Hey ya’ll, I caught this blog off the Checktheweather.net site! If you really want know what Obama should do check out Kari Fulton’s Thoughts on checktheweather.net and read the BP Press Release. You’d be shocked at their arrogance!!!!
For the last 24 hours I have been intently watching both C-span and CNN to get coverage of the health care debate. I have always been a champion for health care reform, and it was one of the messages that POTUS talked about during his campaign that really had me drawn to him.
I am currently a college student without health insurance. I pray every day that I do not end up sick, as I have no clue how I would even begin to pay for treatment. This is a fear that really stems back to my childhood.
So I was chillin’ in Pittsburgh over the weekend, catching up with some old friends and making new ones when I realized that there is no urban radio station in Pittsburgh. How is this possible in a city with a population of ninety-thousand African Americans making up 27% of the city’s population and a lot of cultural diversity, full of artists, poets and underground Hip-Hop? I mean every single channel that I turned to, was either religious, pop or country music. Don’t get it twisted I’m not knocking those genres, and the pop stations would play a few of the very popular Hip-Hop songs. Yet there was not a radio station that played a Combination of Hip-Hop and R&B. In addition, to not hear an ounce of soul on the radio was really disappointing. I could not even find an old school radio station that played artists like the Temptations. So what happened in Pittsburgh? There must have been an urban radio station at some point? Right???
The story is that the radio station WAMO, which had been in Pittsburgh for 55 years, was sold this past summer for 8.9 million dollars. Even though there was some protest and community uproar, very little action was taken and the community was completely ignored as they expressed their anger. It almost shows that the city of Pittsburgh completely disregards its black population. There are some alternatives, if you can even call them that. On the weekends The University of Pittsburgh Campus radio station host a R&B show and Carnegie Mellon on Sundays give local community members an alternative but relegates them to only 2 hours a week of Hip-Hop music. I just don’t think that a population of 90,000 people should be forced to only listen to Hip-Hop on the weekends!! Whelp now I know to stock up on my IPod with music next time I head out west!! For more information on the radio station please click on this link.
Peace
Kirin
As a climate justice advocate, issues of coal plant placement, toxic emissions and other environmental health factors are always first on my radar. The key principles of Environmental Justice are that NO community should be subjugated to an unhealthy and toxic environment and that ALL have the right to work eat live, play and worship, in a clean and toxin free space. So today as I was reading the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and stumbled across this article that talks about the RRI Cheswick Coal Plant, I was not only alarmed but compelled to address this issue. The Cheswick plant, located in Cheswick Pennsylvania, will be going under renovations that will install Sulfur Dioxide scrubbers on the smokestacks for the production of “Clean” Coal. According to the article entitled “ Cheswick coal plant upgrade may raise lead emissions”, the plant is planning on burning a dirtier type of coal that is more efficient with the use of the scrubbers. In the article they address the issues that this plant already emitted 460 pound of lead in 2008 and this upgrade will cause an significant increase in lead levels with the addition of the scrubbers to the smoke stack; putting the citizens of Cheswick PA, a town of 854 homes and .6 squares miles in area, at risk for lead poisoning. Clean Coal??? I think not!!! This plant’s permits are under review by the Alleghany County health department and are up for public comment. If our citizens of Alleghany County will participate by letting the health department know that they would not like to be poisoned by the increase in lead, please make sure to call the Health Department and submit your complaints and concerns in writing to the address below. For more information on the coal plant and its effects on the local community please click on the link below.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10057/1038765-113.stm#ixzz0ggHA1Evw
* The public comment period for the proposed Cheswick power plant permit modification ends next Friday. A copy of the permit, identified in Health Department records as permit IP 0054-1004a, is available by calling 412-578-8191. Written comments can be mailed to the Allegheny County Health Department Air Quality Program, 301 39th St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1891, or sent via e-mail to aqpermits@achd.net.
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