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…My heart’s in Accra » The Hibiscus Project: How African and Chinese bloggers start to talk to one another

"Alice Backer argued that the issue on the table was xenophobia, not race, urging people not to automatically adopt the language and terminology we use in the US to talk about racial issues." Generally a great summary of a gvdelhi2006 discussion.

Delhi's Markets: Where Are the Women?

"C’est là le charme de Delhi. L’envoûtement. Tu t’étonnes un peu de l’absence de femmes, mais les hommes ne te laissent pas le temps de trop y penser." (Translation forthcoming on GV.)

delhi /tombs/life

"The tombs - they are bustling with life."

Global Voices on Internet Activism (podcast)

Kamla Batt interviews GV co-founder Ethan Zuckerman and co-Managing Editor Georgia Popplewell.

Haiti - Francais (Press (EN) for english translations)

Collectif-haiti-de-provence: Les syndicats d’enseignants denoncent la politique gouvernementale en matiere de securite

"Les déclarations du syndicat des enseignants tombent bien à propos mais ne suffisent pas dans la conjoncture actuelle." - (EN)

Collectif-haiti-de-provence: Haiti : L’UNICEF condamne energiquement les enlevements d’enfants et puis ..rien!

"Nous restons toujours sur notre faim quand nous observons le décalage existant entre les déclarations de principe d’un côté et l’indifférence manifeste face à l’absence de résultats."

Haitian Cane Workers in the Dominican Republic

"L'association Pour que L'Esprit Vive organise en mai 2007 à l'occasion de la journée mondiale contre l'esclavage (le 10 mai) une serie d'activités visant à dénoncer les conditions de vie dans les bateys." - (EN).

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Chinese South Africans Fight to Be Black

"Once reclassified as either coloured or black the Chinese will then be able to benefit from the Employment Equity Act (EEA) and the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act."

Liberal Myths Countered By African-American Men
A good example of how well-meaning liberals hurt sometimes. (Video)

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From Delhi Dweller to Brooklyn Baller

After visiting the city of a dozen tombs, I am headed back to the city of the lone fort, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Some friends (okay, Georgia and Nicholas, that is) think I've become a Delhi "walla" (sp?) aka a Delhi dweller. That is because during the last 12 or so days here I have not left India's capital city though I had every intention to all along. Yep, I passed on the Taj Mahal (just 5 hours away), and Rajasthan's jewel cities of Jaipur and Udaipur.

Now it's time to go. (My flight is in just a couple of hours.) My non-platonic oh-so-tactile exploration of the Delhi markets has come and gone. The Global Voices summit has come and gone. (Check out the Global Voices 2006 Summit Live Blog for all your questions about what happened.) And obviously Delhi and fellow Delhi dwellers (native or not), have rubbed me the right way. I had dinner on the brilliant National Highway, and was graciously and elegantly hosted by the three members of Delhi's Haitian community: the D. family. I'd like to think my presence helped launch a great new blog: Pascale D.'s Natif Natal: L'inde Vue par une Haitienne which I've added to my blogroll under Haitian diaspora. I have tons of pictures. I have even more unformulated thoughts. Most shall be revealed to you soon.

I am not just bringing home the satisfaction of now owning beautiful, authentic Indian Kashmiri shawls purchased in dusty authentic Indian markets. Out of the conference came the idea of www.francais/globalvoicesonline.org, a French-language page for GV that is in embryonic/experimental stages. Ideally, selected GV posts will one day be featured in French on it, with the help of volunteer translators. (Raise your hands, my bilingual blogging friends.)

Delhi did right by me, and hopefully also by the Francophone online community.


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Join Us/Rejoignez-Nous @ GVDelhi2006 (En) (Fr)

About the Global Voices Summit, here in Delhi:
A Propos du Sommet de Global Voices, ici a Delhi:

• It's Saturday Dec. 16th, Delhi time.
• Ce Sera le Samedi 16 Decembre, heure de Delhi.
  

• It's a big meeting of bloggers from around the world.
• C'est une grande reunion de bloggers du monde entier.
  

• How to tune in from your living room + Program.
• Comment y assister de votre salon etant + Programme.
  

• The GV Manifesto, some history and the future, as explained by Rebecca, one of the founders.
• Le Manifeste de GV, un peu d'histoire et l'avenir, selon Rebecca McKinnon, un des fondateurs.
  

• Badge for your blog:
• Badge pour votre blog:
  

• Bonus: check out GV's new Global Voices Web search engine which searches all the blogs from around the world that Global Voices Editors cover.
• Bonus: essayez la search engine Global Voices Web qui contient les blogs du monde entier que couvrent les editeurs de Global Voices.
  

Update 1:

• GV Delhi Wiki.
  

Update 2:

• Read what bloggers are saying about GVDelhi2006.
• Lire ce que disent les bloggers sur GVDelhi2006.
  

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Red Fort @ Old Delhi

Here are some pictures of my visit last sunday to Old Delhi and its Red Fort. Old Delhi is quite reminiscent of downtown Port-au-Prince except that the vendors are all men. The Red Fort was built several hundred years ago and was at one time the residence of a mughal ruler of Delhi. Notice the thick fog characteristic of Delhi weather at this time of year. The yellow and green cars are rickshaws, one of the forms of public transport in the city. (The others are bicycle rickshaws and auto taxis. There is a subway but its use seems limited.)




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"Very Sexy Women's Wear" @ GK1 M Market

During my first two days in Delhi, I spent a lot of time at M Market in Greater Kailash 1. Markets here are really gated bazaars made of a central square surrounded by shops. Both N and M markets in GK1 are designed that way as are the residential enclaves.






What I love about the markets I've seen here so far is the juxtaposition of Esprit and United Colors of Benetton with downtrodden junk shops. M Market has a basement bookstore, standalone vendors with piles of gorgeous $5-10 shawls and scarves, designer jeans stores, spice shops, cafes, restaurants, local shoe stores like Bata of either cheap practical looking shoes or more upscale local designs, fabric and sari shops, the tiny dusty and hot as hell basement cybercafe from where I checked email while in GK and took the passport picture that stood between me and a sim card. Then there's the take out shop that sells chinese dumplings and nan-wrapped indian faves of mine: chicken masala and saag paneer.

I was always entertained during the hours I spent here. Shopping although exciting usually stresses me out in the States but this was a different experience. The markets here really are places where the city comes alive. While the shops themselves are quite clean, the sidewalk, alleyways and building facades blacken anything that touches them. The whole thing comes together well though and, along with the contradictions and hustle and bustle, makes the place lively.

I guess you could say that just as India itself is a contrast between wealth of some and poverty of many, technology on the one hand and illiteracy on the other, these markets have elements of both western shopping malls and dusty Haitian and African street markets. High end items such as United Colors of Benetton pairs of $200 jeans and banal everyday necessities such as the used eletronics junk shop where I purchased my $2 indian ac adapter mix and mingle. Now I see why Deeya's eyes lit up as she recommended the Delhi markets and thrift shops. (She was the Indian twenty-something returning home on break from her London arts program who sat next to me on the plane.)



I became intrigued with these "very sexy women's wear" signs that were all over the market after reading Lonely Planet's recommendation that foreign women not wear overly revealing clothes. Precisely the opposite of "sexy", let alone "very sexy". As I bought shawls to wear when walking in the street on my own, I wondered long and hard about that contradiction. But my decision was only partly influenced by the LP tip; I wanted some of that elegance of the draped silhouettes of Delhi.

More M-Market Photos.

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Sak Pase From Delhi, India

Sorry I've been quiet for a week. I was preparing for the journey that brought me here to Delhi, India. I arrived yesterday and am still settling in.

This morning I sent relatives an email reflecting on the ways in which Delhi ressembles Port-au-Prince and the ways in which it is different. Like Port-au-Prince, Delhi is still the capital to a mostly rural country. That is I think what makes parts of Delhi so reminiscent of parts of Port-au-Prince. The posh parts especially are remarkably similar: huge houses, tree-lined streets and gardens, often interspersed with much more modest residences. At least that is what I am seeing in GK, South Delhi. I will be doing my best to update you on my thoughts while here.

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