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Child from Fukushima Speaks Out at UN Status of Women Conference
March 8, 2012
Children from Fukushima spoke at a press conference at the United Nations.
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children, Earthquake, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, UN, United Nations
Radio
RADIO VICTORIA IS AWARDED A PRIZE BY THE PRESIDENT´S COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY
March 4, 2012
Radio Victoria was recognized for being the principal citizens´voice against metallic mining.
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El Salvador, Leonardo Heredia, Oscar Beltran, Radio Izcanal, Radio victoria, Roberto Flores, Wendy Wallis
Video & Television
Israeli Troops Raid West Bank Television Station in Ramallah
February 29, 2012
Israeli soldiers seized the transmitters of Watan TV Station on the West Bank in a pre-dawn raid.
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aid, censorship, Germany, IDF, Israel, Palestine, raid, repression, Tsafrir Cohen, Watan TV
Media policy
February 29th MAG-Net Digital Dialogue "Old Media vs. New Media: The False Divide: A Dialogue about Community Media"
February 28, 2012
A tele-seminar discussion about a false digital divide between old and new media.
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Betty Yu, community media, dorothy thigpen, Josh Stearns, mag-net, paper tiger tv, Quote UnQuote, Steve Ranieri, Vanessa Graber, World Radio Day
A photo tribute to Stephen Nyash of Koch FM, Ghetto Films and Indymedia Kenya
February 27, 2012
Stephen Nyash was a Kenyan media activist, co-founder of three organizations: Indymedia Kenya, Ghetto Films and Koch FM.
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Radio
Indymedia Radio Activist Shot in Kenya
February 25, 2012
Stephen Nyash was working with Koch FM, a station in Korogocho, a township near Nairobi.
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community media, Ghetto TV, Indymedia, Koch FM, Radio, Steven Nyash
Radio
Indymedia meeting in Kenya in Response to Death of IMC activist
February 22, 2012
Stephen Nyash was working with Koch FM, a station in Korogocho, a township near Nairobi.
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community station, Indymedia, kenya, Koch FM, Korogocho, Molefi, nairobi, Radio, Stephen Nyash
Video & Television
Sahara TV reaches many in Africa.
February 21, 2012
Omoyela Sowore the founder of Sahara Reporters, as on-line blog about Africa, now creating on-line television streams.
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Africa, democracy, global information, Nigeria, Omoyela Sowore, repression
Art & Activism
Famed Author Chinua Achebe On The Occupy Nigeria Strikes
February 19, 2012
Nigeria's premier novelist Chinua Achebe says that corruption is the root of the current fuel-strikes crisis.
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Brown University, Chinua Achebe, corruption, dictator, military, Nigeria, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, strike, Things Fall Apart
Art & Activism
Toy Protest in Russia
February 15, 2012
"Unsanctioned event!". Toys are not allowed to protest since they are not people.
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Bamaul, corruption, DEMONSTRATION, election, Lego people, protest, Russia, Sergei Andreev, toys