Stories about Western Europe from November, 2005
Ecuador: Quayaquil and “Planting Trees”
Muerto de Risa describes her day trip to Ecuador's largest city, Quayaquil while Patricia Granda documents the difficulties and details of a carbon exchange program which was to plant 150,000...
Islam: homosexuality
Somali/Dutch MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali received death threats for her collaboraton with Theo Van Gogh (who was assasinated) on the film “Submission” which addressed gender violence in Islam, is now...
When the heat is on – run
Jewels in the Jungle adds his voice to the running commentary on the Paris riots in the blogosphere and wonders what would happen if the riots spread to Germany and...
Race in Europe
Commenting on the trouble in France, Naijablog, observes that “what is taking place in France is only an extreme version of what you can see up and down the UK...
French riots
Senegalese blogger, SEMEtt l'etincelle noire comments the continued riots in the cities of France. He presents us with his thoughts on TOLERANCE: “Tolerance and indiference. indiference is a condition with...
“Mort Pour Rien” – Dead for Nothing in Paris
Bouna et Zaid Members of Paris’s African community have been rioting in the streets of Paris for the past 9 days. The riots were triggered by the death of two...
India: Brown Madonna
India: Brown Madonna