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Race and National Origin at Pacifica Why You Should Care Tom Gomez 2005-06-25 5:46 PM

Turn on your radio. Spin the dial. Companies like clear channel and Cox own well in excess of 3000 broadcast outlets. That's how most of us get our information. Pacifica exists to counter that. It has only 5 stations, but in major cities, With $400,000,000 in assests and 16 million in yearly budget the foundation is the single most valuable asset of the left. Under one vision it would move to the right, under another it would recruit activists to actually create media. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Critical Mass! peppy 2005-06-25 12:21 AM

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)

Iraqi Labor leaders visit Pittsburgh david 2005-06-23 9:25 PM

On Tuesday, June 21st, representatives from two Iraqi labor unions visited Pittsburgh. (image/jpeg)

Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches website Sean 2005-06-23 1:51 PM

Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches website (image/jpeg)

Pittsburgh Pridefest 2005 Pictures (2 of 2) gwen 2005-06-19 2:04 PM

The second set of pictures from Pittsburgh PrideFest. (image/jpeg + 25 comments)

Resysting Assimilation at Pride 05 one hot queer 2005-06-19 1:53 PM

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)

Pittsburgh Pridefest 2005 Pictures (1 of 2) gwen 2005-06-19 1:38 PM

The first set of pictures from Pittsburgh PrideFest. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

PHOTOS: At Philly City Hall for Mumia Hans Bennett 2005-06-17 12:06 PM

On Thursday, June 16, supporters of journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered outside Philadelphia City Hall in response to a recent decision by Judge Pamela Dembe which prohibits him from entering in 2 new pieces of evidence. That day, members of the Ossining, NY chapter of the NAACP and others visited both Mayor Street’s and Pamela Dembe’s office in downtown Philadelphia. (image/jpeg)

Hands Off Venezuela Pittsburgh Launch Pittsburgh Hands Off Venezuela Committee 2005-06-16 2:38 PM

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)

'Child abuse police left me a broken man' David Rose 2005-06-12 7:53 PM

"It was the destruction of my past, my present and my future: an enormous disturbance to every aspect of our lives," Mackay said. "My son had to take a year out from his degree course at Oxford to support me." (image/jpeg)

POG to Oakland Recruiting Station again [video, photo] bamd 2005-06-12 12:53 AM

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)

UGLF Communique Urban Guerrilla Liberation Front 2005-06-11 9:23 PM

audio text from the yet to be released uglf may day video communique (image/jpeg + 9 comments)

Harpoon the Plans for a Whale Meat Factory Hallie Caplan 2005-06-10 4:19 PM

Japan is trying to reopen commercial whaling and we need all hands on deck to stop them. (image/jpeg)

The Allied Media Conference j. nolish 2005-06-10 12:28 PM

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)

Rally for Clean Energy—Health, Jobs, & Energy Independence matt toups 2005-06-09 7:37 PM

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)

First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted MJS 2005-06-07 10:21 PM

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)

Coal Company Protest Pictures gwen 2005-06-07 8:06 PM

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)

Second ciclonudista (world naked bike demonstration) Colectivos Ciclonudistas de Aragón 2005-06-02 8:42 AM

Saturday june 11th , 2005 ¡Naked before the traffic! ¡Justice on the streets! (image/jpeg)

JOIN Venezuela News & Action, a free weekly bulletin on Venezuelan democracy. jeb@veninfo.org 2005-05-31 4:36 PM

You can help support Venezuelan sovereignty and stay on top of the latest political events with our concise, once-weekly electronic bulletin. (image/gif)

Another POG CR action [audio interview] david 2005-05-28 5:52 PM

Fifteen activists returned to Oaklands' military recruitment station for the third in POG's series of counter-recruitment actions. (image/jpeg + 19 comments)

Darfur advocacy groups protest Sudanese speaker at Pitt Matt Toups for Rustbelt Radio 2005-05-24 11:01 PM

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)

POG Shuts Down Military Recruitment Center in Oakland Nina Van Zandt 2005-05-14 4:03 PM

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)

USA The Movie features Indymedia voices of protest Nabila Maura 2005-05-12 6:02 AM

USA The Movie, partly filmed in Pennsylvania, features Indymedia voices of protest. (image/jpeg)

WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ anonymous 2005-05-10 8:29 PM

The use of depleted uranium weaponry in Iraq. (image/jpeg)

Trespass Against Us Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman 2005-05-06 5:13 PM

At midnight on December 2, 1984, 27 tons of lethal gases leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, immediately killing an estimated 8,000 people and poisoning thousands of others. Today in Bhopal, at least 150,000 people, including children born to parents who survived the disaster, are suffering from exposure-related health effects such as cancer, neurological damage, chaotic menstrual cycles and mental illness. Coinciding with the recent 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, Jack Doyle came out with a new book "Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century" (Common Courage Press, 2004). (image/jpeg)

May Day at PNC Park matt 2005-05-06 11:26 AM

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)

No Nazis In Boston - May 8 Northeast Antifascist 2005-05-02 2:44 PM

Nazis Fuck Off - May 8th (image/jpeg)

Rally to Save the Courts Jessica McPherson 2005-05-02 2:25 AM

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)

A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day Festival! Louis Lingg 2005-04-27 11:41 AM

http://www.anewworldinourhearts.mahost.org/ (image/jpeg)

BioDemocracy Update # 1 PhillyRAGE (ResistAgainstGeneticEngineering) 2005-04-26 6:05 PM

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)

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