3mins, 0.7MB

2008-04-29 Tues (incomplete due to technical difficulties)

*Miranda's new mural on top of newsagent completed*.............then technical difficulties.

15mins 3.5MB

2008-04-28 Mon

*Nimbinites off to court to support locals arrested in April Fool's Day raid*...................................*Bushwalker found safe & well*........................*remembering ANZAC Day in Nimbin*...................*New computer courses coming up at Nim's CTC*

 8Mb. 96kbps mono 11 minutes.

Final day of Mardi-Grass, the Hemp Olympics, the combi-procession and the Big Parade have all happened. Now it's time for speeches, and star of the moment was Lisa Yeates, long term activist for the environment and drug law reform with a record tracking back to the 1970s. Lisa tells it like it is through word and song.

74.7 Mb. mono 96kbps 10mins

Note: poor sound quality

Lara Pullin with the most recent news updates from El Salvador. The Suchitoto 13, who demonstrated to stop the privatisation of the water resources of Lake Suchitoto (part of a strategy of North American mining companies) have finally managed to defeat terrorism charges, with the harsh penalties they entail. But they are still fighting further legal harassment, and other popular organisations, unions and grassroots communities continue to be assailed by the neo-liberal, neo-conservative ARENA government.

4.8Mb mono 96 kbps 6:46 mins

Note: Inferior sound quality

Lara Pullin with exciting news from El Salvador. Among other things, FMLN parliamentarian and activist Jorge Schafik Handal, son of the revolutionary guerilla leader Commandante Simon will be visiting Australia to invite independent observers - politicians, unionists, and human rights organisations - to come to next years election in El Salvador, which is promising to become a very dirty campaign.

11.5 Mb. 96kbps. mono 16:51 mins

Lara Pullin continuing her update on the steady increment of pressure on El Salvador from the US through the ARENA party, which is pushing the envelope of legality in repressing attempts by grass roots organisations to resist the push for ever more 'privatisation' - even to the point of using anti-terrorist laws against legitimate protest, and persecuting those who claim legal recourse against the perpetrators of new death-squad activities and homicides.

9.35 Mb. 13:45mins. mono 96kbps.

Fred takes us right down to the nitty-gritty of the tensions building in Bolivia - largely due to not very well disguised US nodding and winking to right wing crypto-fascist organisations working as a catspaw to US corporate interests.
The recent meeting of ALBA - a Latin American entity of nations finally making an attempt to break free of US hegemony  -  has announced its support for the Bolivian government. The  US is making blatant attempts to undermine the fledgeling government. But will it work this time, as it has in the past? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says no, and his voice is a visionary voice backed with oil resources that puts his vision outside and beyond the limitations and imaginative backwardness of corporate USA - and includes the real struggle against planetary climate change.

10 Mb. 11 mins mono 128 kbps.

Lara reports on the latest development on the situation in El Salvador. Tensions are growing as the divide between the major opposition party, the FMLN, and ARENA (which created the Death Squads of the 70s and 80s) present for the Presidential elections next year. And of course, as usual, the USA is playing a hegemonic role  - and, as usual on the side most people would not normally like to see in a position of supremacy.

13mins, 3.1MB

2008-04-22 Tues

*Police search the Sound Lounge today*................................*Vic, from Billen Cliffs has died*.................................*Nimbin cartoonists will have an animation course available soon*......................*& more*

2.5 MB

2008-04-22 Tues

*Police search the Sound Lounge today*................................*Vic, from Billen Cliffs has died*.................................*Nimbin cartoonists will have an animation course available soon*......................*& more*

8min46s, 2MB

2008-04-21 Mon

*Don Sharpe's colourful funeral*............................*Red Tape attacks Mardi Grass*..................................*April Fools Cops didn't give a receipt for cash they confiscated, claims a Nimbinite.*

5KB (text)

2008-04-21 Mon

*Don Sharpe's colourful funeral*............................*Red Tape attacks Mardi Grass*..................................*April Fools Cops didn't give a receipt for cash they confiscated, claims a Nimbinite.*