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December 13th, 2007

Israel: Teacher's Strike Over

Gilad Lotan · 14:09

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An agreement between the teachers union and the Ministry of Finance was signed just a mere 15 minutes before the Israeli Labor Court's restraining order was activated, in what has ended the longest strike in Israel's education system (over 60 days). Teachers received a raise in their salaries and the prime minister's personal promise to reduce the number of students in a classroom. Read reactions from the Israeli Hebrew bloggers here. 1 comment · »»

December 4th, 2007

[GV Show Special] Interview with Wahda Masrya - An Egyptian Girl

Georgia Popplewell · 00:28

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In this special edition of the Global Voices Show, Egyptian blogger Wahda Masrya - an Egyptian Girl talks about her reasons for blogging, the risks faced by Egyptian bloggers who dare criticise the authorities, her friend, the imprisoned blogger Kareem Amer and the activist blogging scene in Egypt. 7 comments · »»

October 1st, 2007

Belarus: Give Lukashenko his LuNet!

Sami Ben Gharbia · 14:11

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When the Belarusian activist Dzianis Dzianisau was detained for nearly two months on charges of “taking part in manifestations which disturb public order”, the Belarusian blogsphere successfully organized an online (and offline) campaign to raise the bail (15.500.000 Belarusian roubles or $7,300) and got the young political prisoner ... 1 comment · »»

September 20th, 2007

[GV Show Special] Trinidad & Tobago: Anti-smelter activism meets the Internet

Georgia Popplewell · 19:06

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Atillah Springer is a journalist, activist and blogger from Trinidad and Tobago and a member of a protest movement which, earlier this year, succeeded in driving the aluminium industry giant Alcoa out of a community in rural Trinidad where they had proposed to establish a smelter under somewhat dubious circumstances. In this podcast I talk with Atillah about the movement's use of the Internet in their organising activities. 2 comments · »»

August 20th, 2007

The Global Voices Show #5

Georgia Popplewell · 23:12

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[display_podcast] Finally, episode 5 of the Global Voices Show! In this edition we feature excerpts from the following podcasts: Gastronautics - Maldives PodMasti - India J.U.M.P. Radio - Kenya Mideast Youth - Saudi Arabia Budacast - Hungary Africa Files: The Pulse - Zimbabwe The Kimchi Girls - Korea Also featured on this show are the following music tracks: "Black ... 3 comments · »»

August 11th, 2007

HiperBarrio: Local Stories, Global Audience

David Sasaki · 17:36

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As promised, this is the second installment of a two-part podcast about Medellín, Colombia and how the HiperBarrio project is taking advantage of the city's new network of library parks to teach the skills of citizen media to young people from the working class northern hills. 11 comments · »»

August 7th, 2007

Medellin, Colombia: From Kidnapping Capital to Renaissance City

David Sasaki · 18:12

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Medellín Colombia is synonymous with drugs, with Pablo Escobar, Marxist guerilla groups, and violent paramilitarists. But over the past decade it is also becoming well known and well regarded for having one of the most ambitious social experiments in Latin America. In this first part of a two-part podcast we become better acquainted with modern day Medellín. 13 comments · »»

July 24th, 2007

Podcast: Intro to the Nari Jibon Project

David Sasaki · 17:57

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Just three weeks ago the Nari Jibon center in Dhaka, Bangladesh was announced as one of five recipients of the first round of Rising Voices outreach grants. This introductory podcast offers some background information to Bangladesh, the current status of Bangladeshi women, and how the Nari Jibon project aims to use citizen media to help empower the voices of young women from Dhaka. 11 comments · »»