Mon, 9 December 2013
Toni Solo walks us through the cooperative school he has founded on the outskirts of Esteli. |
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
A visit to a Nicaraaguan Cooperative Part 1 (English)
A visit to a Nicaraguan cooperative Part 2 (English)
Mon, 9 December 2013
Toni Solo walks us through the cooperative school he has founded in Nicaragua on the outskirts of Esteli. |
Memories of Victor Jara - English activist remembers (English)
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Pedro Cabezas. CRIPDES vs Pacific Rim and Oceana Gold.
Interview with Damian Alegria - FMLN representative in Salvadoran Congress
Wed, 25 June 2014
Damian talks about the trajectory of the FMLN under the presidency of Salvador Sanchez Ceren
Annie Bird - comment on Honduran election results.
Sat, 7 December 2013
I began by asking Annie if she had any doubts that the election
results in Honduras were fraudulent. She was adamant thst they were.
What did this mean for Honduras in the near future?
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Pre-electoral ambiente de miedo y intimidacion (Espanol)
Fri, 29 November 2013
(Foto, Una conferencia de prensa con observadores y victimas de un desalojo y el asesinato de familiares, unos pocos dias antes la fecha de las elecciones)
Despues una conferencia de prensa con un equipo de observadores, hablando del ambiente de intimidacion en Honduras en los dias y semanas antes las elecciones de Noviembre 24, un periodista del Radio Globo me conto sus proprios experiencias como periodista, trabajando en Honduras.
Canadian Observer critical of Honduras´government´s treatment of Indigenous people
Fri, 29 November 2013
At a press conference in the capital of Honduras and indigenous Canadian enumertes abuses against Honduras´indigenous people that escalated in the days leading up to the elections on November 24 2013
Flawed lead up to Honduras Elections (English) - Karen Spring
Sat, 23 November 2013
 15 Mb. 20 minutes(Photo, one of the many murals on the walls of the headquarters of the human rights organisation, COFADEH.)
Karen Spring is a journalist and researcher based in Honduras. She was present during the 2009 coup and is currently working out of the main human rights office in Honduras (COFEDAH). An expert observer of Honduran politics, she gives her assessment of what is happening in the lead up to the Honduras'elections, behind the facade presented to the rest of the world.
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Sun, 4 August 2013
8Mb mono 14 minutes
Second part of an interview with Toni Solo, based in Nicaragua. In the context of the legal and international rights controversies generated by Snowden, Assange, the trials of Guatemalan ex-President Rios Montt for war crimes, and the Canadian mining company Hudbay for Human rights violations, the meeting of the Latin American ALBA countries in Ecuador this week, to discuss human rights issues takes on significant geopolitical weight.
Second part of an interview with Toni Solo, based in Nicaragua. In the context of the legal and international rights controversies generated by Snowden, Assange, the trials of Guatemalan ex-President Rios Montt for war crimes, and the Canadian mining company Hudbay for Human rights violations, the meeting of the Latin American ALBA countries in Ecuador this week, to discuss human rights issues takes on significant geopolitical weight.
Sun, 4 August 2013
4Mb. Mono. 7 mintes
First part of an interview with Toni Solo, based in Nicaragua. In the context of the legal and international rights controversies generated by Snowden, Assange, the trials of Guatemalan ex-President Rios Montt for war crimes, and the Canadian mining company Hudbay for Human rights violations, the meeting of the Latin American ALBA countries in Ecuador this week, to discuss human rights issues takes on significant geopolitical weight.
First part of an interview with Toni Solo, based in Nicaragua. In the context of the legal and international rights controversies generated by Snowden, Assange, the trials of Guatemalan ex-President Rios Montt for war crimes, and the Canadian mining company Hudbay for Human rights violations, the meeting of the Latin American ALBA countries in Ecuador this week, to discuss human rights issues takes on significant geopolitical weight.
Fri, 12 July 2013
28 Mb. 48 minutes, mono
Toni Solo reports from Nicaragua. Why whistleblower Snowden would want to go there , how Venezuela is sending US State Secretary John Kerry bonkers, and why Latin American countries (and some in the Caribbean) are standing up for their rights. Musical breaks from David Rovic's Prism album. |
Nicaragua's Trans Oceanic canal
Sun, 23 June 2013
 9Mb. 13 minutesToni Solo from Nicaragua talks about some of the environmental and geopolitical issues at stake in the announcement by the Nicaraguan government of an agreement with a Hong Kong based Chinese company to go ahead with feasability studies for a massive canal project connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean coast through largely uninhabited jungle areas of Nicaragua. |
Former President on War Crimes charges
Mon, 3 June 2013
19.2 Mb 21 minutes Stereo mp3
Grahame Russel is a Canadian lawyer who works with Rights Action (http://rightsaction.org). He was in Guatemala as an observer for the trial of Rios Efrain Montt who is accused of being responsible for the genocide of over 100 thousand Mayan indigenous people during his term as President in the early 1980s. Grahame makes the point that this is a ground breaking trial as it implicates the current President of Guatemala who was a major in the Guatemalan Armed Forces at the time the human rights abuses and the genocide was peaking. Alan Nairn, a journalist who filmed current President Otto Perez Molina gloating over the bodies of villagers suspected of being supporters of the guerilla forces was blocked from presenting evidence at the trial. (http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/19/exclusive_allan_nairn_exposes_role_of) |
Timor Media - Interview with Jose Belo
Fri, 14 September 2012
46.3 Mb. 51 minutes
Jose Belo is a Timorese man who perhaps represents the highest values of journalism. Active in the Timorese resistance movement against the Indonesian occupation, he was a critical factor in enabling those few independent Australian journalists who contrived to work in Timor Leste (legendary journalists like John Martinkus, Max Stahl, and others) to gather critical information about the Indonesian occupation, and to get that information out. He was captured and tortured by the Indonesians 7 times, continuing to work in Timor even though he had the opportunity to live in exile in Australia.
After Timorese independence he became a journalist, still maintaining a critical and independent attitude to successive governments of Timor Leste. One year he was threatened with house arrest when he accused a government minister of corruption. He is currently the editor of "Tempo Semanal", a weekly publication that is one of the most influential in the country, still attacking the government on issues of corruption and misspending of state finances.
He was involved in the making of the film Balibo, and more recently, the subject of a more recent film ('Breaking the news') about to be released exposing the behaviour and role of some foreign journalists working in Timor Leste whose ethical and professional standards do not perhaps, match up to Jose's own.
In this interview he talks about his values as a journalist, why he became a journalist, how he became a journalist, and the values that inform his work.
Note: This is a raw, unedited sound file. The sound quality is generally adequate for reproduction, but another shortened edited and contextualised version of this interview will be posted soon.
Jose Belo is a Timorese man who perhaps represents the highest values of journalism. Active in the Timorese resistance movement against the Indonesian occupation, he was a critical factor in enabling those few independent Australian journalists who contrived to work in Timor Leste (legendary journalists like John Martinkus, Max Stahl, and others) to gather critical information about the Indonesian occupation, and to get that information out. He was captured and tortured by the Indonesians 7 times, continuing to work in Timor even though he had the opportunity to live in exile in Australia.
After Timorese independence he became a journalist, still maintaining a critical and independent attitude to successive governments of Timor Leste. One year he was threatened with house arrest when he accused a government minister of corruption. He is currently the editor of "Tempo Semanal", a weekly publication that is one of the most influential in the country, still attacking the government on issues of corruption and misspending of state finances.
He was involved in the making of the film Balibo, and more recently, the subject of a more recent film ('Breaking the news') about to be released exposing the behaviour and role of some foreign journalists working in Timor Leste whose ethical and professional standards do not perhaps, match up to Jose's own.
In this interview he talks about his values as a journalist, why he became a journalist, how he became a journalist, and the values that inform his work.
Note: This is a raw, unedited sound file. The sound quality is generally adequate for reproduction, but another shortened edited and contextualised version of this interview will be posted soon.
Timorese Police Chief under pressure. NGO watchdog backgrounds him. Interview with Fundasaun Mahein
Wed, 12 September 2012
8.2 Mb. 8 minutes 45 seconds (stereo)Head of the PNTL (Timorese National Police), Longhuino Monteiro has been called on to resign for a series of incidents involving 'missing' weapons over several years. The most recent is the disappearance of a high powered automatic weapon, with 60 rounds of ammunition from the car of the head of Police Intelligence while it was parked outside a brothel. Longuino dismissed this as 'not a problem - a single weapon is not a threat to public security'. But this, and other weapons that have gone missing over the years is, according to the NGO Fundasaun Mahein a flaw in the PNTL that Monteiro has not addressed.
Fundasaun Mahein (Guardian Foundation) is an NGO that evolved as a watchdog research organisation concerned with issues of public security out of the destabilising conflicts of 2006 and 2007, that involved elements of both the Timorese Police and the the Timorese Armed Forces, who at times were involved in armed conflict against each other.
Pt 1 Early history of Timor's independence movement - Australian solidarity. Briefing of CAVR researchers.
Tue, 24 July 2012
11Mb. 14 minutes
A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood.
A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood.
Part 2 Early history of Timor's independence movement. Australian solidarity. Briefing of CAVR research team.
Tue, 24 July 2012 11Mb. 12 minutes 45 seconds A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood. |
Pt 3 Early history of Timor's independence movement - Australian solidarity. Briefing of CAVR researchers.
Tue, 24 July 2012
9.3 Mb. 11 minutes
A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood.
A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood.
Part 4 Early history of Timor's independence movement. Australian solidarity. Briefing of CAVR research team.
Tue, 24 July 2012
8.5 Mb. 9 minutes 22 seconds
A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood.
A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. It will focus particularly on women, and also the solidarity movement. Four Australians recall the early years of Australian solidarity at a time when the struggle of the Timorese people was not well known or understood.
