PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

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 Fall of 2007 including...

• locals take to the street in actions to oppose the war, and in support of the Jena 6
• the Word on the Street from October 8th - Pittsburghers' thoughts on Columbus Day
• an update on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' march on Burger King headquarters in Miami, Florida
• New Voices Pittsburgh's Reproductive Justice Weekend
• Community Media advocates Push for Expanded Low Power FM Radio
• Pennsylvanians push two different LGBT nondiscrimination bills

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On this week's show...

• Chuck D. speaks on youth empowerment and local history at November's Urban Roots Hip Hop Symposium in East Liberty
• Activists call for a moratorium on tasers in response to increased cases of police abuse and taser related deaths
• Pittsburgh residents organize to save Schenley High
• On the twenty-six year anniversary of the incarceration of Mumia Abu-Jamal, new developments in the case
• Another noose incident in Pittsburgh, this time at a local high school
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• In honor of World Aids Day, we bring you a report on the new face of AIDS and the challenges faced by infected individuals
• Independent Journalist Ben Dangl speaks about the Constituent Assembly and recent clashes in Bolivia
• An update on the "Middle East Peace Conference" in Annapolis
• Nurses are striking in West Virginia, plus more in our local and global headlines

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• We bring you a history lesson on the recent North American Thanksgiving holiday, featuring the voices of indigenous people, their thoughts on the recognition of Thanksgiving, and an alternative celebration known as the National Day of Mourning

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• as a legal challenge strikes down part of Pennsylvania's Hate Crime legislation, tens of thousands march in DC to urge the US Dept. of Justice to defend the civil rights of African-Americans
• workers in Florida fight for their rights...by taking to the sea
• National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn, speaks about Michael Mukasey, the War on Terror, Pakistani President Musharraf and the Impeachment of George Bush
• Salvadoran Labor Union Leader Ricardo Calderon speaks about the failures of CAFTA and free trade, political repression of union organizers and resistance to corporate privatization of Salvadoran natural resources
• and more in our local and global headlines

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