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text SCI Camp Hill Update—Call for Action, Increased Monitoring, Constant Vigilance HRC - FedUp! Chapter, Pittsburgh 2008-12-03 9:59 AM
Prisoners in the Camp Hill Special Management Unit report that the retaliation against them has escalated again. The timing of the reports indicate that the last action alert stayed the hands of the guards for a while, but once the calls died down, the threats, deprivations of food, fabricated misconducts, and other forms of harassment and torture have escalated again. (text/plain + 1 comment)

image Militarism and Materialism Mena 2008-12-02 8:31 PM
Militarism and Materialism
On Black Friday members of Code-Pink for Peace gathered outside Macy's Department store in downtown Pittsburgh. They continue to affirm their commitment to a sustainable Peace with their annual sidewalk signage, singing, and information sharing. Black Friday, the largest shopping day of the year, is chosen to indicate the connection between militarism and materialism. For many resources the USA is the world’s largest consumer in absolute terms. For a list of 20 major traded commodities, it takes the greatest share of 11 of them: corn, coffee, copper, lead, zinc, tin, aluminum, rubber, oil seeds, oil and natural gas. Black Friday is chosen to indicate the connection between militarism and materialism. For many resources the USA is the world’s largest consumer in absolute terms. For a list of 20 major traded commodities, it takes the greatest share of 11 of them: corn, coffee, copper, lead, zinc, tin, aluminum, rubber, oil seeds, oil and natural gas. (image/jpeg)

text Philippines: An urgent call to the NDF and the GRP regarding the recent killings of farmer Collective 2008-12-02 1:56 AM
An urgent call to the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) regarding the recent killings of farmers! (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for December 1, 2008 Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Collecti 2008-12-01 11:53 PM
On today's show... * Rustbelt Radio brings you an accurate depiction of the story behind Thanksgiving * We examine the true cost of production and consumption through the short documentary "The Story of Stuff" * plus a new segment of 2.3 Million and Rising and the Radical Day in History (audio/mpeg)

text Continuing, Unrelenting Terrorism and Mumbai Gary Sudborough 2008-12-01 1:38 AM
There are various types of terrorism. There is periodic terrorism by poor, technologically deficient people against targets of the rich like fancy hotels and restaurants and there is an unrelenting, everyday terrorism, mainly from the sky, on poor innocent people because they happen to live above an oil-rich or strategically important area for western capitalists. This everyday terrorism from aircraft, mainly from the United States and Britain, kills and maims many more people than do the periodic attacks on symbols of the rich and powerful, but oh, which gets the media attention? Does one see Iraqi, Afghani or Pakistani children maimed and blown to pieces like one sees the victims of the Mumbai terrorism? The media don't even cover it and it is not called terrorism, but war. One million Iraqis have been killed, but it receives almost no coverage when compared to the few hundred killed in Mumbai. Little Iraqi children suffer from horrible birth defects due to depleted uranium, but again just try to get some media coverage of these terrible events. In fact, the tons of depleted uranium dropped in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia are a threat to the genetic heritage of the whole world, since the atmosphere is global and the wind can carry radioactive particles anywhere around the planet. This is terrorism on a colossal scale. Wedding ceremonies, funeral processions and tribal gatherings are continually bombed in Afghanistan and the United States will always claim it is an accident. I have been following these events for years and these "accidents" occur every year. When something occurs time after time over a long period, it is likely not an accident. If a child of yours was killed or maimed by a bomb from a foreign power, would that not engender a desire for revenge. Terrorism breeds terrorism. Another seldom remembered event was the so-called convoy of death in Afghanistan in the early months of the US occupation of that country. Hundreds of Taliban were crowded into a trailer truck like cattle and then were attempted to be moved from the north of the country to a prison near Herat. Not only was there no space to move, there were no air holes so people could breathe. When it became obvious they were smothering to death, an order was given to open fire and blow air holes in the trailer. This caused even more deaths. Finally, the survivors were herded into the desert, machine gunned and given a mass burial. A documentary was made of this event, but as usual the mass media didn't want the American people to see it. There is another kind of terrorism practiced by the United States called torture. Terrorism is violence intended to intimidate, and torture fits this definition perfectly. The CIA tortures at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and various rendition centers around the world. Hooding people is a very insidious form of torture because deprivation of light can cause major depression in the brain and this is horribly painful. This is terrorism and it didn't start as Jane Mayer implies in her new book The Dark Side when George W. Bush came to power and America was virtuous until that time. The CIA has been torturing for years, particularly in Latin America. Dan Mitrione of the US Office of Public Safety taught the Uruguayan police how to torture the Tupamayo guerrillas by kidnapping homeless people off the streets and torturing them to death. Noam Chomsky in his book Turning the Tide gives the example of how the elite commandos in El Salvador, trained by the United States, killed a whole family suspected of sympathizing with the guerrillas, decapitated them and placed the heads around the dinner table just in front of the torsos. This is the epitome of intimidation and terrorism done on behalf of the United States. Michael Parenti also discusses the various forms of torture used by the CIA and their lackeys in Latin America including electric shock to the genitals and even tying one man's penis so he couldn't urinate, ruining his kidneys. Sister Diana Ortiz suffered horribly in Guatemala at the hands of the Guatemalan police and CIA. She was lowered into a pit of dead and dying human beings covered with rats and forced to stab a dying person with a machete. United States government terrorism has been going on for a very long time. When asked why priests and nuns were targeted, the Guatemalan special forces spokesman simply stated that it was because they were for the poor people and therefore, communists. A man who survived the Mumbai disaster said it was pure evil. He was right. However, the greatest pure evil comes from the ruling class of the United States and the violence they can propagate through their agencies like the Pentagon and CIA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (text/plain)

text Cien días de incoherencias, inoperancia y corrupción Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-11-30 12:47 PM
Como cien días de incoherencias, inoperancia y corrupción podrían calificarse a los primeros tres meses de gobierno del obispo Fernando Lugo. (text/plain)

image Hope Under Siege Palestine Photo Exhibit Jonas Moffat 2008-11-30 4:23 AM
Hope Under Siege Palestine Photo Exhibit
Hope Under Siege A Palestine Photo Exhibit Kimbo Art Gallery @ University of Pittsburgh William Pitt Union Jan 9-19, 2009 Amazing opening reception with live music, poetry, food, and so much more! (image/png + 1 comment)

text ARE THEY KINGS OF SLAVES OR THE US CONGRESS ?? DOUGLAS FIELD 2008-11-29 10:13 PM
PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO TELL THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD US DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS ~ LET MY PEOPLE GO ! (text/plain)

text Capitalism in Crisis Gary Sudborough 2008-11-28 10:52 PM
Some thoughts on the current economic crisis and capitalism (text/plain + 1 comment)

text China's lessons of globalization, borderless financial cisis, entrepreneurship, politics globalization, finance, politics forum 2008-11-26 6:09 AM
is global financial cisis changing global politics and business map? Is Chinese century arriving sooner? What is really behind all the changes inside Chinese and Indian politics, business, finance and society? Get most provocative lessons and knowledge from a timely book. (text/plain)

image On forming a squatter camp Resolved White 2008-11-25 3:48 PM
On forming a squatter camp
It's easy and cheap (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

text WILL THE ROYAL FAMILY NOW HELP PRESIDENT OBAMA ~ FREE THEM ? DOUGLAS FIELD 2008-11-22 1:53 AM

image The global crisis is a crisis of capitalism Workers' Party - Philippines 2008-11-22 1:17 AM
The global crisis is a crisis of capitalism
It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism. (image/jpeg)

text Barack Obama's Africa Policy Implications Peter O. Otika 2008-11-20 6:22 PM
An insightful look at how the appointment of Sen. Hillary Clinton as US Secretary and Barack Obama's appointment of former President Bill Clinton's insiders will negatively affect US-Africa policy. (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for November 17, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-11-18 12:34 AM
On today's show... * The Yes Men speak on their latest prank * Malik Rahim of Common Ground in New Orleans comes to Pittsburgh * A look inside the Prison Industrial Complex * Pittsburghers protest California's gay marriage ban * plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

image Philippine social movements storm US Embassy Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) 2008-11-17 1:28 PM
Philippine social movements storm US Embassy
Philippine social movements hit G-20 summit’s exclusivity, call for a new and democratic world order (image/jpeg)

image Filipino Workers to heads of G20: Creating a better world order is no more your business Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party) 2008-11-16 10:52 AM
Filipino Workers to heads of G20: Creating a better world order is no more your business
Relegating the world’s future to the hands of same leaders who created the current global economic crisis is a recipe to further disaster, according to Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party), a militant labor party in the Philippines which joined hundreds of other protesters in a march to the US embassy this morning in time for the G20 Summit in Washington DC. (image/jpeg)

image Film from Nahr al-Bared Camp (Lebanon): "Transitions" a-films 2008-11-13 10:08 PM
Film from Nahr al-Bared Camp (Lebanon): "Transitions"
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation... (image/jpeg)

text AUDIO / pittsburgh: malik rahim speaks to the greens vincent / blast furnace radio 2008-11-12 6:00 AM
MP3 LOCATION http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/30144 speaking gig in pittsburgh malik rahim speaks to the greens at the shadow lounge (text/plain)

image Landslide Community Farm Farmhouse Evicted--Take Action! Landslide Community Farm 2008-11-07 5:43 PM
Landslide Community Farm Farmhouse Evicted--Take Action!
Farmhouse of local community farm illegally evicted this morning. Take Action! (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for November 3, 2008 Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Collecti 2008-11-04 12:33 AM
On today's show: A special "Word on the Street" about the election, Non-english speaking parents fight for translators in Philadelphia public schools, An investigation into the preparedness of polling places across America, Excerpts from a local forum on anti-muslim discrimination, with focus on the recently distributed "Obsession" DVD, and - a fond farewell to a beloved oral historian, Studs Terkel. (audio/mpeg)

text Election Protection hotlines voter schmotor 2008-11-03 11:40 PM
Give these to outraged voters (text/plain)

text Defend the RNC8! Drop the Charges!!! MPLS 2008-11-03 2:59 AM
Please show solidarity with those still trapped within the St. Paul courts... Below is a petition to dismiss the charges against the RNC 8. Once it reaches 100,000 signatures it will be sent to the Ramsey County Attorney, Susan Gaertner. (text/plain)

application Dec. 6 Intl. Day of Action for Mumia Abu-Jamal (includes new flyer) Intl Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia 2008-11-02 6:58 PM
International Day of Action, Dec.6, in Philadelphia and more. See flyer below. (application/pdf)

text How to stop computerized vote stealing Bill Forman 2008-11-02 5:28 PM
The Democrats need to ask the Courts to quarantine all computerized voting machines in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and any other state where Sen. Obama had a lead in the polls before the election but lost the election because the votes may have been flipped for McCain. (text/plain)

text Calling all for a Anti-Capitalists bloc November 15th against the World Economic Summit UAsleepercell 2008-11-01 8:38 PM
Calling all for a Anti-Capitalists bloc November 15th against the World Economic Summit. On November 15th the ruling elite of the 20 richest nations will converge in Washington DC for a “World Economic Forum.” The decisions the G20 make ultimately will benefit a small handful of transnational corporations and further the exploitation of all oppressed people. ic Summit (text/html)

image Steelworkers' Analysis of Financial Buyout--Goldman Sachs Gets $5 Billion Gift ----- 2008-11-01 12:49 AM

Below is an analysis that the Steelworkers union put together on Paulson’s investment in Goldman Sachs. The union compares the deal that Warren Buffett, a private investor billionaire, got with the deal the Treasury Department got on its investment in GS. (image/jpeg)

text The Fraudbuster’s Manual Citizen's Group to Prevent Voting Fraud 2008-10-29 11:36 PM
Manipulation of voting machinery looms large over the upcoming election. A discussion is provided, to be spread freely if you please, so that the eyes of We the People can guard our Liberty from any would-be oppressor. An emergency voting system to be established in case of Fraud is described. (text/plain)

application Wobfest Chicago IWW 2008-10-29 6:50 PM
Fellow Workers: the Chicago IWW is hosting the 2008 Midwest Wobfest. (application/pdf)

image SteelBlitz: AFL-CIO and Steelers Going All Out for Obama in Western PA Carl Davidson 2008-10-27 4:50 AM
SteelBlitz: AFL-CIO and Steelers Going All Out for Obama in Western PA
Firsthand report on blue-collar labor and its allies carrying out electoral work their way. (image/jpeg)

image Lebanon: "Nahr al-Bared Between Past and Present" (Video) a-films 2008-10-24 1:49 PM
Lebanon: "Nahr al-Bared Between Past and Present" (Video)
New short film on current developments in the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Camp. (image/jpeg)

text New short film from South Lebanon a-films 2008-10-21 6:21 PM
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges" (text/plain)

text Why 3 out of 4 White Supremacists Support Barack Obama Chris Reeve 2008-10-21 1:37 PM
How do racists, anti-Semites and all-purpose hate-mongers view the possibility of America’s first black president? Not necessarily the way you think they would. (text/plain + 2 comments)

audio Rustbelt Radio for October 20, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-10-21 12:09 AM
On today's show: Andrea Smith speaks at the Critical Resistance Prison Abolition Conference, United Steel Workers take on Equitable Gas over proposed rate increases, A youth report from the Philadelphia Student Union on the recent incident at Sayre High School, Fed-Up takes us inside the Prison Industrial Complex, plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

text Mumia legal update: The Philly DA still wants to execute him! Lead attorney Robert R. Bryan 2008-10-20 6:40 AM
Below is the new legal update from Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lead attorney Robert R. Bryan, concerning Mumia’s appeal to the US Supreme Court. He is appealing the US Third Circuit Court decision denying a new guilt-phase trial or a preliminary hearing that could have led to a new guilt phase trial. The Supreme Court granted Bryan’s request for a 60-day extension, so he will have to submit his petition by Dec. 19, 2008. Significantly, Bryan announces that the Philadelphia DA is appealing the Third Circuit Court’s affirmation of US District Court Judge William Yohn’s 2001 decision, which ‘overturned’ the death penalty and stated that if the DA wants to re-impose the death sentence, they must hold a new penalty-phase jury trial where new evidence of Mumia’s innocence can be presented, BUT, the jury can only decide between a sentence of life without chance of parole or execution. Therefore, if the US Supreme Court rules for the DA and overturns this ruling, Mumia can then be executed without having a new penalty-phase jury trial. The DA will submit their petition by Nov. 19, 2008. (text/plain + 1 comment)

text Racism Dies Hard in Johnstown, PA Michael Yates 2008-10-19 7:55 AM
I just watched on YouTube a video clip taken outside a rally for Sara Palin in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a town where I worked for thirty-two years. The crowd was raucous and racist, blithely spitting out vile remarks. Congressman John Murtha later told a Pittsburgh newspaper that 'There’s no question western Pennsylvania is a racist area. ...' Murtha was roundly chastised for his comments, mainly by Republicans, which had to mark a new height in irony. Murtha, sad to say, was right on the mark. Racism was endemic when I lived in Johnstown, and it appears little has changed. (text/plain + 2 comments)

text 81 Reasons To Defeat McCain Victory 2008-10-16 6:00 PM
bloodshed of American soldiers and people elsewhere, the increasing poverty in the US, and many other reasons to defeat the Republicans (text/plain + 1 comment)

image Artist Explores Our Ability to Be Self-Destructive, Remorse at the PCA gallery Eric Sloss 2008-10-15 8:03 PM
Artist Explores Our Ability to Be Self-Destructive, Remorse at the PCA gallery

text McCain Operative and Republican Vote Fraud Now and in the Past Searchlight on Shadows 2008-10-15 1:00 PM
Republican vote fraud in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio Florida etc (text/plain)

text Peace, Abortion: Is War Mass Abortion? Peace For All Beings 2008-10-14 11:43 AM
Increasingly, Catholics regard prevention of war as a greater prolife issue than abortion. (text/plain)

image Palin versus PIttsburgh mena 2008-10-13 9:35 PM
Palin versus PIttsburgh
People of Pittsburgh came together to let Governor Palin know that she does not have the qualifications to govern, and furthermore her policies against wildlife are abhorrent. (image/jpeg)

image Beaver County Battleground: 'Time to Give the Black Guy a Chance' Carl Davidson 2008-10-13 4:55 PM
Beaver County Battleground: 'Time to Give the Black Guy a Chance'
First hand account of union workers going door-to-door for Obama around stopping war, green jobs and health care (image/jpeg)

text Protest Sarah Palin in Pittsburgh, all out on Friday, October 10th! elbow 2008-10-08 12:23 PM
Friday, October 10th - Protest the Bush/McCain/Palin plan for America - call for Drums and good, strong energy! (text/plain + 7 comments)

image All Out for 10/10 and 10/11!!! Jericho Ten-TEn 2008-10-07 9:24 PM
All Out for 10/10 and 10/11!!!
Jericho 10/10 Weekend of Resistance "One of the first steps we are going to become involved in as an Organization of Afro-American Unity will be to work with every leader and other organization in this country interested in a program designed to bring your and my problem before the United Nations . . . We must take it out of the hands of the United States government." – Malcolm X, Speech at Founding Rally of the OAAU, 28 June 1964 (image/jpeg)

audio Rustbelt Radio for October 6, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-10-06 11:36 PM
On today's show: Financial experts including Naomi Klein speak on the current economic crisis, We explore the roots of Freedom Corner located in the Hill District, Fed-Up takes us inside the Prison Industrial Complex, Green Party VP Candidate Rosa Clemente, plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

image W PA Obama 'Labor Walks' -Defeating McCain is Just 'Step One' Repost by CarlD 2008-10-05 1:47 AM
W PA Obama 'Labor Walks' -Defeating McCain is Just 'Step One'
A report from the 4th CD Progressive Democrats of America on the local working class and the election. (image/jpeg)

text Urgent Action Alert! Prisoners Under Attack in Camp Hill's SMU Human Rights Coalition 2008-10-02 6:56 PM
In the last four months over a dozen prisoners confined in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Camp Hill have written HRC/Fed Up! about conditions of severe brutality, white supremacy, and the systematic sabotage at all inmate efforts to file grievances and/or obtain legal assistance. See the attached 14-page document culled from prisoner reports detailing a violent program of dehumanization. (text/plain + 1 comment)

text Update and Letter from Eric McDavid Sacramento Prisoner Support 2008-10-01 6:10 PM
Update on Eric's situation in Victorville and a letter from Eric (text/plain)

text Review: "FARE STRIKE! San Francisco 2005: First-Hand Accounts" Kevin Keating 2008-09-30 11:49 PM
A critical examination of the leftist recuperator's version of this event... (text/plain + 4 comments)

text A film about a succesful non-violent struggle in India loin_de_loeil 2008-09-30 10:11 AM
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. (text/plain)

text No to the Bailout of the Capitalist Speculators! Internationalist Group 2008-09-28 3:46 PM
The financial crisis that has been heating up since early 2007 reached the boiling point in late September. Credit markets virtually stopped functioning. A full-blown panic swept stock markets worldwide. The U.S. economy is in the throes of a recession that could turn into a Depression lasting for years. In these dire straits, the Wall Street speculators who set off this crisis are demanding that the government rescue them with a bailout priced at $700 billion. The actual costs will be far higher, a trillion dollars or more. Meanwhile, the Democrats are pushing hardest for the Bush bailout of the banks. Presidential candidate Barack Obama blames "greed" for the crisis on Wall Street (capitalism without greed?) and says there must be no "blank check to Washington" -- meaning he's for putting in a few conditions as window dressing. Following in the Democrats' footsteps, the AFL-CIO labor bureaucrats called a demo for "No Blank Check for Wall Street." Yet no amount of regulation will stop the boom-bust cycle of capitalism. Meanwhile unemployment lines are growing and a million families were thrown out of their homes by bank foreclosures in the last year. While the fat cats, Democrats and bureaucrats are all going for the Bush bailout to prop up U.S. capitalism, revolutionary Marxists oppose this trillion-dollar giveaway to the Wall Street speculators, calling instead for a program of transitional demands leading to the expropriation of the banks and the entire bourgeoisie through workers revolution. (text/html)

image Debate 'Watching Party,' Beaver County-Style Carl Davidson 2008-09-28 12:30 AM
Debate 'Watching Party,' Beaver County-Style
A Report on the Obama Campaign, workers and youth in Western PA (image/jpeg + 8 comments)

text BTL:Taxpayers Reject Blank Check for Wall Street Bailout Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-09-25 4:49 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

text ROTC Get Out, Stay Out! Obama Wants You to Serve Imperialism Revolution no. 5 2008-09-25 12:24 AM
Barack Obama dropped a bomb on his young enthusiasts at Columbia University on September 11. The heavily Democratic crowd booed McCain when he called for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to be brought back to campus (it was driven out in 1969 by protests against the Vietnam war). Liberal students expected a different answer from Columbia alum Obama, but the forum was a symphony of agreement as both candidates campaigned for expanding the military and pledged their enthusiastic support to U.S. imperialism. That should have been the tip-off for anyone who hadn't figured it out by then: Obama is no "peace candidate" but like McCain he is a certified imperialist war candidate. (text/html)

audio Rustbelt Radio for September 22, 2008 Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Collecti 2008-09-22 11:31 PM
On today's show: An Anti-Islamic DVD is being distributed in Pittsburgh and across the US, Electronic Voting Machines in Allegheny County, A look at the case of Eric McDavid, an activist who was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison, based on questionable FBI evidence, A discussion of human rights with William F. Schulz, former executive director of Amnesty International, plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

image Prevent The Murder of Troy Anthony Davis by State of Georgia On Sept 23 Davis Supporter 2008-09-22 1:18 PM
Prevent The Murder of Troy Anthony Davis by State of Georgia On Sept 23
Help stop racist executions of innocents in Georgia (image/jpeg)

text Telling the story of Pittsburgh from the Worker's Viewpoint. Paul Carosi 2008-09-22 5:14 AM
In celebration of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary the Point of Pittsburgh Blog is featuring the stories of working class heroes who made important contributions to Pittsburgh's and our country's history. They are celebrated in song, video, and stories. (text/html)

text 38 Reasons To Defeat McCain Populist Registration 2008-09-21 9:03 PM
Before it was the Mellons and the Carnegies and mining companies controlling Pittsburgh workers. Now they have been replaced by others even worse. McCain wants to bankrupt the Social Security Fund in order to do the bidding of big oil and religious haters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan. (text/plain)

audio Isabel MacDonald from FAIR at Torture Conference David 2008-09-21 2:22 PM
Audio recording of Isabel MacDonald, communications director from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), who discusses the corporate media's inaccuracy and bias when reporting on torture by the U.S. (audio/mpeg)

text (mp3) Blast Furnace Radio Show from New Orleans vincent / Blast Furnace Radio & TV 2008-09-17 9:05 PM
phone interview from new orlean's "common ground relef: http://www.commongroundrelief.org/ (text/plain)

text (video) Water Action at CMU's Dod outlet / SEI vincent & lenny / Blast Furnace Radio & TV 2008-09-17 8:54 PM
video Aug. 9th, Nagasaki Day at CMU's military contract building http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY9I6JSxDHo (text/plain)

text PHILIPPINES: Suspend US Military Deployments to Mindanao Citizens’ Peace Watch 2008-09-16 1:35 PM
A broad coalition of NGOs, social movements, and political parties from Mindanao and the rest of the country today called for all US military deployments in Mindanao suspended pending the conclusion of a fair and thorough probe by lawmakers. (text/plain + 1 comment)

text Bob Barr on Pennsylvania Presidential Ballot Peace Voter 2008-09-16 12:16 PM
A Harrisburg judge, Johnny Butler, has ruled that Bob Barr will be on the Pennsylvania presidential ballot. McCain Palin operatives are trying to stop Barr's ballot inclusion. (text/plain)

text Time Ecology - Four Gifts from the Work Less Party marc 2008-09-15 10:25 PM
These four videos from the Work Less party of Vancouver, British Columbia could reinvigorate dialogue and life. As kairos time replaces everyday time, working less could replace overconsumption and destruction of nature. (text/plain)

image The Ground Noise and the Static: A Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul (Illustrated) Mike GW & James K 2008-09-15 9:50 PM
The Ground Noise and the Static: A Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul (Illustrated)
“Please, please, my friends, my dear friends, please, please don’t be diverted by the ground noise and the static”—John McCain, on being interrupted just before he can accept the GOP’s nomination, 9/4/08 (image/jpeg)

image 60th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea National Democratic Front of the Philippines 2008-09-15 12:59 PM
60th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Message on the occasion of the 60th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

text PRESS-RELEASE. The artist will be paint his picture with blood Artyom Suslov 2008-09-14 12:47 PM
The artist and poet from St.-Petersburg (Russia) Artyom Suslov recently declared war to mass culture. He said that intends to write the picture using of his own blood and wants to do so publicly during the performance at one of the central streets of St. Petersburg. (text/plain)

text Doing Business in the Arabian Gulf Gabriel Sawma 2008-09-14 2:11 AM
The United States uses about one-quarter of the world’s total energy output, but have less than five percent of the world’s population. According to statistics of the US Dept. of Energy, 19.9% of crude oil products imports to the US, during January 2005, came from the Persian Gulf countries (Petroleum Supply Monthly). This article is written to make U.S. Businesses familiar with customs, traditions and laws governing business dealings with that region of the world. (text/plain)

text Pmas. La farsa de la CIA al descubierto Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-09-13 10:11 PM
¿Puede ignorar Fernando Lugo que tiene a la CIA en su gabinete, con Camilo Soares o Gloria Rubín? (text/plain)

image Periodismo cooptado por la CIA Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-09-13 11:47 AM
Periodismo cooptado por la CIA
Basta mencionar son estrellas del periodismo un ex policía de Stroessner (Alcibíades González Delvalle), el ex animador de los cumpleaños del dictador (Humberto Rubín) y la mayoría de los redactores son empleados de un operador del Cóndor. (image/jpeg)

image After DNC/RNC, fight ICE and support immigrant rights struggle: a call to action primate against ICE 2008-09-13 6:14 AM
After DNC/RNC, fight ICE and support immigrant rights struggle: a call to action
please read, forward widely, discuss with others, and ACT! (image/jpeg)

text Thank Nicky Exarchou if America is Stupider than You! Bobby Meade 2008-09-11 8:08 PM
Since the US has allowed Illegal Alien Nicky Exarchou to live here since WW II, the USA is now a "nation of sh*theads" with a sh*thead in the White House. Hey Pitt! Nicky sent a lot of people to Aliquippa! See if any of them survived..... (text/plain + 10 comments)

image INTERVIEW: New British Film About Mumia Abu-Jamal Showing in NYC Hans Bennett 2008-09-11 12:24 AM
INTERVIEW: New British Film About Mumia Abu-Jamal Showing in NYC
For the first time since the film's US Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January, <a href="http://www.inprisonmywholelife.com">"In Prison My Whole Life"</a> will be shown to a US audience. This new film about the internationally renowned death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal will be shown this week at the <a href="http://urbanworld.com/in_prison_my_whole_life.cfm">Urbanworld Film Festival</a> in New York City on <a href="https://www.fandango.com/purchase/movietickets/process03/ticketboxoffice.aspx?row_count=1995774946∣=118780&tid=AAQCR">Sept 11</a> and <a href="https://www.fandango.com/purchase/movietickets/process03/ticketboxoffice.aspx?row_count=1995775132∣=118780&tid=AAQCR">Sept 13</a>. <i>In Prison</i> is also being shown at the <a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/organizing-to-abolish-the-prison-industrial-complex/">CR10 Conference</a> in Oakland, CA, on September 26. <p> Officially endorsed by <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17442">Amnesty International</a>, <i>In Prison</i> features interviews with Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Ramona Africa, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Steve Earle, and more, including an interview with Abu-Jamal's brother Billy Cook, as well as an interview with photographer Pedro Polakoff and <a href="http://www.abu-jamal-news.com/temp/German%20Book%20Reveals%20New%20Evidence.html">German author Michael Schiffmann</a>, who recently discovered Polakoff's <a href="http://www.abu-jamal-news.com/">crime scene photos</a> that were never seen by the 1982 jury . In this new interview with co-producer Livia Giuggioli Firth, she talks about when she first learned about Mumia Abu-Jamal, making the film, the new appeal to the US Supreme Court, and more. "I hope Mumia will have a new trial, because has been sitting in solitary confinement for 27 years, and it is a disgrace. We will never know the truth about Dec. 9, 1981 until then," says Firth. <p> <b>RELATED:</b> October, 2007 <a href="http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-prison-my-whole-life-interview-with.html">interview with William Francome</a> about <i>In Prison</i> (image/jpeg)

text Stop the USA Killing and Torturing Machine geral 2008-09-10 8:51 PM
The USA's war on Mankind through torture, imprisonmen and killing cannot stand; the indominable human spirit does not permit it. (text/plain + 1 comment)

image Corrupción en el círculo intimo del Obispo Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-09-10 8:49 PM
Corrupción en el círculo intimo del Obispo
En Paraguay muchos jueces son incorruptibles a la manera de la humorada de Bertold Brecht: nadie puede inducirlos a hacer justicia, menos aún si deben hacerla con el entorno de Fernando Lugo. (image/jpeg)

text 11 Links on the Impaling Palin Populist 29 2008-09-10 12:50 PM
Pennsylvania has hunters, ethical hunters who are not the idle rich aerially gunning down animals, facilitated by Palin in Alaska nor the Dick Cheney and John Cornyn (senator from Texas) kind. Cornyn and Cheney in Rolling Rock killed over 400 birds in 1 day, birds raised in cages and released in nets directly in fromt of them. (text/plain)

text CODDLING OF PALIN IS FALSE FEMINISM, DISGUISED SEXISM, AND RIGHT-WING ANTI-WORKING-WOMEN Ruth Rubinstein 2008-09-10 4:48 AM
The call of so-called feminists to coddle Palin is really disguised sexism and based on a medieval, male-chauvinist mentality that women are weak and fragile and should be protected. We don’t need an American Margaret Thatcher, an icon and poster child for right-wing policies that harm poor and middle-class working women, the majority of women. It’s time to expose Palin for what she really is. (text/plain)

text Pit Bulls and Lipstick Randy Redbull 2008-09-10 3:11 AM
I have to admit that I have never actually seen a pig putting on lipstick. I guess it was because pigs had a hard time holding lipstick in their hooves, and the fact that their species never adapted to the manufacture and sale of mirrors for self-conscious assessment? But a pit bull with lipstick? What are we to think of such a shocking metaphor—that is of a hockey mom equating to a pit bull? Or why do moms continue to where lipstick after getting married anyway? (text/plain)

audio Rustbelt Radio for September 8, 2008 Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Collecti 2008-09-09 12:01 AM
On today's show An investigation of Taser use by Police in Allegheny County, The America's Army video game recruits children while generating profits for private software companies, A special segment of 2.3 Million and Rising, A local activist describes the police repression faced by protesters at the Republican National Convention, A flotilla of kayaks challenge the world's largest pipeline laying ship off the west coast of Ireland, and more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

image Irish Republican Seeks Normalized Status. Pol Brennan Support Group 2008-09-08 3:44 PM
Irish Republican Seeks Normalized Status.
Pól Brennan was born in 1953 in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Belfast, Northern Ireland. While growing up, he witnessed first-hand the sectarian bigotry that plagued the North of Ireland at the time. In 1972 when he was 19, like many of his friends and neighbors he became a civil rights activist. (image/jpeg)

text Chevron, BP push Sarah Palin as Condoleezza Rice's successor Sea Shepherd Supporter 2008-09-08 1:49 PM
Sarah Palin helps Chevron pollute beluga whale habitat (text/plain)

image Update: The Criminal Corruption and Animal Cruelty of Gov. Sarah Palin ARC 2008-09-04 10:44 PM
Update: The Criminal Corruption and Animal Cruelty of Gov. Sarah Palin
Perhaps after you read this file, you will feel as my friends and I feel, that Sarah Palin was fasttracked from a mayor's job in a 4600 resident town to the governor's chair, coached in everything she said or did, and prepared to be a neocon candidate on the national stage...all in 2 years time. Vote fraud could have defeated her Democratic opponent. All of this occurred as the neocon dominated FBI was investigating Senator Stevens. Certainly Murkowski defeated governor and Stevens had corrupt offices, but the orchestration of the chorus for Palin by oil prostitutes Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others was it seems planned. "That most dangerous of all classes: the wealthy criminal class" wrote President Theodore Roosevelt of plutocrats and their pawns. (image/jpeg + 14 comments)

image Denver Diaries - Report on Iraq Vets and Rage Against the Machine Concert and March Carl Davidson 2008-09-02 12:09 AM
Denver Diaries - Report on Iraq Vets and Rage Against the Machine Concert and March
Carl Davidson's Denver Diaries: Day Five - Rage, Vets, Antiwar. To see all six days, go to the 'Progressives for Obama' site. (image/jpeg)

text McCain picks prowar, prodrilling huntress as running mate. ARC 2008-08-29 6:27 PM
McCain's running mate choice is pro war, pro drilling in Alaska, a woman who calls herself prolife while gutting the moose she shoots, a woman who wants polar bears removed from the endangered species list. (text/plain)

image Tensions Begin at DNC ex-Faultliners 2008-08-25 8:16 PM

Anti-capitalists reclaim the streets of downtown Denver to kick off protests at DNC. (image/jpeg)

image Youngest ever British person visits longest serving Black Panthers in solitary confinement carrie reichardt 2008-08-22 1:58 AM
Youngest ever British person visits longest serving Black Panthers in solitary confinement
An 11 year old from London has become the youngest ever British person to visit two prisoners in Louisiana State Prison, who are the longest serving inmates in solitary confinement. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have spent over 35 years held in 6ft x 9ft cells for crimes even a federal judge has overturned. (image/jpeg)

text Eli Lilly Zyprexa RICO Lawsuit Danny Haszard 2008-08-21 9:43 PM
Through a complex series of illegal rackets and lies, Eli Lilly drug company built a multi-billion dollar drug enterprise at the expense of taxpayers, consumers and patient lives (text/plain)

image Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Movement Prof. Jose Maria Sison 2008-08-19 4:50 AM
Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Movement
In solidarity and with utmost joy, the International League of People's Struggle joins today the celebration of women in general and their revolutionary struggle for emancipation and liberation from imperialism, feudalism and patriarchalism. We remember and honor millions of women who trailblazed and paved the path for women's liberation movement. (image/jpeg + 14 comments)

application 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)

text Sandinistas repudiados por la "izquierda" en Paraguay luis aguero wagner 2008-08-16 7:17 PM
Rosario Murillo, esposa del presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, criticó duramente a la ministra paraguaya de la mujer, Gloria Rubín, quien previamente condenó a Daniel Ortega como un depravado sexual, haciéndose eco de unas denuncias del año 1998 (text/plain)

text The Company You Keep Paul Heller 2008-08-16 3:23 PM
John McCain sure has some unsavory characters working for his campaign... What does that say about him? (text/plain)

image CRASH THE RNC: Sector 4 Barricade Building Contest UA in the Bay 2008-08-15 1:24 AM
CRASH THE RNC: Sector 4 Barricade Building Contest
Representatives of our corrupt two-party system intend to host self-congratulatory celebrations this summer at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. We support demonstrating opposition to their parties by crashing and shutting them down, while having a little fun ourselves. In alliance with thousands of others nationwide who are collaborating to swarm the RNC on day one, September 1st -- Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and other Northern California radicals have banded together as "Unconventional Action (UA) in the Bay" and collectively chosen to adopt SECTOR 4 in downtown St. Paul. Our commitment to blockades, direct action, and other roaming protest mischief at the RNC is pledged in full solidarity with those working to disrupt the DNC in late August. (image/jpeg)

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

image Remembering Hiroshima mena 2008-08-11 11:18 PM
Remembering Hiroshima
"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)

image Rhetoric for Radicals JD 2008-08-08 4:18 PM
Rhetoric for Radicals
New book for activists and organizers. (image/jpeg)

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

image PHILIPPINES: Open Letter to the NPA General Command and the NDF Collective 2008-08-05 11:10 AM
PHILIPPINES: Open Letter to the NPA General Command and the NDF
We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent spate of killings of farmers and farmer-leaders in Masbate, perpetrated by individuals identified as belonging to the local command of the New People’s Army. (image/jpeg)

audio 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)

text Stalinist Spanish Civil War Artwork Vandalized in San Francisco workers memory project 2008-08-01 9:34 PM
A small example of direct action to commemorate the beginning of the Spanish Civil War... (text/plain)

image The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder Gregg Mosson 2008-07-31 2:45 PM
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Former L.A. County District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi has written a book outlining how to bring murder charges against President George W. Bush after the president leaves office. This article reviews Bugliosi's arguments. (image/jpeg)

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