PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

On this week's show...

• Rustbelt Radio reports from Mexico City about a recent solidarity march for the political prisoners of Atenco
• Homewood Residents talk about a police chase that ends in two deaths
• We'll hear from the group Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants on issues facing immigrants in Pittsburgh and in the nation.
• Local news on AIDS advocacy, the fight over mercury pollution controls currently raging in the Pennsylvania legislature, and more

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This week on Rustbelt Radio, a special Memorial Day program in recognition of innocent people who have been imprisoned or executed.

• We will hear an in depth report on wrongful incarceration including interviews with:
• Bill Moushey of the Innnocence Institute of Pittsburgh
• Tommy Doswell, of Homewood, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 19 years before being cleared by DNA evidence
• Duane Kirk, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 15 months
• and members of the Black Politicial Empowment Project who are working towards legislation for compensation and services for the wrongfully incarcerated.
• Also, Blackbox Radio interviews the The Icarus Project, a radical mental health organization.

Program note: this show was orginally scheduled for May 29, 2006, but was postponed until May 31 due to unforeseen technical problems at WRCT studios.

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On this week's Rustbelt Radio...

• We'll hear more on a proposal to build a new waste-coal fired power plant in Robinson Township, Washington County
• In Dublin, Ireland, a group of 41 Afghanis occupied St. Patricks Cathedral seeking asylum
• local news on a funding crisis for needle exchange, solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons, and single payer health care reform
  
• and global news on an anti-Halliburton protest in Oklahoma, the Sri Lankan civil war, and more

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On this week's show...

• We investigate the issues surrounding a new waste coal power plant proposed for Robinson Township, Washington county
• we'll hear about the importance of lower power FM radio and the fight for community media, from a recent discussion held in Pittsburgh with Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project
• we have the return of our segment which spotlights a local grassroots group, The Light at the End of the Fort Pitt Tunnel. This week we'll hear about Run-Baby-Run. It's a crash-course to turn ordinary folks into electable politicians.
• and two doctors from Kenya talk about providing post-abortion care to women in Kenya, and women's access to reproductive health care

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On this week's show...

• We'll hear excerpts from the May Day speak-out for immigrants rights in Pittsburgh
• We'll have a report on police repression and violence in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico
• an exhibit of Palestinian Childrens artwork at Brandeis University was taken down by the school - Rustbelt Radio speaks to the Israeli Student who curated the exhibit
• plus news on the Robinson Township power plant, the Pittsburgh-born nominee for the job of CIA chief, the anniversary of the Kent State shooting, low power radio, and more

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