Current TV's Collective Journalism program has started a series of video reports on how the rest of the world views the US. In The View from Over There, people from many different countries state their views on foreign policy, the war in Iraq, the situation with Iran and mention who they would want as the future president of the USA. The video interviews are sometimes in different languages, but all of it is subtitled in English.

This video also uses footage from other shows on the US Elections 2008, but this time concentrating on the foreign perspective. This is something Global Voices and Reuters have been doing for a while now at Voices Without Votes, gathering opinions from all over the planet on the US elections. If you have any posts you would like to submit to the site, you can do it here.

Current TV's next Collective Journalism assignment will be a worldwide view on the US immigration policies.

From Current TV, Clemwilson brings us an overview of the Earthquake for anyone wishing to catch up with the with the statistics and images of what has been going on since the May 12th earthquake.

Selen Hsu in Beijing records the situation at the Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, where hundreds of children and teens are being sheltered along with teachers while they manage to get back together with their parents. As she states “everyone is looking for someone”, and many are willing to give a hand even in dire circumstances, such as adopting any of the approximately 4000 orphans that could result from this crisis.

On YouTube, California High School sophmore Calvin Tong has uploaded a video and explained his intentions to form an organization to receive donations and that he himself will travel to China this coming 25th of June to hand over the proceeds to help out orphan kids get back on their feet and into a normal life:

I am Calvin Tong, a 10th grader attending high school. I am organizing a organization called China Relief Fund. The main objective of this group is collect donations to help the victims of this quake. Our main goal is towards the young children who lost their parents and have no one to take care of them. On June 25th 2008 I will depart to China to personally go to the students that survived this disaster. The profit will be going to the children so they can attend school again and organize their lives. Part of the donations will be cash, the other part will be for their basic necessity. It ranges from food and water to sleeping bags and shelter. Please open your hearts and donate to the children who need a future. With your help they can go back to school and continue on with their lives.

And finally, a memorial event organized by the North American Guqin Association to honor the victims of the earthquake took place in Union City California, with a representation of a melancholic 200 year old song, aptly named Memories of Old Friends by Yi Guren. Here, footage of a 2005 concert of master Li Xiangting playing this moving song: