Doctors WIthout Borders

"Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe..."(continue reading) There are great people in this world.

Roberto Bolaño - plagiarism - the easy way to become a writer

This was the book I found at my first visit at Words Without Borders: Roberto Bolaño, "The Many Masks of Max Mirebelais" "Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of American writers who flirted with or espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition. The novel is composed of short biographies, including descriptions of the writers' works. All of the writers are imaginary, although they are all carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds. Authors from twelve different countries are included." Read Roberto Bolaño text here. "With the passage of time he became expert in the art of breaking down the work of another poet in order to make it his own"

Words Without Borders

The project Words Without Borders — The online magazine for international literature This is a great initiative not only for literature but for exchanging cultural ideas. You can search for your favorite writer and end up interested in another one that you have never heard about which is one of the most amazing aspects of the project. There are book reviews and informations about writers and the countries they live. They have already done a lot since 2007 and are planning to do more: adding more features, events, writers, criticism, biographical and historical data. It's a great way to make literature alive and not that boring class one has to attend reading books that has no interest other than taking notes to please others.

"Our ultimate aim is to introduce exciting international writing to the general public — travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers — by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world. In the richness of cultural information we present, we hope to help foster a “globalization” of cultural engagement and exchange, one that allows many voices in many languages to prosper."

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Reporters Without Borders - Cybermanifestation to free journalists and denounce censorship at Internet

Click at the image to join the online protest. It's a beautiful experience they designed there to protect freedom of speech and to try to free cyber-dissidents: "At least 62 cyber-dissidents, Internet users and online journalists are currently imprisoned worldwide." . "Many different methods are used by governments to censor the Internet, including repressive legislation, monitoring Internet cafés and controlling ISPs. To denounce cyber-censorship and to demand more online freedom, Reporters Without Borders is calling on people to participate in online protests in nine countries that are internet enemies." I usually sign as much petitions I can of Reporters Without Borders. For those who are in US there's this petition asking to bring to justice for the responsibles of the murder of the Post Newspaper Chauncey Bailey.

Update March, 2010:

The links of this post does not exist anymore or leads to other pages and are not related to what is at this post.

I don't know what is happening with Reporters Without Borders and the causes that they are approaching are the same that you can see at the mainstream media.

That is a shame.