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Lebanon: "Nahr al-Bared Between Past and Present" (Video) a-films 2008-10-24 1:49 PM

New short film on current developments in the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Camp. (image/jpeg)

New short film from South Lebanon a-films 2008-10-21 6:21 PM
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges" (text/plain)

Why 3 out of 4 White Supremacists Support Barack Obama Chris Reeve 2008-10-21 1:37 PM
How do racists, anti-Semites and all-purpose hate-mongers view the possibility of America’s first black president? Not necessarily the way you think they would. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for October 20, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-10-21 12:09 AM
On today's show: Andrea Smith speaks at the Critical Resistance Prison Abolition Conference, United Steel Workers take on Equitable Gas over proposed rate increases, A youth report from the Philadelphia Student Union on the recent incident at Sayre High School, Fed-Up takes us inside the Prison Industrial Complex, plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

Mumia legal update: The Philly DA still wants to execute him! Lead attorney Robert R. Bryan 2008-10-20 6:40 AM
Below is the new legal update from Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lead attorney Robert R. Bryan, concerning Mumia’s appeal to the US Supreme Court. He is appealing the US Third Circuit Court decision denying a new guilt-phase trial or a preliminary hearing that could have led to a new guilt phase trial. The Supreme Court granted Bryan’s request for a 60-day extension, so he will have to submit his petition by Dec. 19, 2008. Significantly, Bryan announces that the Philadelphia DA is appealing the Third Circuit Court’s affirmation of US District Court Judge William Yohn’s 2001 decision, which ‘overturned’ the death penalty and stated that if the DA wants to re-impose the death sentence, they must hold a new penalty-phase jury trial where new evidence of Mumia’s innocence can be presented, BUT, the jury can only decide between a sentence of life without chance of parole or execution. Therefore, if the US Supreme Court rules for the DA and overturns this ruling, Mumia can then be executed without having a new penalty-phase jury trial. The DA will submit their petition by Nov. 19, 2008. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Racism Dies Hard in Johnstown, PA Michael Yates 2008-10-19 7:55 AM
I just watched on YouTube a video clip taken outside a rally for Sara Palin in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a town where I worked for thirty-two years. The crowd was raucous and racist, blithely spitting out vile remarks. Congressman John Murtha later told a Pittsburgh newspaper that 'There’s no question western Pennsylvania is a racist area. ...' Murtha was roundly chastised for his comments, mainly by Republicans, which had to mark a new height in irony. Murtha, sad to say, was right on the mark. Racism was endemic when I lived in Johnstown, and it appears little has changed. (text/plain + 2 comments)

81 Reasons To Defeat McCain Victory 2008-10-16 6:00 PM
bloodshed of American soldiers and people elsewhere, the increasing poverty in the US, and many other reasons to defeat the Republicans (text/plain + 1 comment)

Artist Explores Our Ability to Be Self-Destructive, Remorse at the PCA gallery Eric Sloss 2008-10-15 8:03 PM

McCain Operative and Republican Vote Fraud Now and in the Past Searchlight on Shadows 2008-10-15 1:00 PM
Republican vote fraud in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio Florida etc (text/plain)

Peace, Abortion: Is War Mass Abortion? Peace For All Beings 2008-10-14 11:43 AM
Increasingly, Catholics regard prevention of war as a greater prolife issue than abortion. (text/plain)

Palin versus PIttsburgh mena 2008-10-13 9:35 PM

People of Pittsburgh came together to let Governor Palin know that she does not have the qualifications to govern, and furthermore her policies against wildlife are abhorrent. (image/jpeg)

Beaver County Battleground: 'Time to Give the Black Guy a Chance' Carl Davidson 2008-10-13 4:55 PM

First hand account of union workers going door-to-door for Obama around stopping war, green jobs and health care (image/jpeg)

Protest Sarah Palin in Pittsburgh, all out on Friday, October 10th! elbow 2008-10-08 12:23 PM
Friday, October 10th - Protest the Bush/McCain/Palin plan for America - call for Drums and good, strong energy! (text/plain + 7 comments)

All Out for 10/10 and 10/11!!! Jericho Ten-TEn 2008-10-07 9:24 PM

Jericho 10/10 Weekend of Resistance "One of the first steps we are going to become involved in as an Organization of Afro-American Unity will be to work with every leader and other organization in this country interested in a program designed to bring your and my problem before the United Nations . . . We must take it out of the hands of the United States government." – Malcolm X, Speech at Founding Rally of the OAAU, 28 June 1964 (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for October 6, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-10-06 11:36 PM
On today's show: Financial experts including Naomi Klein speak on the current economic crisis, We explore the roots of Freedom Corner located in the Hill District, Fed-Up takes us inside the Prison Industrial Complex, Green Party VP Candidate Rosa Clemente, plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

W PA Obama 'Labor Walks' -Defeating McCain is Just 'Step One' Repost by CarlD 2008-10-05 1:47 AM

A report from the 4th CD Progressive Democrats of America on the local working class and the election. (image/jpeg)

Urgent Action Alert! Prisoners Under Attack in Camp Hill's SMU Human Rights Coalition 2008-10-02 6:56 PM
In the last four months over a dozen prisoners confined in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Camp Hill have written HRC/Fed Up! about conditions of severe brutality, white supremacy, and the systematic sabotage at all inmate efforts to file grievances and/or obtain legal assistance. See the attached 14-page document culled from prisoner reports detailing a violent program of dehumanization. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Update and Letter from Eric McDavid Sacramento Prisoner Support 2008-10-01 6:10 PM
Update on Eric's situation in Victorville and a letter from Eric (text/plain)

Review: "FARE STRIKE! San Francisco 2005: First-Hand Accounts" Kevin Keating 2008-09-30 11:49 PM
A critical examination of the leftist recuperator's version of this event... (text/plain + 4 comments)

A film about a succesful non-violent struggle in India loin_de_loeil 2008-09-30 10:11 AM
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. (text/plain)

No to the Bailout of the Capitalist Speculators! Internationalist Group 2008-09-28 3:46 PM
The financial crisis that has been heating up since early 2007 reached the boiling point in late September. Credit markets virtually stopped functioning. A full-blown panic swept stock markets worldwide. The U.S. economy is in the throes of a recession that could turn into a Depression lasting for years. In these dire straits, the Wall Street speculators who set off this crisis are demanding that the government rescue them with a bailout priced at $700 billion. The actual costs will be far higher, a trillion dollars or more. Meanwhile, the Democrats are pushing hardest for the Bush bailout of the banks. Presidential candidate Barack Obama blames "greed" for the crisis on Wall Street (capitalism without greed?) and says there must be no "blank check to Washington" -- meaning he's for putting in a few conditions as window dressing. Following in the Democrats' footsteps, the AFL-CIO labor bureaucrats called a demo for "No Blank Check for Wall Street." Yet no amount of regulation will stop the boom-bust cycle of capitalism. Meanwhile unemployment lines are growing and a million families were thrown out of their homes by bank foreclosures in the last year. While the fat cats, Democrats and bureaucrats are all going for the Bush bailout to prop up U.S. capitalism, revolutionary Marxists oppose this trillion-dollar giveaway to the Wall Street speculators, calling instead for a program of transitional demands leading to the expropriation of the banks and the entire bourgeoisie through workers revolution. (text/html)

Debate 'Watching Party,' Beaver County-Style Carl Davidson 2008-09-28 12:30 AM

A Report on the Obama Campaign, workers and youth in Western PA (image/jpeg + 8 comments)

BTL:Taxpayers Reject Blank Check for Wall Street Bailout Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-09-25 4:49 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

ROTC Get Out, Stay Out! Obama Wants You to Serve Imperialism Revolution no. 5 2008-09-25 12:24 AM
Barack Obama dropped a bomb on his young enthusiasts at Columbia University on September 11. The heavily Democratic crowd booed McCain when he called for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to be brought back to campus (it was driven out in 1969 by protests against the Vietnam war). Liberal students expected a different answer from Columbia alum Obama, but the forum was a symphony of agreement as both candidates campaigned for expanding the military and pledged their enthusiastic support to U.S. imperialism. That should have been the tip-off for anyone who hadn't figured it out by then: Obama is no "peace candidate" but like McCain he is a certified imperialist war candidate. (text/html)

Rustbelt Radio for September 22, 2008 Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Collecti 2008-09-22 11:31 PM
On today's show: An Anti-Islamic DVD is being distributed in Pittsburgh and across the US, Electronic Voting Machines in Allegheny County, A look at the case of Eric McDavid, an activist who was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison, based on questionable FBI evidence, A discussion of human rights with William F. Schulz, former executive director of Amnesty International, plus more in our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

Prevent The Murder of Troy Anthony Davis by State of Georgia On Sept 23 Davis Supporter 2008-09-22 1:18 PM

Help stop racist executions of innocents in Georgia (image/jpeg)

Telling the story of Pittsburgh from the Worker's Viewpoint. Paul Carosi 2008-09-22 5:14 AM
In celebration of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary the Point of Pittsburgh Blog is featuring the stories of working class heroes who made important contributions to Pittsburgh's and our country's history. They are celebrated in song, video, and stories. (text/html)

38 Reasons To Defeat McCain Populist Registration 2008-09-21 9:03 PM
Before it was the Mellons and the Carnegies and mining companies controlling Pittsburgh workers. Now they have been replaced by others even worse. McCain wants to bankrupt the Social Security Fund in order to do the bidding of big oil and religious haters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan. (text/plain)

Isabel MacDonald from FAIR at Torture Conference David 2008-09-21 2:22 PM
Audio recording of Isabel MacDonald, communications director from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), who discusses the corporate media's inaccuracy and bias when reporting on torture by the U.S. (audio/mpeg)

(mp3) Blast Furnace Radio Show from New Orleans vincent / Blast Furnace Radio & TV 2008-09-17 9:05 PM
phone interview from new orlean's "common ground relef: http://www.commongroundrelief.org/ (text/plain)

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