PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

This week's show falls during WRCT's random schedule, as the radio station takes a spring break holiday. We're using this opportunity to present our listeners with some highlights from the last year's season of Rustbelt Radio that you may have missed. These segments span our shows from July to November, 2004.

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On this week's show:

• A report on tasers and activists' efforts to ban their use by police departments
  
• An interview with one of the Greenpeace Smokestack Six, recently relased from jail for scaling a smokestack at a power plant in Greene County, Pennsylvania last summer.
  
• We hear former black panther Ashanti Alston, author of the publication Anarchist Panther, from his talk last week in Pittsburgh
• And United for Peace and Justice, a national anti-war network, held its national assembly in St. Louis a week ago, and Rustbelt Radio has a report

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55 minutes: On today's show...

• Outspoken black militant and separatist Malik Zulu Shabazz came to Carnegie Mellon University last Thursday. We recorded his lecture and the reactions of students and other community members.
• Saint Lawrence University in Upstate New York is trying to censor an online student publication that is critical of the university. We speak with two of the students who are involved in the publication about the lawsuit that the University is trying to bring against them.
• In central Brasil, 12,000 homeless squatters were attacked last week by state police. Two people died and hundreds were arrested, including one reporter for NYC Indymedia. We will here more from a member of Indymedia Brasil.

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55 minutes: On today's show... activists announce Mountain Justice Summer to fight mountain range removal across Appalachia, a report from Philadelphia at a rally in support of death row prisonor Mumia Abu-Jamal, and sounds from the National Conference on Organized Resistance in DC last weekend.

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On this week's show:

• Native American radical Ward Churchill is under attack. We listen to an excerpt of a speech he gave in 2002.
  
• Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the The Electronic Intifada an independent publication committed to comprehensive public education on the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was in town. Rustbelt Radio spoke with him last week after his lecture.

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