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Rustbelt Radio for June 27, 2005

June 29, 2005 15:50 - 54 minutes - 18.6 MB

* 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

Rustbelt Radio for June 20, 2005

June 21, 2005 00:36 - 54 minutes - 18.6 MB

(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.

Rustbelt Radio for June 13, 2005

June 14, 2005 17:40 - 54 minutes - 18.8 MB

On today's show... * We speak with the local group 'RESYST' about the upcoming pridefest and the radical queer movement * And we present the final piece in our three part series on Coal and its effects in the community. We will hear from organizers who are fighting to promote clean energy and what the possibilities are for sustainable alternative energy sources in the United States .... but first, these local headlines.

Rustbelt Radio for June 6, 2005

June 06, 2005 23:28 - 55 minutes - 19.2 MB

On today's show... We speak with David Rosenberg of the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition about his group's efforts to bring attention to the ongoing crisis in Western Sudan. We hear from the True Cost of Coal Conference held this past weekend in Pittsburgh, part two in our three part series on Coal in our region and the grassroots organizing against its effects. A high school student in Cleveland is suspended for opposing military recruiters at his school. And police in Pittsburgh an...

Rustbelt Radio for May 30, 2005

May 31, 2005 00:16 - 57 minutes - 19.7 MB

On today's show, an interview with our featured local grassroots organization of the week, Canaries in the Coalfields, a new group opposing the coal industry and its effects on the environment, workers and communities. Also we'll take a look at a new piece of immigration reform legislation: "The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005"

Rustbelt Radio for May 23, 2005

May 24, 2005 22:13 - 54 minutes - 18.7 MB

On today's show... * we'll hear from activists opposing military recruitment in Pittsburgh including Justin Sane, singer from the Pittsburgh-based band Anti-Flag * also, Jeff Halper will speak about Israel's policy of Home Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories * and our weekly report on police brutality and misconduct in the region and around the country.

Rustbelt Radio for May 9, 2005

May 10, 2005 00:49 - 55 minutes - 18.9 MB

This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the spring season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. On Today's show we will hear from Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal, pennyslvanians protesting the war and marching for Mumia Abu Jamal, Pittsburghers converting an ambulance to run on vegetable oil and harm reduction activists speaking about the...

Rustbelt Radio for May 2, 2005

May 03, 2005 15:42 - 1 hour - 32.9 MB

On today's show... As spring arrives, students across the US are engaging in nonviolent direct action to force change on their campuses. Rustbelt Radio has updates on the sit-ins, protests and more going on this month. We hear from Terry Composte, forest defense activist who won a major court victory in a civil suit concerning police abuse of pepper spray. And we speak to this week's featured grassroots group, Ohio Valley Peace in the Wheeling West Virginia and South Eastern O...

Rustbelt Radio for April 25, 2005

April 26, 2005 00:50 - 54 minutes - 18.6 MB

On today's show... This week's local grassroots organization, the Fight for Lifers, will speak about their efforts to advocate for prisoners serving life sentences. We will hear from last Monday's Pittsburgh Public School Board meeting, as concerned parents spoke out about military recruiting at schools, unhealthy school meals and other issues impacting students. And Sunday was the 90th anniversary of the start of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman empire. We'll hear from a...

Rustbelt Radio for April 18, 2005

April 18, 2005 19:59 - 55 minutes - 25.2 MB

# Tax Day was last week. Members of the war tax resisters group tell us why they didn't pay # We talk to voices for animals of western pennsylvania # and activists staged an all-day picket at the Sky Bank headquarters in Downtown Pittsburgh, stepping up their campaign against what they're calling a union-busting company. But first, these local and global headlines.

Rustbelt Radio for April 11, 2005

April 11, 2005 19:50 - 55 minutes - 19 MB

55 Minutes in Ogg and MP3 formats, and webcast at http://www.wrct.org (higher quality archive at audioport.org) * a report from Charleston's West Virginia Capitol building where Mountain Justice activists from around Appalachia gathered for the Mountain Justice Summer Kickoff event. * An interview with a Nepali man about the recent coup in his country. * And our weekly interview with a local grassroots organization, the Pittsburgh Transportation Equity Project.

Rustbelt Radio for April 4, 2005

April 04, 2005 20:26 - 53 minutes - 18.5 MB

On today's show... We speak with the birth circle, a community group that works with child bearing families We will hear about the life of young men in a palestinian refugee camp

Rustbelt Radio for March 28, 2005

March 28, 2005 23:01 - 41 minutes - 14.2 MB

55 Minutes, in Ogg and MP3 Formats (below) # A report from the Forum on Dissent since 9/11 in Miami # a wrap-up of TASER related deaths, injuries and news. # and our weekly featured grassroots organization, Pittsburgh Action Against Rape.

Rustbelt Radio for March 21, 2005

March 22, 2005 00:58 - 54 minutes - 18.8 MB

On today's show...On the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, antiwar demonstrators take to the streets in Pittsburgh and around the world. Norman Finkelstein speaks in Pittsburgh, and an interview with this week's featured local grassroots organization, Prevention Point Pittsburgh

Rustbelt Radio for March 14, 2005

March 15, 2005 02:43 - 54 minutes - 21.9 MB

On today's show... * we speak with Diane Santoriello, local mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who will be speaking at this Saturday's demonstration marking the two-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. * a report from a forum on conscientious objection and the draft held by the Pittsburgh-based organization CONSCIENCE * and farmworkers won a major victory last week after years of campaigning against Taco bell

Rustbelt Radio for March 7, 2005

March 08, 2005 20:56 - 56 minutes - 19.5 MB

This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a spring break holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the last year's season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. These segments span our shows from July to November, 2004.

Rustbelt Radio for February 28, 2005

March 01, 2005 15:03 - 55 minutes - 16 MB

55 Minutes * a report on tasers and activists' efforts to ban their use by police departments * an interview with one of the Greenpeace Smokestack Six, recently relased from jail for scaling a smokestack at a power plant in Greene County, Pennsylvania last summer. * we hear former black panther Ashanti Alston, author of the publication Anarchist Panther, from his talk last week in Pittsburgh * and United for Peace and Justice, a national anti-war network, held its national ass...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio for February 21, 2005

February 22, 2005 00:00 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MB

Controversial black militant and separatist Malik Zulu Shabazz came to Carnegie Mellon University last Thursday. We recorded his lecture and the reactions of students and other community members. # And Saint Lawrence University in Upstate New York is trying to censor an online student publication that is critical of the university. We speak with two of the students who are involved in the publication about the lawsuit that the University is trying to bring against them. In central Brasil, 12,...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio for February 14, 2005

February 14, 2005 21:51 - 54 minutes - 21.7 MB

55 minutes: On today's show... activists announce Mountain Justice Summer to fight mountain range removal across Appalachia, a report from Philadelphia at a rally in support of death row prisonor Mumia Abu-Jamal, and sounds from the National Conference on Organized Resistance in DC last weekend.

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio for February 7, 2005

February 07, 2005 20:21 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB

55 minutes: Native American radical Ward Churchill is under attack. We listen to an excerpt of a speech he gave in 2002. Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the The Electronic Intifada an independent publication committed to comprehensive public education on the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was in town. Rustbelt Radio spoke with him last week after his lecture.

Rustbelt Radio for January 31st, 2005

January 31, 2005 20:15 - 54 minutes - 25 MB

(Audio, 55 Minutes) On today's show... We speak with Adam Eidinger, one of 7 plaintiffs who have just won a $425,000 settlement from the District of Columbia for DC's illegal detainment of more than 600 protestors at an IMF and World Bank protest in 2002. The advocacy group Downhill Battle encourages consumers to share music freely, calling the current copyright system archaic and urging parents to let their children use filesharing applications rather than buy them music as gifts. We s...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Monday, January 24, 2005

January 25, 2005 01:16 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB

Rustbelt Radio for the week of January 24, 2005: the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's weekly review of the news from the grassroots that the corporate media overlook. This first show of our season marks our first as a weekly show. We also are happy to announce that we are expanding to the Wheeling, West Virginia area via WVJW Benwood where we'll be broadcast every Saturday at 5pm. On today's show: we speak to Pittsburgh residents as they convert a diesel-powered vehicle to run on vegetab...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Tuesday, December 14, 2004

December 15, 2004 04:08 - 1 hour - 35.2 MB

A special extended version of Rustbelt Radio: the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's bi-weekly review of the news from the grassroots that the corporate media overlook. On today's show... * Contention and Repression: An Activist-Academic Dialogue at the University of Pittsburgh; and * The Mon-Fayette Expressway, recently given final approval, faces criticism from local residents * and an Interview with Susie Bono, an Activist from San Diego who spent the last few months on the Thai-Burma...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Tuesday, November 30, 2004

December 02, 2004 01:01 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

Aired at 6pm on WRCT Pittsburgh, 88.3FM, and webcast. Rustbelt Radio is the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's bi-weekly review of the news from the grassroots that the corporate media overlook. On today's show... After the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, we look at Food & Trade Policy Issues in the Developing World; From Portland to Pittsburgh, culture jammers challenge consumerism on the busiest shopping day of the year; and local and global independent news headlines...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Tuesday, November 16, 2004

November 17, 2004 17:44 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB

Aired at 6pm on WRCT Pittsburgh, 88.3FM, and webcast. On today's show... post-election protests, students for justice in Palestine at Pitt, election fraud and black box voting, and the transit funding crisis in Pennsylvania.

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Tuesday, November 2, 2004

November 03, 2004 08:11 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MB

Aired at 6pm on WRCT Pittsburgh, 88.3FM, and webcast. Welcome to this week's edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's bi-weekly review of the news from the grassroots that the corporate media overlook. We will be alternating this semester every-other week with Left Out, a talk show that presents news and opinions from a perspective "left out" of the mainstream media. On today's show... * The Critical Mass bike ride is under attack in New York and elsewhere i...

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Tuesday, October 19, 2004

October 22, 2004 07:40 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB

On today's show... * Renee Wilson of People Against Police Violence updates us on the Bernard Rogers case and plans for a major demonstration on Friday * Elections, third parties, and deliberative Democracy * A comprehensive report on the seizure of Indymedia's servers in the U.K. that brought down 20 of the network's websites * Rick Rowley Big Noise Films on The Fourth World War, showing tonight at Carnegie Mellon * and, headlines from aroud the indymedia network

Indymedia Rustbelt Radio show for Tuesday, October 5, 2004

October 10, 2004 05:23 - 54 minutes - 22 MB

"Indymedia Rustbelt Radio" -- PGH IMC Radio Show on WRCT 88.3FM Recording of the Tuesday, October 5th show. Features: * local and global newswires * attacks on community radio broadcasters around the US, in the Pittsburgh area, and around the world * retrospective on the Johnny Gammage case, and police violence in Pittsburgh today. audio in ogg vorbis and mp3 formats (55 minutes). The transcript is below.

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