4.6 Mb 128kbps mono 5mins.

Shona Hawkes of the La'o Hamutuk research organisation talks from Dili with community radio about the status of the ISF (Australian troop forces) presence in Timor Leste. When first sent to Timor Leste by the Howard government they were given virtual diplomatic immunity. La'o Hamutuk has recently submitted a report to the Australian government that suggests their status should be changed to include some kind of accountability.

4m53s, 1.2MB

2008-12-16 Tues

*Extreme technical difficulties at NimFM*........................*Tuntable Falls Fair report*...........................*Swallows leave Hemp Embassy*........................*Summer Solstice Celebration @ Mingle Park on Sunday*...................*Ian's car gets a roadworthy cert.*

7m54s, 1.8MB

2008-12-15 Mon

*Rape in Nimbin* .........................*Much police anti-drug activity*

5m53s, 1.4MB

2008-12-9 Tues

*End of Chopper raids*...............................*More on the missing chairs at the Pizza Shop*

4m54s, 1.2MB

2008-12-8 Mon

*What's happened to the outdoor seats at the Pizza Shop?*...................*Happy Birthday to Donna Marie Swan*

with (L -R): Ron, Rick

 

(51 mins, 11.5MB)

 

Self Love, an introduction… a world first  –  simply, a beautiful original presentation of discovery showing how we can get back to who we were meant to be: healed, whole and infinitely free…  a tribute to his spiritual teacher Greyfeather by Ron Stevens  –  with Rick Waddy as presenter of the late evening’s show.

9m30s, 2.2MB

2008-12-02 Tues

*Is 'Operation Mickey' going to recommence from the 6th????*...................*new Community Broadcasters Code of Practice out now*.........................*Snake Story*

6m31s, 1.5MB

2008-12-01 Mon

*Community Centre now owned by Community*

13.6 Mb 128 kbps mono 13:52mins

Jim Dunn was one of the observers of the 1999 plebiscite in Timor Leste when the Indonesian military unleashed a wave of devastation and murder against the Timorese people. Those responsible have still not been brought to account, thanks largely to the attitude of the Australian government. The ABC's program on "The Howard Years" skims over this aspect of the Howard administration's effect on Timor Leste. John Howard claims much of the credit for Timor becoming independent of Indonesia, but the true story is that Timorese independence was the last thing on his mind. Observers like Jim Dunn find the ABC's treatment of this aspect of the Howard Years disappointing, to say the least.

25.5 Mb 128 kbps mono 28 mins

Fred Fuentes reports from Caracas on the regional election results this November in Venezuela ('State' Governers, and Mayors). While the 'Chavista' VSUP increased its' total vote, the right wing opposition clawed back two State governorships, and a key Mayoral position in Metropolitan Caracas (Venezuela's capital).

Fred points out that a strong push by the right wing parties and candidates has have failed in a strategy to undermine the pro Chavez government and its program, serving mainly to eliminate some of the weaker elements in the administration.

It has also served to show up the fascistic tendencies of the opposition, with the opposition Mayors and Governors attempting to dismantle some of the facilities of the grass roots organisations (like a community youth TV channel) within days of winning their seats.

This hints at some future confrontations between the back and forward looking sectors of Venezuelan society.

7m17s, 1.7MB

2008-11-25 Tues

*Black 'chopper alert' flag flies in Nimbin today*....................................................*NimFM's finances*...........................*special 2 day market in Nimbin for Comm Centre handover*

AGM photo shows, (L - R): Mim (Ass Treas), Bob (Pres), Gary, Judy (Treas), Jack, Katrina (Sec), Gail, Ian, Stewart, Ron, Peah, Rick.....(ta to Gary for it)

5m32s, 1.3MB

2008-11-24 Mon

*new 2009 NimFM committee, + Presidents, Vice Pres, & Treasurers's report*

8m13s, 1.9MB

2008-11-18 Tues

*NimFM's AGM soon*....................*NimFM's 9th Birthday party soon*.....................................*Industrial hemp workshop in Lismore on Sat*

5m40, 1.3MB

2008-11-17 Mon

*Nimbin Fashion Show*

9.2 Mb 128 kbps mono 10 mins.

Burke Stansbury from CISPES talks about the move to extradite former ARENA president of El Salvador, Cristiani, along with 14 others to be put on trial for their responsibility in Human Rights violations. The best known of these is  the massacre of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, nineteen years ago. This could have serious implications for ARENA's prospects in next year's elections. While the extradition order is being considered by a Spanish court, protesters in the US are demonstrating outside the US training camp where the Salvadoran Atlacatl battalion, notorious for this and other brutal massacres, were trained. The Atlacatl battalion was also responsible for the massacre of El Mozote, where an entire village was wiped out.

3Mb 128 kbps mono 3:05 mins

Fred Fuentes from Caracas  - The Australian brigade.

9.4 Mb. 128 kbps mono 10:15 mins

Fred Fuentes reports on developments and possible outcomes of this month's regional and state elections in Venezuela.

8Mb 128 kbps. mono 8:40mins

Burke Stansbury from CISPES reports that a number of former high ranking military and a former President of El Salvador and leader of the ARENA party may be extradited to Spain to be tried for crimes and human rights violations during El Salvador's civil war.

11.5Mb 128kbps mono 12:36mins

Fretilin threatens to withdraw from Parliament.


Timor remembers the Santa Cruz massacre, while human rights discussion is sidelined. Like a lot of debate on critical issues in the Parliament of Timor Leste. Jose Teixeira explains why the opposition Fretilin party is contemplating a walkout, with some members of the government AMP coalition.Jose is deeply concerned that a recent legal decision is not being taken seriously by the current government.

8mb 128kbps mono 8:43 mins

Timor remembers the Santa Cruz massacre, while human rights discussion is sidelined.

10m5s, 2.3MB

2008-11-11 Tues

*Town Hall meeting report*.....................*Aboriginal Centre opening soon*...................................*Don't forget NimFM's AGM & party*

6:m47s, 1.6MB

2008-11-10 Mon

*Meet the new Mayor tonite*.....................*Lost dog Found*

23 Mb 128kbps. mono   25:10  mins

Fretilin Parliamentarian Jose Teixeira talks about former Fretilin Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's recent Australian tour and some of the successful outcomes. He discusses issues being debated in Timor Leste at the moment, some of them quite disturbing  - like the approval in principle by the AMP government for a Club Med type development on environmentally protected wetlands, and the huge biofuel project for an Indonesian company.

12.6Mb 128kbps mono 13:51 mins

Burke Stansbury of CISPES gives us an update on the pre-election situation in El Salvador. The governing ARENA party is showing signs of strain, with a contorversial vice presidential candidate selected in the face of increasingly unfavorable polls. At the same time they are stepping up the 'dirty' propaganda campaign against the FMLN.

9min, 2MB

2008-10-21 Tues

*Nimbin Chamber of Commerce meeting*................Update on Marijuana crusader, Rock*.....................*Dont forget about the film festival*

10mins, 2.3MB

2008-10-28 Tues

*Happy High Herbs has some good news & some bad news*.................*Thuggish behaviour by laneway boys leaves a woman with broken arm after they upended her into a rubbish bin. Community Safety meeting soon*.....................*Tunt Falls Theatre presents 'A Hot Godly Wind' on the W.E.*.....................*Happy 19th to Lara Bowman today* 

9m30s, 2.7 MB

2008-10-27 Mon

*All the results from the NIMBIN FILM FESTIVAL*.................*Rainbow Cafe's mum-to-be loses child*.......................*Pink Ribbon Day at the Bowlo*

12.5Mb 128 kbps mono 13:32

Nimbin Community Radio 2NimFM caught this exclusive interview with Mari Alkatiri when he was in Australia to talk about his vision for Timor Leste as a potential bridge for Asian, Pacific, and Western cultures. Timor Leste is unusually well placed for this role historically, culturally, and linguisticly, having kept its' unique identity through successive waves of colonisation by the Portugese, invasion by the Japanese in WWII, and occupation by the Indonesians in 1970s and 1990s.

Here is the first four minutes of his well received presentation at the Australian National University. Following is an exclusive ten minute interview with community radio 2NimFM just before Mari Alkatiri's meeting with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Mari fields questions about the need for justice for the people of Timor Leste, the controversial Peace March, now deferred because of the threats of repression from the current Prime Minister, and a broad outline of how the Fretilin Party (of which he is the General Secretary) is organised.  Fretilin  ranks are open to the younger generation, which is strongly represented in the party organisation.

      Finally, Mari briefly comments on his own role in the Fretilin party.

7.9Mb. 128kbps. mono 8:32 mins.

Part 3 of 3

Fred Fuentes, back from two weeks in Bolivia talks about renewed power to the people and the popular organisations, after the Morales government survived the crisis of last September. Bolivian society showing new openings and seeking new ways forward.

10Mb 128kbps mono 11 minutes.

Part 2 of 3

Fred Fuentes in Caracas, just back from Bolivia after two weeks of assessing post-crisis Bolivia. In this section he talks about the new strengths of the Morales government, from the popular social organisations, and support from other Latin American nations. The US and the right are caught on the back foot. US influence in the region has been significantly weakened, with many regions refusing to accept US aid money.

12.2Mb 128kbps. mono 13:19 mins.

Part 1.
Fred Fuentes returns to Caracas after two weeks in Bolivia assessing the situation there after the attempted right wing coup last month. Morales seems to have outmanouevred the ultra-right's attempts to unseat him and appears to have made his own position stronger, while his enemies are in disarray. He is so confident of his support in the popular social movements now that he is holding another referendum next month.

10Mb 128kbps mono 10:26 mins

With the onset of the Wall Street crash, Venezuela invited 40 political economists to Caracas, to debate the crisis and propose alternatives. The conference titled ‘Responses from the South to the Global Economic Crisis’. Chaired by Venezuela’s Planing and Development Minister Haiman El Troudi and Luis Bonilla from the Centro Internacional Miranda, the group presented papers and debated for four days, before presenting the Venezuelan Government with a joint statement.

Dr. Tim Anderson was one of the Political Economists invited an he spoke to Nimbin Community Radio 2Nim FM about how the Latin American countries are preparing for the imminent world recession. Unlike the more developed nations Latin American countries are investing in the social and public sector rather than bailing out the private sector, to buffer themselves from the Wall Street meltdown.

16Mb. 128kbps mono 17:12 minutes

Burke Stansbury talks about the CISPES attendance at the Social Forum of the Americas in Guatemala recently, where representatives from Latin American countries discussed the meltdown of the US financial system. The recent gains of social organisations and movements could well be a buffer for those who will be most affected by recession, but historically such gains have brought on a backlash by entrenched interests. The establishment by the US of an International Law Enforcement Academy in El Salvador has seen a corresponding increase in the number of disappearances and extra-judicial murders and assassinations of individuals involved in social movements and the opposition party FMLN, and there is a strange reluctance to allow outsiders to see the curriculum or the teaching methods. ILEAs have been set up in a number of key Latin American countries, and are seen as a replacement for the notorious US based School of the Americas, which was closed down in the 90s due to its association with the training of some of Latin America's worst military dictatorships, and the teaching of 'death squad' methods.

7m41s, 1.8MB

2008-10-20 Mon

*Mysterious police activity in Nimbin*..........................*Nimbin Film Festival coming up*......................................*Chamber of Commerce meeting tomorrow*

10Mb 128kbps mono 10 mins 10:40mins.

Coral Winter talks about the launch of a book she has co-authored with Jim MacIlroy based on their experiences of a year spent in  Venezuela, and some 400 interviews they conducted with people involved in the grass roots activities that are building the new Venezuela

2.4 Mb. 128 kbps mono 2:40mins

Jose Teixeira - extract from longer interview. Jose answers the question about the likely effects of the US financial crisis on the economy and general stability of Timor Leste.

13.3 Mb 128kbps mono 14:43mins

Jose Teixeira, Fretilin Parliamentarian talks about the last week in the Parliament of Timor Leste, when a rebuke was delivered by the leader of the Fretilin team.  He goes on to explain the latest rumblings in the National Police of Timor Leste, and the mistakes made earlier that have generated the current tensions.

(Note: Sound quality in this segment is good)

7Mb 128kbps mono   7:30 mins

Jose talks about a proposed Peace March to highlight some of the issues troubling Timor Leste, and ominous threats to suppress it from the Prime Minister.

(Note: Sound quality is patchy)

9.2Mb. 128kbps mono 10 mins

Lara Pullin with the latest update on the lead up to El Salvador's elections next year. As the FMLN continues to outstrip the governing ARENA coalition in the polls, the government politicians are resorting to more and more desperate tactics. Recently the foreign minister for El Salvador argued in the US for the kind of intervention used just a few years ago to swing the results in favour of the ARENA coalition. The US Ambassador in El Salvador assured a visiting delegation that the US did not intend to intervene again, but with the ARENA foreign minister lobbying furiously in the US, anything could happen.

[Picture: Schafik Handel, FMLN leader and Presidential candidate in the 2004 elections that he narrowly lost. Some say it was stolen from him. Although he died recently, his charisma remains.]

Pat 1 of 3

12.4Mb 128kbps. mono  13:35mins

Dr. Francisco Dominguez, from the Department of Latin American and Brazilian studies of Middleton University in London was on the phone to community radio 2NimFM with some of the details, and the background of the events in Bolivia over the last few weeks, and the implications of some of the latest developments. On September 11 (the anniversary of the 1973 coup in Chile) President Evo Morales expelled the US Ambassador for his role in encouraging violence and racist thuggery led by prominent avowedly right wing public figures in resource rich regions. These figures are leading a drive to 'break away' from the central government of Bolivia, but their tactics include violence, burning, looting, destruction of radio stations that don't support their agenda, and racist vilification and public humiliation of indigenous people. The last straw was a genocidal shooting down of scores of unarmed indigenous people who had gathered in protest against the racially motivated violence.

Part 2 of 3.

8.3Mb. 128kbps mono 9 minutes.

In the second part of this interview, Dr. Francisco Dominguez talks about the regional implications, and the implications for Latin America, of the coup attempt in Bolivia. A surprising number of Latin American countries have rallied in support of the President Evo Morales' central government, and have rejected US interference in Latin American affairs  -  including governments that in the past have been traditionally aligned with the US administration. Far from 'dividing and ruling' the coup attempt in Bolivia has rallied almost all of Latin America in a united front. It is an historic first, with some far reaching long term effects that at this stage, can only be guessed at by most Western observers. The role of Venezuela, which has broken the political stranglehold on its economic autonomy has been critical.

Part 3 of 3.
6.43Mb  128kbps. mono 7mins

In the final part of this interview Dr. Dominguez talks about the reasons President Morales called in the military, declaring martial law, only as a last resort. He explains some of the background of the military and its role in Bolivia's turbulent history.

8mins, 1.8MB

2008-09-30 Tues

*Nimbin man, Peter Lepatourel, dies in tragic mower accident*.......................*All the prize winners in NimFM's $1700 grand radio raffle*

 

8mins, 1.9MB

2008-09-29 Mon

*'Weave & Mend' report (sorry about bad audio in parts)*........................*Spring Arts Expo*

11 Mb. 128Kbps mono 12:05mins

Lara updates us on the looming elections next year in El Salvador. A double barrelled election with the regional and state elections separated by less than a month from the Presidential election in March. The governing party ARENA has already tried to change electoral law to prevent international observers arriving  - an important issue when it is understood that El Salvador does not have the equivalent of a domestic organization to oversee  elections. Perhaps it has something to do with the commanding, and growing lead of popular support for the opposition FMLN.

9.5Mb 128kbps mono  10:19 mins.

Tim Anderson, lecturer in Political Economy at Sydney University has researched land tenure and ownership in the South Pacific, Latin America, and more recently, Timor Leste. He published a report about the implications of an Indonesian Biofuel project the AMP government signed onto. He cites pressures on the government of Timor Leste to change the Constitution allowing foreigners to buy and sell land in Timor Leste. Some of Timor's political leaders appear to be wavering in their original intent to keep Timorese soil in Timorese hands. And is it just coincidence that USAID and AUSAID have recently launched a US$500,000 project to establish who owns what land in Timor Leste? Traditional communal ownership of land could suffer in the growing push for privatisation. Traditional communal ownership of land could suffer in the growing push for privatisation, as well as the population's drive for self sufficiency in the face of growing costs in basic foods world wide - largely as a result of multinational corporations turning  land over to the production of food crops to biofuels.

15.1 128kbps mono 16:34 mins

One of the legacies left by the former Indonesian occupation of Timor Leste was an increased level of crime and corruption. Jose Texeira talks to community radio about an incremental increase in the levels of semi-organised crime, especially since the 'troubles' of 2006. President Jose Ramos Horta had also expressed growing disquiet about the level, and the nature of crime in Timor Leste and was taking steps to initiate an enquiry, but his initiatives were interrupted by the attempt on his life last February 11.

(Note, sound quality is poor)

Episode 2 : Eostro Girl Vs the Evil Unreal-Estate Agents of Doom
3.27 MB , 7min 09sec
Can Eostro Girl save Nimbinville from the Agents of Doom and their vat of sticky 'sales pitch'??
Tune in and drop out ; 100% local nimbin flavour ; get your weekly radio cereal right here for FREE!
Music - 'Dangerous'(acapella version) from Wu-tang Clan feat. Wycleff , 'You Love It' from Peaches
Read by Mim, taken from Rancid Candy 12-2pm every Monday on 102.3 NimFm

9m36s, 2.2MB

2008-09-23 Mon

*Equinox party @ the Blister & introducing reporter Abby Bowman*......................*Weave & Mend coming up*

9mins, 2MB

2008-09-22 Mon

*Nimbin Headers win Grand Final*.....................................*Hemp cake wins @ Nimbin Show*..........................*Happy 40th to DJ Starshine*

9.5Mb. 128kbps mono 9:50 mins

Julie Webb, independent journalist, and reporter for Scoop has spent several years reporting from Latin America, including Cuba. Julie brings home to us the horrific impact of two hurricanes on Cuba (under reported in mainstream media) and the effects on the lives of the Cuban people, how they are responding, and some aspects of the international reaction to the reports.

13.7Mb. 128kbps 15mins

Pt2

In this second part of a three part interview, Julie Webb, freelance journalist and reporter for Scoop talks about the frustration of the Cuban government in trying to deal with the effects of two hurricanes that have devastated the country, while still under the restrictions of the US economic embargo. Even lifting the illegal embargo for six months, would make a world of difference to the Cuban people, and their efforts to recover from the aftermath of the hurricane, far more than 'gifts' of food and materials would. Julie describes the history of the illegal blockade, and its long term effects on Cuba and its people.

11.2Mb 129kbps mono  12:14mins
Pt 3
Part 3 of a three part interview with Julie Webb, independent journalist and correspondent for Scoop. Much of Cuba looks like ground zero on a nuclear strike. She describes in graphic detail how this hurricane is like no other. Where to go if you want to assist. (Australia Cuba Friendship Society), and what else is happening in the region.

Eostro Girl : Your Weekly Radio Cereal
Size - 5.43MB ; Length - 11min 40s
Episode 1: Our heroine gets into sticky trouble via the evil Unreal Estate Agents of Doom. Can she save Nimbinville from encroaching suburbia and the terribly contagious brick venereal disease before it all turns to shit?
music -electric ladyland, hendrix;seven nation army, alice russell and quantic
Read by mim, Rancid Candy 12-2pm every monday on 102.3 nimfm

16.1Mb 128kbps. mono  17:36mins

On the anniversary, almost to the day of the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11 19793, right wing forces in Bolivia attempted to seize control of the country in a Civil coup against the elected government of Evo Morales. At the time of this interview 18 people had been killed by the right wing gangs, hundreds of indigenous people badly beaten by the racist youth group, and the US Ambassador expelled for his complicity in organising the thuggery.
The Venezuelan government expelled the US Ambassador in sympathy, and for his part in coordinating opposition figures in an attempt to take over the government of Venezuela, and other Latin American nations have declared their support for the governments of Bolivia and Venezuela. Latin America is in the process of declaring its autonomy from the 200 year hegemony of the United States in controlling its affairs.
Lara Pullin gives us the details of the event of this historic week in world history.

10m39s, 2.4MB

2008-09-16 Tues

*Rock talks about getting booked by undercover cops*..............................*Police media report*.................*What's on in Nimbin this week*

12m23s, 2.8MB

2008-09-15 Mon

*How Nimbin & all of Lismore voted in the Council elections on Sat*...............................*Darlene & Ash got married*...........................*Undercover cops in town*

5.4 Mb 128kbps. mono 5:46mins
Part 1.
Julie Webb correspondent for 'Scoop' from Latin America gives us the background history of five Cubans who have spent ten years in a US prison for the simple act of passing on information about expatriate Cuban terrorist cells in Florida and Miami. These remnants of the Batista regime of the 1960s, who fled to the US when Castro's revolutionary forces came to power have not been able to accept the historical reality of the Cuban revolution, and continue to plot  and plan a comeback. They have been responsible for numerous deaths and plots not only in Cuba, but in the US. The FBI responded to this information by imprisoning the people who (perhaps naively) passed the compromising information about these terrorist cells on. Ten years later they are still in gaol. Julie Webb reports.

5.3Mb 128kbps 5:45 mins

The background on the Cuban expatriate 'mafia'  - the criminals who left Cuba when Castro's revolutionary forces came to power and were forced to abandon the mafia backed rackets in gambling, prostitution and drugs. They want it back, and their influence in the US political system has meant that the Cuban Five are victims of 'payback'. And the US justice system in Florida is happy to go along with it.

6.8Mb 128kbps mono   7:25
Part 3.
Julie Webb correspondent for 'Scoop' explains the inordinate influence that the Miami Cuban expatriate 'mafia' have on the US political system, resulting in the perversion of justice for the 'Cuban Five' now spending their tenth year in gaol. She outlines the repudiation and disappointment with the US justice system both domestically and internationally, with high profile identities delivering a petition and five people being arrested in a huge demonstration to demand justice for the Cuban Five. The travesty of justice is significantly harming respect for the US and its' political integrity.

24mins, 5.4MB, 2008-09-09

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

8m19s, 1.9MB

2008-09-9 Tues

*In Meet-the-Candidate we speak with Jenny Dowell who is running for Mayor*.................................*Entry time for Nimbin Film Festival*

11mins, 2.5MB

2008-09-08 Mon

*Council elections on W.E. Tonight in 'Meet the Nimbin Candidate' we have Warren Nugent, our local baker.*.........................*Blue Moon Cabaret*..............................*Happy 55 to Inez*..................*Snakes appearing*....................................*Anne marries Tim at last*

20Mb. 128kbps mono  21:48mins

Jose Teixeira is an MP for the Fretilin party in Timor Leste. He was also involved in the negotiations with Australia in the 'Timor Gap' treaty, as the deputy Minister for National Resources. He spoke to community radio 2NimFM on the tricky subject of Australia allowing 'guest worker' visas to East Timorese nationals. The Australian government recently passed legislation to allow  temporary work visas to Pacific Islanders. A similar arrangement for 'guest workers' from Timor Leste is still pending. Jose presents the East Timorese side of the difficulties involved in the scheme.

9.9Mb. 128kbps mono  10:45mins

Burke Stansbury of CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) talks with 2NimFM from Washington about the general swing to the left in the Central American region, which could impact upon the elections in El Salvador next year.

16.7 Mb 128kbps mono  17:49mins

Lara Pullin, Latin American solidarity activist has breaking news from El Salvador. The FMLN opposition party is confident enough of its popular support, and its chances of winning next years election, that they have tabled legislation repealing the 'amnesty law', granting impunity to those accused of gross human rights violations and war crimes, during the 12 year civil war. The law was passed in 1993 as part of the 1992 'Accord' that marked the end of the civil war.
Repeal of the amnesty law will will impinge heavily on the ARENA party (that leads the current governing coalition) and the military. The founder of the ARENA party, Roberto D'Aubuisson was widely believed to have ordered the assassination of Archbishop Romero and other Death Squad murders, while certain army units were responsible for the elimination of entire villages, including children and infants.
As the elections next year draw nearer tensions are mounting, with FMLN leaders calling on their supporters not to react to increasing incidents of anti-FMLN violence.

12.5Mb. 128kbps mono 13:45mins

Coral Winter has seen nine Australian brigades going over to Venezuela for the last four years, and will soon be going again. She spent over a year in Venezuela as a regular correspondent. In this interview she explains what the next brigade (leaving in November) can look forward to - a very interesting Venezuelan election, as well as meetings with key community organisations and leaders). She tells us what attracts her to Venezuela and why Australian brigades have an international reputation, with people of other nationalities coming on board.

10Mb. 128kbps 10:30mins
Janelle Saffin MHR spent several years working in Timor Leste with the now President, Jose Ramos Horta. During Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's recent state visit to Australia and his meeting with Australian PM Kevin Rudd, Rudd politely declined to commit Australia to accepting Timorese guest workers, when Xanana raised the question. The issue will come under consideration. Janelle explains some of the reasons for the Australian Prime Minister's response, some of the more complex issues, and other aspects of the government's position on Timor Leste.

11mb. 128kbps mono 12:05 mins
Jim Dunn, human rights observer and author of numerous articles several histories of Timor Leste puts the attitude of this and other Australian governments under close scrutiny, when he comments on Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's recent state visit to Australia and his meeting with Australian PM Kevin Rudd. Rudd politely declined to commit Australia to accepting Timorese guest workers, when Xanana raised the question.

7.5 Mb. 128kbps mono 7:56mins.
Professor Damien Kingsbury comments on possible reasons for Australia's procrastination in allowing Timorese guest workers to come to Australia on temporary work visas. The Australian government has recently passed legislation allowing temporary work visas to Pacific Islanders, but it appears the Timorese are lower on the list of the Rudd government's priorities. The state visit by Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao provided him with the opportunity to raise the matter, but Australian PM Kevin Rudd deferred a decision until early next year.

6m34s, 1.5MB

2008-09-2 Tues

*Local Council elections soon; Nimbin's Len Martin from the Greens gives his policy speech*...........................*Warning! Magpies start swooping in Nimbin*

8m25s, 2MB

2008-09-1 Mon

*THE HEMP BAR IS DEAD*..............................*Ex NimFMite, Gabi Bliss launches her new CD at the Buddha's Belly restaurant near Mt Warning*

9m13s, 2.1MB

2008-08-27 Wed

*Interview with Michael Balderstone from the Museum, & Sam & Gary from the Hemp Bar re the eviction notices on the 2 shops*

10m50s, 2.5MB

2008-08-26 Tues

*THEY'RE TRYING TO CLOSE THE HEMP BAR !!!*.....................................*small fire lets us know fire season is near*

8mins 1.9MB

2008-08-25 Mon

*IS THE MUSEUM TO BE CLOSED DOWN?* ..........................*Update on Happy High Herbs raid*.............

9.5 Mb  128kbps mono 10:20 Mins

On the situation in Bolivia, Fred looks at the role of the military, which after several hundred years of  dominating the politics of countries like Bolivia seems to be changing with a new era of social reform.

11.6Mb 128kbps mono 12:41 mins

Fred (Frederico) Fuentes, based in Latin America talks about the recent referendum in Bolivia, called by the first elected indigenous president, Evo Morales. In spite of right wing calls to challenge the political empowerment of this man (with threats to secede from the central government and form 'autonomous' states) the referendum actually strengthened the position of a President who is introducing moderate reforms that act to phase out the negative influence of multi-national corporations and global privatisation.

 15.8Mb 128kbps mono 17:18 mins

Lara Pulling, speaking for the Canberra committee of the FMLN, talks further about the importance of next year's elections in El Salvador to the Salvadoran people. The government coalition is trying everything to sabotage the FMLN's 20 point lead in the polls, including the separation of the Presidential election from the local elections with a two month gap. The UN is scrutinising closely the claims of the FMLN that the ARENA led coalition has failed to respect the terms of the Peace Accord of 1992. The FMLN has respected the Accord meticulously, but the ARENA government has failed on a number of counts.

13Mb. 126kbps mono 14mins 19 secs.

Peter Murphy of the SEARCH foundation has been involved with Timor Leste since 1975. In this interview he talks about the controversial budget put to the Timorese Parliament by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. Some parliamentarians in his governing AMP coalition have raised eyebrows, and the decision to dip into the Oil Fund to prop up the budget for an amount my than double what is laid down in the constitutional guidelines has been questioned both within Timor Leste and by international advisors and observers.
Peter also comments on more recent findings of the investigation into the attempt on the life of President Jose Ramos Horta on February 11, and suggests that there should be an independent international investigation.

14Mb 128kbps mono 14mins 9seconds.

Burke tells us why the governing ARENA party is pulling out all the stops in its effort to continue in power in El Salvador. With the 2009 elections coming up early next year the opposition FMLN is showing a twenty point lead in all the polls.
The FMLN is not rushing into a radical makeover of the economy - decades of conservative and reactionary rule have made neo-conservative policy institutional structures. Next year's FMLN presidential candidate, Mauricio Funes is proposing moderate reforsm. But in the Latin American context it will mean that El Salvador will join the growing number of Latin American countries liberating themselves from US hegemomy and intervention, with the ability to develop themselves freely away from the the influence and impositions of the IMF the World Bank, and Washington.

8m43s, 3.8MB

2008-08-19 Tues

*The Nimbin Central School Olympics*........................................*Giant blackout last night*...................................*Death of Mary the cat*.......................*Platypus spotted in Nimbin*

8m, 1.8MB

2008-08-20 Mon

*RAID ON HAPPY HIGH HERBS*............................*Film competion coming up*...............................*How Nimbin Demons went in the AFL footy final*

12.7 Mb  128kbps mono 13mins 37 secs

Local artist Bo Kaan was caught in action at the monthly Nimbin market, with backing from Don and Ren sitting in. Bo is famous for his hard hitting lyrics, mastery of the rock blues genre and gravelly voice. Top piece is 'TV man', followed by the 'Mindshape' song, and then a bit of a dig at the USA/CIA ... and oops ... did we say too much?

10m49s, 2.5MB

2008-08-12 Tues

*Nimbin's Olympic Connection*...........................*Hemp protestor, Rock, returns from jail*..................................*Sue Bowman's new program*...............

10mins, 2.3MB

2008-08-12 Tues

*Oasis proprietor, Andrew K, talks re new developments*.............................*Nimbinite James Helliwell has passed away*................................*NimFM's more power gets to new areas*..............................*Bamboo workshop from Aug 26*

4m27s, 1MB

2008-08-05 Mon

*Oasis has been Sold*...........................*Sound Lounge finishes new music studio... +... more cracker bombs fall on it*

11m27s, 2.6MB

2008-08-04 Mon

*WORLD POETRY CUP SPECIAL*

12.3Mb. 128kbps. mono 13 minutes

Burke Stansbury on the US. harassment of CISPES 

CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador was established in the USA in the 1980s when US trained Death Squads were systematically killing opposition to the US backed military regime in ritual terrorist assassinations. When US citizens organize themselves to resist the brutality of US foreign policy they came under scrutiny by the US police and intelligence services. It seems that old habits die hard. Current members of the CISPES have been investigated and harassed by the FBI because they have brought to public attention the return of Death Squad tactics in El Salvador, to break down opposition to the US backed government there with overtly terroristic tactics. In a previous interview Burke Stansbury gained an admission from the US Ambassador in El Salvador that the US had actively intervened in the 2004 elections.

It remains to be seen whether the US is trying to influence the results of next year's elections, but the fingerprints are all over the return of the Death Squads and the more recent harassment of CISPES.

Burke, and CISPES can be contacted at burke@cispes.org

15Mb. 128kbps. mono   16mins

Fred Fuentes is back in Caracas after a quick speaking tour of Australia, and already plugged in to the always volatile world of Venezuelan politics. He talks with community radio about the lead up to the regional elections coming up this November, and the prospects of the VSUP (the Venezuelan United Socialist Party) that is the core party of President Hugo Chavez' government coalition. The Chavista project of building grassroots democracy in Venezuela from the bottom up continues, but there are challenges ahead.

9Mb. 128kbps. 9mins 45 secs

Clinton Fernandes travels frequently to Timor Leste. He lectures to the Australian Defense Force Academy at the University of New South Wales, and has scrutinised the Commission for Truth and Friendship report closely and critically. He believes it is disappointing, but a stepping stone for further action for justice for the people of Timor Leste, who seem to have been left out of the political equation.

8.7 Mb. 128kbps mono 9mins 15 seconds

Professor Damien Kingsbury, political scientist and observer of Timor Leste comments about the outcome of the recently released report of the Truth and Friendship Commission on the horrific reprisals visited upon the people of Timor Leste by Indonesian militias, in the wake of the 1999 independence referendum. The results were predictable, but disappointing to the people of Timor Leste, who have yet to find justice after the long years of brutal Indonesian occupation.

12m42s, 5.8MB

*Full NimCoC report* ...................................*High visibility police*..........................*Diana Anaid to support Kids In Community awards*

8m43s, 2MB

2008-07-28 Mon

*Bringabong break-in*...........................*Weird weather in Nimbin*

11Mb. 128kbps mono 11mins 33 seconds

Jim Dunn, a researcher and human rights expert who has been following the situation in Timor Leste since before the 1975 Indonesian invasion talks about the implications for Timor Leste and Indonesia, of the recently released report of the Truth and Friendship Commission. The Commission was set up to establish what everybody knew  - Indonesian responsibility for the massacres and wanton destruction that took place in 1999 after the independence referendum. But where does it go from here?

10mins, 2.3MB

2008-07-22 Tues

*Echinda spotted in Nimbin*..............................*more details on new IT shop 'NimbinValleyDotCom*

7m18s, 1.7MB

2007-07-21 Mon

*New computer shop in Nimbin, NimbinValleyDotCom*................... *Missing Greensleaves (ie original 73 Aquarius Festival newsletter) issue* ....................................*NimFM goes STEREO & doubles POWER*

1 MB (text mostly, due to technical difficulties)

2008-07-15 Tues

*New Apothecary Show, with Helen Cameron, on NimFM, Tues 12-1pm*

14 Mb.  128kbps 14 mins 48 secs
(hi fidelity version for rebroadcasting)

Burke Stansbury from Washington. He has just returned from a fact finding mission to El Salvador with  CISPES where he had an interesting conversation with the US Ambassador there. While the Ambassador admitted that there was political intervention on the side of the ARENA party by the US to influence the results of the last Salvadoran elections, the Ambassador claims that the US State Department has no intention of influencing upcoming elections of 2009. Burke  is skeptical, and in this interview he explains why.

July 19 1979 was the day of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution.