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Rustbelt Radio for November 28, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2005-11-28 11:52 PM
On this week's show... * We speak to an organizer with the South Central Los Angeles Farmers who are fighting the destruction of their urban farm * We hear from Johanna Fernandez's lecture about the Young Lords Party and Late Sixties Radicalism * and Code Pink protests the war outside Kaufmann's on the day after Thanksgiving * and workers at Starbucks are struggling against the company to unionize with the IWW * plus our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for November 21, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio 2005-11-22 11:33 AM
On this week's show... William Andersen will tell us how the City of Pittsburgh demolished his home; We'll take a look at Rafah Crossing Point, the heavily militarized checkpoint that since 1980 has been the only way for people in Gaza to travel internationally, as Israel plans to hand over control to the Palestinian Authority and European Union (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for November 14, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2005-11-15 10:57 AM
On today's show... * We have an interview With Helem GLBT Center in Beirut, Lebanon * Updates on the Paris Riots * Spoken word by Alixa and Naima * an update on police harassment of Common Ground Relief volunteers in New Orleans * our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for November 7, 2005 Indymeda Radio Collective 2005-11-07 11:21 PM
On this week's show... * We speak with an employee of the East Liberty Shop-n-save store who alleges religious discrimination * We learn about human trafficking in the US and abroad, and what is being done to stop it * and we discuss proposed changes to National Forest Service policies with the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. plus, our local and global headlines. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for October 31, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio 2005-10-31 10:43 PM
On this week's show... * We talk to Sal Wilcox of Education Innovations about urban farms and charter schools * We have an update from Mohammad of Beirut Indymedia about the situation in Lebanon and Syria * and Pittsburghers react to the 2000th American soldier death in Iraq, but first, these local headlines. (audio/mpeg)

"blast furnace radio" interviews jenka on the ground in algiers / new orleans pa blast furnace radio / vincent 2005-10-31 12:42 AM
great update from new orleans (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

Andy Singer Lecture (part 2) Andalusia 2005-10-26 2:50 PM
This is a speech about urban planning, transportation design, highway funding, bicycles and cars. Part 2 of 2 (audio/mpeg)

Andy Singer Lecture Andalusia 2005-10-26 1:51 PM
This is a speech about urban planning, transportation design, highway funding, bicycles and cars. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for October 24, 2005 Pittsburgh Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-10-24 11:49 PM
On today's show, Students in Solidarity are working to get the University of Pittsburgh to take a stronger stand against sweatshop labor. We hear about local activists who assisted in the post- hurricane animal rescues down south. And, a UN Report on the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister implicates Syrian and Lebanese officials; we'll talk with the webmaster of Indymedia Beirut about the implications. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for October 17, 2005 Pittsburgh Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-10-17 11:11 PM
On today's show... * we'll check out a new Documentary on the killing of Jonny Gammage, 10 years after his death at the hands of suburban Pittsburgh police officers * we'll talk with Pittsburgh's Industrial Workers of the World * Local and Global News (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for October 10, 2005 Pittsburgh Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-10-11 11:00 AM
On this week's show... We speak to a volunteer in New Orleans who is helping to run a grassroots community health center, we hear the story of a man who escaped from Orleans Parish Prison during the floods, and we have an update from the week in Palestine. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for October 3, 2005 Pittsburgh Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-10-03 11:18 PM
On this week's show we'll talk with members of the pittsburgh community about wrongful incarceration, we'll report on last week's general strike in India, and we'll hear about a former Marine Captain who is starting a new job as a news commentator for Al Jazeera. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for September 26th Pittsburgh Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-09-26 10:24 PM
On this week's show we'll hear from Sankofa Community Empowement about their Saturday School and We'll go to a Guatemalan village, where the Women's Self-Reliance Program is using intensive gardening to promoting economic independence, environmental sustainability, and stronger community and an update on police misconduct and taser use from Ron Anicich (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for September 19, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio 2005-09-19 9:57 PM
On this week's show... * A look at Grow Pittsburgh, a group of local urban farmers who are growing more than just food in the city. * We'll hear more voices from flood survivors in New Orleans * and Australia has deported an American peace activist calling him a threat to national security (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for September 12, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio 2005-09-12 10:06 PM
On this week's show... * Pittsburgh residents concerned with low income peoples' access to healh care gathered at the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church on the North Side, we'll have a report * We will speak with Sabira Bushra of The Partnership for Minority HIV/AIDS Prevention about the film AIDS Warriors * The Bring the Troops Home Now tour, including Cindy Sheehan, was in Pittsburgh over the weekend, and Rustbelt Radio was there * and we're have more independent reports from the tragedy on the Gulf Coast, as activists deliver aid, GLBT refugees face discrimination, and New Orleanians displaced in Houston hold a second line. (audio/mpeg)

Bring Them Home Now Speakers Abie 2005-09-12 9:27 AM
This Sunday Cindy Sheehan and the Bring Them Home Now Tour stopped in Pittsburgh on their journey from Crawford to Washington. (audio/x-ogg)

pittsburgh: cindy sheehan speaks on 9/11 vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-09-12 5:11 AM
cindy does pittsburgh! 12 min. 54 secs 64 kb's (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for September 5, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio 2005-09-05 9:44 PM
On this week's show, a labor day edition of Rustbelt Radio... * the Industrial Workers of the World celebrate their centennial conference in Chicago * Boilermakers Local 44 who work for the Celanese Corporation in Meredosia, Illinois are locked out, and we'll hear from the union president * and we'll hear from African American critics of the government actions, and inaction, in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, leading to the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

FSRN Radio segment on the Pittsburgh police taser abuse at a counter-recruitment protest andalusia & matt, rustbelt radio 2005-08-24 8:48 PM
(audio: 3:15) A report on the events in Pittsburgh on August 20, 2005. Counter-recruitment demonstrators were met by police with tasers, dogs, pepper spray and batons. (audio/mpeg + 8 comments)

taser music pablito 2005-08-22 11:00 PM
Audio from the taser/dog attack mixed with a familiar 60s protest song. 3:05 MP3 3.6mb (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for August 15, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-08-16 12:32 PM
On this week's show... * Participants at the conference of the League of Pissed off voters will tell us about the work they are doing * we'll hear from two groups outside Pittsburgh that are doing unique grassroots organizing for change in their communities: Incite, Women of Color Against Violence; and Berkeley Copwatch. * and our weekly update on Police brutality and misconduct from Bad Cop No Donut, including Pittsburgh police shooting a man to death in Mt. Washington and pulling over black men without cause in Garfield. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for August 8, 2005 Rustbelt Radio Collective 2005-08-09 1:51 AM
On this week's show... * We will speak to Grady McFarlane, a former employee of the Lemington Center about the recent closure and the history of the Center * We hear from members of the local group Food Not Bombs, who have been serving free vegetarian food to Pittsburgh's homeless for over 10 years * they City of Pittsburgh is considering a new law to crack down on panhandling -- we'll hear from local homeless about their view of the law * this past Saturday young and old gathered in Oakland to march and rally against military recruiters, shutting down the Forbes Ave. Army recruiting center for the day. And later in the afternoon a crowd assembled in front of the Software Engineering Institute to mark the 60th anniversary of the use of nuclear weapons on Japanese civilians. * and over the weekend a jazz concert was held in East Liberty to raise money for a documentary to be released on the 10th Anniversary of the Johnny Gammage killing by Pittsburgh Police -- Rustbelt Radio spoke to people there about the case and about police violence today. Plus news headlines from Indymedia! (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for August 1, 2005 Indymeida Rustbelt Radio Collective 2005-08-01 8:51 PM
On today's show... * locals rallied in downtown Pittsburgh to honor 15th aniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act * SEIU picketed the USX tower last week in support of striking janitors in Houston Texas * from Bad Cop No Donut, news of a death at the hands of taser-wielding police officers in Ohio * our featured local group is the Mon-Valley Unemployed Committee, which has been advocating for unemployed workers in our area for over 20 years * and we'll hear about Water Privatization in India from Dr. Vandana Shiva (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for July 25, 2005 Indymeida Rustbelt Radio Collective 2005-07-26 9:07 AM
On this week's show... We speak with Aisha White, founder of the local group Rights and Responsibilities; a new Pennsylvania law has enabled utility companies to cut off service to thousands of residents, we'll hear from Steve Donahue; and Bad Cop No Donut brings us updates about police brutality and misconduct. (audio/mpeg)

(mp3) Radio San Diego 96.9 Raided by the FCC vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-07-23 12:29 PM
free radio san deigo raided by the FCC (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for July 18, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-07-19 4:27 PM
# An interview with the site coordinator for National Student Partnership's Pittsburgh Office # as Car Free Day approaches, and builds support from the Pittsburgh City Council, we'll hear from last month's conference organized by Car Free Pittsburgh (audio/mpeg)

Garfield Weed and Seed program faces federal cutbacks, local criticism Andalusia, Rustbelt Radio 2005-07-15 9:51 AM
Rustbelt Radio's report on the Federal Weed and Seed program in Garfield, the Bloomfield Garfield Corporation, and interviews with Garfield residents. audio: 18:26 in either mp3 or ogg vorbis format. (audio/mpeg + 4 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for July 11, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-07-12 1:28 AM
Welcome to this week's edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's weekly review of the news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. The show airs every Monday from 6-7pm on WRCT 88.3FM in Pittsburgh, PA and every Saturday from 5-6pm on WVJW Benwood, 94.1 FM in the Wheeling, West Virginia area. On today's show... * Weed and Seed, a federally funded law enforcement and community redevelopment program may cut the Garfield program's budget. We will hear from representatvies of Weed and Seed and Garfield Residents * Part Two of an interview with Just Health Care, a community group working to bring about universal health care coverage in Pennsylvania. * and we'll hear reactions to last week's bombings in London; from Londerers on the street on the morning of the attacks, as well as from Fox news commentators in the US. (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for June 27, 2005 Indymedia Radio Collective 2005-06-29 3:50 PM
* A bill currently in Harrisburg could raise the minimum wage across the state of Pennsylvania to seven dollars and fifteen cents. * We talk with representatives of the Pittsburgh-based Just Health Care Campaign * the BioDemocracy conference in Philadelphia met in opposition to the Biotechnology Industry Orgranization's meetings; Rustbelt has a report. * and we hear from Iraqi Labor Leaders on their speaking tour stop last week in Pittsburgh (audio/mpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for June 20, 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Radio Collective 2005-06-21 12:36 AM
(54 minutes) On today's show... We will hear about Bike-Fest a ten day festival taking place in Pittsburgh this week; two local bike-related local organizations, Bike Pittsburgh and Free Ride, will tell us about their organizations; the Resyst radical contingent speaks at the Pride march about their view of queer liberation versus the mainstream GLBT movement's assimilationist strategy. Plus our other local and global news stories. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

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