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*New art exhibition 'A memory that persists' at the Blue Knob Hall*

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*Soccer season starts in Nimbin*.......................*Results of chopper raids*..........................*Lina Eve from Cawongla's art exhibition & interview*

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Bob Boughton, senior lecturer in Adult Education at the University of New England in Armidale has spent many months over many years in Timor Leste advising the Timorese government on education programs and policies.  He doesn't accept the mainstream media take on recent events, and suggests the international community should have looked a little more closely at the events that disrupted Timorese governance in March 2006.

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*Your newsreader's brother & mate dropped into Nimbin for a visit*.......................*'Outcasts' motorcycle club pays Nimbin a visit*

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*Rain continues*...............*Greens rally @ Town Hall to protest sell-off of electricity*

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Lisa McDonald of the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) fills us in on the latest attempt to undermine the sovereignty of Venezuela by the US based transnational corporation Exxon, which has taken out legal action against the Venezuelan state oil company. Exxon seems to believe that a non-privatised oil company that spends its profits on social programs is a blight on the planet, and has managed to have $US13 billion worth of Venezuelan assets frozen around the world while it sues for a US$180 million in compensation.  Oddly enough, US$13 billion is exactly what the Venezuelan State oil company spends on social programs for the Venezuelan people!

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Janelle Saffin, recently elected as the Federal member for Page recalls the three years she spent working in Timor Leste as an assistant to Jose Ramos Horta, who was shot and seriously wounded by a rebel commander on February 10 2008.

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word,  North Coast Hospitals in shambles,  Highway repairs reprioritized,  Slow down in School Zones,  Mobile phones linked to rise in youth crime,  TB screening breakthrough,  Tree preservation dangers,  Man on Murder charges.

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Stuart Munkton from the Latin American desk of Green Left weekly resports on the expulsion of a US spy from Bolivia, and a reprimand to the US Ambassador. The spy made the mistake of approaching a Fullbright scholar doing research in Bolivia, to report on the activities of Cuban and Venezuelan doctors and literacy teachers working in Bolivia.

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Jim Dunn, former diplomat, adviser to Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta, and Human Rights activist, reviews the traumatic events of the last week in Timor Leste. The stampede of much mainstream media  in Australia to label the attack on the President and Prime Minister of Timor Leste a coup is ill advised, he says, and it would be misjudging the situation to say that Timor Leste has been further destabilised by the events of last week. And the jury is still out on what exactly was Reynado's motivation.

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Tim Anderson, Lecturer in Political Economy at Sydney University talks about his recent experience with the Cuban medical brigades in Timor Leste and a visit to Cuba where he gathered materials for a documentary on the 600 Timorese students studying medicine there on Cuban scholarships. He has written a letter challenging the Rudd Labour government to match this level of Cuban aid, and invites other Australians to do the same.

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Sorry Day in Nimbin, interview with Aunty Liz Johnson, + live cross to Chibo down at Parliament grounds, Canberra.

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*Preparations for Sorry Day in Nimbin*.............*Latest on the Chopper raids*......................................*Amelia's birthday*

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In the week before Rudd's 'sorry' speech aboriginal activists and their supporters gather at the aboriginal tent Embassy in front of Old Parliament House where they have maintained a presence since 1972. Jen talks about her memories of the early days of aboriginal struggle for their rights

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Robert Wesley Smith, a long term Timor activists who recalls happier days for Alfredo Reinado, the man who was shot down in his attempt to kidnap, control, or kill the President of East Timor, Jose Ramos Horta, last Monday February 10 2008. Wes is on the phone from Darwin, after seeing the plane come in, medivac - ing the seriously wounded President from Dili to Darwin.

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A preview of a longer interview with Robert Wesley Smith, a long term Timor activists who recalls happier days for Alfredo Reinado, the man who was shot down in his attempt to either kidnap, control, or kill, the President of East Timor, Jose Ramos Horta, last Monday February 10 2008. Wes is on the phone from Darwin, after seeing the plane come in, medivac - ing the seriously wounded President from Dili to Darwin.

Photo:Alfredo Reinado, shot down by Horta's security personnel.

Picture by independent East Timorese media organisation "The investigative journalist centre" (http://www.cjitl.blogspot.com/)

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Kiraz Janicke in a phone interview from Caracas has the details of the attempts by the US based multinational corporate giant Exxon, to lock up US$12 billion worth of Venezuela's assets in a specious legal claim for a few hundred million dollars, against Venezuela's State owned oil company. In retaliation, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening to cut off oil supplies to the US  - over ten percent of its intake.

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NimFM's foreign correspondent, Warwick Fry, brings us breaking news from East Timor that their president, Jose Ramos Horta has been shot.*...................*Chopper raids in Nimbin*.......................*Our MP Thomas George visits us*......................* New tourism officer brings news of money for North Coast Tourism......................*Short films in Bush Theatre tonite*....................*Nimbin Players go to Sydney*.................*on Sat Nimbin celebrated Bob Marley's birthday*...................*New Nimbin Aquarius village still going ahead*

6m22s, 1.5MB

*NimFM's Don Sharpe in hospital*..........................*Bush Theatre update*

8m39s, 2MB

*Blue Knob Hall Film night report*..........................*Broken bottles on Sat Night*.................*Flooding*........................*Pancake Tuesday in Nimbin tomorrow*..............................*Yes, Chantico was bitten by a snake*

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Kiraz Janicke, based in Caracas is on the phone to Latin Radical for the latest developments in the media war against the government of President Hugo Chavez. Chavez' success in negotiating a successful hostage release, without military intervention stuck in the craw of the US and the government of Columbia. Columbian embassies and Consulates have organised demonstrations against the FARC around the world (including Australia) in an effort to discredit the Chavez government and torpedo his promotion of peace talks between the FARC (which controls over 30% of Columbia) and the Columbian government. Meanwhile, Chavez has evicted the US drug enforcement officials of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) with a rise in big drug busts by Venezuelan authorities, commended by the UN monitoring authority. Right wing paramilitaries are infiltrating into Venezuela across the Columbian border to disrupt land reform programs by Venezuelan peasant farmers.

Finally, how to join an Australian brigade to Venezuela, and see for yourself.

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Lara Pullin on El Salvador's coming elections. Pt 1

El Salvador suffered terribly in a civil war that lasted through the decade of the 1980s. After the FMLN fought the US backed military to a standstill in 1989 a peace was negotiated over the next 2 years, and in 1992, amid much jubilation an 'accord' was signed with the FMLN which became a major, legally registered political party, and narrowly lost winning government against a five party coalition led by the right wing ARENA party.

Next year, 2009, will be another presidential election. But over recent years it seems that ARENA is reverting to form. The founder of ARENA, Roberto D'Aubuisson ran the notorious Death Squads through the 1970s and 1980s, and is believed to be the intellectual author of the assassination of Archbishop Romero in March 1980.  The Death Squads are back, and the head of the National Police of El Salvador sees no need to investigate the political violence, assassinations of leading FMLN Mayors and political figures.

And guess who has been chosen to be ARENA's Presidential candidate next year? If you guessed the head of the National Police, you win a free bag of tortillas.

Check out the CISPES website, for more information:
http://cispes.org/

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Lara Pullin on the El Salvadoran elections Part 2

Lara talks about some of the details of the return of the Death Squads in El Salvador, and the incremental increase in their activities, including the assassination of a Mayor, and  threats against a Public radio station that caters to the people, rather than the commercial  media moguls.

She analyses possible reasons for the violent reaction of the right wing governing party. Is it possible that they might lose the next Presidential election.  Does the influence of Venezuela allow political parties more scope to be independent of the interests of the US?

(More information on El Salvador here:
http://cispes.org/ )

Picture: The Mayor, Wilbur Funes, assassinated several weeks ago by the resurgent Salvadoran Death Squads. Government prosecutors refuse to investigate this and other murders.