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A Trump labor department hasn’t been inspecting Pittsburgh workplaces for COVID-19 complaints BY CODY MCDEVITT INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
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HE FEDERAL OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and Hazard Administration (OSHA) received a notice on April 9 from employees at Garden View Manor in Wilkinsburg that a worker had tested positive for COVID-19. Even though employees had worked in close proximity to that person, they were not told to quarantine after the employer found out about the result, according to the complaint. Employees didn’t have Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the facility wasn’t protected or sanitized during the early part of the pandemic, according to the complaint. Christopher Robinson, OSHA’s area director, sent Garden View a letter saying they had five days to respond with appropriate action that would be verified by a letter sent back to his office. Marisol Valentin, compliance, integrity and risk officer for Mercy Behavioral Health, which owns the Wilkinsburg facility, responded to Robinson by email and indicated that 2 out of 9 people tested for the virus had positive results. On April 9, she provided the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) with a list of six colleagues who reported symptoms. No residents were found to be symptomatic, according to her email.
“THIS IS A PROBLEM NATIONALLY — OSHA HAS BEEN GETTING THOUSANDS OF COMPLAINTS AND REQUESTS FOR HELP BUT OPENING VERY FEW ACTUAL PHYSICAL INSPECTIONS.”
Despite the severity of the complaint, OSHA never sent an inspector to Garden View Manor or issued a citation — something that has become the commonplace response during the pandemic from the agency that serves as the enforcement mechanism for workplace safety. Valentin says that Garden View Manor followed the contact tracing guidelines set forth by ACHD, and that the employees who filed the complaint were not determined to have the level of exposure necessary to quarantine, although they were in their rights to voluntarily get tested for coronavirus. Valentin did confirm that OSHA never responded further to the complaint, and said her interaction on these coronavirus issues have been with ACHD, and that the county agency has been “great” and “very communicable.” Mercy Behavioral Health was one of several organizations and businesses in the area that had employees file complaints with the OSHA. Thanks to a COVID-19 federal policy handed down to regional offices, including the one in Pittsburgh, those OSHA departments didn’t send a single inspector or issue any citation to a site that had been brought to their attention through the formal complaint process. Pittsburgh City Paper determined this by unearthing hundreds of documents from a Freedom of Information Act request. At least one local leader is frustrated by OSHA failures to follow up on complaints. U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Forest Hills) says this inaction follows a pattern that OSHA has exuded under the Trump administration. A former OSHA secretary under President Barack Obama says the current failures of OSHA are occurring across the nation, and notes that Trump officials disregarded his calls to institute rules that might have helped OSHA handle the cases related to COVID-19. But for now, it appears
workers in Pittsburgh, and across the country, are left with OSHA’s failures leading to less accountability than usual during the middle of a global pandemic.
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HEN OSHA CONDUCTS an inspection, it is an independent review of the employer’s injury and illness records, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, emergency action or response, blood borne pathogens, confined space entry, lockout, and related safety and health issues. The employer itself doesn’t do the investigation, which is where in the past few months, it has diverged from the conventional idea of how the agency is supposed to work. Attempts to reach OSHA for comment on this article were unsuccessful. Local officials declined to comment, and the national press office didn’t respond by CP’s deadline. Health-care providers have been aware of the potential dangers of a pandemic since George W. Bush’s Administration. In 2008, the Institute of Medicine published the findings of the Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers During an Influenza Pandemic. The book suggested various approaches that would help local, state, and federal leaders adapt to the situation to mitigate it. The panel experts emphasized then that respirator masks would be something they would likely have to deal with in a pandemic. In February, the World Health Organization said that the top priority for every country during the pandemic should be the protection of its health-care workers. David Michaels, former assistant secretary for labor for OSHA, urged the Trump administration early on that it should institute emergency standards, but he
knew that the White House would likely be averse to regulation of any sort. Michaels said OSHA’s hands were tied in this crisis because it does not currently have a regulation covering airborne infectious agents. OSHA could help limit the impact of a global epidemic in the U.S. by issuing an emergency temporary standard, quickly protecting health-care workers and others from exposure to COVID-19. CONTINUES ON PG. 6 CONTINU
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But now, more than three months later, Michaels assessed the situation to CP through an email correspondence and said the situation hasn’t improved. “This is a problem nationally — OSHA has been getting thousands of complaints and requests for help but opening very few actual physical inspections.” Michaels said. This issue is so widespread that the Commonwealth of Virginia is poised to create its own workplace safety mandates because of a lack of enforcement from Trump’s OSHA. Other national publications have also addressed the topic. On June 21, the New York Times featured an editorial about how OSHA went AWOL during the pandemic. The Times editorial criticized President Trump for issuing voluntary guidance instead of enforceable rules. And this inaction can have some dire effects locally. At Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Beaver, the site of the worst nursing home outbreak in Pennsylvania, a staffer complained to OSHA on April 13 that their employer was not following CDC guidelines such as providing masks for employees or enforcing social distancing. In its official response to OSHA, the center’s administrator Dana Wittman said that in the middle of March, they retaught all personnel on the appropriate use of PPE, including donning and doffing procedures. On April 1, they had an educational center installed at the main entrance area that included materials on COVID-19. At that time, they also started reception area training for staff to include social distancing guidelines and procedures. However, even though OSHA officials determined the complaint for Brighton Rehab was valid and serious insofar as severity, they didn’t do an inspection. They spoke with the employer over the phone on April 14 and sent an email
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that same day. They expected a response from the company about how it addressed the complaint a week later, according to the OSHA file on the matter. By May, Brighton Rehab had experienced hundreds of coronavirus cases, and at least 76 deaths, the highest number of COVID-19 deaths at a nursing home in Pennsylvania. Local officials called for federal investigations into Brighton Rehab. Meanwhile, some workers in western Pennsylvania have had their complaints
go unheard. Adrienne Chiusano didn’t think her bosses at Passavant Memorial Homes had properly taken care of their staff during the COVID-19 pandemic when she worked there earlier this year. The five-year employee left the organization in April. “They were telling us they didn’t have masks,” she said. “They gave us each a mask and then if they broke or whatever, they told us they didn’t have any more to supply anybody. We had to pick them or get our own. And it turns out they were donating thousands of masks to other people to make themselves look good.” Several other employees there agreed to talk anonymously and supported Chiusano’s account about Passavant Memorial Homes, which operates out of Warrendale. Thomas W. King III, attorney for Passavant Memorial Homes, spoke with CP about his client’s complaint. He said no patients contracted COVID-19 at their facilities. He said people came to the facilities to ask for masks. “With respect to Passavant, there is no one in western Pennsylvania or
in the United States who did more to protect their employees,” King said. “We supplied masks to all our employees.” All told, there were 17 workplaces throughout the Pittsburgh region that received OSHA complaints. Hospitals and health-care facilities made up the lion’s share of the complaints. A worker at UPMC St. Margaret in Aspinwall said they didn’t have access to adequate PPE. Dave Rhodes, an employee with OSHA, emailed officials with UPMC Passavant and told them it was in the emergency department reception area where staff felt they should have respirator masks. A clinician coordinating the fit testing told them that they were no longer in the fit testing program and would not be provided protective equipment because of a shortage. UPMC Mercy also received a complaint about not having appropriate PPE for its staff. Gloria Kreps, spokeswoman for UPMC, said safety was the health-care provider’s top priority. They screen for symptoms at all entrances, limit visitors, use N-95 respirators, surgical masks, gloves, gown, and eye protection for their staff. They also train staff on using PPE and on interdepartmental communication regarding exposure, she said. “We were the first to be able to offer COVID-19 testing for all patients coming into UPMC for an inpatient stay,” Kreps said. “We were also the first to set up adequate screening procedures to protect our staff and patients so that we could offer the inclusion of a support person for each UPMC patient, both inpatient or outpatient.” OSHA didn’t follow up on any of these complaints related to UPMC. At another Pittsburgh hospital, gowns were allegedly not provided in March for medical procedures in one section of the hospital, according to a March 27 complaint. According to another OSHA complaint filed in March, a workplace in West Mifflin allegedly didn’t clean or disinfect its hand scanner that grants access to about 2,500 employees that work in the facility. At a suburban Pittsburgh hospital, employees had informed OSHA that nurses and nurses’ aides were possibly exposed to COVID-19 and other illnesses when entering isolation rooms, and employees were allegedly not notified when a patient was confirmed having COVID19. An employee at a diagnostic facility complained about the lack of cleaning and sanitizing areas where testers handled COVID-19 samples. Employees at Allegheny Valley
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Hospital said in a complaint that workers in the primary care unit and in clinical decision units were not provided with N-95 respirator masks. The complaint file said that some of those workers have been in contact with patients who had COVID-19 or were suspected of having it. The hospital responded in a letter back to OSHA that said respirator masks were only needed when caring for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients in critical care units and settings where it was likely that an aerosol-generating procedure, like intubation or extubation, would be performed. “This is primarily a droplet-transmitted virus which can only become airborne when aerosolized,” said Gregory Bailey, director of clinical safety at Allegheny Valley, in a letter to OSHA. “On noncritical care units, a gown, gloves, ear loop surgical masks, and protective eye wear are adequate to protect staff. This approach is supported
by CDC guidelines.” Regardless of whether health-care facilities defended their actions, OSHA never sent an inspector out to check on the claims. And this lack of follow through might be more prescient again, as Allegheny County is currently experiencing one of the fastest growing coronavirus case loads in the U.S. Between June 22-29, Allegheny County saw 476 positive coronavirus cases, which is an average of about 60 per day. Before this last week, the county never saw such a rise in cases. Officials say the new cases are mostly linked to people traveling out of state and back, and to people crowding into restaurants and bars without wearing masks. CP shared the OSHA documents and scope of the problem with local U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Forest Hills). He issued a statement through his press secretary about the situation. Doyle said he was aware that OSHA failed to carry out
its mission in recent weeks and was angry about it. He said it was unacceptable that the administration had issued only vague guidance for employers and failed to follow up on thousands of complaints. Doyle said he urged leadership in the House to pass legislation directing OSHA to issue clear regulations aimed at ensuring worker safety. Doyle said that the Heroes Act included provisions to direct OSHA to create a permanent comprehensive infectious disease standard and to forbid employers from retaliating against whistleblowers. Several committees have held public hearings regarding these failures, he said. “This is not a new issue, however,” Doyle said. “Throughout the Trump Administration, OSHA has consistently investigated fewer complaints and issued fewer penalties than during the Obama Administration. These failures have put worker safety at risk for years.”
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are now closed, and restaurants a r e not allowed t o s e rve alcohol on-site, due to a recent spike in coronavirus cases. At a June 28 press conference, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said that contact tracing completed by the county has shown a couple of hot spots since the county moved into the green phase on June 5, and those hot spots have been bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Restaurants can still remain open, and can operate their dining rooms at 50% capacity and with physical distancing. Fitzgerald said that everyone should wear masks while in restaurants, including customers, except when eating. Restaurants and bars can still sell alcohol and cocktails to-go, but those beverages cannot be consumed on-site. “We are going to be vigilant about enforcing the mask rule, and encourage people to be outside,” said Fitzgerald, who added the county will
be encouraging restaurants to expand patio space. He added that Pittsburgh city officials will be fast tracking permits to allow for restaurants to have more outdoor space on sidewalks and city streets. Allegheny County Health Director Dr. Debra Bogen said positive coronavirus cases in the county have reached an alltime daily and weekly high on June 28. She said the cases can’t be traced to one or two specific locations, meaning that the cases are coming from mostly bars and restaurants from all over the county. “I am very concerned,” said Bogen. “I am concerned because they are rising rapidly, and have no known source. It shows community spread and we had almost no community spread before.” Bogen said contact tracing has shown that many cases are linked to people who had traveled out of state and visited nightlife and bars in states like Florida and coastal sections of the Carolinas. She said that the county decided to shut down bars
and the onsite consumption of alcohol because drinking led to gatherings that violated physical distancing and people conversing in close proximity without masks.
“WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN CONTAIN THIS AND FLATTEN THE CURVE AND SEND IT BACK THE OTHER WAY.” Bogen suggested that anyone who has traveled out of state to quarantine themselves for 14 days and to get tested. She said she’s concerned that the spike in positive tests will lead to an increase in hospitalizations. She said the cases have been primarily younger people, and that bars and restaurants in Oakland and South Side have been linked to cases, and she is worried that
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people with possible infections may be unknowingly bringing cases to their parents, aunts, and grandparents. She addressed concerns about Allegheny County potentially moving back into the yellow or red phase and noted that since we are now more prepared than when the pandemic first arrived — there are now more Personal Protective Equipment for health-care facilities and frontline workers, and we now have the ability to contact trace and determine where cases are coming from — she doesn’t foresee a need to move out of the green phase at this moment. She says it is still safe to go out to other businesses, as long as masks are worn, physical distancing is adhered to, and hands are washed often. Bogen said part of the reason for the recent spike was that these things weren’t happening at bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. “We want to make sure we can contain this and flatten the curve and send it back the other way,” said Fitzgerald.
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portable pizza oven out of his own home, Stephen Turselli raised $3,571 in two weeks for five organizations fighting against social injustice. The plan for his Social Justice Pizza Project (SJPP) was simple: sell pizzas, then donate 100% of the proceeds to various charities. First, Turselli calculated how much money he wanted to raise, then divided that by the cost of each pizza and a feasible production rate. With limited equipment, he determined that it would take about two weeks to reach his fundraising goal of $1,500. Turselli, who has a film background and views pizza making as a hobby, announced the project on June 6 via his personal Facebook page. Turselli decided he could make 10 pies a day at a two-per-person limit, with pickup hours Wednesday-Sunday. “I can’t speak to how widely the project spread, but the whole run of pizzas did sell out more quickly than I expected, and there were more donors than pizzas,” said Turselli. The first week sold out within 48 hours.
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A number of out-of-town supporters sent donations directly to the project, which Turselli used to give away pizzas to someone in need when he could. In total, 26 pies were paid forward. He decided to donate proceeds to five different organizations based on their missions, landing on “Bukit Bail Fund because protests are getting wrongfully arrested; SisTersPGH because Black trans women are fighting a fight within a fight, and SisTersPGH provides much needed safe space and resources for that; 1Hood Media because I think it’s important to give much needed space
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in the media to Black voices and amplify them; Abolitionist Law Center because mass incarceration is bullshit; and NAACP Empowerment Programs because education and advocacy is more important now, possibly, than ever.” In addition to raising money for social justice-focused organizations, Turselli dedicated each day of the project to an artist, business person, or creator, in an effort to help “elevate melanated voices.” Every day, Turselli and his wife promoted the featured person’s products or business on their social media channels, linked websites or shops, and wrote down their information on the boxes that went out that day. Turselli also gifted them a pizza. Turselli says he’s given plenty of thought to what version two of SJPP will look like. On the project’s Facebook page, there’s mention of shipping outof-state; Turselli hints at more pizzas in less days and donating to different organizations. But ultimately, he says, he’d just like to raise more money. The second version of SJPP is predicted to pop-up in August or September, and Turselli is already itching to turn on the oven. On his personal Instagram page on Friday, he posted that he’s already going to start making pizzas for “friends and friends-of-friends” to raise money for the next round.
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my most beloved friends, who happens to be white, sent me a link to a petition: Make June 19th a Federal Holiday. I think she was sure I would be excited about this because: 1. Juneteenth is Freedom Day, a day to acknowledge the “end of slavery” in the United States. 2. It is my birthday. 3. Having AfricanAmerican history and heritage intentionally central in the celebration and conversation of Americanness is very much my jam. But when I saw the message my response was: Oh no, not another Juneteenth thing! I had received several first-ever Juneteenth emails from various U.S. corporations that morning. I said out loud to no one, “No I don’t wanna, I am not signing that thing. Please leave Juneteenth alone, it is already a National holiday (to Black America) and I don’t want the day to end up all flat and lifeless like Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” I don’t know if this is my final answer but somewhere between Juneteenth and July 4th, 2020. We are trying to decide and declare what Freedom looks like. Recognize and dismantle the anti-Black racism that is as American as whatever pie, cherry or apple? I can never remember which, I do not like pie. And we’re trying to do it all faster than a viral TikTok video repeats on your timeline. Between Juneteenth. To my Black family: Ssadksljhfytlbnallf?!!??!! Fam, I do not know. I just do not know. We had a hint of what would happen with the “Black Squares” right? But in an effort not to center whiteness and what whiteness is doing today. I just have to ask you, How are you doing? The wonderful writer and journalist Jourdan Hick’s posted a Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu
quote on Instagram recently: “We are so often expected to take on the role of dismantling racism that we forget that the main job of a survivor of abuse it to heal.” I had to pause. I have to pause. We have to pause. And heal. Freedom and liberation is healing. That is why love is a verb and part of the revolution it is central to this, so heal. Work and heal. And it made me wonder about how much of our role is to dismantle racism vs healing and love within our Black Family, capital B and F? Between Juneteenth and July 4th: To my non-Black People of Global Majority fam. How are you feeling? I see many of you in solidarity and with big love, yes, we need us all. I know your family’s anti-Blackness was taught as a way to become American. I know for many of you anti-Blackness is part of the heritage you bring from various nations in America and from around the world. But you are seeing how proximity to whiteness won’t offer you freedom. We need unity now more than ever. Before July 4th. To my white family: Well we are all one human family, right? Okay. Sdsjadskjfnsjhabfhasdb?!? I mean how does it feel, what you are thinking? What’s up? I see some of you are doing a lot of back-patting of oneself,
IMAGINE LOOKING ONTO THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE FROM THE CONFLUENCE OF THE OHIO, MONONGAHELA, ALLEGHENY, AND NOT SEE THE SEA OF SAMENESS. which is hard to watch. Dangerous actually because you have more work than you realize. If you’re so convinced you’re woke, you won’t know where your vision is blocked or blurred. And one hopes that the newly purchased books will not just become Black Lives Matter coffee table displays. But I want us to center our needs, our joy, our freedoms, our liberation, and our love. We are one of the key bellwethers of true justice in this world, but we need to get there whole. To those who are not self-identified allies but in the trench with accomplices who are (cautiously) optimistically welcoming new members to anti-racist work. How are you doing out there?
Does it feel different? Are you ready for what is next? What is next? Please remember to make space where you can be called in or called out, without defense. And yes you will probably, get your feelings hurt, if it is working. The whole dismantling racism thing. That thing that may have gotten you your: Beautiful house | Beautiful wife/ husband/partner/partners/dog/cat | Beautiful job | Salary ... Take a moment to consider this: How does your love, your joy, your livability for the city of Pittsburgh come at the expense of Black, Brown, LGBTQIA+, Disabled people who are made to feel “other than” not a “real Pittsburgher” not “the average Pittsburgh” — so your very narrow scope and slice of the Pittsburgh pie world can be lifted up in this Golden Triangle as the crown. Imagine looking onto the Golden Triangle from the Confluence of the Ohio, Monongahela, Allegheny, and not see the sea of sameness. But rivers of multicultural beauty that reflect the reality of our past, present, and future. This is part of the healing work, the revolution work, the Black Lives Matter, intersectional justice work that must happen from Juneteenth to July 4th and all the other 363 days a year.
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ORTH SIDE graphic designer Moya Omololu wasn’t exactly sure how to make a difference, but he knew he wanted to find some way to join the worldwide movement against systemic and environmental racism. Then it came to him randomly at 1 a.m. earlier this month: “Black Lives Matter,” spelled out using letters from the names of Black people killed in police custody. “Antwon Rose, Sandra Bland, George Floyd.” A total of 16 names from top to bottom, spelling out the acrostic; the front design of the shirt, a simplistic but impactful illustration of a black-andwhite fist inside a circle. Omololu’s contribution to the Black Lives Matter movement, he discovered, would be his creativity. But his design wouldn’t remain solely his for long. When he launched his T-shirts, Omololu posted on Facebook that he had been looking for a way “to support the fight against the social injustices we’ve been witnessing (and living) for awhile,” and now, he had a way to raise money for both his own Black-owned business and worthy Black organizations. His friend Sarah Bader volunteered to photograph the shirts, his friend Amina Jones offered to model, and the shirts were put up for sale for $20, with half of the proceeds donated to Black organizations: NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The Black Mental Health Fund, and Pittsburgh creative hub BOOM Concepts. But any excitement from the first week of sales was short-lived when friends and family started tagging Omololu, Bader, and Jones on a sponsored Facebook post from a company they didn’t recognize. On the ad was Bader’s photograph of Omololu and Jones posed side-byside, only an altered design was now Photoshopped onto the T-shirts. The names were now changed slightly from Omololu’s original list, and the “Black Lives Matter” acrostic now read, “We Can’t Breathe.” The simplistic black-and-white fist design on the front of the original shirt Jones was modeling, now redesigned. “I thought it was kind of, you know, low of them to steal an idea at a time like this,” Omololu says softly, “especially when, like, the whole point of me creating this idea to begin with was to help out.”
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Moya Omololu and Amina Jones modeling Omololu’s Black Lives Matter T-shirt
Omololu, Bader, and Jones commented that the image was stolen in hopes that it would be taken down. But both Omololu and Bader say the page deleted all of their posts, and that they were soon blocked. Omololu says messages to the Facebook page went unanswered. Then the photograph and copycat design also started showing up for sale on additional Facebook pages, sponsored Facebook posts, and websites.
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All of the sites are affiliates of TeeChip, a print-on-demand platform launched by L.A. T-Shirt company OoShirts, Inc. It’s one of those sites that allows anyone to set up a personal store where users can upload an original design onto a T-shirt (and a large number of other merchandise) which they can then immediately post for sale. TeeChip handles the printing and shipping, and the user makes a small profit from each sale. When Pittsburgh City Paper contacted TeeChip for comment, the company said since its sellers uploaded the images themselves, responsibility is out of TeeChip’s control. (However, TeeChip acknowledged a link CP sent of one of the copycat designs and disabled the item.) And copyright violations are growing. According to a March 2020 article in Wired, the rapid growth of print-on-demand companies like TeeChip, Redbubble, and
Zazzle has “brought a wave of lawsuits by copyrights holders ranging from independent graphic artists to multinational brands.” But what can be done for those who might not have the means to hire a high profile lawyer? Or, people like Bader and Omololu, who are small business owners creating a product with the intention of not making a high profit themselves in the first place? “Unfortunately, artists have their work infringed upon all the time, and in the age of internet and Instagram, photographers can be especially vulnerable to exploitation and theft of their work,” says Blair Preiser, a litigation attorney with The Lynch Law Group in Cranberry. Preiser recommends reaching out to the offending party as a first step, and if it’s a company, trying to find a legal contact so the letter “goes to the people who can actually do something about the problem.” She adds that if one can afford it, draft a cease and desist letter from a lawyer. “It’s so disheartening,” says Bader, “especially when Moya is donating half of the proceeds to charity and the other half is going to a Black man.” Omololu says he plans to continue selling his Black Lives Matter T-shirts, printed locally at North Side’s Armory Print Works, as long as he’s able for the foreseeable future. Prevention, Preiser says, is the best medicine for artists who want to avoid copyright infringement. For a list of suggestions, visit a longer version of this article at pghcitypaper.com.
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