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Bush Attempts to Silence Media Kenneth J. Theisen 2006-06-30 7:22 PM
On Monday, June 26, 2006 the President and Vice-President in a concerted effort launched political attacks on the New York Times and other media for their exposure of the international bank transfer spying program conducted by the Bush administration. These attacks serve two purposes for the Bush regime. First, they are an attempt to intimidate the media into silence about the regime’s crimes. Second, they are meant to shift the discussion about the illegality of these actions to a discussion of what should be done to media outlets that dare to report such actions. (text/plain)

Flood Levels Out East - have people been kept in the dark? pat neuman 2006-06-30 3:14 PM
Have people been kept in the dark about floods and climate change? (text/plain + 6 comments)

The Bicycle: Vehicle to social equality and health abie&jessica for Dr. Paul Simpson, M.D. 2006-06-29 10:38 PM
Dr. Paul Simpson, M.D., spoke at Bike Fest about the negative effects of hierarchical society on physical health, and also how the humble bicycle can help fight this. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

Art of War : The Electronic Age Larmee 2006-06-29 2:51 AM

Diebold Electronic Voting Machines (image/jpeg)

Doctors Join In Prisoner Torture At Military Prisons Sathya Spreads 2006-06-28 12:25 PM
MD complicity with torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, in Afghanistan and other illegal CIA prisons around the world (text/plain)

Rustbelt Radio for June 26, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-06-27 8:58 PM
On this week's show... * We bring you voices of the various activists, organizers, and media makers who gathered at the 8th annual Allied Media Conference this past weekend * plus, our local and global headlines (audio/mpeg)

POG Pickets Market Square Recruiting Station in Solidarity with Lt. Watada david 2006-06-27 5:01 PM

POG solidarity picket on June 27th "National Day of Action to Stand Up with Lt. Ehren Watada" (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Philippines: Freedom from Gloria, Freedom from tyranny AKBAYAN (Citizens' Action Party) 2006-06-27 12:45 AM

One hundred and eight years ago, the Filipinos, declared independence from the oppressive control of the Spaniards, today AKBAYAN declares freedom from a homegrown tyrannical regime. "Taking into account the fact that the people of this country are already tired of bearing the exploitative rule of the elites led by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), we say we have had enough of GMA," said AKBAYAN President Ronald Llamas today as the group joins protest actions in celebration of Independence Day. (image/jpeg)

Ben Seattle's Annual Report for 2006 Ben Seattle 2006-06-27 12:22 AM
Ben's annual report summarizes his work in the antiwar movement, the Media Weapon community and SAIC as well as his plans for work in the coming year on the Attention Refinery. (text/plain)

Directions to Earth First! rendezvous RRR committee 2006-06-23 12:08 PM
This years rendezvous will be in SW Virginia, July 3-10 (text/plain)

Pittsburgh Grocery Workers Go IWW Worker Freedom 2006-06-22 5:53 PM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (image/jpeg + 9 comments)

Rustbelt Radio for June 19, 2006 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-06-20 1:21 AM
On today's show... * an interview with author David Carter on the beginning of the gay rights movement at the Stonewall Inn in New York, * single payer healthcare advocates describe proposals for universal health care at the state and national levels, * plus, an anti-war bike tour rolls through Pittsburgh, courts rule on police searches in the US and Germany, criticism of the Guantanamo Bay prison, and news from the eviction of the South Central Farm in LA. (audio/mpeg)

Activists protest foie gras David McWade 2006-06-19 5:05 PM
Activists from Voices for Animals protest in front of Casbah restaurant for selling foie gras. The protest took place during Big Burrito's Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture dinner. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Irish Prison Protest Begins NIFC - National Irish Freedom Committee 2006-06-19 4:25 PM
On Monday 19th June Republican POW’s began a protest action in Maghaberry, this is the first in a series of protests planned by Republican POW’s in the gaol. POW’s are making clear that they will not accept the sub standard conditions on the segregated wing, they will not be criminalised nor will they be intimidated or coerced by the petty restrictions being imposed by prison screws to make the day to day life in the gaol for POW’s more difficult. (text/plain)

Universal Health Care rally Jessica McPherson, for Rustbelt Radio 2006-06-18 10:03 AM
Supporters of universal health care held a rally in downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday, June 7, in front of the headquarters of insurance giant Highmark. (text/plain)

7/28-30 Washington DC: National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference Lee Siu Hin -Immigrant Solidarity Network 2006-06-18 4:40 AM
Together, We Build A New National, Broad-Based, Immigrant Rights / Civil Rights Movement! (text/html)

Sir No Sir, a Fim Review Dr Rich Gibson 2006-06-18 3:36 AM
A review of the documentary film addressing the antiwar movement among Vietnam era soldiers, and its implications for today. (text/plain)

No Pride in War - picketing the military recruitment station monica 2006-06-17 8:52 PM

On June 17, as Pittsburgh's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) communities gathered downtown to celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall riots against heterosexist police, POG returned to the Oakland recruiting station to mark the occasion by confronting another homophobic institution – the United States military – with the theme, “No Pride in War.” Queer members (and allies) of POG felt it was also important to call into question the mainstream gay rights movement's narrow, single-issue approach to challenging the military's discriminatory employment policy. Audre Lorde said, "Your silence will not protect you," and so about 20 people gathered outside the station to say, “Ban the Military! Not Lesbians and Gays!” During the event, a banner was dropped from the roof of a building facing the windows of the recruiting station. (image/jpeg)

Dyke March Pittsburgh! marie 2006-06-17 4:23 PM

About 100 people marched through Oakland on Friday, June 16 in Pittsburgh's first Dyke March ever. (image/jpeg)

Killing season in the Philippines Herbert Docena 2006-06-16 9:00 PM

The escalating repression taking place now in the Philippines is no coincidence. Twenty years since the end of the dictatorship and three "people's power" uprisings later, Philippine society is hugely polarized. If the recent killing spree signifies anything, it's that the growing coercion and the abandonment of democratic rights portend the fraying of the post-1986 political order, when the dictator Marcos was unceremoniously thrown from power and democracy restored. What will replace those democratic hopes, more than at any time in recent years, is a point of bitter political contention. (image/gif)

Fish Can't Scream... Toxins In Fish Flesh Animal Rights Coalition 2006-06-16 3:59 PM
a response to fish flesh promotions by the NY Times, BBC, and Harvard (text/plain + 2 comments)

WHEN SETTLERS ATTACK JONAS 2006-06-16 5:30 AM

Local Pittsburgh Activist, Palestinians, and other ISM volunteers, attacked by Israeli settlers in the illegal settlement of Beit Hadassah-in Palestine (image/jpeg + 12 comments)

Haiku: Litany of Atrocities to Animals Around the World Sathya Spreads 2006-06-14 7:12 PM
a listing of atrocities to animals around the world (text/plain + 1 comment)

Rustbelt Radio for June 12, 2005 Indymedia Rustbelt Radio collective 2006-06-13 12:16 PM
On this week's show... * We'll hear from Eli Kuti and Khalia Latte, organizers of the Pittsburgh Dyke March, on the mobilization of queer women's community in Pittsburgh and plans for Friday's march. * A look at the conservative movement's recent push for what they call Academic Freedom, * as well as local updates on last week's anti-war protest, a wind power conference held in Pittsburgh, universal health care in Pennsylvania and global news from independent media sources around the world (audio/mpeg)

Drive Free - Veggie Fuel for your car Drive Free - Veggie Fuel for your car 2006-06-11 12:43 PM
how you can turn Free vegetable oil into diesel fuel for your cars. No more Expensive Gas stations. (text/plain)

Philippines: Anti-Arroyo Groups Brace for Bigger Fights Ahead Laban ng Masa 2006-06-09 8:28 AM

In a gathering of around 100 leaders from labor, peasant, urban poor, women and youth groups, the umbrella coalition Laban ng Masa is bracing for bigger fights in its bid to oust the Arroyo regime and initiate reforms under a transitional revolutionary government. (image/jpeg)

Call Congress; Critical Vote to Close the School of Americas Friday or Monday SOA Watch Team 2006-06-09 12:53 AM
For the first time in six years, there will be a vote on legislation to close the SOA/WHINSEC, the U.S. Army school whose graduates are implicated in some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. As countries throughout the region go through historic changes, people in the U.S. have an opportunity to make historic change THIS WEEK by demanding justice, accountability, and suspension of the SOA/WHINSEC. (text/plain)

ZARQAWI is an american invention do 2006-06-08 6:48 PM
Letter from the people in Fallujah to Kofi Annan (text/html)

Protesting Haditha Massacre and Other Atrocities Nina van Zandt 2006-06-08 3:55 PM

Pittsburgh anti-war protesters express anger over Haditha and ongoing atrocities. In response to the recent news of atrocities in Iraq 60 people gathered in Shadyside for a short rally and march. Participants called for an end to the Iraq war and expressed revulsion at news of recent atrocities. The march stopped traffic and took over Walnut Street in Shadyside. Protesters moved street signs and a dumpster into the road, smashed at least one window, and threw rocks at corporate stores. Ten police cars, an animal control van, and two unmarked cars showed up and forced the march onto the sidewalk. The march proceeded for another hour through Shadyside and Bloomfield. (image/jpeg + 30 comments)

Can Congress Stop the Burning of the American Flag? Kenneth J. Theisen 2006-06-08 2:26 PM
Sometime between now and the 2006 elections in November, the U.S. Senate will debate one of the most pressing questions facing the American people. No, they will not debate the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and possible U.S. withdrawal. They will not take up the Bush regime’s preparations for war, possibly even nuclear war, against Iran. They will not seriously talk about global warming, the degradation of the environment, preparations for the coming hurricane season, or the Bush regime’s massive spying on the American people, or any other pressing issues. Instead they will debate whether or not to amend the constitution to allow Congress to ban the burning of the American flag. (text/plain)

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