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Call for Radical Queers RESYST 2005-06-08 12:20 PM
This is a call for all radical queers in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas for their participation in a radical queer contingent at this years Pride parade. So if you are a self-identified radical queer who feels that all oppressions are interconnected, that liberation is better than equality, and that assimilation is an attack on the vibrant culture that queers have cultivated despite the obstacles against us, then come and march with us. We will be celebrating our queerness, challenging queer assimilation, and partying in the streets. -Resyst (text/plain + 8 comments)

First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted MJS 2005-06-07 10:21 PM

Approximately 45 activists surprised the first-ever shareholders meeting of Knoxville-based National Coal Corporation—the most destructive coal company in Tennessee, at the Holiday Inn Select in west Knoxville. (image/jpeg)

Coal Company Protest Pictures gwen 2005-06-07 8:06 PM

On June 7th, protestors gathered outside the Arts Festival and marched to the Convention Center where Coal Companies were having their national meeting. These are the pictures from that protest. (image/jpeg)

Massey Customer Campaign-Mirant Energy Coal Warrior 2005-06-07 5:21 PM
Mirant Energy(Formerly Southern Energy), now owns most of the generators PEPCO used to own. They have proven to be a dirty and aggressively "pro-coal" company. THEY WILL NOT DISCUSS THEIR SOURCE OF COAL-only that CSX and Conrail ship it! They act like they've got something to hide, and in coal there is but one skeleton in the closet dependant on the source of the coal: MTR MINING!. As a result, it is reasonable to suspect that they have made a number of purchases from Massey Energy-the company responsible for some of the worst MTR mining abuses! (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for June 6, 2005 IMC Rustbelt Radio 2005-06-06 11:28 PM
On today's show... We speak with David Rosenberg of the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition about his group's efforts to bring attention to the ongoing crisis in Western Sudan. We hear from the True Cost of Coal Conference held this past weekend in Pittsburgh, part two in our three part series on Coal in our region and the grassroots organizing against its effects. A high school student in Cleveland is suspended for opposing military recruiters at his school. And police in Pittsburgh and in Ohio are getting more dangerous in their use of tasers. Plus headlines from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and independent media centers around the world. (audio/mpeg)

PROTEST THE COAL SHOW TUESDAY @ NOON Geoff Slagheap 2005-06-06 12:07 PM
Come protest the 'National Coal Show' on Tuesday - we will be meeting at Liberty/Stanwix downtown @ 11:30, marching down Liberty @ noon, and then a rally outside the convention center at 12:30. (text/plain)

(MP3) WEEDHAWKS: BENEFIT CONCERT FOR RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL , PITTSBURGH vincent / blast furnace radsio 2005-06-05 9:34 AM
concert for alternative/diverse education (text/plain)

Show Down in Coal Town Mountain Justice Summer 2005-06-01 11:13 PM
For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elementary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up. Sixteen of the 150 participants in the Mountain Justice Summer campaign were arrested as they attempted to deliver a list of demands to the site's supervisor. Earlier in the day two campaign participants delivered the demands directly to Massey's head offices in Richmond Virginia. (text/html)

Union Carbide pays up for more Environmental Damage in West Virginia Matt T, rustbelt radio 2005-06-01 10:57 AM
On May 26 Union Carbide Corporation entered into a consent agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to settle violations of federal and state laws. The violations happened at the company's specialty chemical manufacturing plant in Institute, West Virginia. The town of Institute is an unincorporated suburb of Charleston and is the location of West Virginia State University, a historically black college. The company was charged with violations of laws regarding hazardous waste storage and annual reporting of toxic chemicals. (text/html)

Update-- 16 Arrested in WVA Protesting Massey Energy Jessica 2005-05-31 5:54 PM
16 People were arrested and are in custody right now for their participation in a peaceful protest in Sundial, West Virginia today. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for May 30, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Rustbelt Radio Collective 2005-05-31 12:16 AM
On today's show, an interview with our featured local grassroots organization of the week, Canaries in the Coalfields, a new group opposing the coal industry and its effects on the environment, workers and communities. Also we'll take a look at a new piece of immigration reform legislation: "The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005" (audio/mpeg)

Healing the Health Care System Bret Grote 2005-05-29 12:24 AM
A brief 2000 word piece on the town hall meeting in Aliquippa last Saturday, dealing with health care, the crisis and proposed solution. (text/plain)

Another POG CR action [audio interview] david 2005-05-28 5:52 PM

Fifteen activists returned to Oaklands' military recruitment station for the third in POG's series of counter-recruitment actions. (image/jpeg + 19 comments)

info on Detective Pasquarelli? Mary 2005-05-25 4:21 PM
Seeking info on Pgh Detective Pasquarelli. Have other people had unpleasant/unreasonable experiences with him? (text/plain + 8 comments)

Darfur advocacy groups protest Sudanese speaker at Pitt Matt Toups for Rustbelt Radio 2005-05-24 11:01 PM

On Saturday May 21st, Abdel Bagi Kabeir, a Sudanese deputy ambassador to the US, spoke in David Lawrence Hall at the University of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition in collaboration with the group Africa Peace Education organized a protest outside his talk. (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for May 23, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-05-24 10:13 PM
On today's show... * we'll hear from activists opposing military recruitment in Pittsburgh including Justin Sane, singer from the Pittsburgh-based band Anti-Flag * also, Jeff Halper will speak about Israel's policy of Home Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories * and our weekly report on police brutality and misconduct in the region and around the country. (audio/mpeg)

For the sake of the kids; West VIrginia residents confront Massey Energy Co. mountain justice summer 2005-05-24 8:09 PM
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td width=50px><img src="http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/massy/wed.jpg"></td> <td>While Massey Energy stockholders met at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, parents, grandparents, and other residents of Coal River Valley, West Virginia rallied to oppose Massey's operations adjacent to Marsh Fork Elementary School. Two grandmothers and a third resident of the valley attempted to deliver a list of demands. The residents were met by the plant's head of security who refused to allow them to present their demands. When the residents again attempted to present their demands, they were arrested in a moving and dramatic act of civil conscience. </td> </tr> </table> (text/html)

Port Authority of Allegheny County is moving to privatize routes & maintenance. stephen donahue 2005-05-23 4:42 PM
Years of state funding shortfalls are about to pay off for the free marketeers. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Israeli Coalition against Home Demolitions baglady 2005-05-19 6:16 PM
This is a 1/2 hour interview with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Coalition against Home Demolitions, an Israeli direct-action organization that non-violently resists Israel's demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories (audio/mpeg)

Captain Blasto Chris Preksta 2005-05-14 8:10 PM
Local Pittsburgh Filmmaker, Chris Preksta to showcase his comic book action film Captain Blasto on May 26th at the Loews, Waterfront. (text/plain + 2 comments)

POG Shuts Down Military Recruitment Center in Oakland Nina Van Zandt 2005-05-14 4:03 PM

On Saturday, May 14th, twenty members and supporters of Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) shut down the primary military recruitment center in Pittsburgh. Located in the heart of Oakland, the neighborhood where three of Pittsburgh’s universities are located, the center serves as the operation base for multiple army recruitment teams. (image/jpeg + 70 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for May 9, 2005 Pgh IMC Rustbelt Radio 2005-05-10 12:49 AM
This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the spring season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. On Today's show we will hear from Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal, pennyslvanians protesting the war and marching for Mumia Abu Jamal, Pittsburghers converting an ambulance to run on vegetable oil and harm reduction activists speaking about the organization Prevention Point. (audio/mpeg)

New South Africa Freedom Day in Pittsburgh matt t, rustbelt radio 2005-05-07 10:34 AM
An interview with Biko Agozino, who came from Philadelphia to attend the celebration of South African freedom day in Pittsburgh. (audio/x-ogg)

May Day at PNC Park matt 2005-05-06 11:26 AM

On May 1, the international workers’ holiday of May Day, members of the local group Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance, or PASCA, spoke to Pirates fans outside PNC Park about making concienscious sports-fan apparel choices. They distributed a new edition of their anti-sweatshop baseball cards as a part of the campaign to pressure the Pittsburgh Pirates and Major League Baseball to enforce labor standards for their licensed merchandise in the same way that many Universities have done. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

May 4th 1970 kent state killings remembered / blast furnace radio travels to kent, ohio vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-05-05 12:00 AM
lots of mp3's (text/plain + 1 comment)

If you are going to police us then you got to live with us. stephen donahue 2005-05-04 4:34 PM
Move led by suburban Pittsburgh legislators would forbid residency requirements for police. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Rustbelt Radio for May 2, 2005 Pittsburgh Indymedia 2005-05-03 3:42 PM
<p> On today's show... <ul> <li> As spring arrives, students across the US are engaging in nonviolent direct action to force change on their campuses. Rustbelt Radio has updates on the sit-ins, protests and more going on this month.</li> <li> We hear from Terry Composte, forest defense activist who won a major court victory in a civil suit concerning police abuse of pepper spray.</li> <li> And we speak to this week's featured grassroots group, Ohio Valley Peace in the Wheeling West Virginia and South Eastern Ohio area.</li> </ul></p> (audio/mpeg)

Mike Benedict for Erie PA City Council snowshoefilms 2005-05-03 2:03 PM
Mike Benedict for Erie City Council "Healthcare bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in this country.. the wealthiest country in the world where we pay more for healthcare than any country.. the reason we pay so much is because of greed, and because of profits. You have patients and you have doctors and in between those you have literally thousands of insurance companies all trying to get a piece of the pie" Running for City Council Mike is standing up to Healthcare insurance companies for the people. April 2005 13min (video/x-ms-wmv + 1 comment)

Row Office Reform? donahue 2005-05-03 12:28 PM
This ain’t as boring as it sounds; well it is but give me a break. (text/plain + 1 comment)

My Reply to WYEP's Mike Sauter Chris Holm 2005-05-03 12:36 AM
Sorry, been negotiating my expatriatism, Missed this entirely. It wasn't my intention to ignore Mike Sauter. I simply didn't even know it was posted. (text/plain + 3 comments)

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