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June 2006's Critical Mass ride took place during Pittsburgh's second annual Bikefest, and Pittsburgh Indymedia was there.

Our video coverage is available online, and will be featured on an upcoming television broadcast on PCTV21.  If you want to get involved in independent TV production in Pittsburgh, we need your help, email video@indypgh.org !

Critical Mass happens on the last friday of each month, meeting at 5:30pm in front of the Carnegie Library in Oakland.

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[ last year: Critical Mass 2005 video and photos ]

Recently passed state legislation will raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania by $2 over the next year.  Governor Ed Rendell will be in Pittsburgh on Thursday July 13th to sign the bill at the Steelworkers' building.

Barney Oursler of the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, who pushed for the increase for five years, told Rustbelt Radio that this law will give low wage workers the opportunity to support themselves and their families.

[ Read more | Previous feature story | July 10th Rustbelt Radio ]

The Republican-led Pennsylvania General Assembly is set to consider legislation that would prohibit the state Department of Environmental Protection from adopting regulations to limit mercury pollution.

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Pittsburgh Indymedia's Rustbelt Radio is among a dozen groups and individuals to be recognized at the Thomas Merton Center's New Person Award, an annual event that serves to honor local activists with a commitment to peace and justice.  The theme for this year's New Person Awards, which will take place on Thursday, May 18 at Laroche College, is "Celebrating Academic Freedom: Honoring Activism in Academia." In choosing this year's theme, the Thomas Merton Center decided to affirm and support the right of students, faculty, and staff at area universities to dissent. This year's awardees come from many different area schools including the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Carlow University, LaRoche College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Duquesne University, and Slippery Rock University.

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On May 1st, Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants held a vigil and march to support rights for immigrants, easier and fairer path to legal immigration, and amnesty for all undocumented workers already in the United States. A bike bloc also toured the streets of Pittsburgh in solidarity with immigrants rights protests.

[ Photos by mike rachel agusta | Critique | Rustbelt Radio story ]