News Promo: May 2011 Archives
Friday May 27, 2011
Montebaducco, Italy...what you don't know about donkey milk
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Donkeys roam the stables at Montebaducco Farm, in Italy (Photo/Emma Wallis) |
Land of milkin' donkeys
Here's one of those "who knew?" stories that we like on Dispatches. From the Italian countryside, here's Emma Wallis in Montebaducco.
And besides drinking the stuff, the ancients used to prescribe donkey milk for snakebite and nosebleeds.
Did they know something we've all but forgotten?
Categories: News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
Wednesday May 25, 2011
Kampala...words of hope from a gay bar
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Page from a Kampala newspaper in April, discussing the proposed anti-gay bill (Photo/Dennis Porter) |
In the craven world of homophobia, there is gay-bashing, and then there's Uganda.
It came breathtakingly close this month to becoming just the eighth country in the world to legalize gay executions.
Recently, parliament adjourned without considering a bill to impose the death sentence on homosexuals with HIV, or convicted of same-sex rape. But there is a chance it'll be re-introduced as soon as next month.
And the atmosphere it's fostered in Uganda over the past two years is chilling.
One newspaper even published pictures of men it claimed were gay, and the headline said "Hang Them!" Sometime later, an activist was found beaten to death.
And for now, it's still illegal to be gay in Uganda. And more than a little frightening in the one place they dare to gather, as we heard from Dennis Porter in Kampala.
Listen now to Dennis' 
View from Here.
And the names of some people interviewed in that piece were changed at their request for their own security.
Categories: Africa, News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
Thursday May 12, 2011
Ivory Coast... refugees look for hope in Liberia
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David starts a fire to clear enough land to grow food for his family in Liberia after they fled Ivory Coast. Photo/Bonnie Allen |
Ivorian spirit trumps setbacks
Thousands of Ivorians have fled post- election chaos.
Many crossed to refugee camps in nearby Liberia.
That's where reporter Bonnie Allen met a farmer whose spirit in the face of tall odds made her break one of her own long-held rules.
Listen now to Bonnie's View from Here.
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Categories: News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
Wednesday May 4, 2011
Glasgow...Rangers/Celtic matches - no hate songs here!
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Confrontation between fans of Glasgow's Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been ugly for more than a century. It takes hundreds of cops to keep them apart, and enforce the new ban on anti-Catholic songs -- such as No Pope Of Rome and The Famine Song.
Maria Bakkalapulo, at the match in Rangers Stadium
Categories: Europe, News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
Monday May 2, 2011
War brides return to Britain on QM2
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British Consul-General Sir Alan Collins meets with Second World War British war brides and families travelling to the UK aboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2,
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65 years after almost 50,000 British war brides came to Canada -- some are going back on a Queen Mary 2 cruise that lands this week.
CBC's David Common saw them off from New York -- and heard their memories of the trip over, on the original Queen Mary.
Categories: Americas, News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
- October 2011
- Thu., 13 – Bailing out the Greeks' devalued psyche
- Fri., 7 – 5 convicted in Argentina torture/murder
- September 2011
- Thu., 15 – Peace and death on Tripoli Street
- Thu., 8 – Asian carp approach Great Lakes
- Fri., 2 – Adrienne Arsenault on terrorism's future
- August 2011
- Fri., 26 – Berlin's anti-Nazi cleaning lady
- Thu., 18 – Sudan's Machine Gun Preacher
- Tue., 16 – Urumqi, China's underground 6 City
- Fri., 12 – The Redemption Of General Butt Naked
- Wed., 10 – For Haitian women, credit buys confidence
- Mon., 1 – U.S. Ramadan Road Trip
- July 2011
- Fri., 22 – From Yunnan: golf in the new China
- Wed., 13 – Nothing but mammals, baby...
- Mon., 11 – This Is Not America
- June 2011
- Wed., 29 – Guca, Serbia: brass bands and nationalism
- Fri., 17 – A Space Shuttle, a premier, and an ocean
- Mon., 13 – Jerusalem...covering the never-ending story
- May 2011
- Wed., 25 – Kampala...words of hope from a gay bar
- Mon., 2 – War brides return to Britain on QM2
- April 2011
- Tue., 19 – Kampala...home of Gadhafi's fan club?
- Sat., 16 – Cairo...security file free-for-all
- Fri., 15 – Kampala...home of the Gadhafi Fan Club!
- Thu., 14 – Tokyo...in the shadow of Fukushima
- Mon., 11 – Dakar's wrestling sandbox millionaires
- Mon., 4 – Jordan's protests run deep
- March 2011
- Thu., 31 – Grand Forks, ND: misinformation on the menu
- Tue., 22 – The screwy Saudi security syndrome
- Thu., 17 – Kabul... Ormiston on Afghanistanization
- Mon., 14 – Addis Ababa...renting the news of revolution
- Fri., 11 – Margaret Evans' Mideast overview
- Thu., 10 – China rolls back reforms
- Wed., 2 – Tunisians demand democracy now!
- February 2011
- Mon., 28 – Kabul's curbside cops
- Wed., 23 – Urumqi, China..underground music here
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