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SWEDEN: Controversy over 'racist cake' art piece...created by black artist

by Global Voices on 18 Apr 2012
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SWEDEN: Controversy over 'racist cake' art piece...created by black artist

News website grioo.com reports that on April 15, 2012, Swedish Culture Minister, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, attended a exhibition preview at Museum of Modern Art of Stockholm to celebrate ‘World Art Day'.

PAKISTAN: Stop dumping on us!

by Global Voices on 11 Apr 2012
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PAKISTAN: Stop dumping on us!

Globalization is often touted as the solve it all solution of the problems this world faces today. However there are several very highly toxic effects of globalization as well. For instance these seemingly dissipating borders means that the western world has been and even now is engaged in dumping its plastic and medical waste to third world countries. They are able to do so as there is a lack of whistle blowing as well as checks and balances in countries like Pakistan, which has been subjected to dumping for the last 30 odd years.

US: "I am Trayvon Martin"

by Global Voices on 26 Mar 2012
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US: "I am Trayvon Martin"

On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a ‘Neighborhood Watch Volunteer' in Sanford, Florida, USA, shot and killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin while the latter was coming out of a store with freshly-purchased candy. George Zimmerman confessed to the police that he shot Trayvon in the chest.

JAPAN: Surfers, fishermen, and radiation

by Global Voices on 21 Mar 2012
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Journalist Lisa Katayama  and filmmaker Jason Wishnow are documenting the lives of people dealing with radiation in a post-earthquake Japan. In We Are All Radioactive, they are including 50% footage made by themselves in the areas around Fukushima Power Plant that had a meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and 50% footage made by residents who were given waterproof digital cameras so they could tell their own story on surviving the earthquake and now dealing with radiation.

Trenton toilet budget less-than flush

by Wikinews on 20 Mar 2012
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Trenton toilet budget less-than flush

Toilet paper supplies in Trenton, the capital of the US state of New Jersey, may run out by week's end following their city council's dispute over budgets.

Russian scholars call on Medvedev and Putin to defend Bhagavad Gita

by Wikinews on 19 Mar 2012
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Russian scholars call on Medvedev and Putin to defend Bhagavad Gita

Twenty leading Russian scholars urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister, President-elect Vladimir Putin to step in and take the ongoing Bhagavad Gita trial in the Siberian city of

Kony video incites anger among some Ugandans

by Global Voices on 14 Mar 2012
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Anyone following online citizen media closely this month, would inevitably have come across the heated global debate over the Invisible Children viral campaign to stop Ugandan war criminal and rebel army leader Joseph Kony.

How to win Facebook friends and influence people

by ProPublica on 14 Mar 2012
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How to win Facebook friends and influence people

By Lois Beckett in ProPublica.

Instead of picketing outside company headquarters, an advocacy group is using Facebook ads to try to influence people whose profiles identify them as employees of Freddie Mac or JPMorgan Chase.

USA: What the frack is in that water?

by ProPublica on 07 Mar 2012
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USA: What the frack is in that water?

By Lena Groeger in ProPublica.

Environmentalists have repeatedly pressed regulators to compel oil and gas companies to report what chemicals they use in the drilling and fracking process.

RUSSIA: Sex, women, Putin, and viral videos

by Global Voices on 07 Mar 2012
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Young women calling on co-enthusiasts to rip off their clothes for Putin last summer, seemed to have disappeared from the scene after making the headlines for a couple of weeks. As the election season draws to a close in Russia, now, it is worth taking a look back at how that movement evolved, and how it inspired other women - both, for and against Putin - to get creative.

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