Author’s Note: The Rules for Frackers will be a series that highlights the tactics the Natural Gas Industry uses to gain access to shale plays across the country. The series will focus on the economics, […]
Part 1: You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard! The Beginning One Sunday afternoon in the summer of 2009 there was a knock at our door. It was a landman from Encana. He wanted […]
Since about July of 2011, I have been involved both as a writer, a public intellectual, and as an activist in the anti-hydraulic fracturing (fracking) movement in North East Central Pennsylvania. I have written on […]
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it” — Howard Zinn “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that […]
I arrived at the McFarland Student Union building with more than hour to spare before Lt. Governor James Crawley would introduce the Corbett administration’s most recent round of crippling budget cuts to the Kutztown community. […]
Editor’s Note: This month Raging Chicken Press brings you two interviews from the February 27, 2012 Rick Smith Show. We’ve got two great interviews from people who are not simply whining about the right-wing attacks […]
Perhaps the most incredible thing about my recent public listserv and consequent email exchange with Penn State geologist Terry Engelder is his explicit insistence that I “do not have permission to put this material on […]
“Between the public sector and the private sector, we have wreaked untold havoc on the media environment.” These aren’t the words of a progressive media advocate such as University of Illinois professor Robert McChesney or […]
On December 12, 2011, days before the three-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, John Knefel, an independent news reporter and co-host of Radio Dispatch, was arrested covering the Occupy Port Shutdown solidarity rallies in New […]
Editor’s Note: Just like last month’s edition of the Rick Smith Files, this month Raging Chicken Press brings you two interviews from the February 7, 2012 Rick Smith Show. The theme this month is the […]