PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

More than 300 people gathered in Market Square on Sunday, asking the United States to prioritize healthcare over war. The event, organized by the Thomas Merton Center and Pennsylvanians United For Single-Payer Healthcare, or PUSH, reminded Americans that while bomb's rained down on Baghdad, millions of Americans still lack basic medical care and are without health insurance.

Members of Pittsburgh Indymedia's radio collective were at the march on Sunday, and we recorded some of the sounds of the day.

Listen: ogg vorbis or mp3 format.

Photos are available from here: http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15283.php

The Pittsburgh Indymedia Radio collective has aired the first edition of the new "Rustbelt Radio" show on WRCT Pittsburgh, 88.3 FM. You can download a copy of the show here.

Two community radio stations, one in Knoxville, TN and the second in Santa Cruz, CA have been raided in the last 2 weeks by armed US Marshalls (and/or FBI) and the FCC. Last October, San Francisco Police and the FCC raided a popular Bay Area radio station. Despite the federal government's war on community media, radio activists across the US are operating community stations in open defiance of FCC regulations. The FCC strives to squelch community radio so that the airwaves remain free for media conglomerates like right-wing ClearChannel Communications, which owns 1,250 radio stations (six in Pittsburgh), and Viacom-owned Infinty Broadcasting, which owns 180 stations (four in Pittsburgh).

Also, in Pittsburgh, two broadcasters were shut down in the past week due to FCC intimidation. South Side Radio broadcasting at very low power on 102.9FM, and "WCSA Radio" in Plum, PA (Allegheny County, east of Pittsburgh near Oakmont). Indymedia Rustbelt Radio, our biweekly news program on (licensed) WRCT 88.3FM, will feature reports on these actions in Pittsburgh and around the US this week on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm.

Next week the National Association of Broadcasters, a powerful lobby group, will meet in San Diego. In opposition to their corporate agenda, independent media activists will be holding a four day convergence of workshops, speakers, and actions to tell the NAB "We Want Our Airwaves Back!".

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