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text What are you going to do about it? Sal Paradise 2005-07-31 1:24 AM
Republican leaders plan to meet in Pittsburgh later this week. (text/plain + 3 comments)

text First in potencial line of payola indictments in the bag Chris Holm 2005-07-30 10:16 AM
The payola cycle is begining to crumble and be exposed. (text/plain + 2 comments)

text Responsible Utility Customer Protection Act coming under fire stephen donahue 2005-07-28 4:26 PM
State Rep. Dwight Evans launches an inquiry and Gov. Rendell is "unhappy" with the bill (text/plain)

text Aug 6th, Counter-recruitment/Anti-war Protest POG 2005-07-28 2:01 PM
Saturday, August 6, 2005 - Counter-military recruitment/Anti-war Rally Meet 11:30am at 'the wall' (corner of Forbes and Bouquet in Oakland) (text/plain)

text WYEP article wrap up Chris Holm 2005-07-28 12:57 PM
WYEP's Mike Sauter has no comment as of yet to the crucial points of misconduct. (text/plain + 2 comments)

text Sports fishing: bad for fish and other living things Voices For Animals 2005-07-28 12:27 AM
An explanation of why sport fishing is cruel and details of the protest against the Bassmaster tournament on July 30th, (text/plain + 6 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for July 25, 2005 Indymeida Rustbelt Radio Collective 2005-07-26 9:07 AM
On this week's show... We speak with Aisha White, founder of the local group Rights and Responsibilities; a new Pennsylvania law has enabled utility companies to cut off service to thousands of residents, we'll hear from Steve Donahue; and Bad Cop No Donut brings us updates about police brutality and misconduct. (audio/mpeg)

text 24 hour vigil at SEI / aug. 1-6 vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-07-25 12:20 AM
come hungry to the vigil for peace (text/plain)

image Carfree Day 2005 Photos matt 2005-07-24 10:24 AM
Carfree Day 2005 Photos
Photos from Car Free Day, 2005, on Penn Ave. (image/jpeg)

text Pennsylvania initiates a vicious attack on the poor stephen donahue 2005-07-21 11:30 AM
Four dead so far thanks to dirty new law passed by the PA General Assembly and signed by Gov. Rendell. (text/plain + 22 comments)

application (pdf) new poster for aug. 6th peace action at the software engineering institute vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-07-20 10:49 PM
pdf of new poster for aug. 6th (application/pdf)

text Court Nominee A Defender Of GTMO Illegality And Of Mountaintop Mining Decapitation Coalition Against Roberts 2005-07-20 2:01 PM
Roberts has ruled against the rights of Guantanamo prisoners illegally detained. He has written briefs supporting mining company decapitation of mountains. He is hostile to civil rights (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for July 18, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-07-19 4:27 PM
# An interview with the site coordinator for National Student Partnership's Pittsburgh Office # as Car Free Day approaches, and builds support from the Pittsburgh City Council, we'll hear from last month's conference organized by Car Free Pittsburgh (audio/mpeg)

image Rustbelt TV: New Episode, Summer 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Video Working Group 2005-07-16 11:08 PM
Rustbelt TV: New Episode, Summer 2005
The Pittsburgh Independent Media Center is pleased to present a new episode of Rustbelt Television. Rustbelt TV brings news from the grassroots, news from outside of the corporate media to a new audience. It is based upon Rustbelt Radio, the weekly radio show that airs every Monday at 6pm on WRCT-FM 88.3 Pittsburgh and on Saturdays on WVJW-FM 94.1 Benwood in the Wheeling, West Virginia area. (image/jpeg)

text (mp3) interview: mosque fire bombed in liverpool vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-07-15 3:16 PM
AUDIO IS LOCATED AT >>> http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=13262 (text/plain)

audio Garfield Weed and Seed program faces federal cutbacks, local criticism Andalusia, Rustbelt Radio 2005-07-15 9:51 AM
Rustbelt Radio's report on the Federal Weed and Seed program in Garfield, the Bloomfield Garfield Corporation, and interviews with Garfield residents. audio: 18:26 in either mp3 or ogg vorbis format. (audio/mpeg + 4 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for July 11, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-07-12 1:28 AM
Welcome to this week's edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's weekly review of the news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. The show airs every Monday from 6-7pm on WRCT 88.3FM in Pittsburgh, PA and every Saturday from 5-6pm on WVJW Benwood, 94.1 FM in the Wheeling, West Virginia area. On today's show... * Weed and Seed, a federally funded law enforcement and community redevelopment program may cut the Garfield program's budget. We will hear from representatvies of Weed and Seed and Garfield Residents * Part Two of an interview with Just Health Care, a community group working to bring about universal health care coverage in Pennsylvania. * and we'll hear reactions to last week's bombings in London; from Londerers on the street on the morning of the attacks, as well as from Fox news commentators in the US. (audio/mpeg)

text (mp3 ) from the rainbow gathering to london vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-07-10 12:19 PM
great audio clip, give it a listen, use on yr pirate / internet radio station (text/plain)

video Pittsburgh Critical Mass video (quicktime mov) Matt Toups 2005-07-06 6:52 PM
Edited video of June 2005's Critical Mass ride in Pittsburgh. 250+ riders! interviews and music. Click on the video link below to watch or download. (quicktime version) (video/quicktime)

video Pittsburgh Critical Mass video (avi) Matt Toups 2005-07-06 10:54 AM
Edited video of June 2005's Critical Mass ride in Pittsburgh. 250+ riders! interviews and music. Click on the video link below to watch or download. (video/x-msvideo + 5 comments)

text Kick Clear Channel's Quinn Off Air Anna Hridaaya 2005-07-05 3:22 PM
End the takeover of Pittsburgh air waves by war profiteer pawns (text/plain + 63 comments)

text (mp3) blast furnace radio travels to the national rainbow gathering in west virginia vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-07-04 3:57 AM
A SHORT AUDIO CLIP OF OUR TRIP 5 HOURS SOUTH OF PITTSBURGH TO THE NATION GATHERING OG THE RAINBOW TRIBE (text/plain)

text July 8 Anti-G8 East Coast Convergence Update #1 mjs 2005-07-03 12:21 PM
please foreward widely and indiscriminently !!!!!!!!!! And now for all the juicy details concerning the events leading up to the Rally Against Massey Energy and the International Day of action against the G8 and the Root Causes of Climate Change in Richmond on July 8 Remember to check our website for updates: www.mountainjusticesummer.org/richmond/ (text/plain)

image What Pittsburgh Needs quinten 2005-07-02 9:01 PM
What Pittsburgh Needs
What happens in a country with bike lanes (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

text Unduly Unauthorized Unrepresentatives of the Rainbow Gathering Hold 2nd Press Conference Karin 2005-07-02 11:14 AM
On Tuesday July 5 at 9 AM, a second “Rainbow” court is scheduled for gatherers who missed the first court date. Once again, the Cranberry Mountain Visitor’s Center is being transformed from an educational nature facility to the court of a federal magistrate and more people will be tried for camping in the woods. (text/plain)

image Rally to Raise the Minimum Wage Shannon Tibbetts 2005-07-01 4:53 PM
Rally to Raise the Minimum Wage
On June 22, 2005, people from all over Pennsylvania gathered in Harrisburg to support pending legislation to raise the minimum wage. (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

text National Student Partnerships: Open to Everyone! Shannon Tibbetts 2005-07-01 1:16 PM
This is an introduction to National Student Partnerships, a student-driven organization that links community members in need with the resources they need to become self-sufficient and successful. (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for June 27, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-06-29 3:50 PM
* A bill currently in Harrisburg could raise the minimum wage across the state of Pennsylvania to seven dollars and fifteen cents. * We talk with representatives of the Pittsburgh-based Just Health Care Campaign * the BioDemocracy conference in Philadelphia met in opposition to the Biotechnology Industry Orgranization's meetings; Rustbelt has a report. * and we hear from Iraqi Labor Leaders on their speaking tour stop last week in Pittsburgh (audio/mpeg)

image Bring Stonewall to Santorum gwen 2005-06-27 1:48 PM
Bring Stonewall to Santorum
On Saturday June 25th, between two and three dozen activists said "No" to Santorum on a variety of issues, including his bigotted attitudes towards gays and people of color and his maintaining private offices which are closed to the public. (image/jpeg + 7 comments)

text WYEP's Mike Sauter Replies (sort of) Chris Holm 2005-06-26 5:21 PM
While waiting for Mike Sauter's response, a glimpse of the dialog we have had so far. (text/plain + 1 comment)

image Bikefest / June Critical Mass Matt Toups 2005-06-25 11:11 PM
Bikefest / June Critical Mass
June 24, 2005: the largest critical mass ever in Pittsburgh! Crowd counts ranged from 200-300. Bikefest a success! (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

text Santorum and Spector's voting record this year-HORRID FYI 2005-06-25 10:22 PM
This is a list of the votes cast by them since 1/06/05 on selected issues. Just look at these votes. Is this what you want? It's despicable! Their complete voting record is available at: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_109_1.htm (text/html)

image Critical Mass! peppy 2005-06-25 12:21 AM
Critical Mass!
On June 24th 2005, around 250 people took part in the monthly bicycle event known as Critical Mass. This months was particularly special as it was part of Bike Fest! (a ten-day festival of bicycle related events). (image/jpeg + 15 comments)

application August 6th / hiroshima day 60th anniversary at Software engineering institute (SEI) vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-06-24 10:12 PM
july 14th 7pm is the next aug. 6th coalition meeting at tesa d'oro on highland ave. included is two posters and an info poster (application/pdf)

text Website Up for Anti-G8 East Coast Convergence mjs 2005-06-24 6:12 PM
www.mountainjusticesummer.org/richmond MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, EAST COAST CONVERGENCE AGAINST MASSEY COAL AND MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL Noon July 8th Monroe Park--Richmond, VA On July 8th as the rulers of the eight most powerful nations meet in Scotland to decide our fates, communities around the world will take to the streets to fight back against the fossil fuels industry’s devastation of our Earth and its people. (text/plain)

text Car Free Conference: "The Effects of the Auto Age on our Communities and our Lives&qu George Brittenburg 2005-06-23 9:46 PM
Free Conference on "The Effects of the Auto Age on our Communities and our Lives" to be held June 26th at the Garfield Activity Center (text/plain)

image Iraqi Labor leaders visit Pittsburgh david 2005-06-23 9:25 PM
Iraqi Labor leaders visit Pittsburgh
On Tuesday, June 21st, representatives from two Iraqi labor unions visited Pittsburgh. (image/jpeg)

text The Port Authority Cuts Service stephen donahue 2005-06-23 4:28 PM
Cuts were implemented on June 19, 2005. Riders to rally on June 29, 2005. (text/plain + 1 comment)

text 12 BIODEVASTATION ACTIVISTS ARRESTED! peacehq 2005-06-23 1:44 PM
A dozen protesters were arrested at the Biodevastation protests in Philadelphia this weekend. They are all still in jail, and need your help to get out. (text/plain)

text Philly Bio Arrestees need your help! amelia 2005-06-23 1:02 AM
bail funds needed (text/plain)

text Minutemen recruit in PA ariel 2005-06-22 4:42 PM
The Minuteman Project has announced a recruiting event to take place at the Bridgewater Sports Arena in Bridgewater, NJ. The event is intended to pull people in the following states: NY, MA, PA, CT, RI, NH, VT, MD, DEL, VA, WV and DC (text/plain + 1 comment)

text (mp3) GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES / TALKS AT BIO-DESTRUCTION CONFERENCE / bf radio vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-06-21 6:54 AM
Summary: great basic talk about genetically engineered trees and how it is effecting the forests thruout the world Notes: if you use this email blast furnace radio at eirene@telerama.com (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for June 20, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-06-21 12:36 AM
(54 minutes) On today's show... We will hear about Bike-Fest a ten day festival taking place in Pittsburgh this week; two local bike-related local organizations, Bike Pittsburgh and Free Ride, will tell us about their organizations; the Resyst radical contingent speaks at the Pride march about their view of queer liberation versus the mainstream GLBT movement's assimilationist strategy. Plus our other local and global news stories. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

text (mp3) 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOOD NOT BOMBS / REFLECTIONS BY KEITH MCHENRY vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-06-20 3:15 AM
Summary: great piece of historic and present reflecting off food not bombs Credits: if you use or listen to this... email us at eirene@telerama.com http://notowar.com Notes: crazy annoying static from mars. grab a good piece of this for your radio show, will edit out static later Summary: great piece of historic and present reflecting off food not bombs Credits: if you use or listen to this... email us at eirene@telerama.com http://notowar.com Notes: crazy annoying static from mars. grab a good piece of this for your radio show, will edit out static later (text/plain)

text riders need to philly for bio-dev. longest day of action vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-06-19 10:57 PM
riders needed to go to philly tuesday for uprising against bio-destruction (text/plain)

text Successful Week of Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activity in Lexington Maude Richards and Micah Lee 2005-06-19 5:16 PM
During the week of June 13 in Lexington, KY, a meal of toxic coal sludge scraped out of a stream in eastern Kentucky was delivered to the president of a coal advocacy group, hundreds of concerned citizens attended an anti-mountain top removal (MTR) rally and march that ended at Kentucky Utility's headquarters, a film festival educated Lexingtonians about the dangers of strip mining and its repercussions, and activists passed out literature on the streets, all part of Mountain Justice Summer's week in Lexington, Kentucky. (text/html + 2 comments)

image Pittsburgh Pridefest 2005 Pictures (2 of 2) gwen 2005-06-19 2:04 PM
Pittsburgh Pridefest 2005 Pictures (2 of 2)
The second set of pictures from Pittsburgh PrideFest. (image/jpeg + 25 comments)

image Resysting Assimilation at Pride 05 one hot queer 2005-06-19 1:53 PM
Resysting Assimilation at Pride 05
On June 18, members and supporters of RESYST, a radical queer project of the Thomas Merton Center, descended on the LGBT Pride Parade to insert a more radical queer presence. Members felt that the Pride Parade has become the epitome of the corporatization and maintstreaming of gayness. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

image Pittsburgh Pridefest 2005 Pictures (1 of 2) gwen 2005-06-19 1:38 PM
Pittsburgh Pridefest 2005 Pictures (1 of 2)
The first set of pictures from Pittsburgh PrideFest. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

text Pittsburgh PrideFest 2005 gwen 2005-06-19 1:17 PM
On Saturday, June 18th, Pittsburgh PrideFest 2005 was tremendous. Thousands marched in beautiful weather, and plentiful colors. (text/plain)

text A STAND-OFF In the Woods; Rainbows Refuse to Sign Permit! * 2005-06-18 1:30 AM
West Virginia...Rainbows Blocked From Camp, contacting the feds' hotel. (text/plain)

text Vote For Pennachhio in MoveOn's Poll! Philip Shropshire 2005-06-17 6:51 PM
I recommend that every Pennsylvania MoveOn member vote for Chuck Pennacchio. I also have some concerns about the Pennacchio campaign. (text/plain)

text Taco Loco: a review by a Vegetarian. gwen 2005-06-16 9:25 PM
Taco Loco might be the best Mexican restaurant in town (according to several local awards), but it is not vegetarian friendly. (text/plain + 3 comments)

image Hands Off Venezuela Pittsburgh Launch Pittsburgh Hands Off Venezuela Committee 2005-06-16 2:38 PM
Hands Off Venezuela Pittsburgh Launch
The Pittsburgh Hands Off Venezuela Committee is a local organization in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. Come build the committee in to a broad organization of support for our Venezuelan brothers and sisters! (image/png)

audio Rustbelt Radio for June 13, 2005 Rusbelt Radio Collective 2005-06-14 5:40 PM
On today's show... * We speak with the local group 'RESYST' about the upcoming pridefest and the radical queer movement * And we present the final piece in our three part series on Coal and its effects in the community. We will hear from organizers who are fighting to promote clean energy and what the possibilities are for sustainable alternative energy sources in the United States .... but first, these local headlines. (audio/mpeg)

text reclaim your independence (at a picnic) tha rza 2005-06-14 3:28 PM
reclaim your independence. a radical perspective/celebration of (the) american revolution. vegan potluck, arts & crafts, open mic, radical readings, radical/trans health info, etc. come one, come all. (text/plain)

image POG to Oakland Recruiting Station again [video, photo] bamd 2005-06-12 12:53 AM
POG to Oakland Recruiting Station again [video, photo]
Ten POG members and supporters returned once more to the Forbes Ave. rectruiting station. The Oakland station appears to be central recruitment office for the region. (image/jpeg + 13 comments)

text Appalachians March in Pittsburgh for Clean Energy & Coalfield Justice Jessica 2005-06-11 2:12 AM
About 75 people marched Tuesday in downtown Pittsburgh to confront the National Coal Conference being held at the convention center, demanding clean energy and justice for coalfield residents. (text/plain + 2 comments)

image The Allied Media Conference j. nolish 2005-06-10 12:28 PM
The Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19. This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates, copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads, librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If you're building alternative media, you should be there, too. (image/jpeg)

image Rally for Clean Energy—Health, Jobs, & Energy Independence matt toups 2005-06-09 7:37 PM
Rally for Clean Energy—Health, Jobs, & Energy Independence
On Tuseday June 7th, Mountain Justice Summer activists join locals from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia for a Rally for Clean Energy in downtown Pittsburgh. The rally was held in opposition to the National Coal Show held in the Convention Center that week. (image/jpeg)

text Call for Radical Queers RESYST 2005-06-08 12:20 PM
This is a call for all radical queers in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas for their participation in a radical queer contingent at this years Pride parade. So if you are a self-identified radical queer who feels that all oppressions are interconnected, that liberation is better than equality, and that assimilation is an attack on the vibrant culture that queers have cultivated despite the obstacles against us, then come and march with us. We will be celebrating our queerness, challenging queer assimilation, and partying in the streets. -Resyst (text/plain + 8 comments)

image First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted MJS 2005-06-07 10:21 PM
First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted
Approximately 45 activists surprised the first-ever shareholders meeting of Knoxville-based National Coal Corporation—the most destructive coal company in Tennessee, at the Holiday Inn Select in west Knoxville. (image/jpeg)

image Coal Company Protest Pictures gwen 2005-06-07 8:06 PM
Coal Company Protest Pictures
On June 7th, protestors gathered outside the Arts Festival and marched to the Convention Center where Coal Companies were having their national meeting. These are the pictures from that protest. (image/jpeg)

text Massey Customer Campaign-Mirant Energy Coal Warrior 2005-06-07 5:21 PM
Mirant Energy(Formerly Southern Energy), now owns most of the generators PEPCO used to own. They have proven to be a dirty and aggressively "pro-coal" company. THEY WILL NOT DISCUSS THEIR SOURCE OF COAL-only that CSX and Conrail ship it! They act like they've got something to hide, and in coal there is but one skeleton in the closet dependant on the source of the coal: MTR MINING!. As a result, it is reasonable to suspect that they have made a number of purchases from Massey Energy-the company responsible for some of the worst MTR mining abuses! (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for June 6, 2005 IMC Rustbelt Radio 2005-06-06 11:28 PM
On today's show... We speak with David Rosenberg of the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition about his group's efforts to bring attention to the ongoing crisis in Western Sudan. We hear from the True Cost of Coal Conference held this past weekend in Pittsburgh, part two in our three part series on Coal in our region and the grassroots organizing against its effects. A high school student in Cleveland is suspended for opposing military recruiters at his school. And police in Pittsburgh and in Ohio are getting more dangerous in their use of tasers. Plus headlines from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and independent media centers around the world. (audio/mpeg)

text PROTEST THE COAL SHOW TUESDAY @ NOON Geoff Slagheap 2005-06-06 12:07 PM
Come protest the 'National Coal Show' on Tuesday - we will be meeting at Liberty/Stanwix downtown @ 11:30, marching down Liberty @ noon, and then a rally outside the convention center at 12:30. (text/plain)

text (MP3) WEEDHAWKS: BENEFIT CONCERT FOR RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL , PITTSBURGH vincent / blast furnace radsio 2005-06-05 9:34 AM
concert for alternative/diverse education (text/plain)

text Show Down in Coal Town Mountain Justice Summer 2005-06-01 11:13 PM
For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elementary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up. Sixteen of the 150 participants in the Mountain Justice Summer campaign were arrested as they attempted to deliver a list of demands to the site's supervisor. Earlier in the day two campaign participants delivered the demands directly to Massey's head offices in Richmond Virginia. (text/html)

text Union Carbide pays up for more Environmental Damage in West Virginia Matt T, rustbelt radio 2005-06-01 10:57 AM
On May 26 Union Carbide Corporation entered into a consent agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to settle violations of federal and state laws. The violations happened at the company's specialty chemical manufacturing plant in Institute, West Virginia. The town of Institute is an unincorporated suburb of Charleston and is the location of West Virginia State University, a historically black college. The company was charged with violations of laws regarding hazardous waste storage and annual reporting of toxic chemicals. (text/html)

text Update-- 16 Arrested in WVA Protesting Massey Energy Jessica 2005-05-31 5:54 PM
16 People were arrested and are in custody right now for their participation in a peaceful protest in Sundial, West Virginia today. (text/plain + 2 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for May 30, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Rustbelt Radio Collective 2005-05-31 12:16 AM
On today's show, an interview with our featured local grassroots organization of the week, Canaries in the Coalfields, a new group opposing the coal industry and its effects on the environment, workers and communities. Also we'll take a look at a new piece of immigration reform legislation: "The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005" (audio/mpeg)

text Healing the Health Care System Bret Grote 2005-05-29 12:24 AM
A brief 2000 word piece on the town hall meeting in Aliquippa last Saturday, dealing with health care, the crisis and proposed solution. (text/plain)

image Another POG CR action [audio interview] david 2005-05-28 5:52 PM
Another POG CR action [audio interview]
Fifteen activists returned to Oaklands' military recruitment station for the third in POG's series of counter-recruitment actions. (image/jpeg + 19 comments)

text info on Detective Pasquarelli? Mary 2005-05-25 4:21 PM
Seeking info on Pgh Detective Pasquarelli. Have other people had unpleasant/unreasonable experiences with him? (text/plain + 8 comments)

image Darfur advocacy groups protest Sudanese speaker at Pitt Matt Toups for Rustbelt Radio 2005-05-24 11:01 PM
Darfur advocacy groups protest Sudanese speaker at Pitt
On Saturday May 21st, Abdel Bagi Kabeir, a Sudanese deputy ambassador to the US, spoke in David Lawrence Hall at the University of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition in collaboration with the group Africa Peace Education organized a protest outside his talk. (image/jpeg)

audio Rustbelt Radio for May 23, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-05-24 10:13 PM
On today's show... * we'll hear from activists opposing military recruitment in Pittsburgh including Justin Sane, singer from the Pittsburgh-based band Anti-Flag * also, Jeff Halper will speak about Israel's policy of Home Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories * and our weekly report on police brutality and misconduct in the region and around the country. (audio/mpeg)

text For the sake of the kids; West VIrginia residents confront Massey Energy Co. mountain justice summer 2005-05-24 8:09 PM
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td width=50px><img src="http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/massy/wed.jpg"></td> <td>While Massey Energy stockholders met at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, parents, grandparents, and other residents of Coal River Valley, West Virginia rallied to oppose Massey's operations adjacent to Marsh Fork Elementary School. Two grandmothers and a third resident of the valley attempted to deliver a list of demands. The residents were met by the plant's head of security who refused to allow them to present their demands. When the residents again attempted to present their demands, they were arrested in a moving and dramatic act of civil conscience. </td> </tr> </table> (text/html)

text Port Authority of Allegheny County is moving to privatize routes & maintenance. stephen donahue 2005-05-23 4:42 PM
Years of state funding shortfalls are about to pay off for the free marketeers. (text/plain + 2 comments)

audio Israeli Coalition against Home Demolitions baglady 2005-05-19 6:16 PM
This is a 1/2 hour interview with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Coalition against Home Demolitions, an Israeli direct-action organization that non-violently resists Israel's demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories (audio/mpeg)

text Captain Blasto Chris Preksta 2005-05-14 8:10 PM
Local Pittsburgh Filmmaker, Chris Preksta to showcase his comic book action film Captain Blasto on May 26th at the Loews, Waterfront. (text/plain + 2 comments)

image POG Shuts Down Military Recruitment Center in Oakland Nina Van Zandt 2005-05-14 4:03 PM
POG Shuts Down Military Recruitment Center in Oakland
On Saturday, May 14th, twenty members and supporters of Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) shut down the primary military recruitment center in Pittsburgh. Located in the heart of Oakland, the neighborhood where three of Pittsburgh’s universities are located, the center serves as the operation base for multiple army recruitment teams. (image/jpeg + 70 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for May 9, 2005 Pgh IMC Rustbelt Radio 2005-05-10 12:49 AM
This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the spring season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. On Today's show we will hear from Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal, pennyslvanians protesting the war and marching for Mumia Abu Jamal, Pittsburghers converting an ambulance to run on vegetable oil and harm reduction activists speaking about the organization Prevention Point. (audio/mpeg)

audio New South Africa Freedom Day in Pittsburgh matt t, rustbelt radio 2005-05-07 10:34 AM
An interview with Biko Agozino, who came from Philadelphia to attend the celebration of South African freedom day in Pittsburgh. (audio/x-ogg)

image May Day at PNC Park matt 2005-05-06 11:26 AM
May Day at PNC Park
On May 1, the international workers’ holiday of May Day, members of the local group Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance, or PASCA, spoke to Pirates fans outside PNC Park about making concienscious sports-fan apparel choices. They distributed a new edition of their anti-sweatshop baseball cards as a part of the campaign to pressure the Pittsburgh Pirates and Major League Baseball to enforce labor standards for their licensed merchandise in the same way that many Universities have done. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

text May 4th 1970 kent state killings remembered / blast furnace radio travels to kent, ohio vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-05-05 12:00 AM
lots of mp3's (text/plain + 1 comment)

text If you are going to police us then you got to live with us. stephen donahue 2005-05-04 4:34 PM
Move led by suburban Pittsburgh legislators would forbid residency requirements for police. (text/plain + 1 comment)

audio Rustbelt Radio for May 2, 2005 Pittsburgh Indymedia 2005-05-03 3:42 PM
<p> On today's show... <ul> <li> As spring arrives, students across the US are engaging in nonviolent direct action to force change on their campuses. Rustbelt Radio has updates on the sit-ins, protests and more going on this month.</li> <li> We hear from Terry Composte, forest defense activist who won a major court victory in a civil suit concerning police abuse of pepper spray.</li> <li> And we speak to this week's featured grassroots group, Ohio Valley Peace in the Wheeling West Virginia and South Eastern Ohio area.</li> </ul></p> (audio/mpeg)

video Mike Benedict for Erie PA City Council snowshoefilms 2005-05-03 2:03 PM
Mike Benedict for Erie City Council "Healthcare bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in this country.. the wealthiest country in the world where we pay more for healthcare than any country.. the reason we pay so much is because of greed, and because of profits. You have patients and you have doctors and in between those you have literally thousands of insurance companies all trying to get a piece of the pie" Running for City Council Mike is standing up to Healthcare insurance companies for the people. April 2005 13min (video/x-ms-wmv + 1 comment)

text Row Office Reform? donahue 2005-05-03 12:28 PM
This ain’t as boring as it sounds; well it is but give me a break. (text/plain + 1 comment)

text My Reply to WYEP's Mike Sauter Chris Holm 2005-05-03 12:36 AM
Sorry, been negotiating my expatriatism, Missed this entirely. It wasn't my intention to ignore Mike Sauter. I simply didn't even know it was posted. (text/plain + 3 comments)

image Rally to Save the Courts Jessica McPherson 2005-05-02 2:25 AM
Rally to Save the Courts
Over a hundred people gathered at the Federal Building in downtown Pittsburgh last Monday afternoon for a rally protesting the Republican plan to change the rules for the confirmation of judicial appointees by congress. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

text CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Pittsburgh Sustainable Design & Green Energy Expo Geoffslagheap 2005-04-30 8:40 PM
Canaries in the Coalfields, a project of the Thomas Merton Center, is looking for participants for a Green Energy and Sustainable Design Expo on June 6th in downtown Pittsburgh. (text/plain)

text May 4 March & SpeakOut Against War - Kent OH sue jeffers 2005-04-28 5:44 PM
On May 4, 2005 the Portage Community Peace Coalition and the Kent State Anti-War Committee will sponsor a march and rally against the ongoing war and related US human rights violations. The march will begin at approximately 3:30pm, ½ hour after the annual May 4 Task Force Commemoration for the students killed and wounded by National Guard forces in 1970. (text/plain)

text My Brilliant Career at ACORN Philip Shropshire 2005-04-28 9:43 AM
If you're thinking about working for ACORN, don't. Try other public interest groups like the Clean Water Action Project or even Direct Advantage Marketing before working for ACORN. (text/plain + 34 comments)

text Mayoral candidates debate Citizen's Police Review Board rustbelt radio 2005-04-27 6:05 PM
At an April 21st forum, candidates discussed police accountability in Pittsburgh while Bob O'Connor refused to budge on the issue. (text/plain)

text Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition Mayoral Candidates Forum Jessica McPherson 2005-04-27 9:45 AM
Candidates for the upcoming Pittsburgh mayoral election discussed issues related to design & quality of life in Pittsburgh at a recent forum hosted by the Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition. (text/plain)

image BioDemocracy Update # 1 from Philadelphia PhillyRAGE (ResistanceAgainstGeneticEngineeri 2005-04-26 6:01 PM
BioDemocracy Update # 1 from Philadelphia
From June 19 to 22, 2005, the Earth’s largest consortium of biotechnology corporations -- the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) -- is holding its annual international convention in downtown Philadelphia. Join us to say NO to their agenda of genetically engineered (GE) agriculture, medicine for profit and bioweapons proliferation! (image/jpeg)

image POG Shuts Down Army Recruiters at CMU Lizzie Swank 2005-04-26 4:45 PM
POG Shuts Down Army Recruiters at CMU
On Tuesday, April 26, thirteen members of Pittsburgh Organizing Group (from CMU and elsewhere) confronted recruiters for the U.S. Army Reserves who were tabling at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today effectively shutting down recruitment for 45 minutes. (image/jpeg + 38 comments)

image POG counter-recruitment action at CMU david 2005-04-26 4:31 PM
POG counter-recruitment action at CMU
A dozen activists disrupt military recruitment at Carnegie Mellon University. (image/jpeg + 102 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for April 25, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-04-26 12:50 AM
On today's show... This week's local grassroots organization, the Fight for Lifers, will speak about their efforts to advocate for prisoners serving life sentences. We will hear from last Monday's Pittsburgh Public School Board meeting, as concerned parents spoke out about military recruiting at schools, unhealthy school meals and other issues impacting students. And Sunday was the 90th anniversary of the start of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman empire. We'll hear from a survivor. (audio/mpeg)

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