Stand Up, Live Better!
Tomorrow, BLACK FRIDAY, Walmart workers from around the country are going on strike for respect, a living wage, and a new model for the American economy – one in which we look out for one […]
2012
Green-Washing and Gender-Sanitizing Fracking: Rachael Colley and Nicole Jacobs of Energy in Depth
One example of the complicity of some women in the promotion of the extraction industry is the exchange between Nicole Jacobs, Rachael Colley, and myself concerning my piece, ”The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club, (YouTube: The Good […]
The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Women of Fracking – The Courageous, the Extorted, and the Excuseless (Part 2)
Long ago Karl Marx argued that one of the hallmark characteristics of the marketing required to support mass production was the creation of a kind of false consciousness, that is, a sense of needing things […]
BREAKING: APSCUF Strike Authorization Passes with 95%
APSCUF FACULTY APPROVE STRIKE AUTHORIZATION Vote empowers association leadership to call a strike Harrisburg – Today, faculty members at the 14 state-owned universities enabled the leaders of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University […]
The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine)
Enclosed is a Susquehanna University presentation of parts I-II of a longer research paper I will be posting in segments here and on Raging Chicken Press over the next two weeks. The title is: The Good […]
Krancer-Gate: Organizations Demand PA-DEP Reveal all Data from Water Tests.
Editors Note: The following letter comes from 25 Pennsylvania grassroots and environmental organizations demanding that the PA Department of Environmental Protection release all water testing results pertaining to natural gas drilling. The letter is […]
Walmart Raises Employee Healthcare Premiums by up to 36%
WASHINGTON—As Walmart executives publicized an employee healthcare change that showcased no-cost spine and heart surgeries at select hospitals, managers delivered a different message to retail associates at their stores: your healthcare costs are going up, again. Premiums […]
Walmart Workers and Union Solidarity
Editor’s Note: The Making Change at Walmart campaign is calling for nation-wide actions at Walmart on Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving – the most significant shopping day of the holiday season. Raging Chicken […]
APSCUF Strike Authorization Vote Begins Today
The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties, APSCUF, will go ahead with a strike authorization vote that will begin today and continue through Wednesday, November 14th. The vote will allow the 14 chapter […]
Letter to Bloomsburg University President Soltz: A Contract with Stantec is a Contract with Genocidal Profiteering
In my email this morning: “What does the future look like at Bloomsburg University? Share your thoughts at the Master Plan Open Forum TODAY Friday, Nov. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Hartline Science […]