Sorry for the gap in podcasts folks... hopefully they'll be more or less regular like a good set of bowels. As to what's contained within this podcast; that's a bit like trying to remember what I had for breakfast last Tuesday... but what I can say is that it contains Bo Kaan's new single "9/11" in its entirety. Jack & I hope you enjoy the various meanderings our minds took on that particular Friday morning. Now that I'm editing our own poscasts I'll pay a bit more attention to what we're saying... promise.
Bob

33Mb. mono 64kbps 1hr 10minutes.
Benny Zable, Nimbin identity now in New York interviews Sherwood Martinelli, anti-nuclear and environmental activist. Sherwood ('Woody') has been running campaigns and legal actions against the environmental vandalism of US power companies for may years now, and is more well informed than most about their activities, their tactics, and how to counter them.

42Mb mono 128Kbps 43mins. 37seconds
The full compilation of Dr. Helen Caldicott's speeches at the Shoalwater Peace convergence last month. Helen speaks eleoquently and with authority on the Global Nuclear Age and the US Military Industrian complex, then talks about the shocking number of nuclear warheads on Trident submarines. She then moves on to warn of the horrors of depleted uranium, health issues, cancers and the partiuclar vulnerability of children to nuclear waste. She comes up with the facts about nuclear wasted dumps, reprossing, uranium enrichment, and the global nuclear energy partnership.
Includes ambient sounds of chanting and drumming protesters and an awesome Rasta Rap fading Helen out at the end of the question and answer session.

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Dr. Helen Caldicott addresses the Peace Convergence rally at Shoalwater Bay, where Australians protest the joint military exercises of over 20,000 US troops on pristine environmentally sensitive national parklands and the Great Barrier Reef.

hosted by Bob with Gerald, Michael, N-Dee

length: 1 hr 20 min 64 kbps mono 36.6 MB

with Bob, Gerald, Michael and guest on the phone

length: 1 hr 34 min 48 kbps mono 32.4 MB

10Mb 45 mins.

Final updates on the Mardi-Grass gossip news, tall tales and true. An amused look back with a forward looking attitude.

10Mb 42 mins.

Bob and Jack with some final words for the representatives of Law and order and District Commander Bruce ('Bluey') Lyons. A good wrap up for 14th Mardi-Grass.

 

13.5 Mb 49mins

Update!  Updates!   Updates! Post Mardi-Grass Self Recognition! Cops'n Fukennippies!  And !!!!  Hilarious Happenings! Kewl Stories and a call for more ...  UnCool Stories ...   (If you have a story, drop it into the Dream Pool  - nimfm@nimfm.org )   

Post Mortem[s], other death threatening attitudes and Post Mardi - Modus Vitae  ... Media power and disinformation and the Rugged Joys of Subterfuge. Excellent review of the  Media Manipulation of the Nimbin Mardi-Grass in an openly celebratory mode. Nice.

11.5Mb 49 mins

Nimbin Hemp Show Pt. 2:   Slipping and flipping along with some Future  Projections of Australian History which may look like the 1973 Chile Stadium revisited. Pre Pinochet ... but just in time, a timely visit from Dr. Andrew and an aural view of the comedy Festival at the Oasis Cafe.

A poetry reading and the Magic Band! But wait! there's more! A repeat of an open invitation for Mardi stories (don't let the ossifiers of the law forget!). An Anglo Aussie recognition of the Latin American continent, and its role in Anglo Amerika detriment ...  a great review of the Aussie National Headlines, and what it might be costing us all ...

 

Yes  - it's Mardi Grass again, I'm afraid ( I'm not really, and  ... ) it's Police Presence, Police Presence, and Police Presence.  Cute remarks about the NSW Police Ballet Squad, what the Mardi-Grass is really about, watching the Ballet Squad .... " .. the machine easily masters the grim and ridiculous  ... "  Apparently they can't stop the music, and Green politician Lee Rhiannon agrees ....

Jack pursues thoughts on chemical smokescreens, but gets back on the  track with an aside on the Hispanic uprising in the southwestern States of the (so far) United, States of America. Not molotov cocktails, but a refusal to buy cocktails of any kind! Scarey for US pub owners. Not only pub owners, but Wal Mart, and a host of other consumer outlets who depend on the millions of otherwise 'illegal' immigrants from Mexico  ...  A consumer strike! Just the thing for illegal workers! Shock waves in the US retail 'industry'.  Jack niftily segues into a the corollary  -  credit addiction!. Bob provocatively suggests a link between credit addiction and the 'pay buy' date, and incidences of domestic violence.

All very confusing for the thin blue line of police who are watchfully watching the ideologically illegal drug law reformistas dancing to didgeridoo based star crafted bands with perhaps, a twinge of envy, in the central park of Nimbin. (as I upload this file).

A teensy bit of self-adulation for our little community radio station 2nimfm, with a whiff and whurry-som scents emerging from the preproduction room. District police officer Bluey and the thin blue linedancers, and a wrap up with with a tribute to the true and blessed ganja faeries.

And by the way   -  Have a good weekend ....

 

Police presence revisited  - Police security and running commentary on Micael's run through the Dog Squad  -  with a little help from the DogFather. Live, white, and naked, and a special request, played especially for the Blueys.

 

 - And Michael, in a rare and sombre serious note, tells us what we might expect for the Mardi-Grass. 

29Mb 1hr. 25 Minutes

PlaySpace, and Jack's back from his Easter 'break' at Lake Cowal where Barrick's mines are heading for a big bust on their mining venture. Jack has the real dope on the company, the lake, and the sacred land of Lake Cowal.

Bob moves us on to the latest outrage against the police presence in Nimbin, after some post-Anzac Day ruminations. While we celebrated the iconic history of Anzac, local authorities were planning the removal  of the last surviving remnants of an iconic piece of local Nimbin history - under police protection, of course.

Bob rarely needs an excuse to study the behaviour of the police, and he shares his observations of the behaviour patterns of the imported swat squad uniforms  - which seems to be becoming assimilated into a kind of driftward mindset.

A bit of sci-fi speculation on human behaviour in general, and not quite snide comments of Australian fashion week, winding up with the latest update on the Mulgum House affair. Great radio!

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Bob, Michael, and others bravely hold the fort in the tension filled build up to Nimbin's 14th annual Mardi-grass

MADNESS RULES Nimbin

music: www.hilltophoods.com,
Earth Reggae, Nimbin
length 29:40 mins.
64kb/s mono 13.8 MB

 

PlaySpace Pt2.

Bob and Jack followup on the leadup to the MardiGrass

7 Mb.  40 minutes 

Hemp Show Part 1 

 Bob and Michael reviewing some of the local issues here in Nimbin in the lead up to Mardi Grass, topped up splendidly with a series of skits, parodies and satires by Martin and his team.

 

Hemp Show Part 2. Bob and Michael reviewing some of the local issues here in Nimbin in the lead up to Mardi Grass.

 12.3 Mb. 32kbps   

March 31 edition of the Hemp Show, sponsored by the Nimbin Hemp Embassy. Bob, Michael, the Goddess and sundry visitors contemplate the state of the world through the eyes of the drug law reformer. Lots of gossip, tips, comment, and drug news snippets. Featuring this issue  - some comment on the recent visits to our shores from foreign dignitaries, and some of the stayers in the world of geopolitics, as compared and contrasted with the Master Dissemblers of the Australian political scene.

11Mb 46 minutes.

Bob and Jack in top form. Comment and coverage on the important and the bizarre  - like Uranium, and the mining thereof, aaand the police presence in Nimbin! Bob, obviously inspired (possibly by his eclectic choice in music) weighs in with some weird and wacky news items  - Genital piercings in the cemetery(!?)  - the historical meaning of Easter in the Coptic Church? Some observations from Jack on Windfarms vs uranium, and the Chinese way, and some absurdities concerning Plutonium. 

7.5 Mb 32 Minutes

More absurdities radiating from the YellowCake Planet of Plutonium, and a walk with Jack on 'The Wild Side'  - he reviews a 50 year old novel with a contemporary presence, spiced with Latin American Literary references. The boys drift off into speculation on Alien lives and coexistence with the bizarre, until Jack brings us back to earth with his fine vision of Lake Cowal as sacred Aboriginal land, and the current corporate desecration.

Larrikin sensibility at its best. 

38Mb 57 minutes. 96Kbps. Free to Air Sunday April 23.

Omega returns from Lake Cowal with the latest news, including live speeches by arrested protestor Benny Zable and aboriginal artists, performers and protestors. Omega captures the sounds of the grand corroboree performed over Easter on the sacred sites of Lake Cowal, where hundreds of protestors, environmental activists, and aborigines converged to make their protest known. Barrack Mines is carting in hundreds of tons of cyanide to mine gold on one of Australia's most important aboriginal sacred sites.

Musical tracks from the Lake Cowal CD Gold Mine -water more precious than Gold:  Miso

 More information at:

http://savelakecowal.org

http://rainforest.org.au

http://peacebus.com

http://foe.org.au

 

Miss La Qua's Radio Show. featuring... Gay & Lesbian, Sexual Health, & Easy Listening Music snippets. Tonite (Thurs 2nd March 8-10pm) she interviews Tania, the new ACON (Aids COuNcil) manager, ... ... (& in her 2nd part) ... reviews the new gay cowboy movie 'Brokeback Mountain', ... ... and discusses the up & coming Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney.

Miss La Qua's Radio Show. featuring... Gay & Lesbian, Sexual Health, & Easy Listening Music snippets. Tonite (Thurs 2nd March 8-10pm) she interviews Tania, the new ACON (Aids COuNcil) manager, ... ... (& in her 2nd part) ... reviews the new gay cowboy movie 'Brokeback Mountain', ... ... and discusses the up & coming Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney.

11.2 Mb. mono. Ecotones Environmental news with Shelley, February 10.

4.3Mb mono 38mins. PlaySpace Pt. 1. Feb 3 Bob and Jack contemplate Life, the Universe and Nimbin while reviewing events in the Real World from a safe distance.

6.27Mb. mono 52 mins. Playspace Pt2. Feb 3. Bob and Jack continue to contemplate Life, the Universe, and Nimbin in their favorite radiospace.

2.6Mb. mono. 23 Mins. Ecotones, Feb 3 Edition. Shell reviews her big trip down South and gives us all the good reasons to stand up and be counted. Why be arrested? Shell can tell you. Observations on endangered marine species - something many of us forget while we're eating our fish and chips and counting the remaining trees. Some thoughts on the aboriginal tent embassy.

2.7 Mb. 6mins. 'Australia Day' - January 26 - has been offically declared "Aboriginal Sovereignty Day" by living legend, Aboriginal Elder, Auntie Isabel Coe. Hear her ringing declaration, and what it really means. Historic words delivered from the Australian Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The embassy was established on the lawns in front of the old Parliament House, and has existed continually since 1972. (Hey ... No wonder 'they' want to close it down ... )

4.5Mb 9mins.30 2nd Speaker Aboriginal Tent Embassy January 26. Alfie Neale, from a remote Aboriginal community in Northern Queensland follows up Isabel Coe's call for a declaration of Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, with charming recollections of the first tent embassy in 1972, and insights into tribal law. What does it mean, why do aborigines respect it, and how can it guide the movement today, in the context of tolerating the anglo-european legal system?

8.2Mb 17Mins.30seconds. Michael Anderson at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. 3rd Speaker. Michael, one of the original 4, who sat up under a Beach Umbrella in front of the old Parliament House of Australia in 1972. They triggered a political panic when they declared it the Australian Aboriginal Tent Embassy. This Embassy became the focus for the aboriginal land rights movement. Michael delivers an awesome history lesson. How did these four callow, and apparently shy, aboriginal people (among the first to gain University degrees)do it? By setting up the Tent Embassy, they started a movement that brought to Australia recognition that it was the only British Colonial nation that did not afford legal recognition to the original inhabitants. Until 1967, Australian aboriginals did not have the vote. As a non-people, they were 'wards of the state' who had no land rights. In the early 1970s these young activists claimed rights to a continent from which they had been dispossessed. Only in the 1990s was there a legal recognition that Australia had been inhabited before the Europeans arrived. According to Michael, it wasn't easy for these early activists to make the first move. They were, as young activists, negotiating a space between aboriginal law and respect for their elders, and the anglo-white legal and political system that is still a minefield for many. A fascinating, ego-free, history lesson for us all.

5.5Mb 10 minutes. Michael Mansell Tasmanian Aboriginal activist elder, and another living legend, lays it on the line during the 'Australia Day' "celebrations". Listen to the Australian Air Force (still called the 'Royal' Australian Air Force!) Jets buzz Canberra in the background; the Australian Howard government's idea of celebration - while Michael makes a ringing endorsement for Isabel Coe's call to name January 26 "Aboriginal Sovereignty Day". Michael outlines the risks and dangers, and the losses the movement has incurred by the tendency of some aboriginal representatives to negotiate and make political concessions to the present Howard government, at the expense of losing some of the hard won rights. Some hard talking, here.

Len Martin on Mulgum House. Talk for Community Radio Nim Fm and the general public about Nimbin’s old age care issue. The bizarre events surrounding Mulgum House, Nimbin’s old age care facility, prompted Len Martin to come forward to tell us what happened, and the background about local old aged care. He speaks about the failure of common sense, neglect and ignorance towards the community’s own efforts to solve the problems at hand. Len also talks about the right to grow old and die with dignity in your own community with your own social network of friends and relatives near you. Produced by Scan Dot Org 2006-02-01 Nim Fm studios Length: 16 mins. File info: 64 kb/s mono 7.6 MB

4.3 Mb 19mins.
 Ecotones January 20. Shell gets us up to speed on the latest environmental issues

41Mb. 43 minutes. Hi Fi version (128kbps stereo) Lo-fi mono to follow. English language interview with three Chileans (one of whom is the official representative of the Chilean Socialist Party in Australia) who arrived in Australia to escape torture and repression at the hands of the Pinochet regime which came to power in 1973 in a US supported coup against the elected socialist President Salvador Allende. They discuss the implications of the recent election of Michele Bachelet, Chile's first woman president, and the second socialist president since Allende. They recall the events of the 1970s, and meetings with Michele Bachelet who also came to Australia as a refugee in the 1970s, after her father had been tortured and killed. Their delight at the election result is tempered by memories of their experiences at the hands of the fascists, who still have considerable clout in Chile.

8.6Mb. 38 mins Caroline's village Voice pt. 1.

9.2Mb. 40 mins pt. 2. Caroline's Village Voice

15Mb. 15 mins. Chile Past and Future - jan 23- - Spanish Language. (Edicion Espanol). ------------ Victor Marillanca is the representative of the Chilean Socialist Party for Australia and Oceania. Like Michelle Bachelet, he came to Australia in 1975 after being imprisoned and tortured by the Pinochet regime. Bibi and Manolo arrived in Australia under similar circumstances in 1978. They discuss the implications for Chile of the election of Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman President. They recall their impressions of Michelle when she was in Australia, first as a refugee in the 1970s, and later (last year), as Chile's Minister for Defense. (English language interview to follow) A co-prouction of Community Radio 2NimFM of Nimbin,(102.3FM) and Community Radio 2XX of Canberra (98.2FM). -------------------------- Chilenos expatriatas, que tuvieron que huir la represion de la regimen fascista de Augusto Pinochet, hablan de sus recuerdos de su companera Michelle Bachelet, y el importe de la eleccion de la primera presidente mujer de Chile. Co-Produccion de Radio communidad 2NimFM 102.3FM y 2XX 98.2FM de Canberra.

3.8Mb 16 mins. Ecotones January 13. Compact Edition. ---------- Shelly bringing us up to speed on the issues that really matter. Tasmania's forests, and the travesty of the plantations, the commercialisation of our Marine environment, and more on the Aboriginal tent Embassy, January 26 ('Invasion Day').

5.7 Mb. 24 mins. Ecotones January 6 ---------- Shelly's Ecotones. (compact edition) The burning ecological and environmental issues in today's world. Preparations for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy rally in Canberra on Australia Day (January 26) - Call from the Environment centre to organise a bus from Lismore. Recent developments in the whaling issue - GreenPeace confronts Japan. Climate change (why has this been the world's hottest summer?) Activities of the Nimbin Environment Centre.

5Mb. 22mins Ecotones December 30 ---------------- Topics include local issue; water supply and whale murdering cont.., Aboriginal Tent Embassy Corroborree for Sovereignty Jan 26 -Australia Invasion Day,

3.34Mb. 14:46 - Environmentally oriented newsviews. December 16th First Edition! Index Intro 1. Newcastle Group "Rising Tide" ... blockaded construction of new railway tracks for the coal industry ... 2. Info Lake Cowal, about Easter 2006 gathering 3. Canberra Aboriginal Tent Embassy update - no camping! ... 4. Tuvalu's request for re-settling 50% of their population has been rejected by Australia ... 5. Climate change ideas for individuals "POWER OFF FOR AN HOUR" ... 6.Tasmania update on Gunns Timber logging Ambitions and pulpmilling ... 7. more info, ... Outro Apologies for short silence spaces in the beginning; Credits: 2 Nim Fm and local Environment Center.. Producer: Shelly, regular show: "Ecotone" A range of reggae music

9Mb 14 Minutes Anniversary of the foundation of the FMLN - the Salvadoran revolutionary movement that fought the US government backed military regime to a standstill in 1990 in a guerilla war and are now the major opposition party in El Salvador. In Canberra, Saturday 29 of October, the Assistant Bishop to Canberra and Goulbourne Pat Power, the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly Wayne Berry, the representative of the Venezuelan Embassy Nelson Davila, Giovanni Ortiz from the Sydney committee of the FMLN, Jose Maria Funes, reading the poetry of Bernardo Zamora, all paying tribute to the achievements of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front of El Salvador in resisting the imposition of US Imperialism on their country. Background music from the song "el sombrero Azul" the "Blue Hat" ('The Salvadoran People wear the Heavens as a Hat'). See previous post for Spanish speakers.

(Spanish Language section) - 25th Anniversary of the foundation of the FMLN - the Salvadoran revolutionary movement that fought the US government backed military regime to a standstill in 1990 in a guerilla war and are now the major opposition party in El Salvador. In Canberra, Saturday 29 of October, the Assistant Bishop to Canberra and Goulbourne Pat Power, the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly Wayne Berry, the representative of the Venezuelan Embassy Nelson Davila, Giovanni Ortiz from the Sydney committee of the FMLN, Jose Maria Funes, reading the poetry of Bernardo Zamora, all paying tribute to the achievements of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front of El Salvador in resisting the imposition of US Imperialism on their country. Background music from the song "el sombrero Azul" the "Blue Hat" ('The Salvadoran People wear the Heavens as a Hat'). English speakers in the next post.

4.9 Mb 10 Minutes. Lara Pullin is an Australian woman who recently returned from Venezuela, where it seems an unreported revolution is under way. In this podcast preview she describes a community where the police are banned and citizens maintain their own law and order free from intervention. Community issues are resolved within and by the community itself. Lara was attending a function at the Venezuelan Embassy in Canberra where I also met the new representative of the Venezuelan Government . This interview arose out of a discussion comparing conditions in our respective countries. I told him a little about Nimbin, and how Police Surveillance Cameras were installed at huge expense while our community based security organisation, the 'Jungle Patrol' has had its funding withdrawn. The Venezuelan representative was intrigued with the history of Nimbin and sends revolutionary greetings to Community Radio Station 2NimFM.

5.72Mb. 25mins
Omega's Free Press Radio show. October 26 Free Press Media is a Nim FM radio show that features guitar based contemporary music, and live local recordings and interviews with local political, environmental and musical identities. Between tracks is the latest fringe news on politics and the environment. See Playlist above.

Kimi's debut to podcasting. She talks about gay lifestyle and sexuality issues. In this preview she talks about community attitudes confronting sex workers. With the gayest of musical tastes, of course.