Rustbelt Radio for February 25, 2013
by Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 at 3:04 AM
radio@indypgh.org

On today's show... Pittsburghers for Public Transit take their message to Harrisburg, Allegheny County Council Approves Fracking at the Pittsburgh International Airport, One Billion Rising for an end to domestic violence, and The Pennsylvania Prison Report

audio link: MP3 at 54.9 mebibytes

Flash player: Embed this audio player: <script language="JavaScript" src="http://indypgh.org/im/audio-player.js"></script><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://indypgh.org/im/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://indypgh.org/im/player.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x990000&loop=no&autostart=no&soundFile=http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2013/02/rustbelt-2013-02-25.mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="true"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object> <br/> <a href=http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2013/02/72940.php><img border=0 src="http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/im/imc_audio.gif">Audio posted by Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio to Pittsburgh Indymedia (54.9 mebibytes) </a>

Rustbelt Radio for February 25, 2013

[1:00] Intro

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...

• Pittsburghers for Public Transit take their message to Harrisburg
• Allegheny County Council Approves Fracking at the Pittsburgh International Airport
• One Billion Rising for an end to domestic violence
• The Pennsylvania Prison Report

Rustbelt Radio is broadcast live from WRCT studios every other Monday at 6 PM on 88.3 FM in Pittsburgh, and the program airs again on WRCT every Tuesday morning at 9AM.

We can also be heard weekly on the following stations:

• WSDR 99.1 FM in Pittsburgh
• WIUP 90.1 FM in Indiana
• WNJR 91.7 FM in Washington
• WLRI 93 FM in eastern Pennsylvania
• and FRSC 101.1 FM in Santa Cruz, California

We're also available on the internet, both on WRCT's live webstream at W-R-C-T dot ORG and for download, stream or podcast from our website at radio dot I-N-D-Y-P-G-H dot org.

We turn now to local stories.

Headlines

Local News

[ 7:02 ] One Billion Rising

• 1billionrising.wav: 7:02

[ 15:00 ] Pittsburghers for Public Transit

• Pittsburghers_For_Public_Yransit.mp3: 15:00

[9:30] HRC-Pennsylvania Prison Report

• PA_Prison_Report_feb_25.wav: 9:31

Features

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

[20:00 ] Allegheny County approves fracking at the airport

• RR_fracking_Hearing.mp3: 19:57

Ending

Calendar of Events

And now we present the Indymedia Calendar of Events:

• Fight Back Pittsburgh holds their general Monthly meeting on March 4th for more info visit www.fightbackpittsburgh.org

• March 9th the 4th River free school holds a teach in at the First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh from 2-8 PM

• The Citizen Police Review Board will meet on Tuesday February 26th at 6 pm in City Council Chambers

[1:00] Outro

[ Outro Music ]

Thanks for tuning in to Rustbelt Radio here on WRCT Pittsburgh, WSDR Pittsburgh, WIUP Indiana, WNJR Washington, WLRI LanChester, and FRSC Santa Cruz.

Our host this week is Jessica McPherson, with contributions from [ Tom Jefferson, Kayla Sykes, Emily Laycheck, Hannah T., and Don Carpenter ]. This week's show was directed and produced by [ Jessica McPherson ]. Special thanks to all of our hosts, producers, and contributors.

You can get involved with Rustbelt Radio! To contact us, email RADIO at I-N-D-Y-P-G-H dot ORG. Become our fan on Facebook to receive updates on our latest episode, and follow us on Twitter @pghimc. All of our shows are available on our website at RADIO dot INDY-P-G-H dot ORG and this show can be heard again Tuesday morning on WRCT at 9 AM after Democracy Now!

Tune in next week at this time for another edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's bi-weekly review of news from the grassroots.

radio.indypgh.org

Rustbelt Radio ogg vorbis
by Pittsburgh Indymedia: Rustbelt Radio Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 at 3:04 AM
radio@indypgh.org

audio: ogg vorbis at 33.7 mebibytesaudio: ogg vorbis at 33.7 mebibytes

radio.indypgh.org