PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

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.

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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

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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

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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 headline
  

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• 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

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