Global Voices Digest for May 17th, 2008
Japan: Bloggers criticize Greenpeace over whale-meat theft
The reputation of Greenpeace Japan appears to have dropped a few notches this week, with news that the organization, in order to expose the theft of whale meat by crew members of a whaling research ship, itself stole meat to use as evidence of the crime. Members of Greenpeace Japan admitted to having entered a delivery company’s distribution center in Tokyo on April 15th without permission in order to seize packages of whale meat.
Serbia: International Day Against Homophobia
On the International Day Against Homophobia, Serbian political activist and writer Jasmina Tesanovic re-posted a statement from Labris, a Serbian lesbian human rights organization, on her blog. Sinisa Boljanovic has translated the statement.
Censoring Free Speech in Thailand
he past few weeks have seen YouTube blocked again as well as Prachatai, Thailand’s foremost independent news portal and Same Sky, a journal of social criticism. Both sites have popular public Web discussion boards. In the past, both sites have been warned by MICT to self-censor “sensitive” public comments.
Roundups
Get the blog buzz from the world over in the Global Roundups, where today you can find evil Serb video game characters, being a foreigner in Slovakia, World Day Against Homophobia in Caracas, Venezuela, and much much more!