Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 October 19

19 October 2008

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Stories from 19 October 2008

Syria: Is it winter yet?

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Morocco: Beni Znassen Mountains

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Palestine: Shame on Us

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Israel: Heroes

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Kuwait: Stray Cats a Problem

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Iraq: Egyptian Editorial Attacks Syria

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Macedonia: Update on the ‘Computer for Every Child’ Project

Written by Elena Ignatova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

Iraq: Abuse of Power

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Syria: Deadly crash

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Mozambique: Casualties over gas leak in Estarreja

Written by Paula Góes · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Singapore: Discussion about “User Generated Content”

Written by Mong Palatino · Quick Reads · East Asia

Indonesia: Becak vehicle

Written by Mong Palatino · Quick Reads · East Asia

Brazil: Call for reactions against media manipulation

Written by Paula Góes · Quick Reads · Latin America

Guinea-Bissau: On the increasing popularity of mobile phones

Written by Paula Góes · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Bolivia: Social Movement March Towards La Paz

Written by Eduardo Avila · Quick Reads · Latin America

Japan: Media Bias in Potato Field Eviction?

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

Images appearing on Japanese TV of government forces evicting crying nursery school children from potato fields in Osaka, part of plans to extend a highway (the Second Keihan Highway) between...

Japan: Reaction to Asahi article on supermarket inspection

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · East Asia

Bangladesh: Sculptures, Bigots and Bloggers

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

A new controversy rattled Bangladesh last week. Authorities in Bangladesh were forced to remove five sculptures of Bauls (mystic folk singers) including Fakir Lalon Shah in front of the Zia...

Nagorno Karabakh: Mass Wedding

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus

Angola: On the sadness and happiness of being a returnee

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola, 1975. The country had just become independent and the former Portuguese colonizers, as well as their families and many Angolan citizens, had to flee leaving everything they had behind....