Blogs & Ecology

Localgd posted photos showing Guangzhou Taxi driver strike.

Back to Bangladesh posts some great pictures of the colorful Raash festival of the Manipuri indigenous people of Sylhet in Bangladesh. The festival is meant to celebrate the love of Radha and Krishna.

Nazy Kaviani writes in Iranian.com about Shirin Golestaneh's paintings. You can discover her paintings here.

Wang Ning suggested to liberate Taiwan with sexy PLA like these pictures…

“To me, a different family means people living on the edge of society. These people may have no home, no jobs. They may be doing drugs, their neighbors may hate them, and they may be banned from entering a theater because of their inappropriate looks. But within such families, love and caring relationship still reign […].”

This is how Irina Popova, a Russian photographer, describes (RUS) the subjects of her “Different Family” project, currently on exhibit in St. Petersburg - and also available online here (23 photos) and on PhotoPolygon.com portal (15 photos).

You can discover Iranian art Instructor Davar Yousefi 's paintings here.

Anguillian Don Mitchell takes a trip to his Alma Mater at Mount St. Benedict in Trinidad.

A Fe Me Page Dis Iyah posts photos of some humourous scenarios that could be “ONLY IN JAMAICA, MON!”

Olive harvesting in Albania, John Paul II monuments in Poland, a Soviet military hardware “cemetery” in Moscow, and more: Central and Eastern Europe-based bloggers share their recent travel observations and photos.

Albania

- Stepping Stones has posted photos of two elderly Albanian village women: the first one is harvesting olives in “the old-fashioned way”; the second one has her black apron filled with “tiny daisies,” which she is picking for a local company and gets paid less than $1 per kilo.

Arup at Sachalayatan introduces us to twenty talented Bangladeshi photographers from Flickr and their works here and here [bn].

Blogger Anas, shows an excerpt from the top of the front page of Al Watan Daily Syrian Newspaper, with a text saying:

“A New Dawn For Humanity, 70 Days Till Bush Leaves the White House”

It seems that many people, especially if you are outside Taiwan, found the recent protest against Chen Yinlin in Taipei confusing. Bob pointed out that in China, some incidents in the protest were interpreted as democratic violence. Such impression is probably a result of the mainstream media report on the violent scene. You may want to ask what had happened during this long day, Nov 6th? Why did so many people decide to demonstrate in the street? How did the violence happen? Let's take a closer look at and listen to these protesters.

aswing explained why protest:

“Architecture Parallax: Book Histories”, 1995-2006. Manipulates image by Alexander Pilis

About 500 students gathered peacefully in front of the Executive Yuan on 11/6 to protest against the current Parade and Assembly Law (集會遊行法). The government abusive use of the law has violated people's rights in protest in the past few days during the visit of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chair Chen Yunlin.

“Trinidad's vernacular architecture is a reflection of its patchwork history”: My Chutney Garden blogs about “the most beloved of all the local architectural styles…The Gingerbread House design with its extensive fretwork and high ceilings.”