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AUDIO Honduras coup regime reneges on agreement - with US support.

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:22:25 PST

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Toni Solo reflects on the shocking retraction of the US' professed commitment to recognise the November 29 elections in Honduras if President Zelaya is reinstated. De facto president Micheletti signed an agreement brokered by the US to reinstate President Zelaya on October 30, but refused to convene the Honduras Congress to ratify the agreement. President Zelaya is still a virtual prisoner trapped inside the Brazilian Embassy, even though it was assumed that he could resume the Presidential seat after the November 5 deadline.

On the weekend of November 7 the US unexpectedly announced that the US would recognise the November elections, whether Zelaya was reinstated or not - thus conferring a spurious legitimacy on the regime and dividing the Organisation of American States in its original position of not recognising the elections if Zelaya was not reinstated beforehand.

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VIDEO: Remembrance Day -- The Green Fields of France

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:50:14 PST

Written and sung by Eric Bogle.
AKA The Green Fields of France and Willie McBride.

My grandmother's first husband died on the Somme. She brought up his 3 children alone ..

AUDIO Arctic thunderstorms and fires signal global warming

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:37:40 PST

Free Speech Radio News goes beyond the policy discussions and take you to the Arctic, where scientists are finding direct evidence of a rapidly changing planet. Above the Arctic Circle at the Toolik Field station is the National Science Foundation's largest Arctic research facility. And here, scientists are becoming concerned about a possible connection between an increase in Arctic thunderstorms, the melting of permafrost and a subsequent release of more greenhouse gasses. FSRN's Charles Michael Ray spent two weeks at Toolik and files this report.

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AUDIO Patrick Bond on the lead up to Copenhagen

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:57:20 PST

The major issues in the lead up to the Copenhagen climate change summit are the ecological debt that the global north owes the global south, the extent of emissions targets to be set and whether carbon trading can work as a mechanism to reach those targets.

None of these issues will be adequately addressed without pressure from within the summit from climate change effected third world countries and civil society groups from both the north and south pressuring governments into significant action.

Patrick Bond is the director of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa.

Sean Robinson started by asking Patrick to give us an indication of how climate change is so devastating to the global south.

This interview was broadcast on Radio Adelaide on the 4th of November.

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AUDIO: Dr Brian Senewiratne and the Sri Lankan crisis

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:41:06 PDT

Oct 22, 2009: ABC Queensland

In September last year, the Government of Sri Lanka ordered all aid agencies (including the UN agencies) to leave the 'northern war zone' of Sri Lanka. UN agencies have been delivering food and medical aid to nearly 160,000 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) ie refugees, in the Vanni...the Tamil area just south of the Jaffna Peninsula. There were 13 aid groups in the region, providing emergency food aid, clean water and sanitation to some 200,000 people living in refugee camps and under trees in this area. All agencies except ICRC, the Red Cross, left. A humanitarian crisis is now unfolding.

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AUDIO Honduras - more breaking news from Ricardo Salgado

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:58:57 PDT

Ricardo Salgado reports from Honduras on the withdrawal of Resistance Front Representative from the 'dialogue' between President Zelaya and the coup regime. A positive outcome is not likely, and it seems that repression of the Honduran people by the coup regime is growing proportionately. The interview was paused while Ricardo went out to investigate the sound of shooting in the streets - a sound he says, the Honduran people have become all too used to.

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AUDIO Honduras - more breaking news from Ricardo Salgado

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:00:49 PDT

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Ricardo Salgado reports from Honduras on the withdrawal of Resistance Front Representative from the 'dialogue' between President Zelaya and the coup regime. A positive outcome is not likely, and it seems that repression of the Honduran people by the coup regime is growing proportionately. The interview was paused while Ricardo went out to investigate the sound of shooting in the streets - a sound he says, the Honduran people have become all too used to.

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AUDIO: Honduras Tensions Grow

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:23:02 PDT

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(Photo courtesy of Radio Gualcho)

Toni Solo returns to Nicaragua after a week in Honduras where he has picked up disturbing stories that someone is returning fire on the police. By most accounts the 'gangs' or 'maras' (closely involved with the narcotics trade in Central American countries) guarding their 'turf' - but in this case the police were pursuing and firing on a street demonstration that took refuge in a poor neighbourhood, or 'barrio'. But there was also another armed group defending the demonstrators who were clearly not gang members - this just a week after a report that a police station had been overrun and weapons taken.

While the demonstrations are well disciplined and strictly non violent, if the coup regime does not respond positively to the deadline offered this October 15 - after 115 days of non violent protest, some elements might be forgiven for thinking of armed struggle as an option.

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AUDIO Honduras - breaking news from Ricardo Salgado

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:21:18 PDT

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(Photo courtesy of Radio Gualcho, Honduras)

While proclaiming to the international community and media that they are 'prepared to negotiate' the coup regime of Honduras has made it obvious that there is one point that they will not negotiate - that is the reinstatement of President Zelaya, who is sheltering in the Brazilian Embassy. The Micheletti coup regime set up a hydraulic lift with two snipers wearing night goggles on a level with the second story of the Embassy, in a clear attempt at further intimidate the President and his supporters inside. Ricardo Salgado reports from Honduras in an exclusive interview with community radio 2NimFm.

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AUDIO:Honduras - Toni Solo Pt. 2 - The regional context; Nicaragua's economy

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:21:50 PDT

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Part 2 of Toni Solo (tortillaconsal) interview on the regional context of the Honduras crisis. In this section Toni discusses the lessons learned from CAFTA after he spent an hour with the Nicaraguan Minister for Finance.

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AUDIO:Honduras -- Toni Solo - Regional Issues

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:09:29 PDT

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Toni Solo travels frequently between Nicaragua and Honduras. In this in depth interview he talks about the Honduras situation, 110 days after the coup, the latest developments, President Zelaya's deadline to break the impasse with the de facto coup government, and what the implications of the Honduras crisis are for the region.

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AUDIO: The Cuban Five

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:25:07 PDT

Steal This Radio #91

Attorney Leonard Weinglass discusses the trials and tribulations of the Cuban Five. The show first aired on Tuesday August 11.

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AUDIO Honduras update - Andres Conteris and Mel Zelaya from inside the Brazilian Embassy

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:39:46 PDT

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Andres Conteris and others say that there may be a 'light at the end of the tunnel'. Elements within the military and business community that originally backed the coup are putting pressure on the Micheletti de-facto government to be less intransigent and negotiate.

The President and his supporters in the besieged Brazilian Embassy had high morale and were in good spirits, having just celebrated the birthday of the President's grandchild. He sent a gruff 'Saludos' to community radio in Australia.

But for the people of Honduras the issue now goes far further than reinstating Zelaya. They are demanding the Constitutional reform and determined to defy the suspension of Constitutional guarantees that has unleashed a wave of repression.

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AUDIO:Economic crisis effects treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:40:32 PDT

From Free Speech Radio News

According to a recent Oxfam report, at least 75 million fewer children in poor countries are likely to attend school and 8.6 million fewer people could have access to HIV/AIDS treatment if aid is diverted to help poor countries fight climate change.

One country where the global economic crisis is affecting efforts to treat AIDS patients is South Africa. Here the UN estimates that 5.7 million people live with HIV/AIDS and 18 percent of those aged 15 to 49 have contracted the virus. FSRN´s Nathan Moore reads for our reporter Gabe Matthews who recently visited an AIDS clinic in Capetown.

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AUDIO: Economic tsunami is still haunting the world's economies

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:50:14 PDT

In case you were thinking that the economic crisis was passe here's a tit bit from an insider who tells it a lot differently than our own Wayne Swann.It was recorded by ABC Radio's The World Today on September 15th.

Author and former investment banker, John Talbott, joins The World Today to explain why he believes the President's proposed reforms won't prevent another economic collapse. Mr Talbott's books warned about economic instability, and predicted the US housing market collapse.

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AUDIO: The Siege of Honduras - Ricardo Salgado, update September 30

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:58:28 PDT

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Ricardo Salgado has just returned from the Brazilian Embassy where President Zelaya is defying three police lines and attempts by the coup regime to dislodge him and his supporters in contravention of international law. The Honduras Resistance movement is planning mass marches for tomorrow, and will attempt to retake Radio Globo that was shut down by the coup regime yesterday. Radio Globo is still broadcasting through the internet, and a network of smaller community radio stations. Will the resistance movement cause the de facto coup regime collapse under its own weight of repression sooner, or later?

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AUDIO:Siege of Honduras -- Andre Conteris from inside the Brazilian Embassy

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:43:27 PDT

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Andres Conteris, journalist for "Democracy Now" is inside the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras with President Zelaya who has taken refuge there until restored to his legitimate role. The Brazilian Embassy is under siege by the Honduran armed forces who have attempted to cut food supplies, water and electricity, jam communications and set up sound boxes designed to emit high pitched, irritating high decibal noise inside the Embassy grounds.

A week later, and the coup regime has declared a suspension of all constitutional rights and put an ultimatum to the Brazilian government. International reaction to this disturbing move has been disappointingly slow, especially from the US. The toll of casualties is mounting, the latest a woman who died from the effects of the teargas assault on the Brazilian Embassy. Radio Globo is no longer transmitting, but has maintained its internet stream. The Honduran coup regime is reacting hysterically and with typical excessive force against the popular outrage that has only grown over the last three months, with hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of people out in the streets in protest on a daily basis.

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AUDIO:As Honduran crisis continues, de facto government suspends civil rights

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:49:13 PDT

As the standoff between the two presidents of Honduras continues, Roberto Micheletti´s de facto government has suspended a number of civil rights, including the right to assembly and freedom of transit. The de facto government says it is doing this to maintain peace and public order. It also used the military to shut down two broadcast outlets that reported on anti-government protests. FSRN´s Tim Russo has more.

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AUDIO:Honduras ousted President Zelaya remains in Brazilian embassy

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:49:32 PDT

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya remains inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa and this morning, Pacifica's Mitch Jeserich had the opportunity to ask Zelaya a question through Andres Conteris, director of the Program on the Americas for the non-profit group, Nonviolence International and contributor to Democracy Now.

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LATINRADICAL AUDIO: Honduras coup ups the ante

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:37:22 PDT

Andres Conteris, journalist for "Democracy Now" is inside the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras with President Zelaya where he has taken refuge until he is restored to his legitimate role. The Brazilian Embassy is under siege by the Honduran armed forces who have attempted to cut food supplies, water and electricity, jam communications and set up sound boxes designed to emit high pitched, irritating high decibal noise inside the Embassy grounds.

Andres speaks with community radio station 2NimFM and Latin Radical
describes the situation there just a few hours after the Honduran military pumped some kind of noxious gas into the Embassy grounds.

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AUDIO: LatinRadical's Honduras Coverage

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:48 PDT

I have had an opportunity to listen again to LatinRadical's coverage of the situation in Honduras. I think Warwick Fry has outdone himself.I play a supplementary role in LatinRadical's web presence but the network of correspondents that Warwick has been able to generate -- in Central America especially -- has ensured that the interviews he has published are second to none in capturing the import of the political situation there in English.

Tony Solo's five part interview is especially rich source of considered analysis of the political consequences of the coup and what that means for the forces of reaction in Latin America.

So make sure you check out these reports:

LatinRadical's Honduras coverage.

Toni Solo 5 part Interview

Toni Solo (of Tortilla con Sal Nicaraguan web magazine) analyses the 65th day of continual protest in Honduras, by hundreds of thousands of protesters almost daily. They are protesting in a non violent way, against the coup regime who abducted their legally elected President and preventing his return. Police and military repression against the non violent protesters is mounting, but going unreported in the mainstream media. The popular resistance has grown so strong that by now, the reinstatement of President Zelaya is just one aspect of a massive demand for social justice. Honduras will never be the same.

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AUDIO [FSRN] Honduras stand-off continues; Zelaya remains in Brazilian embassy

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:48 PDT

A stand-off between the ousted President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya and Interim President Roberto Micheletti continues to generate civil strife, with several clashes reported Tuesday between Zelaya supporters and government forces. FSRN´s Tim Russo Reports.

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AUDIO:Honduras insurrection against the coup - Assassination attempts against President Zelaya.

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:48 PDT

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Ricardo Salgado from Honduras - 88th day of the coup, protest, and now insurrection, with people defying the coup regime's attempts to impose a round the clock curfew. 50,000 people are still demonstrating in the capital Tegucigalpa, and the military have taken over two sport stadiums to hold the people they have arrested and held. The popular media (radio globohonduras and Canal 36) are holding out despite attempts to shut them down, and announced and frustrated two planned attempts to assassinate President Zelaya within the Brazilian Embassy.

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AUDIO:Honduras Coup - Grahame Russel, eyewitness report on brute force.

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:15:41 PDT

Grahame Russel, human rights lawyer is in Honduras getting the real story out. The military coup, backed by the oligarchy and elite business community, has been universally condemned, but unlike Tehran the huge houtpouring of popular repudiation of the coup masters and the military, doesn't seem to be making the headlines in mainstream media.

Grahame was present last Sunday when the President of Honduras tried to fly in to return to his country after being bundled out of his residence last week by the military and put on a flight to Costa Rica. Somewhere between one hundred thousand and two hudnred thousand demonstrators turned up at the airport to see the Presidential plane land. Two were shot by the military and another four wounded. After the military placed trucks on the runway and fired shots at the plane after a low pass over the runway the landing was aborted.

He will try again on Wednesday (Thursday Australian time). The Honduran people are mobilised, the biggest outpouring of popular power in this country since the 1950s. Honduras is diplomatically isolated, although the US is slow to take decisive action.

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AUDIO: Coup in Honduras - eyewitness report

noreply@blogger.com (Dave Riley) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:15:56 PDT

Toni covers the Honduran coup

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