the 6th of December in different Iranian universities around the country. The main slogan was “University is...
Iran:Arash Sigarchi,jailed blogger got cancer
Arash Sigarchi, jailed blogger and journalist who was released recently from jail,says he has cancer [Fa].
Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate
‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt,...
Arabisc: Imprisoned Egyptian Blogger Lost in Legal Wrangle!
In my last post, I translated excrepts from a post written by Egyptian blogger Abdulkareem Sulaiman, who is being held in custody for articles he wrote online, describing the unhealthy...
Africa: thoughts on African blogosphere
Grandiose Parlor weighs in on Black Looks’ post, Technorati Bomb for Africa.
Sudan: save Darfur
Soldier of Africa, who blogs from Darfur, posts a video made by American school kids, Save Darfur.
Russia: Stunt Protests and the Law
On Nov. 17, the Russian Duma approved a bill that abolished minimum voter turnout (20 percent) for all elections in Russia. Today, president Vladimir Putin has signed it into law....
Africa: technorati bomb
Is there a need for technorati bomb for the African blogosphere?, asks Black Looks: “I am not sure some sort of “TECHNORATI.COM BOMB” (as in google bomb) type exercise with...
Iran:Requested page is Forbidden
View from Iran reports that New York Times site got filtered too. Reporters withour Borders expressed its deep concern for the future of internet in Iran where censorship is the...
Brazil: Sao Paulo's ICANN Board meeting has online participation website
Kieren McCarthy reports about the setting up of an online participation website for the ICANN Board meeting in Sao Paulo.
Iran:Prisoner of Colour
Pouya has presented on his blog, paintings of Derlara Darabi, a 20 year old girl, who has been in prison since she was 17. She was sentenced to death for...
World AIDS Day
With the inaugural theme of “Communication” in 1988, World AIDS Day was first established by UNAIDS as an annual day of awareness and outreach to confront the stigma, discrimination, and...
Iran:Kianoosh Sanjari still in jail
According to Sos-Sanjari, Kianoosh Sanjari,23 years old jailed blogger met with his mother.Sos-Sanjari blog writes, according to Sanjari's mother, his son has lost weight and he is in a very...
Iran:Blogs and Sites should be registered
Alpar has given a link to what he calls ridiculous law about sites and blogs. According to the new law [Fa], all sites and blogs should be registered in the...
Russia: Abortion Politics
In response to the grim economic situation, abortion was made legal in the Soviet Union in 1920. From 1936 to 1955 – under Joseph Stalin and until after his death...
