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Pittsburgh City Council says YES to robotic surveillance network. stephen donahue 2006-04-04 3:46 PM
Council’s final vote, this is the final story (text/plain + 2 comments)

Huge Month of Demonstrations D. Burbeck 2006-04-04 12:11 PM
Not to mention the immigration bill protests, March saw massive demonstrations all over the world. Two international action days - International Woman's Day, and the Iraq War anniversary - brought hundreds of thousands out protesting the war and the Bush Administration. (text/plain)

ACTION ALERT---SAVE OUR VOTES STOP TAXPAYER RIP-OFF Allegheny Chapter of VotePA. 2006-04-04 9:31 AM
Allegheny County is on track to make a terrible mistake. The county is currently negotiating a contract for some 2,800 used electronic voting systems. The systems are being purchased in order to comply with the 2002 Help America Vote act. This act requires that all states upgrade their elections systems to modern, secure, auditable and accessible equipment. The equipment that the county is seeking to purchase does not meet these standards. (text/plain + 3 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for April 3, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-04-04 12:53 AM
On this week's show... * We have an interview with former Black Panther Elaine Brown; * An eyewitness account of the genocide in Darfur; * And local updates on police harrassment of Critical Mass, A FOIA party at the Thomas Merton Center, an agreement between The University of Pittsburgh and SEIU, and the City's plans for a security camera network downtown. (audio/mpeg)

RECLAIM THE EARTH! a huge manatee 2006-04-03 10:57 PM
yet another smashing bike ride on a day we skip over too often. (text/plain)

World Bank / IMF Protests Scenario Outline Farragut Squares Collective 2006-04-03 12:34 PM
We are not mobilizing for this year’s World Bank / IMF meetings? What?! You will not find a rally and a march from one part to another filled with speeches and empty platitudes. BUT, YOU WILL FIND LOTS OF ACTION! Don’t come to Washington, DC, April 21 – 23 if all you intend to do is march. However, if you want to take effective action, you can march and do a whole lot more! (text/html + 1 comment)

U-lock justice against McDonalds AnarchyFuckYeah 2006-04-01 5:22 PM
Stink Bombs and U-locks now there is an april fools. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Critical Mass Legal Support Meeting! Morgan 2006-04-01 5:14 PM
A meeting for legal follow-up and support after the police attack on Critcal Mass last friday (text/plain + 1 comment)

Tour for Darfur: Eyewitness to Genocide gwen 2006-04-01 2:09 PM
On March 29, 2006, Captain Brian Steidl gave a presentation including pictures, video, and stories about his time in Darfur and the genocide he witnessed. This is the full recording of that presentation. (audio/x-ogg)

Critical Mass under repression u-lock justice! 2006-03-31 9:03 PM

Police up the harrassment against bicyclists. citations and general intimidation. (image/jpeg + 18 comments)

A Fair in the Park Nicole Capozzi 2006-03-31 2:43 PM

The 37th "A Fair in the Park," an annual contemporary arts and entertainment festival, returns to Pittsburgh's Mellon Park September 8 - 10, 2006. (image/jpeg)

Call-In Against Chrysler April 5th! Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania 2006-03-31 2:11 AM
Call Chrysler on Wednesday, April 5th, to express your opposition to their sponsorship of circus animal abuse and exploitation! (text/plain)

Support Daniel McGowan, with update friends of daniel mcgowan 2006-03-30 8:29 PM

Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist, unjustly arrested and charged in federal court on multiple counts of arson, property destruction, and conspiracy, relating to two incidents that occurred in Oregon in 2001. Daniel has asserted his innocence by pleading not guilty to all charges. He is facing a minimum of life in prison if convicted. (image/jpeg)

Renewable Energy Workshops Solar Energy International, NGO 2006-03-30 3:03 PM
Introduction to Renewable Energy: Solar, wind, and hydro-electricity, solar hot water and cooking, energy efficiency. Classroom sessions & system tours. * April, 2006 (text/plain)

Pittsburgh City Council gives its first Yes to robotic spy equipment. stephen donahue 2006-03-30 12:43 PM
Mayor and Homeland Security says it’s only for highway traffic management. (text/plain + 1 comment)

With The Lid Off for March 28th, 2006 Abie 2006-03-29 12:12 AM
We talk with Michael Hellein and callers about police and public protests, and then we get Wanda Gutherie on the phone and talk about spiritual progressives and Michael Lerner's new book _The Left Hand of God_. (audio/mpeg)

Johnny Carson interviews Jim Garrison reposted 2006-03-28 6:42 PM
author: remembering the past At the website of the late Col. Fletcher Prouty you can still hear echoes reverberating from Dealey Plaza, in very Lo-Fi streaming audio. Since I could not find a transcript of this famous 1967 television broadcast online to me help clarify some of the garbled details, I set out to produce one, in order to restore and preserve the fidelity of an echo. (text/plain)

Bush, Santorum err on American Competitiveness Rossilynne Skena 2006-03-28 5:22 PM
Student's opinion regarding President George W. Bush's and Senator Rick Santorum's errs on the American Competitivness Initiative (ACI). (text/plain + 1 comment)

Rustbelt Radio for March 27, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-03-27 10:55 PM
On this week's show... * We will hear exerpts of a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institue debate about the ethics of accepting military funding. * We will hear about the case of Hasan Shakur a death row inmate in Texas * and a report from International Women's Day in Mexico.... but first, (audio/mpeg)

CLASS WAR NOT RACE WAR! SMASH THE NAZIS IN YORK, PA ON 4/29! Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action 2006-03-27 7:40 PM
Call for an Anti-Fascist Bloc on April 29! April 29, 2006 Martin Library 159 East Market Street York, PA (text/plain)

PEACE HAS NO BORDERS-A FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE: June 16 & 17 Jenny Peshut 2006-03-27 5:39 PM
The Western New York War Resisters League [WNYWRL], Veterans for Peace Chapter 128 [VFP] and the War Resisters Support Campaign (CANADA) [WRSC], calls on you to turn your back on U.S. war and imperialism and unite in solidarity to stop the illegal war in Iraq. The International Peace Bridge located between Buffalo, N.Y. and Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada will be where we, the people of the U.S., Canada and the world, take the courage to march and demand an end to the Iraq war. We will tell the U.S., "hands off Iraq, hands off U.S. soldiers," and tell Canada to act by letting them stay, by granting these soldiers asylum in Canada because they refuse to fight in the illegal war in Iraq. (text/plain)

Pittsburgh City Council ready to purchase robotic spy equipment. stephen donahue 2006-03-27 1:28 PM
Grant from US Department of Justice to fund the purchase (text/plain)

Women’s Rights Under Assault, Abortion Outlawed In South Dakota STEVEN ARGUE 2006-03-25 3:56 PM
The right to abortion was won in the United States in 1973 through a mass struggle in the streets that culminated in the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. A radicalized movement for women’s rights, born out of the movement against the Vietnam War and other struggles for social justice at home, was sickened by the injustice of women being butchered in illegal back alley abortions and saw the right of women to control their own bodies as fundamental in the struggle for women’s equality. (text/plain)

New American Org. Appeals to World to Help Save Democracy in the U.S. International Endowment For Democracy 2006-03-25 2:50 PM
If groups like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) use American government money—and a big dose of hypocrisy—to subvert democracy abroad, the International Endowment for Democracy (IED) hopes to use foreign monies to help build a real democracy in the country that needs it most, the U.S.A. (text/html + 1 comment)

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner 2006-03-25 12:49 PM

The average radioactive dose, according to official government index based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the average adult male in Britain and Europe. (image/jpeg)

SEIU continues efforts for Carnegie Mellon janitors Abie 2006-03-24 5:46 PM

The Service Employees International Union continued to work for janitors outside of a building on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. The building is the Collaborative Innovation Center, and the janitors in the building earn around 7 dollars and 50 cents per hour, with no health care and no sick days. (image/jpeg)

An Anarchist Commentary about Cuba Movimiento Libertario Cubano 2006-03-24 5:00 PM
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba * The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. (text/plain)

ORGANIZING BEGINS FOR A22-A23 WORLD BANK-IMF PROTESTS Farragut Squares Collective 2006-03-24 4:13 PM

A place, date, and time has been decided for the begining of organizing for the World Bank-IMF. The meeting will take place on at 3PM April 2, 2006 at the Flemming Center, 1426 9th Street NW Washington DC. (image/jpeg)

iraq war third anniversary, interview with iraqi proff. from indiana univ. of pa. vincent / blast furnace radio 2006-03-23 10:49 PM
great lttle interview of a proff from iraq about the state of iraq after 3 wars. 23min 37 sec. \64 kb could use some editing (audio/mpeg)

RUMOR OF BUSH IN PITTSBURGH, THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 24 FYI 2006-03-23 2:39 PM
CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THIS (text/plain + 1 comment)

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