This Week's Majority World: audio

international | miscellaneous | news report Sunday February 19, 2006 03:37 by Robbie Sinnott

53min mp3 64kbps

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/rjs.mw.2006.2.16.mp3

Social Justice, Global Isues and matters multicultural.

US eye-witness of occupied Iraq

Basque "shoe tirals in Madrid"

European Services Directive

Melting Pot music from Ireland

Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink on her experiences in wartime Iraq. (16mins – an indymedia Binghamton recording).

Emilio from Irish Basque Committees on the “18/98 show-trials in Madrid”, and onsloughts against Basque identity from Spanish governments, ‘Socialist’ and Conservative). (10mins – live phone interview).

Barry Finnegan on the European Services Directive and the European Social Forum. (17 mins – live phone interview).

music: two tracks from Limerick international group Melting Pot; one song from Somalia, and a fiddle piece from Kurdistan (the part currently under Iranian jurisdiction). (1+1min – recording by Loughlin Mac Curtain of West Limerick Community Radio).

music: Susana Baka and end (5mins).

Majority World is a voluntary production. This one was broadcast live on Near FM 101.6 (a Duboin Community Radio station, on Thursday 16th February, 2006. Each week the programme can be heard live streaming at www.nearfm.ie 4:30-5:30 pm, and rebroadcast each Friday 9-10am at the same place.

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