Your roundup of the best blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Image: Namafjall ~ Mario Giambelli Gallotti

Iceland banking crisis and more
[VIDEO] Protest in Iceland today
“Protest season started again today in Iceland. People are protesting, why is the Government not helping the public in their debts. And why is the government going to pay the Icesave account,that one of the banks messed up in England and Holland. Why should the government pay the debts of private banks?”

Iceland Weather Report
MY ICELAND: The advent
“Today is the first day of …

Your roundup of the best blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Image: Camping by the Icefall. July 1965. – We are on the road to Þórsmörk waiting for the ” ferry bus” to take us there. ~ Helgi Angantýsson.

Iceland Weather Report
A rundown of the Assembly results
“I’ve been going through the results from yesterday’s National Assembly and am well and truly inspired by what I see. Granted, all the work needed to implement these things still remains, and there are not many concrete suggestions — but …

- Downtown Toronto from the top of the CN Tower

Iceland News spoke to Kara Schuster, co-chair for the 2010 INL convention in Toronto, who gave us her side of what’s to come.
Saunders: How did you get involved with the Icelandic community in Canada?
Schuster: My uncle once sent me the link to the Toronto newsletter and we didn’t really know anything was going on here. And then they had the Snorri program… it’s an exchange program where you go to Iceland for six weeks and meet quite a bit of your …

When Sirry Jonasdottir found out Icelanders were struggling to send their children to school because of the country’s financial crisis, she’d had enough.
“Parents were calling their children sick for the first days as they couldn’t afford the books or the pencils,” Jonasdottir says. “There was a single mother with three sons and she could not afford to put all of them to school. That really, really, shocked me.”
Jonasdottir, 37, and her partner, Veigar Margeirsson, 37, are two ex-pat Icelanders living in Los Angeles, California. As well as running …

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- Icelanders assemble for a National Assembly (SOURCE)

“This is the conclusion of the first discussion which started this morning in Laugardalsholl in Reykjavik. Almost 1,500 people from all parts of the country are participating. Spirits are high and participants and staff are focused on delivering good results for the country.
The participants are divided into groups working at 162 tables. Nine people are at each table and their first task …