Rustbelt Radio for Apr. 23, 2012 : Pittsburgh Indymedia

Rustbelt Radio for Apr. 23, 2012
by Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Collecti Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 at 11:31 PM
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On today's show: We bring you several features in honor of earth day, including an interview with filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh on the oil industry; Activist, scholar and writer Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson of the First Nation Anishinabek people answers the question: "Can Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Survive in the Modern World?" Black Agenda Radio talks about preparing communities to apply for a low power FM radio license and more in our local and global headlines.

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Rustbelt Radio for April 23, 2012

Rustbelt Radio for April 23, 2012

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Welcome to this week's edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's bi-weekly review of the news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media.

On today's show...

We bring you several features in honor of earth day, including an interview with filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh on the oil industry
Activist, scholar and writer Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson of the First Nation Anishinabek people answers the question: "Can Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Survive in the Modern World?"
Black Agenda Radio journalist, Glen Ford, talks about preparing communities to apply for a low power FM radio license
And more in our local and global headlines

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[ 5:30 ] Black Agenda Radio journalist, Glen Ford, on LFPM Radio Stations

For more than a decade, community radio advocates have been fighting to get more community radio stations on the FM dial. The Federal Communications Commission recently took a step in that direction by adopting new rules that clear the way for an increase in a class of radio stations called Low Power FM stations or LPFMs.

Meanwhile, hundreds of communities across the country have been closely tracking the FCC’s action on the issue, including the LPFM victory that came with President Obama’s 2011 signing of the Local Community Radio Act. That law removed the ban on having low-power stations within three “clicks” on the dial of a full-power station, a requirement based on worries about interference.

For more on this issue, we now hear from journalist, Glen Ford, from Black Agenda Radio. Glen Ford is organizing with Philadelphia based, Prometheus Radio, to prepare as many communities as possible to apply for radio licenses when the application window is announced by the FCC.

BlackAgendaRadio_low-power-radio.mp3: (4:23)

That was Glen Ford from Black Agenda Radio speaking about the recent FCC plans to open up the airwaves to community-based, Low Power FM radio stations or LPFMs.

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Features

Intro

You're listening to Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's bi-weekly review of news from the grassroots.

[22:40 ] New Film on Big Oil

Last year, Radio Eco Shock interviewed long-time activist and first-time film director Craig Rosebraugh. His film, Greedy Lying Bastards, was filmed on five continents and in nine different countries. The film claims to expose the human and environmental cost of unchecked corporate profit. Radio Eco Shock brings us this interview.

gn960_111023_Rosebraugh_og.ogg: 21:12 oil industry

The film Greedy Lying Bastards will be released later this year.

[3:12] Litany for the Sea (poem)

Friday April 20th marked the 2nd anniversary of the BP oil spill. We bring you the poem Litany for the Sea by Aimee Suzara.

litany_for_sea_aimee_suzara.flac: (3:12)

[26:30] Traditional Ecological Knowledge - can it survive?

Also in honor of Earth day and those who stewarded the land where we now live for many thousands of years before we came here, we bring you a Native American perspective on the question of how indigenous traditional knowledge can survive in the modern world. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an activist, writer and scholar of Michi Saagiik Nishnaabeg ancestry and is a member of Alderville First Nation. In this talk given at Ryerson University in Canada in 2008, she addresses how her culture's traditional knowledge is integrated with ecological and cultural relationships, how it differs from western colonial ways of knowing, and how this knowledge can survive today.

TEK.ogg: (21:06)

That was Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, activist, writer, and scholar of the Alderville First Nation.

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Calendar of Events

And now we present the Indymedia Calendar of Events:

On Wednesday April 25th, from 5 to 7:30 PM, the Center for Victims of Violence and Crime, in partnership with New Voices Pittsburgh, will host a forum to include a film screening of "NO! The Rape Documentary." The film unveils the reality of rape and other forms of sexual violence in African American communities. The screening will be followed by� a dialogue circle, and InterPlay - a form-based folk art connecting people through music and movement; a creative approach to activism and healing.�For more information, go to new voices p g h dot org

On April 27th at noon, a Stand Against Racism Rally will be held at CCAC or the Community College of Allegheny College Amphitheater located on the North Side.

On Saturday, April 28th from 9:00 – 1:00pm, the Tossed and Found, an Awesome Estate Sale fundraiser will begin at the Second United Presbyterian Church of Wilkinsburg in Regent Square.The fundraiser will include Art, Antiques , Collectibles,and more. All proceeds will benefit Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates and PAC statewide political work.

On Saturday, April 28 from 9:00 til 11:00pm, there will be a benefit for Rhinestone Steel, an all day, all queer music and performance festival that is scheduled in June. The theme of the benefit is the MALT SHOP, 50s attire, jitterbug dancing, and Djs spinning the best of the oldies all night long. The event will be held at the Blue Moon located on 5115 Butler St. in Lawrenceville.

For those who can't make it to the National Action Against the War on Women rally in Harrisburg PA. Members of Occupy PGH will be holding a solidarity event in Pittsburgh. The rally will begin on Saturday, April 28th at 11 AM on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park. The rally will also be followed by an eventful game of tag in the park. For more info, go to their Facebook page, Action Against the War on Women.

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