PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

On today's show:

• local lawyer Dan Kovalik speaks about US military aid to Colombia and human rights violations against trade unionists
• we'll hear from Pennsylvania state representatives about the impacts of the Iraq war on two districts in Pittsburgh
• local news reports on treatment of the city's homeless, students' voting rights, and nurses' organizing for affordable health care
• global news reports on critical mass, journalists' rights, pirate and low power radio, GE crops, and the struggle for justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

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On this week's show...

• we'll hear about connections between prison abuses at home and abroad
  
• and we'll speak with Katrina Kozarek about the Calle y Media video cooperative in Venezuela
• but first, these local and global headlines

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On this week's special show...

• we will listen to Kate Bornstein as she addressed the audience at the 2005 Steel City Gender Conference.

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This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the fall season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. On today's show we will hear .....

• A report on police brutality at the August 20th counter-recruitment protest
  
• Homeless people's reactions to the new panhandling ordinance in Pittsburgh
  
• Updates on the Jerry Jackson case
  
• A report on the Bring them Home Now tour
  
• and more

Also, as our we wrap up our 45th hour-long radio show of 2005 we'd like to ask our listeners to donate to Pittsburgh Indymedia so that we can keep the show going strong next year.  We can really use equipment donations, or funds - thanks to all of our great supporters for supporting us this year!

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On this week's show...

• We talk with Steve Donahue about recent changes to Pennsylvania utility laws that are leaving consumers in the cold this winter
• We'll hear about proposed UPMC parking lots and other development in the uptown neighborhood of Pittsburgh
• and we'll talk with As'ad AbuKhalil about the recent developments in Lebanon
• the Pittsburgh city council tentaviesly passes restriction for anti-abortion protestors
• and our local and global headlines

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