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Has anyone seen Smedley Butler? CA 2006-02-05 12:14 PM

Well, sadly, Smedley is not around anymore but today we desperately need someone like him to help us stop the complete destruction of our freedoms by the industrialists and secret societies that have taken over this country. (image/jpeg)

Warmest January of Record (1897-2006) at Madison, WI pat neuman 2006-02-02 7:36 AM

Temperatures at Madison in January, 2006 were the warmest in 110 years of record (since 1897). (image/jpeg + 13 comments)

Greenpeace Goes Deisel Greenpeace Revealed 2006-01-30 1:35 AM

Revealing photos from Greenpeace's "Solar-powered" Ark. (image/jpeg)

DVD TO RAISE FUNDS FOR GRENADA HURRICANE RELIEF pumpkinhead 2006-01-26 5:23 PM

GRENADA: THE MAROON SPIRIT, a new documentary film by Pumpkinhead Production Company to donate portion of sales to Grenada Maroon Fund (image/jpeg)

LOUISIANA’S COASTAL TRIBES APPEAL FOR HELP Naomi Archer, Four Directions Relief Project 2006-01-25 9:46 PM

Four of Louisiana’s coastal Native American tribes issued an urgent appeal for support in the aftermath of Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. Despite the buzz of recovery activity in New Orleans and on other parts of the Gulf coast, tribal leaders say they have been forgotten and their people continue to suffer. (image/jpeg)

Friends of Sabeel Conference Kate 2006-01-24 7:51 PM

Towards a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel: A Regional Friends of Sabeel Conference @ First Methodist Church, Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. (image/jpeg + 29 comments)

SEIU protests Squirrel Hill Nursing Home david 2006-01-20 12:01 AM

SEIU demonstrates against Charles Morris Nursing Center Management on Monday, January 16. (image/jpeg)

Winter not coming pat n 2006-01-19 7:33 PM

Colorado mountains have lots of snow this year, but people can forget about having a good time at the winter carnival and other cold season events in the Upper Midwest this year ... winter isn't coming. (image/jpeg + 128 comments)

IRISH REPUBLICANS UNITE TO COMMEMORATE HUNGER STRIKES Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee 2006-01-15 9:51 PM

CONTACT: Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee Colm Mistéil, Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners - Chairman Deirdre Fennessy, Irish Freedom Committee (Chicago Cumann) TJ O Conchúir, Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America (image/jpeg)

Pittsburgh Man in War on Terror in Afghanistan Caleb "Shooter" Schaber 2006-01-15 5:22 AM

Spc. Eric Abes is a US Army soldier fighting the war on terror in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (image/jpeg + 61 comments)

Fela Kuti Radio Show Jayson 2006-01-14 11:46 PM

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Miners’ deaths spark tears and anger: 208 safety violations, $16 mil. in profits Denise Winebrenner Edwards and George Edward 2006-01-05 4:37 PM

Working hard, playing by the rules, living your faith and building community can be fatal when mining coal in the Sago Mine, cited last year over 200 times for safety violations and generating $15.7 million for the International Coal Group (ICG) through the third quarter of 2005. (image/jpeg)

PITTSBURGH--BOYCOTT CANADIAN SEAFOOD TO SAVE SEAL PUPS! Harpseals.org 2005-12-29 3:21 PM

Ask your favorite restaurants and grocery to stop buying Canadian seafood until the slaughter of defenseless baby seals is haulted! Go to Harpseals.org to help and learn more! (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

Drive Out Foie Gras Pittsburgh! Pittsburgh Foie Gras 2005-12-16 7:27 PM

Thanks to the effort of Alex Baldwin and others President Clinton made the White House free of foie gras while he was there. Western Pennsylvania animal rights activists are having victories daily in the campaign. (image/jpeg)

Pentagon Surveillance comes to Pittsburgh Abie 2005-12-15 1:15 PM

You may have heard about the secret database the Pentagon complied on anti-war and counter-recruiting activites. And guess what? Pittsburgh made the list! (image/jpeg + 10 comments)

Students Denounce Pentagon Surveillance of Counter-Recruitment Activities UCSC Students Against War (from SC-IMC) 2005-12-15 1:42 AM

SANTA CRUZ, CA – According to a document obtained by NBC News, the Pentagon has been spying on 1,500 “suspicious incidents,” including anti-war and counter-recruitment meetings and actions throughout the nation over the past 10-month period. Among the first pages of more than 400 released, 10 college anti-war protests were listed, including UC Santa Cruz Students Against War (SAW)’s counter-recruitment protest of April 5, 2005, which was the only one to be labeled both credible and a “threat.” (image/jpeg)

5 Poems By Senator Eugene McCarthy Sathya Spreads 2005-12-12 10:44 PM

Eugene McCarthy, antiwar candidate for president, received 42% of the vote in 1968 in New Hampshire, a factor in Lyndon Johnson's decision to resign. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Fallujah: Deep Dish TV Releases Documentary DVD Deep Dish TV 2005-12-05 2:25 PM

Deep Dish TV has released its latest project, Fallujah, documenting the U.S. invasion of the city. (image/jpeg)

Pink Friday !!!!!!! 2005-11-25 7:15 PM

On Friday afternoon, several members of Code Pink distributed pink price tags and Bush Buck$ detailing the human and financial costs of war to Pittsburgh consumers. (image/jpeg + 183 comments)

Sub-Committee Hears Legislation That Could Dismantle Community Access TV. Lyell Davies 2005-11-24 11:06 AM

House Subcommittee on Commerce hears legislation that could severely damage local community access TV. Community media advocates call for intensification, in the coming weeks, of efforts to defeat this legislation. (image/jpeg)

PA House Education Committee investigates "liberal bias" and votes to keep schoo Hal Smith 2005-11-24 5:52 AM

book review: China's Global Reach Jess 2005-11-22 6:09 AM

Understanding globalization and a rising Chinese economic power. (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

POG returns to Oakland Recruiting Station sarge 2005-11-18 4:48 PM

On Friday, November 18th, Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) held a noisy but non-violent protest outside a military recruiting station in Oakland. (image/jpeg + 7 comments)

Save Our Transit Rally marie 2005-11-16 1:47 PM

On November 16, 40 bus and trolley riders from southwest Pennsylvania gathered for a lunchtime “Public Transportation Appreciation Rally” at the Pennsylvania State Office Building downtown. Public transit riders expressed their appreciation for the system that they rely on, and how it affects their everyday lives, sending the message to Harrisburg that public transportation is a necessity, not an option, for thousands of people everyday. Speakers at the rally also called for just wages and health care benefits for every public transit worker in Pennsylvania. (image/jpeg)

MORE LOS ANGELES AREA RESTAURANTS JOIN SEAFOOD BOYCOTT TO PROTECT SEALS Karen 2005-11-11 10:36 AM

Restaurants all over the country join the Canadian Seafood boycott in an attempt to save baby seals. (image/jpeg)

Feds let Niger Forgery (forgeries, see photos) pass. What else? 9/11? Clayton Hallmark 2005-11-10 7:43 PM

The Bush administration exploited FAKE intelligence to sell Congress on the Iraq war. FAKE intelligence, not faulty intelligence. We show photos of the forgeries here and point out the glaring errors in them, so you can see for yourself. The CIA and intelligence community let the forgeries slip by until after the war started. Then Joe Wilson exposed the forgeries, and his wife, Valerie Plame, got outed to pay him back and shut him up. WHAT ELSE DID THEY LET SLIP BY? 9/11 MAYBE? (image/jpeg)

Strike Photos Shane Culgan 2005-11-07 6:55 PM

The following photos have been collected by myself and Rossilynne Skena. (image/jpeg)

N2 Media Clips / Big Idea Tabloid Big Idea CSC 2005-11-04 12:11 PM

We love you Pittsburgh / POG!!!!!!!! (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Utica, NY Man Shot and Killed by Police maslauskas 2005-11-02 5:03 PM

In Utica, NY, resident Walter Washington was shot and killed by a Utica police officer this summer. The details surrounding the events of that night are shady at best and bizarre at worst. Many questions are still unanswered and Mr. Washington’s friends and family live in a state of uncertainty as they attempt to find the truth of the events surrounding Washington’s death. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

2005 Paris Riots Wikipedia 2005-11-01 10:26 AM

This seems under-reported--- Rioting in a Parisian suburb for the last 5 nights. (image/jpeg)

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