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Grassy Narrows Warns Weyerhaeuser: “Withdraw or Face Fierce Campaign” Rainforest Action Network 2006-03-01 4:11 PM
The Grassy Narrows First Nation, an indigenous community in Northwestern Ontario, has issued an ultimatum to logging giants Weyerhaeser and Abitibi-Consolidated. The companies must either immediately stop their destructive use of the land or prepare themselves for a fierce international campaign. (text/plain)

War Criminal & chief Guantanamo Bay prosecutor, Air Force Col. Moe Davis! k.hawley 2006-03-01 3:41 PM
Col.Moe Davis also states: "Well that's kind of the way it is trying to drag a detainee into the courtroom" - Col.Davis speaks the truth here because thats exactly how the prisoners in Guantanamo are "handled" by the US Military.Handled as in being shackled and hooded and dragged around and abused and tortured! (text/plain)

With The Lid Off for February 28th, 2006 Abie 2006-03-01 2:01 PM
We talk with Andrea Boykowycz, Jared Solomon, and Khari Mosley about the approaching special election for the District 3 City Council seat. (audio/mpeg)

AAA opposes air quality standards in PA Arthur Stamoulis 2006-03-01 11:51 AM
The auto club AAA is lobbying against the Pennsylvania Clean Vehicles Program. Learn how this impacts air quality, gasoline costs and consumer choice at: www.cleanair.org/AAAMonkeys (text/plain)

California New Holocaust State along with usual Alabama Kurt Brown--Saint Ram Bone--X 017 911 84 2006-02-28 3:43 PM
The Southwestern US states started allowing forced injection of innocent people in 2001. California has been commiting worse atrocities for years. It is as if the Chinese Dragon and every other criminal element held hands and cut us out. An international call to remove regimes (text/plain + 1 comment)

League of Young Voters Debate Report Abie 2006-02-28 1:22 AM
There’s going to be a special election for Pittsburgh City Council’s vacant district 3 seat real soon. First the election was scheduled for Pitt spring break when the pesky college students would not be around. But now the date has been changed and the candidates are shaking hands and kissing babies on the college campus. (audio/mpeg + 7 comments)

ALL ROADS LEAD TO COLUMBUS!!! Will Klatt 2006-02-28 12:57 AM
organize car pools to the largest demonstration in ohio in the last decade, most details can be found at http://www.cpanews.org/march18/ and antiwarcolumbus.org , youth and radicals will be gathering at goodale park in the short north at 1 pm and will march to the state house for the main rally. (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for February 27, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-02-27 10:48 PM
On this week's show... * We speak with Big Idea volunteers about Pittsburgh's radical book store * we hear from Chris Carlsson, the co-founder of the critical mass bicycle ride about critical mass, bicycling, and community. * local news on Senator Santorum, Upper St. Clair schools, Pennsylvania voting laws * and global news on communcations law, the mexico mine disaster, gold mining in chile, and Shell in Nigeria. (audio/mpeg)

Help us to finish the film about Zanon's workers. Ernesto 2006-02-27 9:51 PM

This film narrates the whole story about the fight of Zanon's workers. Now is in postproduction. Help us to finish the film. Visit our website where is all the information. The address is www.filmraymundo.com.ar/default.htm (image/gif)

BTL:Long History of U.S. Torture Precedes Current Pentagon Abuse Scandals Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-02-26 9:21 AM
Interview with Jennifer Harbury, human rights activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

BTL:New Haitian Pres.Preval Faces Economic & Political Pressure from Washington Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-02-25 12:20 PM
Interview with Bill Fletcher, president of the group TransAfrica Forum, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

You be the judge: Is Renco robbing steelworker pensions? Milt Neidenberg 2006-02-23 9:40 PM
The Renco Group, Inc., is threatening legal action against Workers World newspaper. (text/plain)

counter recruitment protest mon rush hour 27 feb 2006 pogger 2006-02-23 1:09 PM
Feb 27- Anti-War/Counter-Recruitment protest (text/plain + 6 comments)

Ali Abunimah Keynote Speech at Palestine Solidarity Movement Conference Lora Gordon 2006-02-23 1:04 PM
Audio, 67 min. in two parts (audio/mpeg)

Palestine Solidarity Movement Conference, Feb. 19 Panel: "Where do we go from here?&q Lora Gordon 2006-02-23 12:22 PM
Audio, 75 min in two parts. (audio/mpeg)

Palestine Solidarity Conference Feb. 18 Speaker Panel: Why Divest? Lora Gordon 2006-02-23 3:04 AM
Audio, 71 min. Feb. 18 speaker panel at Palestine Solidarity Movement conference (Georgetown). Speakers: Noura Erekat (UC Berkeley Divestment Campaign), Philip Farah (Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation), Sue Blackwell (UK Caterpillar Campaign). (audio/mpeg)

Another Kind of Politics: Community Power, Autonomy, Zapatismo, and the US jeremy 2006-02-22 4:25 PM
Come here members of the Snails Pace collective lead an interactive workshop on the relevance of the politics of the Zapatistas to radical movements in the US. The workshop will have some multimedia and will be from 6 until 8PM at the Thomas Merton Center (text/plain + 1 comment)

Rustbelt Radio for February 20, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-02-20 11:01 PM
On this week's show... * We check in with a Catholic Worker hospitality house in St. Louis * We'll hear a report from the Palestine Solidarity Movement Conference held this weekend at Georgetown University * As Pittsburgh prepares to receive their first casino, we'll hear about who has and has not profited from Indian casinos across the United States * Our regular update on police brutality and misconduct in the region * And more headlines from independent media centers around the world (audio/mpeg)

Urgent call for volunteers to help defend the Last Wild Buffalo in The U.S. Buffalo Field Campaign 2006-02-19 1:26 AM

They are greeted with capture, quarantine, experimentation, bullets, and slaughter. Family groups are torn apart. Mothers and babies are separated. They suffer terror and injury as they are hazed and harassed relentlessly with snowmobiles, ATVs, helicopters... (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Appeal to Release Gopal Siwakoti “Chintan” and Other Political Detainees in Nepal Justice in South Asia 2006-02-16 5:20 PM
Mr. Gopal Siwakoti “Chintan,” a prominent human rights activist in Nepal, along with a number of other activists, has been detained in very adverse conditions without charges by the increasingly dictatorial monarchy. This is a letter demanding his release – please endorse as well as send a copy to the Embassy of Nepal. (text/plain)

BTL:Haiti's Poor Erupt in Protest After Charges that... Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-02-16 9:02 AM
...Presidential Vote Count was Manipulated ~ Interview with Ben Dupuy, co-director of Haiti Progres, and former Haitian President Aristide's ambassador at-large, conducted by Between the Line' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Activists tell big Burrito: Have a Heart-Stop Selling Foie Gras! Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania 2006-02-15 1:30 AM

Activists from Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania protested the sale of foie gras at Eleven restaurant in the Strip District, a big Burrito restaurant, on February 14th, Valentine's Day. In June of 2004, big Burrito made a verbal commitment with Voices for Animals to stop selling foie gras at all their restaurants after VFA representatives met with big Burrito Corporate Chef, Bill Fuller at Eleven. Recently, foie gras has reappeared on the menu at some of their restaurants, including Soba, Casbah, and Eleven. Over twenty activists from Voices for Animals came to Eleven on Valentine's Day, one of the busiest days of the year for the restaurant industry, with signs proclaiming "Make Love, Not Animal Suffering" and "Have a Heart, Stop Selling Foie Gras". (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for February 13, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-02-13 8:21 PM
On this week's show... South America's largest squatted highrise is facing eviction, Voices for Animals must renew efforts to make the Big Burrito Restaurant group foie gras free, We hear from the sister of a prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay, and we talk with local peace and activist organizations about their efforts to find out how much the government has been spying on them. (audio/mpeg)

BTL:Critics Concerned Over Possible White House Plan to Resume Dangerous... Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2006-02-11 7:46 AM
...Plutonium Reprocessing. ~ Interview with Ed Lyman, senior staff scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

Saving the Bay of La Paz & Gulf of California Rainbow Hawk 2006-02-10 5:23 PM

This is a historical summary & update of our groups' efforts to save, preserve and restore the Bay of La Paz & Gulf of California, the most bio-diverse body of water on Earth. (image/jpeg)

BTL:Bush Defense of NSA Domestic Spy Program is Challenged in Senate Hearing Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-02-09 11:15 AM
Interview with Shayana Kadidal, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

No more below zero F temperatures at Minneapolis pat 2006-02-08 9:32 PM
Winter ain't happening in Minneapolis this year. There'd need to be at least a half dozen below zero F daily lows to claim winter was here. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Bush Protests-No MSM Airtime...Cartoon Protests-Tons of MSM Air D. Burbeck 2006-02-08 7:55 PM
January saw a rash of demonstrations against the Bush Administration in the cold and rain but still there is no Main Stream Media coverage of any of those events.....not one word. News reports of protests over the cartoon of Mohamed, however, are everywhere, every day. The corporate media continues to close it's eyes to the growing dissent and calls for impeachment even by members of Congress. Many thousands of protesters in over 65 cities banged pots and pans and drums and chanted to drown out the State of the Union speech on Jan. 31. (text/plain)

Urgent Appeal for Auburn, CA Arrestee anon 2006-02-08 3:22 PM
Fundraising appeal for Auburn arrestee, Zachary Jenson (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for February 6, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio Collective 2006-02-07 2:43 PM
On this week's show... * Rustbelt Radio's own Andalusia Knoll brings us a report from Bolivia on the political situation there * We'll hear about the riots across Pittsburgh that ensued after the Steelers' Superbowl victory * Activists continue speaking out against Bush on the night of his State of the Union address * Citizens address the Pittsburgh City Council on the city's anti-sweatshop ordinance * and the cost of the war in Iraq is growing by the billions, according to a new report * our regular update on police brutality and misconduct in the region * more headlines from independent media centers around the world (audio/mpeg)

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