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Community Media Forum of Europe Will Meet in Cyprus
September 5, 2011
1st Annual Conference will take place in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
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CMFE, Communication Conference, community media, cyprus, Cyprus Community Media Center, ECREA, Europe, Salvatore Scifo
The right to videotape officials is upheld
August 31, 2011
A recent victory for free speech
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abuse, arrest, first amendment, Police, rights, simon glik, video
Man = Carrot: the Bread and Puppet's 2011 Circus
August 25, 2011
Bread & Puppet Theater since 1962- each summer, every weekend a circus is created. This was on August 22, 2011.
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Bread and Puppet, carrots, children, Claire Dolan, dance, Glover, Peter Schumann, Puppets, stilts, Theater, Vermont, windmills
The Internet as Human Right in Finland
August 25, 2011
Finland is the first nation to declare that access to the internet is a human right.
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access, broadband commission, digital rights, finland, human rights, Internet, Mirva Lempiainen
May Ying Welsh Speaking about her Sudan Documentary
August 18, 2011
May Ying Welsh traveled up the Nile River to record testimonies of communities caught in the conflict in Southern Sudan.
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Al Jazeera, Asian American International Film Festival, Dinka, John Woo, May Ying Welsh, Nile River, poverty, rape, Sudan, women
Squatting for Housing Rights in Hong Kong
August 13, 2011
Occupying abandoned spaces as artistic and political expression
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Homeless, Hong Kong Art, housing rights, Kim Kang, Kim Youn Hoan, Korean Artists, squatting, woofer ten
Bread and Puppet's Rotten Idea Theater Company Explains Egypt
August 10, 2011
Bread and Puppet's cardboard and paint Rotten Idea Theater Company takes on the Egyptian spring. Filmed by David Swanson.
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Arab Spring, Bread and Puppet, Circus, David Swanson, Egypt, Glover, Mubarak, Rotten Idea Theater, Vermont
Ojo al Sancocho 2011 Festival de Cine y Video Alternativo y Comunitario
August 8, 2011
The fourth annual festival of alternative and community media in Ciudad Bolivar, Colombia
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alternative film, Colombia, comunitario, identidad, juventud, participacion, Sancocho, video, youth
Kokorat (Street Children) testify to the youth reporters of Tele Ghetto
August 4, 2011
Tele Ghetto
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Brandon Jourdan, Citizen Journalism, Earthquake, Haiti, Hayti, Tele Ghetto, youth media
Radioactivists of Japan
August 2, 2011
The growing activism in Japan against nuclear power and the Japanese social structure.
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Clarissa Seidel, demonstrate, fukushima, japan, Julia Leser, nuclear, protest, radioactive, radioactivist