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On this week's show...

• We will hear exerpts of a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institue debate about the ethics of accepting military funding.
  
• We will hear about the case of Hasan Shakur a death row inmate in Texas
• a report from International Women's Day in Mexico by Rustbelt Radio's Carlin Christy
  
• plus spy-ins, sick-outs, IRS audits for friends of Santorum, our regular update on police brutality and misconduct in the region, and more headlines from independent media centers around the world.
  

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On today's show...

• we hear about massive student protests in France
• we hear exceprts from speeches given at this weekend's rally against the war as well as talk to some of the people who marched.
• we hear from an Iraq veteran who is marching across the Gulf region of the U.S. in protest of Bush policies
• also janitors rally at CMU, demonstrations for immigrants rights, and the FBI is spying on the merton center in Pittsburgh while in Austin they consider Food Not Bombs and Indymedia to be terrorist threats.
• and more...
  

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This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, so we will be presenting highlights of Rustbelt Radio stories from the last few months, including:

• a remix of Rustbelt Radio's sound collage from the post-super bowl riots
  
• our own Andalusia Knoll reports from South America at the inauguration of the first indigenous president of Bolivia
• the ACLU has uncovered government spying on local peace groups, we'll hear from their legal director and responses from some of those groups
• we'll hear from State Representative Jake Wheatley Jr. about how the war is affecting his constituents in the Hill district
• Coca-Cola is behind human rights violations in Colombia - we'll hear from local lawyer Dan Kovalik of the USWA who is representing workers there
• plus more on Rick Santorum, the US economy, CAFTA, and UPMC's plans for parking lots in the uptown neighborhood
  

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On this week's show...

• In Feburary, Pennsylvania prisoner-rights activists converged on Harrisburg to protest abusive prison conditions at home
• Last week the BBC obtained an rare interview with a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and we'll hear about his experience in the Guantanamo Bay prison
• updates on a general strike in Africa, students against sweatshops in Santa Cruz, and an update on the South Central Farmers in LA
• plus our local headlines and news on police misconduct from Ron Anicich

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On this week's show...

• We speak with Big Idea volunteers about Pittsburgh's radical book store
• we hear from Chris Carlsson, the co-founder of the critical mass bicycle ride about critical mass, bicycling, and community.
• local news on Senator Santorum, Upper St. Clair schools, Pennsylvania voting laws
  
• and global news on communcations law, the Mexico mine disaster, gold mining in Chile, and Shell in Nigeria.

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