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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

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Venezuela Viewpoint #13-- The battle of the golf courses

Caracas, September 2nd: Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter go to the huge rally and march which greeted Hugo Chavez at the completion of his world tour Chavez had utilised it to foster an ant-imperialist alliance. Chavez effectively launched his election campaign at the rally. The "battle of the golf courses' is also reported on as this issue relates to the provision of new housing for the poor in in Caracas.

Venezuela Viewpoint #12 -- Health advances /Gratitude for Cuba

Caracas, August 26th: Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter discuss the new cardiac treatment unit in Venezuela and explore Venezuela's relationship with Cuba.

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A simulated interview with the voices of Warwick Fry  and Marie Cameron (as Ana Pessoa) translating from the Portugese. In an interview with the Portugese magazine "Expresion", Ana Pessoa, a senior Minister in the Fretilin government of East Timor expressed  her misgivings about the an Australian intervention in East Timor a month before the resignation of the then Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri. Until recently, the background to the destabilisation of East Timor went unreported in the Australian press, and the blame unthinkingly laid on Mari Alkatiri. A recent SBS Dateline documentary, led by John Martinkus, finally gives Alkatiri his voice, and seems to vindicate him, supporting suggestions that he was 'set up' by foreign interests. Much of the Dateline documentary follows the lines of investigation indicated by this interview with Ana Pessoa.

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Venezuela Viewpoint #11 August 19. Jim and Coral from Caracas. This week discuss the electoral shenanigans of the right wing candidates including their proposal for provinces to secede from the nation.

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Venezuela viewpoint #10 August 12.
Caracas, August 12th: JimMcIlroy and Coral Wynter discuss candidates from the Venezuelan right wing for the upcoming elections and review the political ironies of the "law and order" situation throughout Venezuela.

14.13 MB  / 07:13  / 80kpbs  / 44 khz  Latin Radical August 4. Venezuela Viewpoint.
Jim and Coral return from Cuba where they report on developments in one of the last national bastions of socialism.

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Interview with Lara Pullin shortly after news that ultra-right wing death squads in El Salvador have returned murdering the family of a famous FMLN radio announcer. Mariposa was the code name for a teenage announcer on the clandestine guerilla Radio Venceremos. For 12 years the portable radio transmitter and the FMLN guerillas running it, evaded capture during the  Civil War in El Salvador through the 1970s and 1980s.  Mariposa ('The Butterfly') boosted the morale of the FMLN guerillas who fought the corrupy Salvadoran military (backed by the US government to the tune of 2 million $US a day). In the November 1989 offensive they fought the Salvadoran government military forces to a stalemate. In 1992 a peace was negotiated and the FMLN participated in the political life of El Salvador as a legally constituted political party. The party presently controls around 40 percent of the seats in the National Congress and many of the Municipal councils. The right wing ARENA party, whose leaders and founders financed death squads, assassinated an archbishops, and ordered the massacre of entire villages during the 1970s and 1980s is in government today as a minority party leading a coalition government. But the situation in El Salvador recently seems to have reverted to the worst days of the so-called civil war, with police firing on demonstrating students. Death Squads, have made a comeback with deat threats and ritual murder employed as a tried and true tactic of the Right wing neo-conservatives. Hear how the friends of legendary radio announcer Mariposa around the world are reacting to the news of the gruesome torture and murder of her parents, and to the present day wave of repression against the long suffering people of El Salvador.

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Venezuelan Viewpoint.

GreenLeft Weekly stringers Jim and Coral report each week from the capital of Venezuela Caracas, with progress reports on the development of the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, under the tutelage of the government of President Hugo Chavez.

In this week's report, Jim gives us the real story on the tumultuous National Trade Union meeting, where apparently, chairs were thrown, and the presence (and tolerance) of anti-government trade unions is still a factor in decision making processes, that are now, increasingly, in the hands of  the people (workers) who are the most critical to maintaining the processes of production.

We hear the latest policy decisions by the Venezuelan  government on OPEC. The Chavez government is using Venezuela's access to huge oil reserves, to favour  Third World countries in an attempt to break the hegemony of the developed Northern hemisphere over the less developed South, and guide them into more sustainable economic models.

Jim translates and summarises a statement by Venezuelan President Chavez about the nature of US capitalism and a wonderful explication of how the fate of earth's future may well depend on the future of the Bolivarian revolution - sustainable economic models are essential to global and environmental survival. The remaining oil reserves on the planet should be committed to this principle.

A quick run down on how the 'old school' of Venezuela's plutocratic elites is provocatively, trying to generate student unrest in the Universities, in an attempt to (yet again) destabilise the Chavez government before the upcoming OPEC conference and Presidential elections.

For more information, check out:

http://vensol.blogspot.com/

where Jim and Coral post their sound files regularly.

http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/

for updates on the latest news from Venezuela

also:

  Dave Riley's blogsite

http://ratbaggy.blogspot.com/

 

Debut of a new series, direct from an Australian couple in Venezuela. Jim and Coral report each week from the capital of Caracas with progress reports on the development of the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, under the tutelage of the government of President Hugo Chavez.

Caracas, June 9th:  report on four rallies that have been held in Venezuela's capital over the last week and discuss the continuing violence in the west of the country.

• Rally by Bolivarian high school students
• Rally of those "without roofs"
• Rally by Venezuelan indigenous people
• Rally by woman against domestic violence

For more information, check out:

http://vensol.blogspot.com/

where Jim and Coral post their sound files regularly.

http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/

for updates on the latest news from Venezuela

also:

  Dave Riley's blogsite

http://ratbaggy.blogspot.com/

N.A.B. Show Monday 30th Jan. 2006 Nim Fm Luke hosts this program with audio reports from Tent Embassy Invasion Day protest, mixed with indigenous music. Length: 60 mins. Mp3 14.5 MB 32 kb/s mono Recordings by Warwick / Martin's post production at 2Nim Fm Community Radio Studios.