PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

On this week's show...

• Rustbelt Radio talks to local non-profit Global Links about shipping medical supplies from Pittsburgh to needy hospitals in other parts of the world.
• Global Justice activist and author Vandana Shiva speaks about Creativity, Compassion, and Social Change
• two stories from Philadelphia: an annual punk festival is shut down by police, and unions take on the telecom giant Verizon
  
• a small town in Pennsylvania is imposing extreme new laws against immigrants
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• Members of Prometheus Radio Project speak about community media in Pennsylvania
• People across the US and in Pittsburgh commemorate the 61st anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• An independent journalist is jailed in San Francisco
• Coca-Cola and Pepsi soft drinks are banned in parts of India
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• We learn about the practices of Bechtel corporation, a war profiteer with a local operation here in Pittsburgh
• The first officer to refuse deployment to Iraq speaks out
• SouthSide Works janitors are demanding better working conditions
• A University Radio Station in Oaxaca, Mexico is under attack
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• Ali Abunimah and Dahr Jamail comment on the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon
• A Peace Vigil for Palestine and Lebanon takes place in Pittsburgh
• We speak to Earth First activists who targeted a coal plant in Virginia
• Fred Hampton Jr. is arrested in Chicago
• Braddock throws a goodbye party for the Mon-Fayette Expressway
• and more in our local and global headlines

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On this week's show...

• We hear from Deepa Fernandes of WBAI in New York, speak about reporting on immigration and border security issues
• The Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance says " No sweatshops bucco!" during the 2006 All Star game
• Environmental Activists are arrested in Canada
• The Mexican presidential election turmoil continues
• plus local and global headlines

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