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Pittsburgh Locals in Support of the G20 Protestors

By FluxRostrum - Posted on September 25th, 2009
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During my afternoon of running from ear drum piercing sonic weapons and tear gas canisters while being chased in circles by dog and baton wielding cops in working class neighborhoods miles from the convention center I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of locals.  Here's what they said ... with a small dose of riot porn on the side.

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Rap Man, Thank you so much
Submitted by FluxRostrum on Sun, 2009-09-27 08:41.

Rap Man,

Thank you so much for the insight.  I have been staying in various 'hoods of Pittsburgh while covering these events and have seen the forgotten daily.  At times I wanted to film them but didn't because I felt it would be percieved as expolitative.  There are a ton of abandoned buildings, homeless and all that goes with it here. Last night I debated philosphy with a crack whore.

Your video shames me for not covering this.  I hope you intend to do more and would be honored if you decided to sign up for an account here and posted them.  It is dispicable the way the "authorities" have slapped up a clean happy facade for the G20 week.  But they always do for these media circus's.

So that nobody neglects to click your link, I'm going to embed your video here.

I'm still in town.  If you'd like to met up contact me before Wednesday.
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/user/5/contact

solidarity,
FluxRostrum

http://Fluxview.com

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Pittsburgh's G-20 story: Take
Submitted by Rap Man (not verified) on Sat, 2009-09-26 20:22.
Pittsburgh's G-20 story: Take an expressway from town and disappear into desolate 'hoods and encounter the civilization of menace. Pittsburgh, a dual city! The glass wonder of PPG Place and/or the G-20 Summit is a faded memory. Here in the 'hood lives lie abandoned as far as the eye can see.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEukcWW5dM0   That is: For the most part, African-American Pittsburgh seems to be invisible, not only to the public relations hucksters who tout Pittsburgh's successes, but we are equally invisible to the protesters.    Certainly, black Pittsburgh is as proud as anybody is that the black President we worked so hard to elect has selected Pittsburgh as the host of the G-20 Summit. We even enjoy the re-invention of Pittsburgh from a dirty, smoky steel-churning history to the bright, clean, green financial success that the business leaders and politicians boast about so loudly. Nobody is more proud of the Super Bowl winning African-American coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin. But none of that feel-good stuff erases the pain of the stubbornly high unemployment among African American young adults and the staggering dropout rate for young black males from the public school system.

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