A Fracking Good Letter
The oil and gas industry has retreated from its entrenched position to have the public delete the “k” in “fracking,” and write it as “frac’ing” or “fracing.” Those who have been the strongest advocates for […]
2014
#PhlEd RIGHT NOW: Caucus of Working Educators Calls for 4pm Rally at Gov. Corbett’s Philly Office
If you are in or around Philadelphia today, get down to 200 Broad Street at 4pm this afternoon to protest the School Reform Commission’s move to unilaterally cancel Philly Teacher’s Contract. Fhollow #PhlEd and @CaucusofWE […]
#PhlEd: Dissolving Teachers Contract Wasn’t Difficult; It Was a Public Relations Offensive
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Badmin Gotta Tweet: ESU’s Twitterer-in-Chief Back at It
Editor’s Note: A slightly earlier version of this post indicated that the Tweet pictured below originated from Marcia Welsh’s account. It did not. She FAVORITED another Tweet. We caught the error shortly after the article first […]
PASSHE Budget Ax Falls Again: Mansfield University to Face Loss of 12 Faculty
On July 30, PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) administrators announced their intentions to deepen the austerity at five state-owned universities: Mansfield, Edinboro, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, and Cheyney. These are the same five universities that claimed “financial […]
“Because The Money’s Too Damn Good to Leave” : A Look Inside North Dakota’s Oil Boom
Editor’s Note: Another awesome post from the wonderful world of Virally Supressed: Muckraking for the Modern World out of Cincinnati, OH. Virally Suppressed is the brain child of Drew Gibson and we have no doubt that Raging Chicken Press […]
Hedges: Get In the Damn Streets!
Editor’s Note: This was originally posted on Alyssa Röhricht’s blog, Black Cat Revolution, earlier this week. If you want some awesome work on international politics, the surveillance state, and a whole slew of other issues, head […]
The Untold History of Hazleton’s Racial Tensions
Author’s Note: Over the summer, I became a member of Put People First! Pennsylvania to volunteer with the organization’s Media and Communications Committee. Currently, the organization is working on a Health Care is a Human […]
Form-ing Dissent
Editor’s Note: This was originally posted over at The Unarmed Education Mercenary by the Unarmed Education Mercenary herself, @GracieG. @GracieG was one of the participants in this past weekend’s #BurnItDown Twitter action. When she is […]
Raging Chicken Press Passes the 400,000 Mark! Thank You!!!
Thanks to an unbelievable month – well over 53,000 visits in September – Raging Chicken Press hit a new milestone today: over 400,000 page visits. We would like to take a minute to just say […]