15.5MB 128kbps mono 17 minutes

An extraordinary interview with David Rovics, musician, songwriter, activist and world traveller. He brought a world of experience from his travels and his activism to Lismore Sunday August 9 with a strong performance from heart and head. A local audience was enthused and informed with his commitment, and an honest well worked performance.

David's current Australian tour (he has been doing gigs nightly over the last fortnight, and will be performing in various venues in Sydney next week) has been in support of the Palestinian people. In this frank interview with community radio he refers to some of his experiences in Palestine and Israel, as well as the situation of music and musicians in how change may occur.

3Mb mono 56kbps 7:35mins

2NimFM community radio managed to catch David Rovics for a phone interview from a coffee shop in Melbourne in the middle of his intensive tour of Australia in support of the people of Palestine. David is coming to Lismore Sunday night August 9 to perform at the Winsome Hotel with other artists. Details of his tour, and his career as a committed singer of social protest can be found on his website; http://www.davidrovics.com/
Community Radio 2NimFM will be broadcasting another, longer interview with some examples of his music, early next week.

24mins, 5.4MB, 2008-09-09

Raine talks with Jenny Dowell, who is running for mayor.

52mins, 12MB

The Woodstock connection are still there (+ Vernon turns up too), blabbing on about the Aquarius 08 Festival, & eventually take over the station from poor Lynne. Talk about sponteneity!

30mins, 7MB

It's Aquarius Festival 2008 in Nimbin, & Nathan & Shelley from Woodstock turn up to 'shoot the breeze' with NimFM's Lynne

58 mins, 13.2MB

Aboriginal activist, elder, & artist, Vincent Forrester, talks about effects of the Fed Gov't intervention in Northern Territory's aboriginal communities.

Vincent comes from Mutijulu Community in NT, & was visiting Nimbin & came in to NimFM to talk with Lynne Oldfield.

Interview with Aboriginal custodian Lewis Walker about a new video project. The significance of this seems gone unnoticed by the main-scream media. The video will be produced by Mark Jago, 'Spiritwind' and others in Nimbin as part of the local emerging film industry - stay tuned.

music: www.myspace.com /radicalson with "Black Stone" and "Wicked"

length: 20:11 mins 128 kbps stereo 18.2 MB

Interview with Marie and Di about the 1982 event on Mt. Nardi saving pristine wilderness and old growth rainforest from logging. The Nightcap area is near Nimbin and some oldtimers were gathering all this week for a celebration.
Further info at: http://www.nightcapforestfestival.com
music excerpts from Earth Reggae 'dub this'

length: 17 mins 128 kbps stereo 15.5 MB

Interview with David Hallet, co-ordinator of the School Of Arts in Nimbin. David describes the present exhibition, and also talks about the 103 year history of the 'Town Hall'.

length: 9:18 mins 128 kbps stereo 8.6 MB

Interview with Mick, lecturer [ retired ] of Aboriginal Studies at Southern Cross University Lismore

The Howard Government has recently wound the 'clock back' in its indigenous policies. Both major parties are in agreement of the recently introduced policies affecting indigenous Australians.
Many acts, actions, and media propaganda has been expended to open the gates for the rush of mostly mining interests to 'grab' land off the indigenous owners. Mick has worked many years on these issues, and has a great deal to tell.
music: 'Armageddon' by Radical Son
http://www.myspace.com/radcalson

length: 29:34 min 128 kbps stereo 27 MB

Brendan speaks about community radio 2 NCR Lismore

length: 5:41 mins 128 Kbps stereo 5.2 MB

interview with Hip Hop artist Duke Reid

http://www.myspace.com/duke007music 

length: 9:09 mins 160 kbps stereo 10.4 MB

32Mb 70 mins 64kbps mono Benny speaks with environmental activist Sherwood Martinelli on the tactics 'Woody' has used in his long, ongoing struggle against the corporate power utilities. The dangers of privatising the public utility of power, the nuclear industry and its absurdities, and ways and means of fighting the corporate state and its contradictions.

9.25 Mb. 64kbps 20 mins 13 secs.
Dave Riley from Ratbag Radio, LeftCast, VenSol, and other podcast networks drops in to the 2NimFM studios and chats with Martin. The media grid is sizzling with news of Johnny Howard's massive interventions into Aboriginal communities. Dave is plugged in to the Murri Queensland Aboriginal experience. This experience puts Little Johnny's exercise into  perspective. Just another nasty display of defensive white muscle. The Hurley case gets kneed where it deserves to collect a kneeing, and we learn why Sam Watson deserves to be heard ahead of some other aboriginals. Maybe Uluru should be closed to tourists?

5.5 Mb 5mins 45 secs mono 128 kbps

Terri Keko'olani from Hawaii speaks at the Peace Convergence protesting the Shoalwater joint US Australian military exercises. Terri describes similar unwelcome military interventions in her home of Hawaii, what it means, and how the people resist. An inspiring message of solidarity.

5Mb 22 mins 32kbps

Adrienne interviews Peace activist Gareth Smith who talks with authority and experience on the dangers of increasing militarisation and war games in Australia.

5.2Mb. 23 mins 32 kbps

Jim McIlroy is touring Australia speaking of his experiences of the year he spent in Venezuela with his partner Coral Winter. He talks with Warwick Fry of community radio 2Nim FM of the grass roots basis of President Hugo Chavez 'socialism for the 21st century', based on visits to community organisations, workers organisations, hundreds of thousands of cooperatives and 'misiones', and of course, community radio and other media.

9.8Mb. 10 mins. 128kbps mono
Lynne interviews Vincent Forrester, an elder of Mutitjulu Community at the base of Uluru. He talks about the events of the last week being a Trojan horse designed to take landrights back from aboriginals in the Territory, where racist policies preclude aborigines from employment and the right to manage their own affairs.

Omega speaks to Bob and Jack from the protest via talkback.

recorded Friday, 22nd June 07 at Nim Fm studios.

length: 5:30 min 128 kbps mono 5.1 MB

15.2Mb. 128kbps mono 16mins. 38 secs.
Saturday June 23, a week before the parliamentary elections in Timor Leste, the Prime Minister of Timor Leste, Estanislau Da Silva, pauses in his election campaign in Bacau to speak with Marie Cameron of Nimbin Community Radio 2NimFM. Sounding confident of the outcomes he explains the differences in Fretilin's policies to those of the opposition parties, the problems that have confronted Fretilin, and the aspirations of the Timorese people. Da Silva lived as an exile in Australia because of the Indonesian invasion in the 1970s, and was once questioned by the Northern Territory Police for his role in maintaining a clandestine radio transmitter in Australia which was the main means of contact with the Fretilin forces fighting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

10.8Mb. 128 kbps mono 12 mins.
11.00 am Saturday June 23
Doug Manning, on the line to Nimbin community radio station 2NimFM with presenter Marie Cameron. Doug provided some of the transport for protesters and is staying on site in the thick of things, braving bad weather, bad roads, and bad communications. Latest news on the 63 year old grandmother who evaded capture for three days in the military training area has been found, Nimbinite Benny Zable is featuring in a peace concert set to take place on the afternoon of Saturday June 23. More news from people on the spot.

6.6Mb. 56kbps 16 mins 28 secs

Lynne gets a call from media organiser Treena from the Rockhampton watchouse where 5 protesters are released on bail after being found 'trespassing' on the bush reserve area where joint Australian US military manouevres are being held. But the exercises may still be held up by the first team of 7 protesters who are yet to be found. Exclusive to Nimbin community radio 2NimFM.

6.4 Mb 128 Kbps mono 7 mins.

Sahe Da Silva, representative of the Fretilin party in NSW has been in East Timor for the last 4 months as a media advisor and campaign organiser for the Fretilin party in the three election campaigns of this year. The last campaign is for the general legislative elections due to take place on June 30. Sahe speaks with Nimbin community radio 2NimFM about the economic policies of the opposition parties and the economic program developed by Fretilin. He speaks about what really went on at the shooting death at a campaign rally in mid June.

4 Mb. 160 kbps mono. 4 mins.
Jim Dunn, former diplomat and Consul to East Timor, researcher and consultant to the UN, the government of Timor Leste, government officials of TL, advisor to high profile public figures in TL politics, looks back and expresses his heartfelt opinion of the true role of the "Truth and Friendship Commission", set up to establish the true role of the Indonesian military in the gross human rights violations in Timor Leste. How does this relate to the current election campaign?

9.2 Mb. Mono 128kbs  10 mins.
Paul Cleary, author of a book about  the Timor Gap treaty betwen the governenment of Australia and that of East Timor. Following; a review of the  book from Eureka Street:

"On the Timor Sea, Alkatiri was a dogged and formidable foe for the Australians and for his trouble, he earned some extraordinarily hostile treatment. Cleary says the Australian government so disliked him that when the treaty was finally ready in 2006, Australia suggested that the foreign ministers of each country sign the deal, in the presence of their prime ministers, in order to avoid having Alkatiri sign it with Howard

This final agreement — the Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea — was a success for Timor, in that it was able to claw back a better share of resources. Timor’s resource share rose from 22 per cent to 60 per cent and revenue increased from 8.4 billion dollars to 24 billion dollars over the lifetime of the resources.

But from the disputed BCL fields, Timor gained nothing. These are the same fields from which Australia, since 1999, had been reaping $1 million per day."

Paul Cleary speaks with 2NimFM about the economic policies of the competing parties in the current Timor - Leste ( Timor of the East ) elections, coming up  this 30 of June.

38Mb. 128kbps. mono 41mins. 45 secs.
Omega, Adrienne, and Gail prepare for their trip to the Shoalwater Peace Convergence with an exclusive interview with Dr. Zohl de Ishtar,  from the ACPACS (the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies) Nobel Peace prize nominee, author of "Daughters of the Pacific" and  "Pacific Women Speak out for Independence and de-Nuclearisation". She highlights some of the devastating social, health and environmental consequences of US military activities in Asia and the Pacific region (particularly on Guam and the Marshall Islands), and Australia's integration into the US war machine. A warning of the inevitable effects of the joint Australia/US military exercises taking place at Shoalwater this month.

6.1 mb. 27 mins 32kbps   June 2  2007

Omega will be leading the Nimbin community radio 2NimFM media team next week to the massive Peace Convergence action at Shoalwater Bay to bring regular reports and interviews to 2NimFM for free-to-air broadcast and for podcast. Watch this spot. Exclusive podcast feeds can also be found at http://del.icio.us/nimbinradio/FreePressRadio 

Omega's Free Press Media.  Exclusive interview with Shoalwater activist Steve Bishopric from the Shoalwater Bay Wilderness Awareness Group about the Peace Convergence in the Shoalwater region between  the 17th and 24th of June 2007. Steve talks about the importance of opposing Operation Talisman Sabre (TS07) which is the largest military exercise in Australia's peacetime history with over 20,000  US military and 7,500 Australian military personnel.  Steve's mission is to bring awareness of the ramifications for Australia and the world of these dangerous war games at Shoalwater Bay and other sites in Australia and Guam in the Pacific.

The interview features Adrienne from Nimbin community radio's "Stir the Pot", and TZU performing "Recoil".

4.6Mb. Mono 32 kbps. 16mins.
Stuart Monkton, Latin American specialist with Greenleft Weekly speaks with Warwick Fry of community radio 2NimFM about the latest attempts to destabilise the elected Venezuelan government. On May 27, the 20-year concession to broadcast over the state-owned Channel 2 airwave, which had been granted to multi-millionaire Marcel Granier’s RCTV, expired. The Chavez government made the decision, in accordance with laws established by a pre-Chavez government, not to renew RCTV’s concession, but instead to use the channel to establish a new public TV station, Venezuelan Social Television (TVes). Opposition forces organised protest demonstrations which were widely reported throughout the western media. No mention was  made of the pro-Chavez demonstrations which brought out nearly ten times more people, applauding the government action.

Graham Dunstan from Cyanide Watch talks about Indigenous issues, water demands of the mining industry on a drought continent, and much more. This is not an academic re-iteration of old yarns, it is rather a shocking presentation to alarm your neighbourhood. The program concludes with David Hallet's 'self excplanatory poem', a live recording from last year.

credits: www.peacebus.com
Gail provided the audio from last year's Nimbin poetry cup.

length: 24 min 128 kbps stereo 22 MB

6.1 mb. 27 mins 32kbps   June 2  2007

Omega's Free Press Media.  Exclusive interview with Shoalwater activist Steve Bishopric from the Shoalwater Bay Wilderness Awareness Group about the Peace Convergence in the Shoalwater region between  the 17th and 24th of June 2007. Steve talks about the importance of opposing Operation Talisman Sabre (TS07) which is the largest military exercise in Australia's peacetime history with over 20,000  US military and 7,500 Australian military personnel.  Steve's mission is to bring awareness of the ramifications for Australia and the world of these dangerous war games at Shoalwater Bay and other sites in Australia and Guam in the Pacific.

The interview features Adrienne from Nimbin community radio's "Stir the Pot", and TZU performing "Recoil".

John and Jack talk about Nimbin's Aboriginal Art Camp

length: 5:49 min 128 kbps stereo 5.3 MB

 

9.73Mb. 10 mins 30 secs.

Peter Murphy of the SEARCH foundation (Human Rights research and active aid projects) provides deep background on the turmoil of the East Timorese elections. Recorded just before the second round of East Timor's Presidential elections, his most interesting analyses cover the prospects for East Timor's majority Fretilin party in the Legislative (Parliamentary) elections in June.

Andy visits Scan Dot Org with chat and music performed in the studio.

length: 22:54 min 32 kb/s mono 5.3 MB

http://www.andywarstar.com/

15.7Mb 128kbps mono. 17 mins. 11

At a solidarity function in Canberra, Saturday April 10 Lisa MacDonald talks about the last Australian brigade to Venezuela. Part of the brigade's agenda was to observe the Presidential elections last December.  Lisa describes the fraud-proofed voting system developed by the Venezuelans, making one wonder why it has not been adopted universally. Then she describes her experience of the now famous "Barrio 23 de Enero", a suburban neighbourhood that has become a self managing community after running the police out  of town. Lisa tells of how they cope with social problems without police intervention.

Live harp  music by David, and various musicians (and audience participation) in a jam at the Australia Cuba Friendship Society Annual consultation in Canberra last weekend.

Wolfgang interviews Tania Summerell and Graeme Batterbury about their exhibtion in the Nimbin Regional Art Gallery.

Bharat Anahata - India from the heart, shows paintings and photographs. The exhibition supports the empowerment of women in rural Bihar State India.

length: 58 min mono 32 kb/s 13 MB

10 mins. 19 Mb. 256kbps
East Timor  - the real story
Sahe da Silva is the official spokesperson for Timor Leste's governing Fretilin Party in NSW Australia. He was motivated to work with Fretilin after the misrepresentation of that party and its top officials in the Australian Press, after the riots and forced resignation of the Prime Minister in the middle of last year.  Community Radio station 2NimFM caught him on the phone just before he left for East Timor, and only a few hours after the news of the trial and sentencing of Rogerio Lobato broke. Sahe deals with some of the myths and misconceptions about East Timor in the Australian media.

12 mins. 17.2Mb.160 kbps mono.
Alkatiri speaks out. March 10 2007
Mari Alkatiri, General Secretary to East Timor's governing Fretilin Party, and former Prime Minister, grants an exclusive interview to community radio station 2NimFM. Mari Alkatiri says he is pursuing legal action against the Australian ABC Four Corners program for the defamatory story that he was 'arming death squads', and which led to pressures which forced his resignation as Prime minister last year. He will also be providing evidence of two attempted coups against him, and foreign involvement in these attempts. He talks about his confidence in the Fretilin party's ability to win the upcoming elections, his willingness to stand for Prime Minister, if requested, and the success of his administration in securing the best possible outcome for East Timor to exploit its oil resources, and how the East Timorese economy is about to take off.

(Unfortunately there were some problems with setting the correct sound levels for recording an international phone call, so the sound quality leaves something to be desired. The interview can be heard well enough to be transcribed, however).

9mins. 9.07Mb. 128kbps

Cameron Greg, Sydney Indymedia moderator visits Nimbin and lobs into Community Radio station 2NimFM to explain to our listeners just what Indymedia is all about. Some fascinating stories of the historical origins of the world wide Indymedia network, providing independent non hierarchical news that fuels a host of movements engaged in resistance, protest and struggle against the dominance of corporate institutions  - including of course, the media.

In the digital backwater of Nimbin people don't know much about the possibilities of the internet. This interview is mainly for "digital invaders", only recently being "connected".

length: 6:26 min 128 kb/s stereo 5.9 MB

13 Mb. 18 Minutes 28 seconds 96 kbps stereo

Depending on how one defines a coup, Fiji last Tuesday had its
fifth or sixth coup (depending on what you call a coup), this time led by Fiji's military commander,Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
But in Fiji, things are never quite what they seem.
Specialist in Pacific media and journalism and their contexts, Dr
Mark Hayes, is a very close observer of the Pacific Region and Fiji,
as well as a frequent traveller Out There. Back in late April, 2006, Mark predicted the outcome of the 2006 Fiji election, a return of the government led by now ousted Prime Minister, Laisenea Qarase  who was himself installed as Interim  Prime Minister by Commodore Bainimarama in the middle of 2000.

Dr Hayes does a weekly Pacific News Wrap - 'Mo oe mai i le Pasifika (For you, from the Pacific)' - on Mondays for the subscriber-only alert and digest service, The Daily Briefing. Last week, he did daily UpDates on the developing Fiji crisis, drawing on his extensive sources and contacts.

Dr Hayes never goes to the resorts in Fiji. He plunges into Suva and surrounds, talks with and, more importantly, listens to, his array of well placed and astute local observers, and with  a lot of
historical, anthropological, political, and sociological reading,
stirs the mix, and tries to make accurate sense of it all.

Background bridging music:

"Night Marchers"  by Sudden Rush
"Jamoa Jam"          by Black Rose

25.2Mb. 96Kbps, 30 minutes Latin Radical, Nov. 18
East Timor  - the struggle continues. MP3 version of Peter Murphy's outline of the shadowy forces destabilising East Timor, (see below) with an interview Celine (who spent 15 months in East Timor) on how Timorese women are trying to deal with the distortions imposed on East Timorese society in a post conflict setting.

Peter Murphy, director of the SEARCH Foundation, talks about the destabilisation of East Timor. This deliberate destabilisation has finally been recognised by the Fretilin Central Committee which issued a report and a press release to that effect on November18, 2006.

"A pattern of deliberate destabilisation is emerging from the ongoing violence in Timor Leste over the past 4 to 5 years. What are the dynamics of this instability, and who are the shadowy figures behind it? What is Australia's true role? Peter Murphy of the SEARCH foundation gives a careful, sober analysis, informed with the expertise of experience as a worker for Timorese independence extending back to the Indonesian invasion in 1975 Part of his involvement was a role in setting up  the clandestine transmitter  just outside  Darwin in 1976  which enabled international supporters to maintain a communications link with Fretilin guerillas inside East Timor, for several years. Peter talks about the Fretilin Party, whose supporters have been the main target for the recent violence, and the prospects of the Fretilin for next year's elections."

25 Mb mp3 96kbps 36 minutes. Latin Radical 4-pak round up.
Week ending November 11
Stuart Monkton, journalist with Greenleft Weekly talks about the implications for Australia as virtually the only country, after the US and Israel, to vote against lifting the 30 year old economic blockade against Cuba, for the first time.

Michael Fox, a US journalist living in Venezuela delivers his usual weekly report of the main issues over the last week, in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez' chances against the US backed opposition leader, Rosales in the upcoming elections. Tension builds.

Coral Winter, Australian journalist in Venezuela describes her personal meeting with controversial and popular president, Hugo Chavez, and the prospects for his reelection in the coming month. She issues a personal invitation for him to visit Australia.

Roberto Jorquera, another Australian in Venezuela gives a report from on the ground.

5.3 Mb. 32 kbps. 22 mins. mono .wma
A pattern of deliberate destabilisation is emerging from the ongoing violence in Timor Leste over the past 4 to 5 years. What are the dynamics of this instability, and who are the shadowy figures behind it? What is Australia's true role? Peter Murphy of the SEARCH foundation gives a careful, sober analysis, informed with the expertise of experience as a worker for Timorese independence extending back to the Indonesian invasion in 1975 Part of his involvement was a role in setting up  the clandestine transmitter  just outside  Darwin in 1976  which enabled international supporters to maintain a communications link with Fretilin guerillas inside East Timor, for several years. Peter talks about the Fretilin Party, whose supporters have been the main target for the recent violence, and the prospects of the Fretilin for next year's elections.

Desmond talks about his recent visit to Thailand
Featuring: Desmond, Graham, Martin
Recorded in Nimbin 2006-10-10
Length: 29:25 mins. 128 kb/s stereo 27 MB

2NimFM Latin Radical, Sunday September 3.

Lara Pullin responds to the latest update on the Death Squad killings in El Salvador. 13 more terror killings of FMLN community workers and activists in as many weeks. The conservative ARENA party minority coalition sees and hears no evil. But this is not surprising as its founder, Roberto D'Aubuisson set up the Death Squads of the 1980s and ordered the assasination of Archbishop Romero in 1980. The FMLN is calling for the UN to intervene and review the failure of the ARENA government to comply with the terms of the peace agreement negotiatied with the FMLN in 1992, atthe end of a 12 year civil war.

 26Mb. 19 minutes.
LatinRadical
An exclusive interview with James Dunn who has recently returned from East Timor. Jim was invited by the new, recently appointed East Timorese President Jose Ramos to come to East Timor as an experienced advisor and negotiator for the new East Timorese government, controlled by the Fretilin party. Jim has worked in East Timor before as a human rights observer for the United Nations, and has written a book about East Timor called "East Timor - a rough passage to Independence". Jim Dunn was the Australian Consul General in East Timor shortly before the Indonesian invasion in 1975 that curtailed its attempt to become independent.

Interviewer: Warwick Fry

D.K. talks to us about the workshop just being held in Nimbin.
credits:
www.munkimuk.com 
www.streetwarriors.com.au
abiewright2@bigpond.com.au
monkz69@yahoo.com.au
length: 8:40 mins. 128 kb/s stereo 8.2 MB

Moving South – Crocs, Gators and Global Warming - Ecology Thesis by Ian Browne - e-mail: etshamrock2@hotmail.com - recorded at Nim Fm studios 2006-03-03 - File info : 17 mins. 16.2 MB 128 kb/s stereo

10.4Mb 23 Minutes. The Petrol Wars. When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered oil at half price to the victims of Hurrican Katrina in New Orleans eyebrows were raised. When a municipal Council in Massachusetts accepted the offer to provide cheap heating oil to pensioners and underprivileged (whose subsidies had been cut) to help them through the winter, the Bush administration went ballistic. A Republican congressman has called for an investigation of CitCo - the US company which is distributing the cheap oil - while other companies, like Exxon make record profits, indulge in price fixing and anti-trust practices, and fail the 'social responsibility' obligations the big oil companies are expected to voluntarily accept. So why does CitCo come under the microscope? Lara Pullin of the Australian Venezuela Solidarity Network has a few suggestions, which seem to be in accordance with sympathetic congressman Serrano, and President Hugo Chavez himself in rare interviews with the community radio network "Democracy Now". Musical background provided by the late Ali Primera, poet songster, with his song "Dear Mr. Sam" and "The Petrol War".

17.5Mb. 38 Minutes. Friday March 3. Memorial gathering for Commandante Shafik Handel at the Venezuelan Embassy in Canberra, Australia. While only a handful of Australians would know Salvadoran activist Jorge Shafik Handel, over half a million Salvadorans turned out on the streets of San Salvador last February for a state funeral, and on Friday March 3. admirers all around the world simultaneously held gatherings to honour his memory. Shafik Handel was the central figure in the high command of the FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front), which fought a protracted guerilla war in El Salvador through most of the 1980s. After an offensive in November 1989 during which the FMLN guerillas controlled two thirds of the capital, San Salvador for almost a week, the Salvadoran government was forced to negotiate a peace with the FMLN. Shafik again, was a central influence in negotiating the peace agreement that was eventually signed in 1992, and when the FMLN entered Salvadoran elections as a political party he again provided a strong leadership role. He was expected to lead the FMLN to a victory in this year's upcoming presidential elections. To honour him at the Venezuelan Embassy in Canberra, was the Venezuelan Charge D'Affaires Nelson Davila, representatives of the Canberra Committee of the FMLN, a member of the Socialist Alliance, Mick Gentleman, MLA in the ACT Assembly, and Brian Henderson, of the Australia Cuba Friendship Society. Poetry reading by refugee Salvadoran poet, Bernardo Zamora, Celtic music by Brian Henderson.

4.7 Mb 6.mins 45 secs. 96Kbps. From the Venezuelan Embassy Part 1. Warwick Fry interviews Dr. Carolus Wimmer, recently elected to the Latin American Parliament as the representative of the Venezuelan people. We ask him the important questions - like how prepared is Venezuela for US intervention; why does the US have it in for Venezuela, and is Venezuela itself, intervening in the affairs of other countries by sending cheap oil to the poverty stricken in the US, and other Latin American and Caribbean countries.

5.4Mb 7mins. 45 secs. 96kbps Interview with Dr. Carolus Wimmer, representative to the Latin American Parliament of the Venezuelan people. Part 2. In this segment, Warwick Fry asks Dr. Wimmer how important is the Latinamerican Parliament (the "Parlatino"), what he thinks is the role of independent media, and his personal view of community radio - particularly Community Radio 2NimFM.

2.2mb 9.24mins This is Marie Cameron signing on for Nim FM podcasts. Just call me...Black Coffee Radio. Nim FM. Over the next 2 months I will be talking with artists, visitors and organisers for the Byron Bay ..(1) East Coast Blues and Roots Festival 2006 and ....the (2) Nimbin Blues Fest which runs at the same time for 2 days. A good place to start is an interview with Sally Mcpherson, the general manager for the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival. I wanted to know ....What does it take to run the 17th annual festival. Keep your ears on this podcast and up to speed with real live blues.

7.5Mb. 10mins. 18 seconds. LEE RHIANNON Greens Party MLA (State Upper House) comes to Nimbin to talk about the proposed new drug laws presented as part of both State and Federal Governments' "Mental Health" package. As an 'alternative' piece of Australia, Nimbin does not fit any political profile, and the few politicians who visit get a mixed reception. Lee, however, seems to have wowed the locals, and their responses could be surprising to some. Hear Lee Rhiannon on Drug Law Reform, Law and Order, and the Media, and the local responses.

12Mb. 26 minutes Martin Jansen interviews the winners of Nimbin's very own unique film making competition held on the Australia Day weekend. Competitors had 39 hours to script, shoot, edit, show, and be judged on, their film or video. Hear the jubilant winners describe their winning techniques and devastating ideas.

6Mb. 11mins. 16 secs. Bundjalung people speak about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a few days before January 26. Interviewed by Martin Jansen.

6.5Mb. 15 Minutes. The Euthanasia debate. --------------------------------------------- Marie Cameron interviews some of the key players in the Euthanasia debate. An old interview, but one that is very relevant to the fundamentalist fuelled debate running currently. The Howard government is discussing legislation to make it illegal to discuss euthanasia on the internet or over the phone.

12 Mb Why the US can't assasinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias. Could it be that he is (gasp! shock! horror! awe! ) Popular ...! ? First part of an interview with an Australian woman who spent a month in, what she proudly calls "revolutionary Venezuela".

5mb. 10 mins. An exclusive interview with the Venezuelan representative to Australia, October 30 2005. Nelson Davila talks to Warwick Fry about the changes that controversial President Hugo Chavez has wrought. Most of this is in Spanish, but an English translation should come soon. Nelson responds to questions about whether Hugo Chavez should be seen as a demagogue (as represented in the US media), what is the response to calls to assassinate Hugo Chavez by senior US official Pat Robertson ("there are 23 million Hugo Chavez - if they kill him, they will have to kill another 23 million Venezuelans ... ") and what difference has his election made ("from one of the highest rates of illiteracy, in 5 years we have achieved one of the *highest* literacy rates in Latin America). Time to learn why social welfare programs work. Venezuela has experienced a 10% plus growth rate as a response to the Chavez' governments diversion of oil money into social programs.

Warwick's World Web crawl. Sunday July 10 edition. 12-1pm 13 minutes. 13 Megabytes. Exclusive interview with Gareth Smith. Marie Cameron interviews anti-nuclear, anti-war activist Gareth Smith, already reknowned for his 'citizens' arrests' of Australian politicians and for painting the word "Shame" on Australia's Parliament House, for its policy of appeasement in the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Gareth presents a well-researched view of how the US-Australia alliance is promoting the US occupation by stealth, of outer space while the world's attention is focussed on the War in Iraq. Nuclear war in space? It's already happening, thanks to Australian researchers passing on the plans for the hypersonic SCRAM jet to the US for development as an unstoppable weapons delivery system. This is not science fiction.

2NimFM "Webcrawl with Warwick" 12-2 Sunday. June 26 Edition. 19 minutes. 4.4 Mb. Marie Cameron scores a lucky interview with Cairan O'Reilly during his brief visit to Nimbin while visiting his family in Australia. Cairann has to reappear before the Irish legal system in October for his role in causing 2.5 million dollars worth of damage to a B52 bomber en route to Iraq at Shannon airbase. Inspiring words from a strong activist. Musical fills and background from the band "Outback" ('Dance the Devil Away').

May 1 Part 2. Mark, from Amsterdam continues a live-to-air broadcast of his internet interview with Nimbin community radio station 2NimFM. Mark tells us more about podcasting and why he hopes it won't be taken over by commercial interests. Paris Hilton just doesn't quite hack it as a podcaster, Mark thinks. Ian isn't quite so sure.

Edited version of the live to air internet interview with Bicycle Mark in Amsterdam broadcast on May 1 for the Nimbin MardiGrass from Nimbin community radio 2NimFM. Mark tells us about the world's first Cannabis Cafes and why Amsterdam was the first city to decriminalise cannabis.

Before his public lecture at Byron Bay in May, Professor David Suzuki grants an exclusive interview to Martin Jansen and Graeme Ferguson for Nimbin Community Radio 2NimFM. We get an overview of what different countries are doing, how they perform according to the Kyoto protocol, and why compliance*has* to be economically feasible. He ends the interview with a telling analogy of what might be in store. Listen, learn, and avoid collective brain damage.

Martin meets Professor David Suzuki on the rolling thunder Australian Eco-consciousness Tour. Professor Suzuki addressed a packed audience at Byron at the invitation of the Byron Writers' Convention on Tuesday May 24. Suzuki speaks truth to power, no punches pulled, even on the audience... ( "Hey ... you guys voted him [eco-terrorist Howard] in ... ! ) Gobal to local, and the Nimbin Youth Club. Which way are tomorrow's voters going? They've got their own agenda. An interview with Lisa Yeats, local jazz singer and some sweet samples of her art. A few vox pops from the streets of Nimbin, Martin keeps a smile on our faces with some nice satirical mixes. We get the Mandatory Dismissal mix direct from Hansard and Question Time. Then a blast from the past from the Digital Dungeons, where you can experience personally a timewarped proof that radical media has been loopy for yonks A greeting for our US cousins with a Bush goes Green expose ...

Martin does the weather in a uniquely Nimbinesque way, then takes us on a stroll around the town to meet a cross section of village society in alternative Nimbin. We meet Hip-hop Rappers and Graffiti artists from the Nimbin Youth Club. We get the lowdown on regional media with the editor of the Nimbin Goodtimes - multitasking man-of-many-hats schoolteacher and jazz musician Bob Dooley. Then on to a 'protest' meeting at the local hospital - a lacklustre affair until Martin arrives. Finally a talk with local alternative energy activist Peter Pedals who tells us what's in store with the 'peak oil' issue. Will there be life after oil? Martin wraps it up with a giggle as he goes underground to get the good dope on the Nimbin Bong Shelter project.

First Live-to-Air International Internet interview for community radio station 2NimFM. Sunday April 10 2005 Bicycle Mark from Amsterdam, and Kate 'VerbalChameleon' from New York talk with Warwick in Nimbin about Blogs, Pods, journalism and radical media in general. Edited version for Podcasting.