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Today in Oakland in front of the Army Recruiting Center on Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh Police and University of Pittsburgh Police fought with protestors on the sidewalk.  At least six people were arrested; police fired tasers and other weapons at the crowd, including restrained arrestees and bystanders. 

During the rally at the station, a freelance Fox News cameraman who was aggressively filming demonstrators' faces was told to leave and started a minor confrontation with protestors.  He returned with police officers, claiming that either he was punched or that his camera was broken (although he continued to use his camera the rest of the day).  Witnesses confirm that neither of these things happened.  On this pretense, police began chasing any masked protestors they could find, arresting several and firing weapons at the crowd.  Several people have confirmed that they were hit with tasers and chemical weapons.  Video cameras captured tasers being fired at people who had already been subdued and restrained by police officers.

Later, police dogs were used to chase away protestors on the sidewalk, and one woman was bitten from behind by a police dog.  Some time later, after telling police she wanted to file a complaint, she was told the police would "take her information," but instead she was arrested and placed in the back of a police van.

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Last year the PA General Assembly passed Senate Bill 677, "The Responsible Utility Customer Protection Act".

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On June 13th members of the Bloomfield Garfield Corporation, members of various east end organizations city officials and state government representatives gathered in front of an abandoned building in Garfield. They chose that spot to highlight the "gang presence in the area" and host a press conference to express their outrage at possible federal cutbacks of the Weed and Seed Program.

Weed and Seed is a federally funded program that was started after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising as a Republican-led response to what they saw as "the social and economic deterioration of America's inner cities." Since then, the program has spread to about 300 neighborhoods across the country, including many in Pittsburgh.

Rustbelt Radio has more from the press conference and from Garfield residents in this report.

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On Wednesday June 22, 2005, people from all over Pennsylvania attended a lobby day and rally in Harrisburg to convince lawmakers to pass legislation that would raise the minimum wage.

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