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Campaign: Free YemenPortal.net
Written by Mary on April 3, 2008 – 10:34 pm -Description of Campaign: In January of 2008, the Yemeni Ministry of Communications blocked the news aggregation site YemenPortal.net. Today, the creator of the site, Walid Al-Saqaf, along with the progressive organization Mideast Youth, launched FreeYemenPortal.org, the official site of the campaign the end the campaign on YemenPortal.net.
Digital Activism Tools: blog banners, petition
How These Tools Are Being Used: The site is asking bloggers to post Free YemenPortal.net banners on their sites. In addition, Mideast youth has posted a Free YemenPortal.net petition on their site.
Update after the jump…
Tags: yemen
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Today is Unblock Yemen Day
Written by Mary on February 15, 2008 – 9:02 pm -Tags: censorship, yemen
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Action Alert: Unblock Yemen Day
Written by Mary on February 11, 2008 – 10:59 pm -What? Unblock Yemen Day
When? Friday, February 15
Where? on your own blog
How? (1) Cease blogging for a day and instead (2) post one of the following banners on your blog
Why? To protest the blocking of the independent news site YemenPortal.net and at least seven other sites, as well as the violent intimidation of YemenPortal.net editor Walid Al-Saqaf.
Who is organizing the action? Mideast Youth
Banners:
embed code: <a href=”http://digiactive.org/2008/02/11/action-alert-unblock-yemen-day/”><img style=”width: 180px; height: 60px;” src=” http://digiactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/unblock_yemen1.gif” /></a>
embed code: <a href=”http://digiactive.org/2008/02/11/action-alert-unblock-yemen-day/”><img style=”width: 180px; height: 200px;” src=”http://digiactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/unblock_yemen2.gif” /></a>
embed code: <a href=”http://digiactive.org/2008/02/11/action-alert-unblock-yemen-day/“><img style=”width: 522px; height: 157px;” src=” http://digiactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/unblock_yemen_large.gif” /></a>
Tags: , mideastyouth, yemen
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