headlines: air quality report, fcc dereg, epa dies, asscroft, wto/ruling on medicine

features: uk 9.11 arms fair, british aerospace, wto update from cancun, chile 30 year anniversity coup.

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Report from Gerard Greenfield, from inside the halls of the Via Campesina gathering this morning. Excellent quote from a Thai farmer. "The WTO can go to hell".

English.

Gerard Greenfield went to a meeting of the Via Campesina, (the International Farmers forum) today. About 3000 farmers attended this meeting from indigenous communities from around the world.

Dr Luis Hernandez, an environmentalist from Southern Mexico, speaks passionately about the WTO and globalisation. He makes the point that the WTO is putting trade above the needs of the environment and developing countries.

English, about 7 minutes

This is an interview with Arwin at the Indymedia centre here in Cancun. She and a few others have been training people to be street medics. As I walked past, she was training a young activist on how to rinse the eyes of a person blinded by teargas. I got this interview afterwards, asked her about what it's like to be a street medic, what kind of situations they are preparing for, and what the general feeling on the street is.

English, 2.41 minutes

Auntie Bees Knees looks at the UK's Defense Systems and Equipment International exhibition and conference being held in London, September 9th to 12th.

interview_mex_maixe_people.mp3

Este archivo fue grabado al Foro GLobal de Biodiversidad a la reunion de la OMC en Cancun, Mexico. Entrevistamos dos campesinos indigenos de Oaxaca, Mexico, sobre el paperl que el maiz tiene en sus vidas, y por que ellos han venido a la OMC. Escucha!

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The Global Diversity Forum

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.

length 3:26. Discussed the potential impact of pending legislation that would place caps on compensation for the non-economic damages caused by corporations and/or medical malpractice.

Two short audio promos (mp3 64kbps) for indymedia uk coverage of dsei anti-arms fair events - dsei is europes largest arms fair running over sept 11th - there's a week of counter events, conferences, vigils, actions and blockades including an RTS party. (article 1)

On sept 11th the arms fair delegates will hold their gala dinner in a central london hotel - too sick for words!

Indymedia uk will be covering the protests inc a 3 day radio webstream running 9th/10th/11th - url details tbc

- short 30 sec jingle style promo 240k