Global Voices Digest for October 13th, 2008
Caribbean: Remembering Alton Ellis
Jamaican musician Alton Ellis, the “godfather of rocksteady”, died on Friday 10 October, 2008. Jamaican bloggers look back at his career and pay tribute to a musical legend.
Southeast Asia: Views on U.S. elections and politics
U.S. elections matter to many people in Southeast Asia. Both U.S. presidential candidates are popular in the region. McCain was a former Navy pilot during the Vietnam War while a very young Obama lived in Jakarta for five years.
Angola: Little reaction so far to the “Angolagate” scandal trial
The elite French politicians accused of violating a ban on selling arms to Angola at the height of the country’s 1990s civil war are in the dock with the opening of the Angolagate trial in Paris a week ago today. Despite the scandal’s size, media and bloggers remain silent about it.
USA: Homeland Guantanamo
A new interactive online game by human rights organization Breakthrough uses video to illustrate the injustices many documented and undocumented immigrants face in detention centers across the United States. In “Homeland Guantanamo”, players assume the role of a journalist trying to get more information on real life detainee who has died in custody.
Roundups
Get the blog buzz from the world over in the Global Roundups, where today you can find the impact of the economic crisis on Russia’s Central Asian migrant workers, the EU has temporarily suspended a travel ban on Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko, the lives of tea plantation workers in Bangladesh, and much much more!