Global Voices Online

Norte En Linea [es], a digital magazine devoted to activities in Northern Costa Rica recently unveiled its first podcast, which includes music and interviews.

El Salvador: Memories of War and Hope is an oral history project created by Sofia Jarrin-Thomas. She posts both Spanish and translated audio clips of interviews with Salvadorans affected by the civil war.

Tan Conectados [es] has begun to collect and list the various different podcasts made in Uruguay. The site hopes to motivate more people to create these podcasts.

Amira al Hussaini, GV's Middle East and North Africa editor, talks with Mideast Youth's Esra'a about GV- and Reuters-sponsored project Voices without Votes.

Radio 6 April [ar] is a new blog launched by Egyptian activists to draw attention to their plight, activities and the arrests of activists. The site includes reports, interviews and podcasts.

Caribbean Free Radio produces a podcast from Jamaica's Calabash International Literary Festival which includes perspectives on “Derek Walcott's unforgettable premiere reading of ‘The Mongoose'” and an interview with Jamaican writer Thomas Glave, who was quite vocal about the Prime Minister's recent comments about there being no place for homosexuals in his Cabinet.

In a podcast interview Kamla Bhatt talks with Lal David Rai, a second generation farmer of Mexican-Punjabi-Indian origin on the perceived shortage of rice in the USA and the global food shortage.

Bahraini blogger Esra'a, at Mideast Youth, interviews a Kurdish student in this podcast which discusses the Kurdish situation and the hypocrisy of mainstream media towards their cause.

Uprising Radio has a program on the recent election in Armenia, the protests that followed, and the state of emergency lifted last week. The guests on the radio station based in Los Angeles were Dr. Harry Sarafian and Harout Der-Tavitian from the Coalition for a Democratic Armenia.