PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

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On this week's show:

• A bill currently in Harrisburg could raise the minimum wage across the state of Pennsylvania to seven dollars and fifteen cents.
• We talk with representatives of the Pittsburgh-based Just Health Care Campaign
• the BioDemocracy conference in Philadelphia met in opposition to the Biotechnology Industry Orgranization's meetings; Rustbelt has a report.
• and we hear from Iraqi Labor Leaders on their speaking tour stop last week in Pittsburgh

Plus headlines from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and independent media centers around the world.

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54 minutes: mp3 and ogg vorbis formats available.

On this week's show:

• We will hear about Bike-Fest a ten day festival taking place in Pittsburgh this week
• the Resyst radical contingent speaks at the Pride march about their view of queer liberation versus the mainstream GLBT movement's assimilationist strategy

Plus headlines from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and independent media centers around the world.

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55 minutes: mp3 and ogg vorbis formats available.

On this week's show:

• We speak with the local group 'RESYST' about the upcoming pridefest and the radical queer movement
  
• And we present the final piece in our three part series on Coal and its effects in the community.

Plus headlines from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and independent media centers around the world.

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55 minutes: mp3 and ogg vorbis formats available.

On this week's show:

• We speak with David Rosenberg of the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition about his group's efforts to bring attention to the ongoing crisis in Western Sudan.
  
• We hear from the True Cost of Coal Conference held this past weekend in Pittsburgh, part two in our three part series on Coal in our region and the grassroots organizing against its effects.
  
• A high school student in Cleveland is suspended for opposing military recruiters at his school.
  
• And police in Pittsburgh and in Ohio are getting more dangerous in their use of tasers.
  

Plus headlines from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and independent media centers around the world.

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57 minutes: mp3 and ogg vorbis formats available.

On this week's show:

• an interview with our featured local grassroots organization of the week, Canaries in the Coalfields, a new group opposing the coal industry and its effects on the environment, workers and communities.
  
• Also we'll take a look at a new piece of immigration reform legislation: "The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005"
• plus bad cop no donut, and news from independent media centers around the world.
  

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