Monthly Archives: March 2011

ctrp373 A Tale of Two Presidents, Ivory Coast

ctrp373 A Tale of Two Presidents, Ivory Coast

March 31, 2011

Citizenreporter.org's West Africa correspondant isn't too keen on walking the streets of Abidjan these days and she has to watch what she says, as the country is sharply divided by a political standoff. The standoff is between two presidents and their supporters. One the incumbent with his own...

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Guardian Piece on Sousa Mendes

Guardian Piece on Sousa Mendes

March 29, 2011

Today my piece on visiting the Casa do Passal and the Legacy of Sousa Aristides de Sousa Mendes was published on the Guardian CiF. It looks at the failure to truly honor his memory as well as  how even today there are those with the power to decide to break...

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ctrp372 Dissecting Dictators

ctrp372 Dissecting Dictators

March 26, 2011

2011 is the year where many observers and so called experts around the world scramble to understand how it is that so many dictatorships suddenly arrived at a crisis. As people take to the streets and battles take place in city squares throughout the middle east, we discover that...

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Space For Those Who Don’t Agree

Space For Those Who Don’t Agree

March 23, 2011

Through the numerous jobs I do as both a journalist and an editor to help fund my own work here on this site, I end up editing many documents relating to new media and its significance.  Among the terms and theories that are frequently kicked around is the one...

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bmtv123 Demonstration in Lisbon

bmtv123 Demonstration in Lisbon

March 21, 2011

One Saturday in March some 200,000 people took to the streets of Lisbon to express their frustration and desperation with the government's performance, corruption and its economic/social policies. It was in fact a beautiful day filled with creative and humorous approaches to protesting from a city (and a country) that knows...

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