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On Saturday, October 14, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers left Immokalee, Florida on their way to McDonalds headquarters in Chicago, IL. Joining with the farmworkers are the Alliance for Fair Food and the Student Farmworker Alliance, who have called for National Days of Action to take place the last weekend in October to support the farmworkers.
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers | Student-Farmworker Alliance ]
On Friday, October 6, Florida Governor Jeb Bush was shown to a closet by Pittsburgh Port Authority Police as he attempted to escape the boos and jeers of activists en route to a fundraiser for PA Senator Rick Santorum. Bush was a scheduled speaker at the fundraiser. read more | Rustbelt Radio coverage ]
An all new Rustbelt TV, from Pittsburgh Indymedia, is now available online! Also broadcast on Pittsburgh Community Television, Rustbelt TV is produced in collaboration with Pittsburgh IMC's award-winning show Rustbelt Radio.The new program features several segments from local indymedia producers, as well as some great segments from elsewhere in the Indymedia network. To get involved, contact: video@indypgh.org or call 412-923-3000
To watch Rustbelt TV online, go to http://video.indypgh.org
[ TV show contents and script ]
Anti-Sweatshop All Star Pittsburgh Critical Mass, June 2006 Surviving in an Asian Megacity Low Power to the People
Spelled out vertically, in letters ten feet tall on Braddock Avenue on Friday July 21 was the message: NO M-F-X, no to the Mon-Fayette Expressway. Standing on the opposite side of the street was the Mayor of Braddock as well as representatives of the many community groups opposed to the highway project and about 50 community members who had gathered earlier at the Mayor's Residence for the Goodbye Mon-Fayette party.Much of the argument against the Mon-Fayette Expressway involves the expense of building a new toll road, especially in an area with such underfunded public transportation. Activists such as the Group Against Smog and Pollution, GASP, feel that the money is being put into road building instead of road maintenance.
Because the expressway will run through towns from Route 68 in West Virginia to Pennsylvania's Monongahela River Valley, the construction will call for the removal of homes, buildings, and natural surroundings that lie in the proposed path of the expressway. Many residents faced with these issues feel that the Mon-Fayette Expressway will do more to hurt them than to help.
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Read more... | listen to a Rustbelt Radio interview with Braddock Mayor ]
On Tuesday July 11th, Pittsburgh was home to the 2006 Major League
Baseball All Star game. The city prepared for the influx of tourists
and its place in the national spotlight by installing a 1 million
dollar robotic video surveillance network for downtown and Oakland,
purchasing new K-9 units, patrol cars, and crowd control
equipment. The city's Redd up Campaign involved boarding up
abandoned buildings, removing graffiti, towing cars, cleaning up
abandoned lots, and displacing homeless people from their normal
gathering places on the North Side and Downtown. Photos from anti-sweatshop demonstration | anti-sweatshop protest video ] Rustbelt Radio coverage (mp3 | ogg) | More on baseball from Sweatfree Communities ]![[masthead]](/images/masthead_140.png)