PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

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• We'll hear from activists opposing military recruitment in Pittsburgh including Justin Sane, singer from the Pittsburgh-based band Anti-Flag
• also, Jeff Halper will speak about Israel's policy of Home Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
• and our weekly report on police brutality and misconduct in the region and around the country.

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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 spring season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. On Today's show

• we will hear from Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal,
  
• Pennyslvanians protesting the war and marching for Mumia Abu Jamal,
  
• Pittsburghers converting an ambulance to run on vegetable oil and
  
• harm reduction activists speaking about the organization Prevention Point.

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On this week's show...

• As spring arrives, students across the US are engaging in nonviolent direct action to force change on their campuses. Rustbelt Radio has updates on the sit-ins, protests and more going on this month.
• We hear from Terry Composte, forest defense activist who won a major court victory in a civil suit concerning police abuse of pepper spray.
• And we speak to this week's featured grassroots group, Ohio Valley Peace in the Wheeling West Virginia and South Eastern Ohio area.

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On this week's show:

• This week's local grassroots organization, the Fight for Lifers, will speak about their efforts to advocate for prisoners serving life sentences.
  
• We will hear from last Monday's Pittsburgh Public School Board meeting, as concerned parents spoke out about military recruiting at schools, unhealthy school meals and other issues impacting students.
  
• And Sunday was the 90th anniversary of the start of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman empire. We'll hear from a survivor.

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On this week's show:

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• Tax Day was last week. Members of the war tax resisters group tell us why they didn't pay
• We talk to voices for animals of western pennsylvania
• and activists staged an all-day picket at the Sky Bank headquarters in Downtown Pittsburgh, stepping up their campaign against what they're calling a union-busting company. 
  

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