PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

(Audio, 55 Minutes) On today's show...

• We speak with Adam Eidinger, one of 7 plaintiffs who have just won a $425,000 settlement from the District of Columbia for DC's illegal detainment of more than 600 protestors at an IMF and World Bank protest in 2002.
• The advocacy group Downhill Battle encourages consumers to share music freely, calling the current copyright system archaic and urging parents to let their children use filesharing applications rather than buy them music as gifts. We speak with the codirector of Downhill Battle about filesharing, copyright, and why you can no longer see the civil rights Documentary Eyes on the Prize.
• Pennsylvania's death penalty law is called into question. We speak with the editor of the Pittsburgh City Paper about why Pennsylvania's juror instructions unfairly bias them to choose the death penalty.
• We interview local Pittsburghers about their reactions to the Iraqi Elections this past Sunday.

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The first show in Rustbelt's new weekly schedule!

On this week's show:

• We speak to Pittsburgh residents as they convert a diesel-powered vehicle to run on vegetable oil
• News from the second inauguration of George W. Bush,
  
• and coverage of the Martin Luther King, Jr holiday in Pittsburgh.

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A special year-end extended edition of Rustbelt Radio!

On this week's show:

• Contention and Repression: An Activist-Academic Dialogue at the University of Pittsburgh
• The Mon-Fayette Expressway, recently given final approval, faces criticism from local residents
• and an Interview with Susie Bono, an Activist from San Diego who spent the last few months on the Thai-Burma border.

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On this week's show:

• After the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, we look at Food & Trade Policy Issues in the Developing World
• Culture jammers challenge consumerism on the busiest shopping day of the year
• and local and global news from the Independent Media Center network.

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This week: post-election protests, students for justice in Palestine at Pitt, election fraud and black box voting, and the transit funding crisis in Pennsylvania. Plus local and global headlines from the Independent Media Center network.

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