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China’s ‘Dishonest Americans’ Newspaper Series Hits at US Businesses · Global Voices
Owen Guo

China’s top official newspaper The People’s Daily is taking aim at the United States with a newly unveiled column initially called “The Dishonest American Series”, in what appears to be the latest media campaign to target US enterprises.
The column, which is published in English and Chinese, was later renamed as “Americans You Don't Know Of”, an apparent move by the paper to tone down the indecorous wording. Written by the paper’s Chinese news staff in New York, the series so far includes six articles lashing out at practices from greedy corporate culture to companies’ disdain for customers. The English version of the column has retained the original title.
In an editor's note, the paper indicated that the column aimed to help the Chinese foster a better understanding of America and its people:
A screenshot of People's Daily's column: The Dishonest Americans Series
From editor: Most Chinese people think that Americans are honest, reliable, and righteous. But once you live in the country for a while, you may discover the descriptions above are a bit misleading. Today’s topic, “The Dishonest Americans Series”, does not refer to all Americans. We want to unveil some incidents and Americans we have encountered, so to provide a more objective picture of what the US and Americans are really like.
The US arm of the People’s Daily launched the column in March 2013, but public attention was brought to the column only recently when a number of news portals reposted the newest installment, which described a Chinese passenger’s run-in with airport staff in New York and United Airlines’ refusal to refund him after he wasn't allowed to board a plane to China.The airline company has faced curt criticism from passengers for its alleged poor service and frequent flight cancellations.
United Airlines has issued an apology that the passenger said was “insincere”, according to the article.
In China Hollywood movies and American high-tech products enjoy enormous popularity.
According to a 2012 poll by GALLUP, a US-based consulting firm, China tops the world's list of immigrants who want to move to the US. It appears China is seeking to edge out America's influence by unleashing periodic media criticism toward its businesses.
In March 2013, Chinese state media accused Apple of discriminating against its China customers, forcing Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue an apology after a week-long media blitz to bash the technology giant.
Such moves were often met with online backlash, as was the case of the column by the People's Daily.
Lei Yi, a prominent Chinese historian weighed in, writing [zh] on the popular microbloging service Sina Weibo sarcastically:
三十年前，我们被教育说美国人民生活在水深火热之中，但美国人民是好的，等待我们去解放。三十年后，我们教育说，美国人“无德无信”
Thirty years ago, we were educated that Americans all lived in extreme misery, but American people were good, they were waiting to be liberated by us. Thirty years later, we are educated that Americans are dishonest and not reliable.
Ding Laifeng, a former subeditor for a magazine, had [zh] the following ironic remarks:
【人民网专栏：无德无信美国人】至于你信不信，我反正信了。美帝官员普遍贪污，将老婆子女送到其他国家享受美好 生活，自己在国内包二奶嫖幼女，这还不是无德吗？！美帝政府口口声声为人民服务，但苛捐杂税盘剥人民，自己吃特供小灶却让百姓吃地沟油毒大米，这还不是无 信吗？！怒赞人民网么么哒！
“People's Daily column: Dishonest Americans” I don't know if you believe it, I do. American officials are widely corrupt, they send their children to other countries to enjoy good lives, they themselves have mistresses and rape young girls, isn't this dishonest?! The US government keeps on saying they are for the people, but they impose different taxes and loot others, they have special supply of food but let common people consume swill-cooked oil and poisonous rice, isn't this unreliable!? I have to angrily give thumbs-up to People's Daily!!
Xie Ming, a Weibo user from Shanghai, alluded [zh] to the fact that many high-ranking officials send their children overseas:
孙立平老师说得在理：别讲什么宏大理论，你们把自己的孩子向什么地方送，就把自己的人民朝什么方向带，就可以了。
Professor Sun Liping has a good point: Don't talk any grand theory, wherever you send your children, you are leading your people toward that direction, that's it.
Lei Xiaomao, an agricultural scientist residing in the US, wrote [zh]:
从懂事开始在中国和美国学习，工作和生活各24年，位觉得无德无信的在那个国家都存在，只是程度的问题。客观地讲，国内无德无信的人大大的超过美国人，尤其是干部和商人，官商勾结，狼狈为奸，几乎到了无官不贪的地步，大官大贪，小官小贪。十年前我企图海归近2年， 可以写一部百万字的上当受骗记
I've been living and studying in China and US for 24 years respectively after I began to understand this world, dishonest and unreliable people exist in every nation, it's only a matter of degree. Objectively speaking, dishonest and unreliable people in China far exceed those in the States, especially officials and business people, they collude with each other and to a point where practically no officials are clean, high-ranking officials commit corruption big time, lower-ranking officials commit small corruption. Ten years ago, I had been intended to go back to China for two years, I could write an entry of 10,000 words about my experience of being tricked and fooled.
Changchun Qiche lamented [zh]：
美国人无德无信是个例，所以需要挖掘。中国人特别是官员，无德无信是常例，有德有信才稀奇，才需要报道。
Americans’ dishonesty and unreliability are isolated cases, so it's worth digging into. Chinese, especially official, dishonesty and unreliability are the norm, their honesty and reliability are rare, hence they are worth to be reported.

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Colombian Vallenato Hats Made in China · Global Voices
Juan Arellano

Andrés Bermúdez comments on China Files about ” The day vallenato was sung in Chinese” [es], a musical reaction to the Chinese industrial production of sombreros vueltiaos, one of the most important artisan crafts from Colombia.

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author: Juan Arellano


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India’s Media Giant Takes on Student Blogger · Global Voices
Rezwan

Sans Serif reports about a legal battle between Indian media giant Times Publishing House and Aparajita Lath, a student of the National Institute of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) for her 669-word blog post in February 2013 capturing the Times group’s trademark tussle with the Financial Times of London.

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Indian Ruling on Vedanta Mining Plans Favours Tribal Rights · Global Voices
Ayesha Saldanha

On April 18, 2013 India's Supreme Court ruled that village councils should make the final decision as to whether controversial British company Vedanta Resources can mine for bauxite in the eastern state of Odisha. Vedanta wants to mine on land that the local Dongria Kondh people hold sacred.
The controversy over the proposed bauxite mine dates back to 2004, and an international campaign has been waged against Vedanta's plans. The Supreme Court rejected a request from the company to end a ban on mining, and ruled that two local councils, or gram sabhas, should respond within three months on whether or not they want it to proceed.
The Dongria Kondh live in the upper reaches of the Niyamgiri hills and regard the hills and forests as deities. The highest hill, which is in the proposed mining area, is the home of their most revered god, Niyam Raja.
Dongria Kondh woman and child in Chatikona, Rayagada district. Photo by Flickr user Rita Willaert (CC BY-NC 2.0).
On the environmental news site Down To Earth, Richard Mahapatra wrote a blog post called My god v. your resource:
Is a village council qualified to deal with religious beliefs? The answer lies in a recent order by the Supreme Court in the Vedanta case. Gram sabhas (village councils consisting of all voters in a village) in Odisha’s Rayagada and Kalahandi districts will decide whether the industrial activities of Vedanta violate the constitutional right of tribal communities to worship. Translated into practice, the order means voters in a few villages will decide the fate of the multi-billion-rupee project based on their religious beliefs. Though parroted often that religious belief is a private concern, the apex court’s order is exceptional in making religious decision a community one.
He continued:
There are a few reasons that make this case interesting. First, it is a perfect case where the government’s power to acquire land for public purpose and having right over minerals are in direct conflict with religious rights of local communities. Secondly, the religious belief in question is that of tribal communities. Unlike many religions, tribal religious beliefs are manifested in tangible living forms like forest, land and water. In this case, the direct conflict between religious belief and public purpose becomes intense as the public purpose acquisitions are the gods and goddesses of the tribals. For the Dongria Kondhs in Odisha, the Niyamgiri hill is the Niyam Raja or god. Thirdly, tribals do not have any supreme religious head or bodies to protect and interpret beliefs. Tribal beliefs are pure functional codes for maintaining the fragile ecology-economy equation that sustains them. This is where the court’s order to assign the village council, that enjoys constitutional powers, to take a call on the religious rights comes as an acknowledgement of the fact that the standard law and religion approach to tribal areas will not work.
Environmentalist Sunita Narain (@sunitanar) commented on the ruling:
@sunitanar: Vedanta judgement is environmentalism of poor. Deepening of democracy way ahead for green growth. Must welcome.
But journalist Prayaag Akbar (@unessentialist) was not impressed with how the ruling was reported:
@unessentialist: A tribal deity won't decide, Times of India, a gram sabha will. So stop sneering. Horrific reporting
Inaccurate reporting of Vedanta ruling in Times of India. Image tweeted by @unessentialist.
At media monitoring website The Hoot, Aritra Bhattacharya noted:
Most reports failed to point out the fact that the court had, in a sense, chosen to bypass the most vexing questions relating to violations of environmental laws in the case. The Supreme Court decision, while granting the ‘right’ to decide on the fate of the bauxite mine to the gram sabhas, chose to set aside all ecological concerns and made religious rights of the Niyamgiri tribals the central plank of the judgement. […] In the coming months, local bodies in the area will have to deal with the following question: will the local deity be disturbed if mining is allowed within a 10-km radius of his/her abode? How much space, and what kind of access will be required to preserve my religious practices and rituals? As is evident, there can be no factual replies to such questions; instead, responses will be based on perceptions.
It has been alleged that the Odisha government and Vedanta are now pushing for gram sabha decisions in favour of the proposed bauxite mining. On May 22 a rally and public meeting of Dongria Kondh took place at Munikhol in Rayagada district, after a five-day march. CGNet Swara citizen journalist Litu Minj reported that the villagers were determined not to allow any company to mine in the Niyamgiri hills.
The following short video uploaded to YouTube by KBKNEWS shows Dongria Kondh in Niyamgiri celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling:

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Kindness Mascot Gives Up on Singapore · Global Voices
Mong Palatino

Singa, Singapore’s courtesy lion and then mascot for kindness since 1982 has resigned. Complaining against an “increasingly angry and disagreeable society” the lion felt it’s time to take a break. Apparently, Singa even submitted a resignation letter to the Singapore Kindness Movement which went viral online:
I suppose it's about time. After all, I've been doing this for over 30 years – first, as the Courtesy Lion, and more recently, as your mascot for kindness. I'm just too tired to continue facing an increasingly angry and disagreeable society.
Curiously, Singa mentioned something about anonymous rude comments on the internet:
Singa, the former kindness mascot of Singapore
A final word before I go. Let's be responsible for our actions. We can go online and be rude to others, but let's not think it “doesn't count” because it's anonymous. We can let our anger and disagreement dictate the kind of people and society we want to be, or we can decide to be gracious, even when frustrated.
The reactions in Singapore vary with one side questioning the publicity stunt while others are praising it as a creative campaign. Some criticized it for sending a message to children that quitting is a positive option if one encounters hardships.
Mervyn Sek thanks Singa for three decades of dedicated service:
Thank you, Singa, for 30 years of dedicated service. We could have done more to be kind and gracious, but regrettably took you and your service for granted all these years. I am deeply concerned that your absence may leave a large void in our society, one that is too big for any individual to fill.
Mae agrees to retire the mascot
Is this a PR stunt to try reinstate Singa? No, we don’t need Singa as a courtesy mascot. It’s time he retired and was remembered fondly as a tool of the 80s. Please don’t come back as a “reboot”/ “rebranded” / “redesigned” lion.
The Heart Truths responds by writing a satirical resignation letter:
You see, I need a long break, especially from the government. You know what a “symbolic figure” is? Fake one, fake! That means, I am a fake. You see, I’ve been doing this for 30 years. On the surface, it looks like I am your mascot for kindness. But really, I am just “supposed to bring good luck” to “a particular organization” – PAP (Singapore's ruling party since the 1950s). They had hoped that if I had pranced around enough and make you kind, or maybe make you their kind, or actually, make you kind to them, that you will feel that the problems that they create will disappear.
The Blogfather believes the message of the resignation was effective:
By resigning, Singa has ensured the survival of his message, just by simply stooping to our level. And by becoming one of us, he has turned us all off of being the angry and disagreeable society we are, because we’ve suddenly become so turned off by him. Oh, wow, the irony is still blowing my mind.
Eat.Pray.Live.Debate reacts to Singa’s views on anonymous comments:
My recommendation is that we should, as far as possible, do away with anonymity on the Internet especially on public forums where debate is taking place. People should take responsibility for what they say. Anonymity lets people say whatever they want without first reflecting on those views.
Ravi Philemon warns readers not to be deceived by the propaganda to bring ‘kindness’ in cyberspace:
…don't be fooled by it. It's part of the propaganda to bring graciousness to social media. Hate it that even Singa has to resort to deception in attempting to bring ‘kindness’ to cyberspace.
On Twitter, @MiraculousFight insists that Singa did not fail in his mission:
@MiraculousFight @tpvote There are many factors causing ppl not to show kindness, it does not necessarily mean that Singa have failed.
To prove that Singapore is a nation of kindness, there will be a Kindness Day on May 31. Organizers are promoting the hashtag #kindnessdaysg.

author: Mong Palatino


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Philippine Elections Tainted by Allegations of Automated Fraud · Global Voices
Karlo Mongaya

In spite of claims by the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) of a peaceful, orderly, and ultimately successful elections last May 13, 2013, poll watchdogs, civil society groups, IT experts, and netizens are alleging that the midterm polls were tainted by automated fraud, massive vote buying, electoral violence, and other various irregularities.
The 2013 mid-term automated elections has been declared by independent poll watch groups as a “technological and political disaster”:
In 2010, a significant number of clustered precincts in both provinces and cities had delayed transmissions of up to two days; as of May 17 or four days after this year’s election, 18,187 clustered precincts or 23% of the total number failed to transmit election returns affecting if not potentially disenfranchising 8.6M voters.
Like in the 2010 presidential elections, the recently concluded polls used an automated election system (AES) which supplanted the manual system used in the 2007 polls and preceding years. The AES involves the use of a Precinct Counting Optical Scan or PCOS machine which records, counts, and transmits votes to a central server for canvassing and consolidation.
Protest against the alleged automated fraud. Image from Pixel Offensive
The AES Watch said that most of the election problems that it monitored were PCOS-related. This includes initialization errors, machine breakdown to hardware problems, ballot rejection by the machine, and transmission problems from the machine to the canvassing centers and Comelec servers.
This comes alongside observations of an improbable “pattern” of the votes obtained by senatorial candidates during the elections wherein those coming from the administration party consistently got 60 percent, the ones from the Opposition United Nationalist Alliance got 30 percent, and the independents got 10 percent of the votes.
Sorting through the tallies of the senatorial race from the first to the 16th canvass reports, Ateneo University professor Lex Muga noted the peculiar pattern. Using the election data released from the news website Rappler.com, the blog Radar Sweep meanwhile discovered the same pattern in all 11 intervals checked.
“Hacking Our Democracy” author Prof. Rene Azurin warned that the uniformity of the senatorial race results wherein no ranking changes occurred from the beginning to every lull in the counting pointed to the pre-programming of the automated system in order to ensure a 9-3 victory for the ruling party. Azurin cites former Comelec IT director Ernie del Rosario who said:
The progressive tallies follow some sort of deterministic linear equation devoid of the influence of any probabilistic parameter or variable. This can only mean one thing — it is a pre-designed results reporting mechanism that fits the 9-3 survey instead of a tally of the actual votes. I will call it the 9-3 Formula. Notice that the rankings of the candidates in the entire tally (1st to 33rd place) from the time the first report was published to subsequent ones are practically unchanged. What happened to the individual candidates’ known bailiwicks that should have caused some ranking movements in the tallied results? Smoothened by the 9-3 linear formula?
In a Facebook post, Center for People Empowerment in Governance IT consultant Pablo Manalastas comments:
The correct test to determine a “conspiracy” is NOT to check the national averages to see how close to 60-30-10 we can get, because this is exactly what the law of large numbers tells us that we will get. The more correct indicator of a conspiracy is if we get the same 60-30-10 figures in a precinct-by-precinct comparison, provided that the precinct figures were used to get the national canvass.
Meanwhile, Rick Bahague of the Computer Professionals Union also shared graphs showing the same disturbing pattern in all 18 towns of Bohol Province on Facebook.
Boholanos seem to have been genetically modified. They voted the same. The rank of the senators is almost the same in all the towns.
These fears of automated fraud is aggravated by the Comelec's lack of transparency in the conduct of the automated polls, as pointed out by Kontra Daya:
The Comelec failed to implement the basic security safeguards mandated under R.A. 9369 or the Poll Automation Law, particularly the review of the PCOS source code by political parties and citizen’s groups prior to the elections… The so-called PCOS “source code review” that was supposedly started days before the polls was worthless in terms of ensuring the integrity of the machines. It was nothing but a publicity stunt by Comelec chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. in a vain attempt to silence critics.
An hour after the voting ended last elections, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) which is the official citizen arm of the Comelec announced the partial and unofficial results from 1,418 precincts wherein more than 10 million of the votes were obtained by administration senatorial candidate Grace Poe.
When independent poll watchdogs pointed out that the figure was bloated, the PPCRV reportedly had Smartmatic change the script of the source code saying the data was incorrectly formatted and double counted.
The error is significant, as a maximum of 1,000 voters per precinct should only yield a total of around 1,418,000 maximum votes… That Smartmatic can change the script of the source code during the canvassing shows serious problems with the entire automated system.
Dr. Carol Araullo  questions  why a foreign corporation is allowed to control the country's elections.
More pernicious and fatal to our democratic processes, or the appearance thereof, is the virtual enthronement, if the Commission on Elections is to have its way, of the current automated election system designed and operationalized by a foreign multinational company, SMARTMATIC, to a seat of honor in running and controlling Philippine elections.
The Comelec's all too hasty proclamation of the first six winning senatorial candidates based only on 23 percent of 301 Certificates of Canvass also did not help win the confidence of the public.
In response to accusations, Comelec Chairperson Sixto Brillantes questioned the motives of those questioning the conduct of the polls and accused them of engaging in a “conspiracy”. He warned them to shut up or face legal charges. Various groups are calling for a manual recount as the only way to ensure the validity of the election results.

author: Karlo Mongaya


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Rafael Correa Sworn In for Third Term as President of Ecuador · Global Voices
Gina Yauri

Rafael Correa took power as President of the Republic of Ecuador to govern until 2017.
Correa took on his third term at the National Assembly before the heads of state of different Latin American and European countries, international delegations, assembly members, ministers, family members, and members of the governing party Alianza PAIS. Correa and his Vice President Jorge Glas were sworn in before the President of the National Assembly, Gabriela Rivadeneira, on the morning of May 24, 2013.
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Presidente Rafael Correa Takes Office. Quito, Ecuador, May 24, 2013. Photo from the
Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador on Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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Carlos Macas (@CarlosMacas19) [es] mentioned one of the changes to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that Correa proposes [es]: change the headquarters from Washington to a country in the region that has joined the American Convention on Human Rights (also known as the Pact of San José).
@CarlosMacas19: Rafael Correa “La sede de la CIDH tiene que estar en un País, que haya ratificado el pacto de San Jose” #PosesiónPresidencial RT
@CarlosMacas19: Rafael Correa “The headquarters of the IAHCR has to be in a country that has ratified the Pact of San Jose” #PosesiónPresidencial RT
But lawyer and political activist Luis A. Gaibor G. (@Luisgaiborg) [es] asked:
@Luisgaiborg: De q sirve q #Ecuador firme todos los Pactos d D. Humanos si ni siquiera se respeta el Derecho d Libertad d Expresión #PosesionPresidencial
@Luisgaiborg: What does it matter if #Ecuador signs all the Human Rights Pacts if it doesn't even respect the Right to Freedom of Expression #PosesionPresidencial
President Correa has a tense [es] relationship with the media in the country. In his speech he said that “the Latin American press, with honorable exceptions like always, is bad, very bad” and he claimed to be a victim of a “media lynching”. Nevertheless, as social communicator Edison Pérez (@edyelrojo) [es] mentions, Correa added: “We defend the freedom of expression of all Ecuadorians and not only of certain groups”.
Luis Baque Gutiérrez (@baquelig) [es] repeated the words of the president during the speech:
@baquelig: #PosesiónPresidencial Este ECUADOR no esta dispuesto a ser colonia de nadie. Bravo @MashiRafael
@baquelig: #PosesiónPresidencial This ECUADOR is not ready to be anyone's colony. Bravo @MashiRafael
With a more critical look, @Jose_CastroS [es] from Guayaquil questioned Correa's words when he said [es] that “The Pope is Argentine, God is probably Brazilian (as the President of Brasil Dilma Rousseff said), so surely paradise is Ecuadorian”:
@Jose_CastroS: que Ecuador es el paraiso ? donde deja la delincuencia, el narcotrafico , asesinatos? #PosesiónPresidencial#CorreistaPendejo
@Jose_CastroS: so Ecuador is paradise? what about the crime, the drug trafficking, the killings? #PosesiónPresidencial#CorreistaPendejo
Finally, Elector Ecuador (@ElectorEcuador) [es], a citizen initiative that informed voters about the election candidates in the country, congratulated Correa and his vice president:
@ElectorEcuador: #Ecuador Felicitamos en su nuevo mandato a @MashiRafael y @JorgeGlas #24deMayo #EleccionesEC http://fb.me/1X8pM9zO4
@ElectorEcuador: #Ecuador We congratulate @MashiRafael and @JorgeGlas on their new term #24deMayo #EleccionesEC http://fb.me/1X8pM9zO4

author: Gina Yauri


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SlutWalk Brazil takes Brazilian cities · Global Voices
Thiana Biondo

SlutWalk Brazil (@MarchaVadias) protests on the streets of Brazilian federal state capitals such as São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Florianópolis, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Belém, Rio de Janeiro and Vitória, and the Federal District, this weekend. They demand an end to violence against women and will be echoing slogans like “my body my rule” and “neither saint, nor whore: a woman.” Information on the social movement website.

author: Thiana Biondo


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After Probing Chemical Lake, Eco-Blogger Attacked in Russia · Global Voices
Andrey Tselikov

Environmental protection has become a dangerous area of public activism in Russia—at least where industrial pollution is concerned. This is because eco-activists often directly oppose regional business interests, who sometimes react with force. A case in point: on May 9, 2013, unknown assailants attacked and severely beat an eco-blogger from the mid-sized industrial town of Pervouralsk (located 40 km from Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains). The blogger, Stepan Chernogubov, claims that the assault was in retaliation for the publicity he is creating over a local chrome manufacturer dumping waste into the picturesque Chusovaya River (see archival photo below).
A cliff on the Chusovaya River. One of the color photographs made in 1912 by Prokudin-Gorsky. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.
On May 4, 2013, Chernogubov got a tip-off about an illegal waste dump making the river turn “bloody,” and went to check it out and take photographs. What he found was a pipe leaking orange chemical sludge into a nearby pond, which overflowed into the river itself. Chernogubov described [ru] the experience on his LiveJournal blog:
Ощущается стойкий химический запах, в носоглотке возникли болезненные ощущения. […] А источник заполнения этого хим озера, как выяснилось, – сгнившая труба. Возможно её прорвало в праздники, но скорее всего она всегда была такой.
I could feel a strong chemical smell, which created painful sensations in my nose and throat. […] The source filling this chemical lake, as it turned out, was a rotten pipe. Perhaps it burst over the holidays, but likely it was always like this.
Orange chemicals flowing into a pond near Chusovaya from a burst pipe. Photograph from Chernogubov's blog.
Chernogubov's post was re-blogged [ru] on Echo Moskvy by local economist Alexander Anikin. The factory in question, “Russian Chrome 1915 [ru],” did not take lightly to such publicity. When Chernogubov returned to the dump site the next day (accompanied by a group of environmentalists from Yekaterinburg) to take chemical samples, they were met by private security guards who tried to prevent them from touching the water [ru]:
Standoff between environmentalists collecting water samples and security guards. YouTube screenshot, May 23, 2013.
Как и предполагали, они стали препятствовать сбору проб воды. […] Впоследствии при попытке оказать на нас физическое воздействие, чтобы отобрать взятые пробы, люди, позиционирующие себя сотрудниками охраны завода “Русский Хром 1915″ были остановлены моим предупреждением о возможном разливе собранных проб на их руки, лицо и тело.
As we suspected, they were creating obstacles for taking water samples. […] Later, after trying physically to force us to give up the collected samples, these people (who said they were security staff from the “Russian Chrome 1915″ factory) finally backed off when I warned them that I might spill the sample on their hands, face, and body.
Local police next detained Chernogubov and his entourage after the head of the private security group reported them for “stealing” the water samples, but the authorities soon released everyone. In the same post [ru], Chernogubov alleged that one of his fellow environmentalists was contacted by a local newspaper editor, who asked him not to raise the issue of “Russian Chrome” pollution, since it could harm the mayor of Pervouralsk, who apparently has ties to the factory. Here is how the factory itself describes [ru] what happened on May 5:
[…] неустановленные лица в количестве 5 человек пытались проникнуть на территорию станции нейтрализации промышленных стоков ЗАО «Русский хром 1915». При себе имели бутыли, наполненные неизвестной жидкостью.
[…] unknown parties, numbering 5 people, tried to gain access to the territory of the industrial wastewater neutralization station of “Russian Chrome 1915.” They had with them bottles filled with an unknown liquid.
Chernogubov's troubles did not end with this, however. On May 9, a few days after he caused the stir and reported the incident of pollution to the local police [ru], Chernogubov noticed on a stroll with his wife that at least four men had him under surveillance. (Oddly, he identifies one as an operative from the local chapter of “City Without Drugs,” Evgeniy Roizman's anti-drug advocacy group based in Yekaterinburg.) Chernogubov approached one of these men, and asked why they were following him. What happened next [ru] is chilling:
В ответ он нанёс мне удар в лицо, затем появились ещё двое, которые подбежав заломали мне руки. В это время первый, […] начал наносить целенаправленные удары мне в голову. Когда я вырвался и нанёс ему удар, меня повалили и стали бить ногами те двое, которые держали мне руки. […] На очередную попытку встать один из нападавших достал пистолет и ударил мне рукоятью в голову. Я временно потерял сознание. […] По итогу я имею разбитую голову, зашитую двумя швами и выбитые верхние передние зубы.
In response, he hit me in the face, then two more ran up and twisted my arms behind my back. At the same time, the first one […] started delivering direct blows to my head. When I managed to evade their grasp and hit him, the two that were holding me forced me to the ground and started kicking me. […] When I tried to get up again, one of the assailants took out a gun and hit me in the head with the grip. I briefly lost consciousness. […] As a result I have a busted head, with two stitches, and my upper front teeth are knocked out.
Chernogubov in the hospital, post assault. YouTube screenshot. May 23, 2013.
When local police arrived in response to the fighting, one of the assailants showed them a police ID, Chernogubov says, and the three men were not detained. Chernogubov is certain that his attack was in retaliation for his reporting on “Russian Chrome.” If so, however, the cat is already out of the bag. On May 10, Greenpeace Russia activists collected their own samples from the river, and found [ru] that the chrome content in the water was almost 100 times above the “maximum permissible concentration.” Of course, this fact does not on its own guarantee any sort of result. This is not the first time that officials have cited “Russian Chrome” for pollution [ru], but it continues to operate and pollute with relative impunity. Maybe the assault on Chernogubov will make a difference in terms of inciting public outrage, and maybe someone will get punished as a result. Even in this best case scenario, though, it's hard to see Chernogubov's story as anything but a hollow victory for Russian bloggers and activists.

author: Andrey Tselikov


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Tunisia: FEMEN Activist Faces Possession of Pepper Spray Charge · Global Voices
Afef Abrougui

Tunisian FEMEN activist, known by the pseudonym Amina Tyler, 19, is set to appear before a court on May 30, to face a charge of possessing pepper spray. Amina made local and international news headlines last March, when she posted topless pictures of herself on Facebook.
On May 19, Amina headed to Kairouan, 184km from the capital Tunis, to protest Ansar al-Sharia's [a radical Islamist group demanding the implementation of Islamic law in Tunisia] vows to hold their annual congress there. The congress did not take place as security forces enforced a government ban on the gathering which it described as “threatening to security and public order”. However, Amina staged her protest and graffitied the word FEMEN on a cemetery wall near the historical Mosque of Uqba. Security forces then interfered and escorted Amina to a police van, when outraged local residents shouted “Dégage” [leave] at her.
Unlike what was reported in a number of media outlets, Amina is not facing any “indecency” charges. She could, however, spend up to to six months in prison for the non-authorized possession of pepper spray. Award-winning blog Nawaat also reported that the young woman has so far not been charged with “tomb desecration”, a charge which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison in accordance to the Tunisian Penal Code.
Tunis-based French journalist Perrine Massy reports [fr]:
Amina sera jugée le 30 mai pour détention sans autorisation d’une bombe de gaz paralysant. L’objet, selon l’un de ses avocats, Me Souheib Bahri, a été retrouvé dans le sac à dos de la jeune fille, sans que l’on puisse savoir si elle comptait l’utiliser comme une arme ou pour se défendre…
Quant à une éventuelle « profanation de tombeaux », elle est simplement mentionnée dans le procès verbal, mais n’a pas été prise en considération par le procureur général et ne fait (pour l’instant) pas l’objet de poursuites judiciaires.
Enfin, contrairement à ce qu’on a pu lire parfois, nulle part il n’est fait mention ni d’une atteinte à la pudeur ni d’une détention d’arme blanche par Amina.
Amina will face trial on May 30 over the non-authorized possession of paralyzing spray. According to one of her lawyers Mr. Souheib Bahri, the spray was found in the young woman's backpack. We have not been able to verify if she was planning to use it for self defense purposes or not.
The possible “tomb desecration” charge was only mentioned in the statement of the facts, but has not been taken into consideration by the general prosecutor and is not the subject of prosecution (for the time being).
Finally, contrary to some [news] reports, Amina does not face any “indecency” or possession of a cold weapon charges.
Nawaat also obtained footage (with English subtitles) featuring an interview with Amina and her protest action in Kairouan on May 19.

author: Afef Abrougui