This Week's Top News on YouTube: Egyptians voting, Clinton in Burma, and #OWS kicked out in LA and Philly
This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Egyptians go to the polls, Secretary of State Clinton goes to Burma, and Occupiers in LA and Philadelphia go away
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:
- We watched history unfold in Egypt as citizens went to the polls to elect their first post-Mubarak parliament after a week of violent clashes and protests killed dozens of people.
- We monitored US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Burma (Myanmar) to promote change and democratic freedoms on the highest level US official visit to the country in more than 50 years.
- We noted police raids on Occupy encampments in Los Angeles and Philadelphia that ended in arrests and effectively wiped out the movements' city bases.
- We witnessed enraged Iranian protesters storming the British embassy in the capital Tehran after diplomatic relations with the UK were downgraded by the Iranian parliament.
- We followed Rick Perry confusing the voting age, a Sarah Palin for president ad, and a creative promo from Jon Huntsman's daughters on the US campaign trail.
- We saw up to two million public sector employees go on a strike in the UK that closed down schools, hospitals, and transport in an effort to prevent having to pay and work more for their pensions.
- We observed the second elections to take place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the country's five year war amid reports of widespread irregularities and following violence.
- We were blown away by videos showing uprooted trees, property damage, and power outages because of extremely high winds from California to Utah.
- And finally, we marked World AIDS Day by looking at the state of the disease around the globe and hearing from world leaders and those affected.
1 comments:
Alot going on this week! AIDS day is very important I think, all we can do to raise awarness is good! I belive in a AIDS free world in 2020! Mabye a silly thought I don't know..
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