Pittsburgh Grassroots Examiner

Antifascists ruin Holocaust denier's weekend

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:25:21 -0700

NYC Independent Media Center Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.-Aneurin Bevan Although lobbyists and media conglomerates have lent mainstream credibility to ultra-nationalist, crypto-fascis...

Russell Crowe and the old banjo

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:22:34 -0700

Sorry to turn all TMZ on you, (not that political/social commentary is really anything but celebrity gossip) but reader, "The H-Bomb," (thanks) passed along this story about the actor's apparent generosity:Saturday night at a birthday party...

20 years later, more walls than ever

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:20:38 -0700

Tearing down the wall-Active Stills.org In Sensurround sound in a two inch wall I was waiting for the communist call I didn't ask for sunshine and I got World War three I'm looking over the wall and they're looking at me -Sex Pistols "Holidays...

H1N1: 40% of private-sector workers in US lack sick days

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:38:55 -0700

RadicalGraphics.org A man (sic) too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.-Spanish proverbMost people can make the connections between globalized consumer capitalism and its role in shuttling various ...

"Twitter" charges dropped; secret affidavit to be made public Nov. 23rd

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:53:12 -0700

From the Friends of Tortuga "You can beat the rap, but not the ride."-Miami cop discussing preemptive FTAA arrests in 2003Not surprisingly, the charges against Elliot Madison and Michael Wallschlager have been dropped by the Allegheny Cou...

G-20 Legal defense benefit

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:28:02 -0700

The Pittsburgh Filmmakers are hosting a 7 pm screening of the documentary film, Democracy 101, which deals with the recent G-20 protests and the police riots at the University of Pittsburgh, resulting in nearly 200 arrests, as well as "...

Brad Will (1970-2006) and the 'dirty war' on independent journalism

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:12:40 -0700

Brad Will’s Assassins, Photo: D.R. 2006 El Universalone more death -- one more martyr in a dirty war -- one more time to cry and hurt -- one moretime to know power and its ugly head -- one more bullet cracks the night -- one more night at the b...

Garfield social center to close at year's end

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:32:27 -0700

The Greater Pittsburgh Anarchist Collective (GPAC) has recently issued a statement announcing that "The Take," their social center, located in the Garfield section of Pittsburgh's East End, will be closing its doors by the end of the year. ...

An unpublished 1934 letter from Lucy Parsons

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:26:33 -0700

The life of Lucy Parsons and the struggles for peace and justice she engaged provide remarkable insight about the history of the American labor movement and the anarchist struggles of the time. Born in Texas, 1853, probably as a slave, ...

Union dispute at Onorato's 3rd campaign announcement?

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:45:09 -0700

Courtesy of G-20 Bed & Breakfast As a means of proving that he is qualified to conduct the duties of Governor, Dan Onorato chose Philadelphia to kick-off his campaign, followed by Harrisburg, and eventually Pittsburgh, following the well-...

G-20: Like Iran, paramilitary raids continue in Queens over Twitter

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:17:28 -0700

RadicalGraphics.org The home of two volunteers with the New York City People's Law Collective was ripped apart for 16 hours by members of a Washington, DC-based gang with chapters worldwide, known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI. ...

Sounds of the G-20

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:28:16 -0700

Local MC and Activist Jasiri X's "The Only Color that Matters is Green," with its backdrop of 16 million dollars worth of G-20 "security" could be technically the most expensive music video in history. Disperse! ...

Students and community groups to demand G-20 accountability

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:06:59 -0700

Off all of the mistakes made by whoever was named to be in charge of dispensing millions of dollars in high-tech violence during the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, their worst move was probably attacking and detaining our annual "out of town t...

Police, media blame inability to control G-20 on one person

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:44:56 -0700

No overdraft fees or service charges collected here I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men a...

G-20 photos Sept 24-25: Global elites 'bring the war home'

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:23:39 -0700

When the announcement was first made that the National Guard would be deployed in Pittsburgh to defend corporate property and the global elite, those who were present at the US national political conventions in 2008, where they were used as tr...

G-20 Photos: Pittsburghers welcome protesters

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:33:48 -0700

The local corporate media, as part of their role as hand-puppets and mouthpieces for law enforcement, have been making a point of finding and interviewing the local residents who somehow identify with the armed thugs and the Wall Street interes...

G-20 Photos 9/25: Thousands march safely through militarized Pittsburgh

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:27 -0700

Thousands rallied and marched from Oakland to Pittsburgh's North Side stopping outside of the City County building for more speakers and music, in the shadow of the massive military and police buildup.

G-20 Photos: Black-clad thugs terrorize Pittsburgh Sept. 24

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:44:31 -0700

terrorism-the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist obj...

G-20: Photos of People's Uprising march and rally Sept. 24

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:16:35 -0700

Despite despite weeks of harassment, surveillance, an extremely expensive deployment of domestic military forces, and the sluggish, backward-walking photographers who slowed down the march as it was just beginning, thousands expressed their des...

G-20: Anybody here from out of town?

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:20:54 -0700

In the weeks since those other cities turned down a chance to host the delightful G-20 summit, local corporate media have resurrected that favorite epithet of the Civil right era; the "outside agitator." Everything from the City of Pi...