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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Rustbelt Radio for April 18, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-04-18 7:59 PM
# Tax Day was last week. Members of the war tax resisters group tell us why they didn't pay # We talk to voices for animals of western pennsylvania # and activists staged an all-day picket at the Sky Bank headquarters in Downtown Pittsburgh, stepping up their campaign against what they're calling a union-busting company. But first, these local and global headlines. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for April 11, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-04-11 7:50 PM
55 Minutes in Ogg and MP3 formats, and webcast at http://www.wrct.org (higher quality archive at audioport.org) * a report from Charleston's West Virginia Capitol building where Mountain Justice activists from around Appalachia gathered for the Mountain Justice Summer Kickoff event. * An interview with a Nepali man about the recent coup in his country. * And our weekly interview with a local grassroots organization, the Pittsburgh Transportation Equity Project. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for April 4, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Working Group 2005-04-04 8:26 PM
On today's show... We speak with the birth circle, a community group that works with child bearing families We will hear about the life of young men in a palestinian refugee camp (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for March 28, 2005 Radio Collective 2005-03-28 11:01 PM
55 Minutes, in Ogg and MP3 Formats (below) # A report from the Forum on Dissent since 9/11 in Miami # a wrap-up of TASER related deaths, injuries and news. # and our weekly featured grassroots organization, Pittsburgh Action Against Rape. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for March 21, 2005 IMC Rustbelt Radio 2005-03-22 12:58 AM
On today's show...On the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, antiwar demonstrators take to the streets in Pittsburgh and around the world. Norman Finkelstein speaks in Pittsburgh, and an interview with this week's featured local grassroots organization, Prevention Point Pittsburgh (audio/mpeg)

M20 - rally audio pghimc 2005-03-16 12:32 PM
Audio from the Flagstaff rally on March 20, 2004 (audio/x-ogg)

Norman Finkelstein Lecture rustbelt 2005-03-15 10:27 PM
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History Norman Finkelstein lecture at CMU, March 14 2005. (audio/x-ogg + 3 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for March 14, 2005 IMC Radio Collective 2005-03-15 2:43 AM
On today's show... * we speak with Diane Santoriello, local mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who will be speaking at this Saturday's demonstration marking the two-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. * a report from a forum on conscientious objection and the draft held by the Pittsburgh-based organization CONSCIENCE * and farmworkers won a major victory last week after years of campaigning against Taco bell (audio/mpeg)

Forum on the Draft, Conscientious Objection and Stop Loss david 2005-03-08 10:57 PM
Pittsburgh Forum and Speakout on the Draft, Conscientious Objection, and Stop Loss. Organized by CONSCIENCE (A Pittsburgh-area group for conscientious objectors and supporters). (audio/x-wav + 1 comment)

Rustbelt Radio for March 7, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-03-08 8:56 PM
This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a spring break holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the last year's season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. These segments span our shows from July to November, 2004. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for February 28, 2005 IMC Pittsburgh Radio Collective 2005-03-01 3:03 PM
55 Minutes * a report on tasers and activists' efforts to ban their use by police departments * an interview with one of the Greenpeace Smokestack Six, recently relased from jail for scaling a smokestack at a power plant in Greene County, Pennsylvania last summer. * we hear former black panther Ashanti Alston, author of the publication Anarchist Panther, from his talk last week in Pittsburgh * and United for Peace and Justice, a national anti-war network, held its national assembly in St. Louis a week ago, and Rustbelt Radio has a report (audio/mpeg)

Interview with John Waterrburg of the Hatsfield Six Quinten / Rustbelt Radio 2005-02-26 6:02 PM
Interview with John Watterburg, one of six Greenpeace protestors arrested and jailed for scaling the 700 foot smokestack at Hatsfield Ferry in Greene County. (audio/x-ogg)

Q&A with Ashanti Alston matt t, rustbelt radio 2005-02-25 12:33 PM
questions and answers with ashanti alston (audio/x-ogg)

ashanti alston, All Power Through The People, pittsburgh matt t, rustbelt radio 2005-02-24 11:52 PM
On Thursday February 24 2005, Ashanti Alston spoke at CMU. (audio/x-ogg + 4 comments)

Malik Zulu Shabazz Visits CMU Quinten / Rustbelt Radio 2005-02-23 2:23 PM
Excerpt from the radio story about the Malik Zulu Shabazz lecture at CMU. Includes interviews and minimal narration. ~ 18 minutes. (audio/x-ogg + 2 comments)

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio for February 21, 2005 IMC Rustbelt Radio 2005-02-22 12:00 AM
Controversial black militant and separatist Malik Zulu Shabazz came to Carnegie Mellon University last Thursday. We recorded his lecture and the reactions of students and other community members. # And Saint Lawrence University in Upstate New York is trying to censor an online student publication that is critical of the university. We speak with two of the students who are involved in the publication about the lawsuit that the University is trying to bring against them. In central Brasil, 12,000 homeless squatters were attacked last week by state police. Two people died and hundreds were arrested, including one reporter for NYC Indymedia. We will here more from a member of Indymedia Brasil. (audio/mpeg)

Malik Zulu Shabazz Lecture Quinten 2005-02-18 12:08 PM
Lecture: 1 hr 40 minutes, Q+A is 1 hr 20 minutes. From the leader of the New Black Panther Party, speaking at Carnegie Mellon on Thursday, 17 February 2005. (audio/x-ogg + 68 comments)

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio for February 14, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-02-14 9:51 PM
55 minutes: On today's show... activists announce Mountain Justice Summer to fight mountain range removal across Appalachia, a report from Philadelphia at a rally in support of death row prisonor Mumia Abu-Jamal, and sounds from the National Conference on Organized Resistance in DC last weekend. (audio/mpeg)

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio for February 7, 2005 IMC Pittsburgh Radio Collective 2005-02-07 8:21 PM
55 minutes: Native American radical Ward Churchill is under attack. We listen to an excerpt of a speech he gave in 2002. Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the The Electronic Intifada an independent publication committed to comprehensive public education on the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was in town. Rustbelt Radio spoke with him last week after his lecture. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

ali abunimah interview baglady 2005-02-07 5:40 PM
25 minute interview with writer and media analyst Ali Abunimah (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for January 31st, 2005 IMC Pittsburgh Radio Collective 2005-01-31 8:15 PM
(Audio, 55 Minutes) On today's show... <p /> <ul> <li> We speak with Adam Eidinger, one of 7 plaintiffs who have just won a $425,000 settlement from the District of Columbia for DC's illegal detainment of more than 600 protestors at an IMF and World Bank protest in 2002. </li> <li> The advocacy group Downhill Battle encourages consumers to share music freely, calling the current copyright system archaic and urging parents to let their children use filesharing applications rather than buy them music as gifts. We speak with the codirector of Downhill Battle about filesharing, copyright, and why you can no longer see the civil rights Documentary Eyes on the Prize. </li> <li> Pennsylvania's death penalty law is called into question. We speak with the editor of the Pittsburgh City Paper about why Pennsylvania's juror instructions unfairly bias them to choose the death penalty. </li> <li> We interview local Pittsburghers about their reactions to the Iraqi Elections this past Sunday.</li></ul> (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

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