PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

On this week's show...

• We'll hear people's outrage as they testify at a local Citizens' Police Review Board meeting
• We speak with the Bit and Brace Project about their upcoming performance on gentrification
• Subcommandante Marcos speaks about the future of the Other Campaign
  
• A report on how the FCC suppressed the release of documents revealing the dangers of media consolidation
• Argentinians react to the sentencing of a police officer from the 1970's dictatorship
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• A local woman is violently threatened by police
• Updates on the political situation in Bolivia
• Rustbelt Radio talks with Kathy Hall Martinez the co-executive director of Stop Prisoner Rape about the issue of sexual assault in U.S. prisons
• we'll hear the founders of a new recycled-oil biodiesel manufacturing facility in New York discuss biodiesel's potential as a clean energy source
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• we have an in-depth report on developers' plans to build a casino in the Hill District, and reactions from residents
  
• we'll hear from locals who recently marched for immigrant's rights, and youth who organized a march against police brutality in Edgewood and Swissvale
• independent journalist Josh Wolf is released from prison, after refusing to hand over video tapes to a Federal Grand Jury
• a follow-up report on the execution of prison activist Hassan Shakur
• plus more in our local and global news stories

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This week we will be presenting highlights of Rustbelt Radio stories from the last few months, including:

• janitors spin the Wheel of Misfortune at the SouthSide Works
• in Homewood and Garfield, the Pittsburgh police are criticized for car chases that result in multiple deaths and injuries
• a local nonprofit sends help to the Caribbean
• as the national spotlight was on Pittsburgh for this year's All Star Game, locals put the spotlight on the city's treatment of homeless, as well as the sweatshop conditions in factories making Pirates' apparel
  
• several local organizations react to Israeli attacks as the war escalates with Lebanon
• plus more on elections and repression in Mexico, the Mon-Fayette expressway, the South Central Farm in Los Angeles, and Immigration in the US

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On this week's show...

• People in Pittsburgh and across the US are organizing to fight Walmart
• we have a preview of Spike Lee's new documentary on New Orleans titled "When the Levees Broke"
  
• NSA's wiretapping program is declared illegal by a federal judge
  
• Protests, violence, and repression continue in Mexico and Palestine
• and more in our local and global headlines

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