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On Sunday, April 3rd between 50 and 100 Pittsburghers marched in Squirrel Hill on Sunday, April 3rd to bring attention to the on-going crisis in Western Sudan. The event was organized by the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition.

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The University of Pittsburgh is a member of the "Fair Labor Association" (FLA), but this is not good enough say the members of Pitt's Students in Solidarity. The university should be a part of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization that checks the companies for staying within the labor laws of their country.  The Students in Solidarity have been running an ongoing campaign to have the University of Pittsburgh sign up with the WRC.  As a part of this campaign, they held a dance-a-thon on the walkway over Forbes on March 31st.

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Almost 3,000 protestors came out under grey skies to mark the second anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. They marched more than 2 miles from Squirrel Hill to Oakland. The crowd was peaceful and boisterous, with a marching band and a donkey (for Palm Sunday) joining the crowd.

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People from across the region are expected to converge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this weekend to protest the on-going war in Iraq on the second anniversary of the beginning of the war. Visit pittsburgh.indymedia.org for breaking news coverage during the events.

Schedule of events:

• Shocking and Awful: Grassroots Response to War and Occupation
  Thursday, 7pm at PH-100, Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
• All-Night Candlelight Vigil
  Fri, Mar 18th, 2005, 6:00pm - Saturday, March 19th 2:30pm, Forbes and Murray in Squirrel Hill.
  
• Ecumenical Service "End the War and Restore Our Communities"
  Sat, Mar 19th, 2005, 2:00pm- 5:00pm (prior to march at gathering point)
  
• MASS MARCH AND RALLY
  Saturday, March 19th at 2:30pm, Forbes and Murray in Squirrel Hill

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On Monday March 14, 2005, Norman Finkelstein spoke at CMU. Finkelstein is
the author of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995), The Rise and Fall of Palestine (University of Minnesota, 1996), with Ruth Bettina Birn, A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (Henry Holt, 1998) and The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Verso, 2000).

The lecture had been pushed back a month on the request of members of the Hillel-Jewish University Center, who argued that too many speakers who opposed Israeli policies had been coming to the university in too short a time. In the extra month, Hillel then organized as many people as possible who opposed Finkelstein's lecture to come and fill the room, in attempt to crowd out anyone not hostile to Finkelstein.

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