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Rustbelt Radio for August 4, 2008
08/04/2008
On this week's show...
We bring you a special retrospective program, as Rustbelt Radio co-founders and today's co-hosts Andalusia Knoll and Matt Toups look back at four years and almost 200 episodes of the show. They're both moving on and this will be their last show with us!
Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Rosa Clemente speaks about Hip Hop organizing, the limits of a two party system and critical issues facing the United States Populace
Pennsylvania becomes the first state to join the SweatFree Consortium
Pittsburgh Against Torture's silent procession
and a feature-length 2.3 Million and Rising on abuse logs and maximum security prisons
The Best of Rustbelt Radio for Winter and Spring 2008 (June 2, 2008)
06/02/2008
Welcome to this week's edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's weekly review of the news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. This week, we will be presenting highlights of Rustbelt Radio stories from the Winter and Spring of 2008 including...
Word on the Street segments on teens & sex and anti-war protestors
Police Officers are found guilty in the Michael Ellerbee civil trial
Community Residents Defeat a Proposed Jail in the South Bronx
Affordable birth control for college students is under attack
Burger King spies on Student/Farmworker Alliance
The Revolution will Not Be funded- critiques of the non-profit model
we have a special Rustbelt Radio program: as the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq nears, we'll hear from US Military veterans testifying at the recent Winter Soldier hearings
Rustbelt Radio Podcast available! MP3 feed address: http://indypgh.org/syn/rustbelt-podcast.xml
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