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Pittsburgh Activists Shut Down National Robotics Engineering Center

HeadlineMar 05, 2007

Here in this country, 14 activists in Pittsburgh were arrested on Friday when they tried to shut down the National Robotics Engineering Center. Organizers targeted the Pentagon-funded center at Carnegie Mellon University because it has become a world leader in warfare robotics. The antiwar protesters managed to block the entrance to the center by locking themselves together with plastic pipe.

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