The Snipers of Jersey Shore
Garder54 calls Kevin June “a real scum.” LadyDawg4 calls him a “sleazeball.” Proud2bMom calls him a “liar and a thief.” Kevin June is the reluctant leader for the 37 families of the Riverdale Mobile Home […]
June 2012
Managerial Madness: Why Higher Education Has Lost Its Way
Editor’s Note: On May 20th, Debra Leigh Scott and Chris LaBree left Philadelphia for Pittsburgh, their first stop on their Homeless Adjunct Road Trip. They will be talking with contingent faculty in PA, OH, IN, […]
Just What is “Breitbarting”?
Well, for one thing, it is not journalism. When I wrote “The Pride and Reward of Falsification: Post-Objectivity as Post-Responsibility” for the recent book News with a View (edited by Burton St. John and Kirsten Johnson) centering […]
Union Basics the Media Often Gets Wrong—and Ways Right-Wing Messaging Sneaks into Labor Coverage
by Laura Clawson – Labor Editor, Daily Kos Editor’s Note: As readers of Raging Chicken know, I was in Providence, RI this past weekend for Netroots Nation 2012. The last session that I attended before we had […]
Hands Across Riverdale: A Man, His Family, Some Paint, and “Barricades” Hardly Captures the Magic
There are a hundred unique and compelling stories that make up the transformative magic that is Riverdale. Here’s just one: A young man who lived in the park with his wife and children, who works […]
Hands Across Riverdale: Barricades–The Forward-Facing Body of the Occupation
In some sense, the entire story of Occupy Riverdale–now on day eight if you count the vigil–can be captured via an understanding of the barricades erected to prevent Aqua America/PVR construction crews from moving in […]
RCPress at Netroots Nation 2012
Well, after a longer than long drive, we made it to Providence, RI for Netroots Nation 2012. Sean Kitchen and I will be soaking up as much tactical knowledge as possible and will pass on […]
Hands Across Riverdale: Occupy Well Street Responds to Fracking Refugees
Today begins my blog about the extraordinary events at Riverdale Mobile Home Community. We are at day 5 (though really day 6 if we are counting the vigil–and I would–on May 29th). I am, I […]