PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

On this week's show...

• Organizers and members of SEIU Local 3 describe the role they played in the recent Houston SEIU victory
• Local artists dialogue with community members on racism, history, memory, and social justice
• Reports by human rights groups detail the trafficking of Asian workers by US contractors in Iraq
• Word on the Street: mass transit cuts
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• an interview with two independent journalists who documented the 34 day war in Lebanon last summer and its aftermath.
• thousands take to the street in a march against violence in New Orleans
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks on collective struggle, the war in Vietnam, revolutionary movements around the world, and more.
  
• and two local groups claim victory in their campaigns

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On this week's show...

• People are calling for the closing on Guantanamo Bay on the detention center's five year anniversary
• Polar Bears are drawing attention to the global warming crisis
• Paul Simpson describes the bicycle's potential as a vehicle for social equality
• a wave of violence has broken out in New Orleans around the new year
  
• The Zapatistas mark the 13th anniversary of their uprising with an international gathering in Chiapas, Mexico
• plus more in our local and global headlines

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This week, we will be presenting highlights of Rustbelt Radio stories from the Fall of 2006 including...

• A Proposed Casino for the Hill District faces opposition
• the legal struggle over Hazleton, Pennsylvania's trendsetting anti-immigrant legislation
  
• Veterans of the war in Iraq visit Pittsburgh on the Uprise Counter Recruitment Tour
• Anti-affirmative action backlash and voter fraud shape Michigan's election results
• and more headlines from recent shows

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You can also help with Rustbelt Radio and other independent media projects by getting involved with the Independent Media Center! We are organizing a workspace for media making at our office on Penn Avenue, where we'll be leading workshops for volunteers to learn how to make radio, TV, and online news! Also, we will be offering internships with Rustbelt Radio starting in January of 2007.  Please get in touch and get involved!

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On this week's show...

• we'll hear from Mumia Abu-Jamal, who marked his 25th year of imprisonment in Pennsylvania over the weekend
• a new film on Cuba's public health system premiered at the University of Pittsburgh, and we spoke to its producer, as well as other members of the panel discussion that followed
• the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has refused the right of transgender people to designate their own genders on birth certificates.
  
• local updates on the Hill District casino proposal, the Mon-Fayette expressway, and the protest at Colin Powell's recent speech
• and also, an update from Palestine

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