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Comment by TENGKU NOOR SHAMSIAH T ABDULLAH on April 15, 2011 at 9:48

Thanks for inviting. I hope this link will be a useful tool for every member to share ideas and views. Wish everyone a pleasant day and a great weekend.

Comment by Emma Brewin on March 21, 2011 at 10:51

Demotix provide a great resource Jason! It's great using the photos in Global Voices posts.

 

Loving the cartoon Jim!

Comment by Jason Brown on March 10, 2011 at 3:36

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welcome jim !

i'm a foreigner here too but EJC have been welcome hosts, gently guiding me through the how tos and what fors. It's a great resource.

For other members, Brenneman is one of those treasured assets - an editorial cartoonist - a rare gentle specimen of the species.

keep 'em comin' artboy !

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Comment by Jim Brenneman on March 10, 2011 at 1:37

Hi from the U.S.

Comment by Jason Brown on March 5, 2011 at 14:51

 

Global Voices and the Demotix link

Great to see Global Voices here on the EJC community.

Some may already be aware of the Global Voices link up last December 2010 with Demotix, a web2, news2 start up hailed as "the future of journalism" by big media names like the New York Times. 

Demotix adds value to citizen journalism by accepting new-media "content" from the field and on selling story rights to old-media "mainstream" news outlets. 

Newcomers wondering at the personal and professional potential this arrangement might view it as an easy gateway to the digital news era, while getting valuable exposure to generally accepted journalism practice.

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Comment by Emma Brewin on February 26, 2011 at 12:32

Thanks for your comments everyone - it is an incredible opportunity to witness the people power occurring over the world right now!

Comment by Nikos Vassiliades on February 24, 2011 at 8:40

Protests against Greece's unpopular austerity measures turned violent on Wednesday, with police using tear gas on demonstrators in Athens who were throwing stones and firebombs.

Comment by Nikos Vassiliades on February 21, 2011 at 9:09

People of Athens...go on!
I really agree with the general strike in Greece. I must admit. I suspect lots of other broke people like me do too. We have nothing left to lose and certainly no stock to lose value. Our pride went long ago. Our house went. Our health went.
Soon the only thing left in a broke person’s life is hoping to gut it out with the rent paid, the lights on and food in the fridge for a few more years until death comes. Death, as Socrates saw it and Plato recounted, is either the sweet prelude and transition to a glorious life hereafter or sweet and undisturbed eternal slumber.
The Greek people are angry. Poverty thrust upon them through the same sorts of financial collapse seen across much of the world and at the hands of those still not suffering much tends to make people angry.
So, right on, suffering and striking Greek people. At least you won’t go down without crying out and fighting back and forcing the world to take notice

Comment by Nikos Vassiliades on February 21, 2011 at 8:51

Thoughts about Middle East situation.

In March 1955, a fifteen-year-old school girl, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with the Jim Crow laws. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks also was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott urged and planned by Nixon and led by King, soon followed. The boycott lasted for 385 days, and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed. King was arrested during this campaign, which ended with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.
After that King was active in the organisation of the Southern Leadership Christian Conference, formed to co-ordinate protests against discrimination. He advocated non-violent direct action based on the methods of Gandhi.
In 1963, King led mass protests against discriminatory practices in Birmingham, Alabama where the white population were violently resisting desegregation. The city was dubbed 'Bombingham' as attacks against civil rights protesters increased, and King was arrested and jailed for his part in the protests.
After his release, King participated in the enormous civil rights march on Washington in August 1963, and delivered his famous 'I have a dream' speech, predicting a day when the promise of freedom and equality for all would become a reality in America.

“ I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!”

Time is relentless. What we have to do today will be the Hope of Tomorrow.
If we do not act is sure that there will be no hope and may not be tomorrow.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate....
Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Comment by Mirjam Teresa Moll on February 18, 2011 at 17:27

Read my newest article on the current events in Bahrain!