On AlterNet: pittsburgh

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Have Public Servants Charged with Protecting Drinking Water for 15 Million People Sold Out to the Gas Drilling Industry?

Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. January 23, 2011.

Environmentalists are squaring off against the gas drilling industry, but the playing field does not appear to be level.

Pennsylvania Gas Drillers Dumping Radioactive Waste in New York

Peter Mantius, DC Bureau. November 24, 2010.

How did it happen? Provide the revenue-hungry county a rich payout, exploit a legal loophole, and presto, it's a done deal.

Pittsburgh Bans Fracking (and Corporate Personhood)

Mari Margil, Ben Price, YES! Magazine. November 16, 2010.

A historic new ordinance bans natural gas drilling while elevating community decision making and the rights of nature over the "rights" associated with corporate personhood.

Pittsburgh Takes a Stance Against Fracking; Who's Next?

Rachel Cernansky, Planet Green. August 20, 2010.

A bill in Pittsburgh would ban corporations from drilling for natural gas. A bold move -- will it work?

Robocops Employ Scary Crowd-Stopping Technology at Pittsburgh Protests

Mike Ferner, After Downing Street. September 28, 2009.

An arsenal of "crowd control munitions," was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week's G-20 protests.

Pittsburgh Police Riot, Attack Students

Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 26, 2009.

"The only figures breaking any laws on that calm campus were the cops themselves."

Our Right to Dissent is Under Siege: Why the Protests in Pittsburgh Are a Victory For Free Speech

Bill Quigley, AlterNet. September 23, 2009.

The rights to freedom of speech and protest are keystones of democracy. Since 9/11, however, protesting has become much more difficult.

With Global Capitalism Exposed as a Sham, All the Global Elite Have Left Is Pure Force

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. September 22, 2009.

Delegates from the world's wealthiest nations gather this week for G-20, walled off from protesters by a National Guard combat battalion recently returned from Iraq.

Shooter Read Sexist Christian Author's Book Before Pittsburgh Female Aerobics Class Massacre

Bruce Wilson, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. August 6, 2009.

Sodini's final reading: a book by sexist Fundamentalist who claimed husbands own their wives, as property.