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pittsburgh: more on Nagasaki day at CMU's Software Engineering Institute blast furnace radio / vincent scotti eirene 2008-08-19 12:54 AM
reflection and symbolic action on Nagasaki day at CMU's SEI photo from pittsburgh imc (application/pdf)

Remembering Nagasaki Remembering Nagasaki 2008-08-12 3:14 PM

A small but vital group of Pittsburghers hold a vigil to remember the victims of the nuclear holocaust conducted by the United States government on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sixty three years ago. (image/jpeg + 22 comments)

Remembering Hiroshima mena 2008-08-11 11:18 PM

"Remembering Hiroshima-Imaging Peace" is a city wide remembrance of the human shadows burnt into the sidewalks of Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. Pittsburghers gathered at the Federal Building, walked through downtown and across the bridge to perform drop down shadow markings on the bank of the river. (image/jpeg + 6 comments)

People Protest Police Violence marie 2008-08-07 4:02 PM

On Wednesday, August 6, individuals concerned about police violence gathered on Braddock Avenue near the parkway, in front of Edgewood Town Center to protest against the Swissvale police's taser-killing of Andre D. Thomas. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for August 4, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-08-05 1:38 AM
On this week's show... * We bring you a special retrospective program, as Rustbelt Radio co-founders and today's co-hosts Andalusia Knoll and Matt Toups look back at four years and almost 200 episodes of the show. They're both moving on and this will be their last show with us! (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for July 28, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-07-29 2:50 PM
On today's show... * A Mexican immigrant is beaten to death in Pennsylvania * Leading environmental activists speak out on climate change and its effect on the world's water supply * Mumia Abu Jamal is denied a new trial * and Northsiders rally for a Community Benefits Agreement (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for July 21, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-07-22 6:08 PM
On this week's show... * a special report with excerpts from the FCC public hearing on the future of the internet, held on July 21st in Pittsburgh (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for July 14, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-07-15 1:11 AM
On today's show... * Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Rosa Clemente speaks about Hip Hop organizing, the limits of a two party system and critical issues facing the United States Populace * Pennsylvania becomes the first state to join the SweatFree Consortium * Pittsburgh Against Torture's silent procession * and a feature-length 2.3 Million and Rising on abuse logs and maximum security prisons and more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for July 7, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-07-08 12:19 AM
On this week's show... * Raj Patel, former world bank employee, speaks on the hidden battle for the global food supply * We'll hear about the internet for all initiative from Media Minutes * and The International Middle East Media Center on current events in Palestine (audio/mpeg)

Direct Action for Direct Democracy: Shut Down the Republication National Convention Pittsburgh Organizing Group 2008-07-04 5:32 PM
POG adopts Sector 1 and will blockade 7th and Wall Streets (text/html + 4 comments)

Battleground Report: Aliquippa Fired Up for Obama Carl Davidson 2008-07-04 3:46 AM

[Carl Davidson is webmaster for 'Progressives for Obama' at http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com , and also helps with the new local 4th CD Progressive Democrats of America blog, http://beavercountyblue.org. ] (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for June 30, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-07-01 3:01 AM
On this week's show... * Voices from the 2008 Allied Media Conference * Pittsburgh city government plans to install a surveillance camera network * Former Political Prisoner Lorenzo Komboa Ervin speaks about the movement to end Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons * A local study cites lower salary expectations for women * and the latest in the series "Radio for People: The Next Wave of Community Radio" (audio/mpeg)

Pittsburgh Says No to Torture Mena 2008-06-27 8:14 PM

Pittsburgh joins the rest of the world in an International Day of protest against torture. (image/jpeg)

Battleground Report: Tractors, Tilt-a-Whirls and Obama Carl Davidson 2008-06-27 2:09 AM

[The 4th CD Progressive Democrats of America, mostly workers from steel and related industries, are strong on Single Payer health care and opposing the war,and were Kucinich champions, until he dropped out. Now Obama is seen as their 'best option' in November.] (image/jpeg)

Government Revoked Muslim Nuclear Physicist's Security Clearance To Retaliate For Criticis ACLU of Pennsylvania 2008-06-26 5:44 PM
ACLU of PA is suing the government after it revoked the security clearance of a Muslim nuclear physicist who has been an outspoken critic of US policy. Contrary to its own policy, the government is refusing to allow the scientist to contest the revocation, citing "national security." (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for June 23, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-06-24 2:17 AM
On this week's show... * Making Contact explores repression of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York * Election Unspun covers the candidates' views on Iran and same sex marriage * Highlights from the 100th episode of the Food Politics Radio show 'Deconstructing Dinner' * and a look at the security situation in Iraq (audio/mpeg)

Healthcare-Profiteering_Rally mena 2008-06-23 11:20 PM

HealthCare professionals & concerned citizens rallied together outside the offices of the BlueCross/BlueShield corporation. Proponents of Universal Health Care & Single Payer Plans addressed the public with facts & figures of this endeavor, the urgent need for reform, & the feasibility of achieving it. Patient advocates, including nurses & physicians, spoke out against the abuses of the the Health Insurance Industry at the expense of quality care for patients. Thanks to all these courageous & compassionate people. (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for June 16, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-06-17 1:29 PM
On this week's show... * A look at the grassroots biofuel movement in Pittsburgh * A strip mine proposal for South Park is declared dead * More realty controversy on the North Shore * Juveniles are facing life without parole in Pennsylvania prisons * and Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks out on Barack Obama (audio/mpeg)

Ontario's proposed nuclear waste dump threatens Pennsylvania Great Lakes United Nuclear-Free/Green Energy 2008-06-13 3:20 AM
Since the proposed nuclear waste dump is only 50 miles from Michigan across Lake Huron, leakage of radioactivity from the dump could directly affect tens of millions of residents in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, and contaminate the drinking water in Port Huron, Sarnia, Detroit, Windsor, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Toronto ... (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for June 9, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-06-10 2:21 AM
On today's show... * Creative acts of opposition to surveillance cameras * The Longest Walk Two harassed by police in Columbus, Ohio * Media Minutes and The Weekly Radio Spin * plus the Radical Day in History (audio/mpeg)

Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs under attack! Food Not Bombs 2008-06-07 6:18 PM

Rich White folks represented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) are trying to remove FNB from Market Square, where the group has served food to hungry people for 15 years. (image/png + 31 comments)

Free with 84 Lumber Wood Products: Controversy From Chile Tim Kingston 2008-06-05 12:26 AM
JUNE 5 Concert. One of Pittsburgh’s best known corporate citizens, 84 Lumber Company, is entangled in a furor over plans to dam two spectacular rivers in Patagonia. Satirical country singer Dana Lyons will bring the international campaign to stop the dams to 84 Lumber’s hometown with a concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the North Hills in Pittsburgh. (text/plain)

The Best of Rustbelt Radio for Winter and Spring 2008 (June 2, 2008) Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-06-03 6:22 PM
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. This week, we will be presenting highlights of Rustbelt Radio stories from the Winter and Spring of 2008 including... * Word on the Street segments on teens & sex and anti-war protestors * Police Officers are found guilty in the Michael Ellerbee civil trial * Community Residents Defeat a Proposed Jail in the South Bronx * Affordable birth control for college students is under attack * Burger King spies on Student/Farmworker Alliance * The Revolution will Not Be funded- critiques of the non-profit model * and more highlights from the past season (audio/mpeg)

Muslim Nuclear Physicist Loses Job, Denied Due Process Haroon Al-Qahtani 2008-06-01 8:00 PM
Dr. Moniem El-Ganayni, a nuclear physicist and Muslim prison chaplain, has lost his battle with the Department of Energy to get back his security clearance and his job at the Bettis Laboratory in Pittsburgh. He never even got a chance to tell his side of the story. The reason: unspecified grounds of national security. (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for May 19, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-05-20 3:14 AM
On this week's show... * Radio Free Palestine-- stories to commemorate 60 years of Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (audio/mpeg)

Hope Under Siege: Pittsburghers in Palestine, A Photo Show Jonas Moffat 2008-05-20 2:37 AM

Hope Under Siege: Pittsburghers in Palestine, a Photo Exhibit June 19 at the Shadow Lounge, 6-9PM Please join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee as they reveal their photographs from Occupied Palestine. Hear eyewitness accounts from Palestinians and Pittsburghers who have seen and experienced life under the gun. View the scenes of hope and the images of despair. Share the truth with the world about 60 years of dispossession and a hope that refuses to perish. (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for May 12, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-05-13 2:01 AM
On this week's show... * An exploration into the roots of the global food crisis * Word on the Street asks local teens how they can reduce violence in Pittsburgh * News and analysis from the Mexico Solidarity Network * A radical history lesson for May 13th * And 2.3 million and rising- a weekly report on the prison industrial complex (audio/mpeg)

may 4th kent state killings remembered vincent / blast furnace radio 2008-05-07 3:22 AM
ron kovic answers questions after the showing of "born on the four of july" (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt radio for May 5, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-05-06 1:36 AM
On this week's show... * An exploration of the roots of Labor Struggles and May Day in the US * Dahr Jamail on Iraq * Cheers and Jeers from Women's E-news * and the Radical Day in History (audio/mpeg)

Locked out Steelworkers Rally, Confront Management Robert Rossi-Independent Labor Correspondent 2008-05-01 10:43 PM

On Wednesday, May 1 members of United Steelworkers Local 5032 and their supporters rallied outside Calgon Carbon’s (NYSE: CCC) annual shareholder’s meeting. Union members have been locked out of their jobs at the company’s Neville Island facility for just over two months. The company is demanded that union workers submit to massive cuts in healthcare and pensions before returning to work; locked out union members have stated that they are committed to winning a fair contract that preserves their pensions and keeps healthcare affordable. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

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