[Translation] Listen to the world in order to improve it
Before I attempt my own thoughts and reflections about this year’s Global Voices Summit in Budapest, let me first start by translating a beautiful article by the dauntingly prolific Rosa Jiménez Cano, a great journalist, but even a better blogger. Listen...
Fragments of Wakefulness I
20 days. It had already been twenty days. Twenty days in Medellín. Twenty days surrounded by the fungus-covered lime green walls of my private room at the back of the Black Sheep hostel. Twenty days of backpackers shuffling in, shuffling out, flirting,...[Podast] Música del Mayo
It’s been a while without a podcast from Sparky and Oso. With much pleasure, and a little pride, we present you with 10 songs to start the month of June out right. As always, I sent Sparsh five tracks that I’ve been digging recently and he chose the other...On Beauty (and Irony)
Since my dear friend, Cindylu, just published a post titled “On Beauty”, I figure I might as well dig through my unpublished drafts and publish one with nearly the same title. I wrote this about a year and a half ago over a steaming glass of chai in Delhi,...[Colombia] San Ignacio Hospital's Kangaroo Program
First of all, let me emphasize that the super gringo accent is not mine. That belongs to none other than Mr. Steven Mansour. My yankee voice only makes the occasional brief cameo after the 5 minute mark. Steve did a great job producing the video, which documents the...Hoy, mañana, y lo que viene
La primera vez que conocí Georgia en Londres, ella me explicó su estilo de poppletrotting (su apellido es Popplewell y ‘trot’ en inglés es trotar). Poppletrotting es una forma de viajar. Sin estrés, sin discusiones, con itinerarios flexibles, pero sin...Jamaica
It was the half hour sliver of clock that is neither day nor darkness. But nobody realized. Not the prostitutes nor the cocktail waitresses nor my taxi driver, cheerfully escorting one more stranger back to the airport, back to where he came from. “Where do you...Nicholas Laughlin on the Eve of Calabash
This will have to be an English-only post until I get the video of Nicholas up on dotSUB and add Spanish subtitles. I’m currently at the Calabash International Literary Festival with Georgia, Nicholas, Annie, Kei, Peter, Jonathan, JJ, and company. Here’s a...Explosions in Medellin, Peddlers in Madagascar, Street Food and Footpaths in Calcutta
Every two weeks we feature four to five posts by Rising Voices participants as a way of showcasing some of the finest content from new voices that are typically ignored by both traditional and new media. In order to make new voices heard, however, we must be willing...Latest Photos
