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Juan Flores was awarded the Casa de las Americas 2009 Premio Extraordinario de Estudios Sobre Los Latinos en los Estados Unidos for his latest book Bugalú y otros guisos: ensayos sobre culturas latinas en Estados Unidos .
Short review: The Diaspora Strikes Back - The eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores examines what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants return ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Andres Conteris - from Honduras. Coup regime changes President3.04 Mb. 64 kbps mono 6 minutes 39 seconds
Andres Conteris who has spent the last 4 months with President Mel Zelaya trapped inside the Brazilian Embassy saw the appointment of the coup regime's new de facto President, and 'Mel' Zelaya leave the country on January 27. Zelaya received a 'safe conduct' to fly to the Dominican Republic with a promise that he would 'be back'. Meanwhile the Resistance Front ignored the poorly attended changeover ceremony for the incoming 'President' while ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Timor - Hera Power Plant: Charles Scheiner4.65 Mb 64 kbps mono 10 minutes 10 seconds
Charles Scheiner, working in Timor Leste for the last ten years was present at the ceremony to begin the construction of the controversial Hera electricity generating plant. Now years behind completion it is supposed to provide Timor with a comprehensive, reliable electricity supply. But at what price? And is it what Timor really needs right now?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Timor Leste - Wesley Smith on sustainability15.3 Mb. 128 kbps 16minutes 45 seconds
Robert ('Wes') Wesley Smith has been an activist for East Timorese independence since 1975. Recently (January 2010) he made one of his many visits and spent several weeks touring the countryside and promoting sustainable energy and agricultural practices. He is critical of some of the development policies of the current government.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Timor Leste - Shona Hawkes on sustainability5.2 Mb 128 kbps 5 minutes 35 seconds
Shona Hawkes has been working in Timor Leste for several years now with the La'o Hamutuk NGO. She talks about how the large scale projects budgeted with oil revenues is distorting the financing for the real needs of the country if it is to achieve sustainability in the future.
(Poto: President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos Horta at the opening of the controversial Hera Power Plant)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Honduras Garifuno Radio trashed! - Ricardo Salgado8.1 Mb. 128kbps mono 8 minutes 50 seconds
Ricardo Salgado, community worker and researcher reports on the destruction of the community radio of the indigenous Garifuno people on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Supporters of the coup want to turn indigenous community land to developers for tourism. Meanwhile, the rest of the country speculates on the fate of the legitimately elected President Zelaya (trapped inside the Brazilian Embassy for the last five months) when the de facto government ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Honduras - Presidential changeover; Karen Spring12.1 Mb 256 kbps stereo 6 minutes 51 seconds.
Karen Spring of Rights Action talks about the lead up to the changeover of the Presidency in Honduras. There is much speculation about the fate of the legally elected President whose term ends on January 27 and the position of the Resistance Front. Karen also reviews some aspects of the human rights situation in Honduras under the coup regime and the changeover of the Presidency. Karen has investigated the destruction of Gariifuna indigenous com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Honduras - andre Conteris, Democracy Now with the legal President. Inside the Brazilian Embassy, Honduras7Mb mono 128 kbps. mono 7 minutes 25 seconds.Andres Conteris, journalist with Democracy Now has been holed up in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa with the legally elected President 'Mel' Zelaya since September 21. There is still a massive military presence outside the Embassy to prevent him from leaving. Andres gives us an update on the situation inside the Embassy after many difficult months, and the farcical, illegitimate elections held on November 29. Exclusive to A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Remembering Balio - Jim Dunn recalls the execution of the Balibo 5
Jim Dunn,
former Consul in East Timor, human rights activist, researcher, and one
of the last people to leave Dili before the Indonesian invasion in
December 1975, recalls the characters and the incidents depicted in the
film "Balibo" that he had met, and experienced in real life.
Published:
Fri, 8 Jan 2010 5:33 PM
Duration:
23:40
Download:
JimDunnBalibomono.mp3
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Another Xmas murder. El Salvador and the drive to mine the gold.10.6 Mb. 128 kbps. mono 11 minutes 40 seconds.Another anti-mining activist has been assassinated. Just before Xmas an anti-mining activist was murdered. He was an important witness in the murder of another anti-mining activist last August. The day after Xmas an eight month pregnant woman, also part of the anti-mining movement and a potential witness to the earlier murder was killed by gunmen. The Canadian mining company which was seeking mining rights and sueing the Salvadoran government fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Salvadoran government reaction to mining murder.8.9 Mb. 128 kbps. mono 9 minutes 41 seconds.Lara Pullin of the Canberra Committee of the FMLN translated the statement of El Salvador's largest political party regarding the third death in a matter of weeks of individuals associated with the anti-mining movement. Lara talks about the responses available to the Salvadoran President, the government, FMLN as a party and above all the people of El Salvador to these vicious killings that are associated with the interests of a Canadian mining com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Another Anti-Mining activist murdered - CISPES report from El Salvador4Mb. 128 kbps. 4 minutes 26 secondsWhile the death squad style torture and murder of an anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera last July is still being assimilated another anti- mining community figure has been assassinated shortly before Xmas. Ramiro Rivera (no relative) narrowly escaped death last August when he received 8 bullet wounds. Although he was provided with police protection he was ambushed and killed on December 20. Alexis, of CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Andres Conteris - from inside the Brazilian Embassy, Honduras6.5 Mb. 128 kbps mono 7 minutesAndre Conteris, journalist for Democracy Now has been inside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa with the Honduran President 'Mel' Zelaya, since his arrival there in September. The Brazilian Embassy has been under siege by the military forces of Honduras' coup regime to this day. Andres talks to community radio about President Zelaya's future plans, and the situation in Honduras. In spite of the 'elections' of last November 29 the human rights abuses have not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ricardo Salgado Pt. 1 - inside Honduras after the 'election' of November 297.8 Mb 128 kbps mono 8 minutes 33 secondsRicardo Salgado keeps community radio informed about the constantly changing situation in Honduras - the popularly boycotted 'elections' in Honduras on November 29 has not, as the mainstream media and politicians claim 'resolved' the crisis. In fact, tensions have increased with more violent and shocking human rights violations than ever before. The resolve of the people to resist the coup regime is hardening.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ricardo Salgado Pt.2 - inside Honduras after the 'election' of November 298Mb 128 kbps 8 minutes 47 secondsRicardo Salgado Part 2. Ricardo talks to community radio about the economic fallout of the illegality of the coup regime, and a number of politically and economically unwise decisions made since the spurious elections of November 29. Micheletti's announcement that he would not repay the credits afforded by ALBA could have repercussions beyond his comprehension - especially now that the ALBA countries recognise the Resistance as a political force in its ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ricardo Salgado Pt.3 - inside Honduras after the 'election' of November 297.5 Mb. 128 kbps mono 7 minutes Ricardo Salgado in Honduras talks to community radio about the political future of individual actors in the coup regime compared to the future of the Resistance Front - the Resistance Front, thrown up spontaneously in popular outrage against the coup of June 28 is now a mature popular movement that is now claiming political recognition. January will see recognition of the strength of this movement, and a showdown between the coup regime, its' few ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FMLN visit to Australia 2. (Spanish Language) - David Rodriguez, Francisco Ramos 32.6 Mb 128 kbps. stereo 35:42 (Spanish language/Espanol)Francisco Ramos y David Rodriguez (Diputado del FMLN) frente una audiencia en Australia sobre las tareas del FMLN como partido politico y como movimiento social. Palabras inspiracional.Francisco Ramos and David Rodriguez (FMLN member in the Salvadoran Assembly) speaking to an audience at the Australian National University with inspiring words, reminding all of El Salvador's harsh history and the tasks of the FMLN today both as a polit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FMLN visit to Australia 3. (Spanish Language) - Questions (Preguntas) David Rodriguez, Francisco Ramos y Antonio Hernandez19.7 Mb. 128 kbps (stereo) 21:34 minutes. (Spanish language/Espanol)Preguntas para la delegacion del FMLN en Australia, Noviembre 2009Question time for three members of an FMLN delegation touring Australia. David Rodriguez is a former priest, a veteran activist for the FMLN since its early days, and currently a 'diputado' or elected representative for the FMLN in El Salvador's 'Assembly' or Parliament. Francisco Ramos is a Salvadoran who came to Australia as a political refugee in the 1980s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FMLN visit to Australia 1. (Spanish Language) -Antonio Hernandez22.6Mb. 128kbps 24:22 minsAntonio Hernandez, representative of the FMLN visiting Australia. Medical doctor and the Director of the Foundation for Community and Municipal Development, a significant member of the FMLN from its early days as a movement that at times had to resort to armed struggle, he talks about the lessons to be learned to survive as a grass roots organisation. Talking at the ANU in Canberra at a public lecture attended by the Latin American community.Antonio Hernandez ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Honduras - after the 'elections' what?14Mb. 128 kbps 15 minutes(Image - offices of worker organisation shot up by military on day of the elections. Photo; Ricardo Salgado)Rights Action delegation ask a spokesperson what direction the Popular Front is likely to take after 'election' day.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
