[1]Photo by Flickr user duncan c. CC BY-NC 2.0
Today is Blog Action Day [2] — and this year we're joining pens, pads and keyboards to discuss inequality.
Blog Action Day has existed since 2007. It's a yearly event that sparks awareness and important discussions by uniting thousands of bloggers, focusing on one theme, and reaching a collective audience of millions. Over 1,500 bloggers have joined the initiative this year, coming from over a hundred different countries.
Have a thing or two to say about inequality?
Then participate in #Blogaction14 by registering your own blog [3]. Write in any language, from any country. Also remember that a blog is a wide definition: Vlogs, podcasts, photos, design and social media sites all count. On Twitter, keep an eye on the hashtags #Blogaction14 [4], #Inequality [5] and #Oct16 [6].
Global Voices’ compilation
Once again, Global Voices is an official partner [7] of the event, and some of our great contributors have joined in with their personal blogs. See their posts below:
- Desigualdade: essa mora ao lado #Blogactionday [8] (Inequality that lives next door, in Portuguese) by Amigos de Januária [9]
Friends of Januária, a Rising Voices grantee [10], calls attention to homeless people in small towns of Brazil with both video and text. - The [11] woes of inequality [11] by Sanjib Chaudhary
Sanjib Chaudhary brings stories of inequality from his home village in Eastern Nepal. He describes inequality as living in a sea of woes. - Bildungsungleichheit durch Homogenisierung [12] [11](Educational inequality by homogenization, in German) by Katrin Zinoun
Katrin Zinoun writes about inequality in the German education system that fails to deal with the social diversity. - Desigualdad (en Latinoamérica) [13] (Inequality in Latin America, in Spanish) by Juan Arellano
Juan Arellano discusses inequality in Latin America, linking to his back-list of posts on indigenous people, social protests, growth and more. - #BlogActionDay Desigualdad [14] (#BlogActionDay Inequality, in Spanish) by Juan Tadeo
Juan Tadeo brings a piece from Mexico, emphasizing political and economic inequality and their social consequences of discrimination and violence. - Inequality: Made by Humans, Violating Human Rights [15] by Maria Grabowski
A tribute to the basic human rights of equality.
