Earlier this week, Governor Corbett once again laid down the gauntlet for next year’s budget stating that raising revenue is off the table, which means more privatization schemes and more gutting of public education. But […]
RESPECT - Black Friday Action at Allentown Walmart (interviews)
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On November 23, 2012 – BLACK FRIDAY – Walmart workers and supporters around the country took to the streets – or, more accurately, parking lots – at Walmart stores as part of a nationwide campaign […]
Imitating Sgt. Schultz of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Walmart executives claimed they knew nothing—NOTHING—about working conditions in a garment factory in Bangladesh where 112 workers died and more than 150 were injured in a fire. Tazreen Fashions […]
Editors Note: This is the third piece in Wendy’s “The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing” Series. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found on the […]
Editor’s Note: It seems fitting that something as completely fabricated as the “Fiscal Cliff” should have its own theme song. The Republicans draw a line in the sand based upon fictive principles and the Democrats […]
Lee Camp is a stand-up comic. …Sometimes people make him write things too. He’s a contributor to The Onion and has performed stand-up comedy at events featuring Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. […]
On October 25, Governor Tom Corbett signed into law Senate Bill 941 (sponsored by Jake Corman), which increased the maximum fines for public drunkenness and underage drinking from $500 to $1000. Demonstrating the hard-nosed commitment […]
About 800,000 Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of union rights and activism, neither of the two largest university systems has a labor representative on its governing board. […]
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a Raging Chicken Press mini-series on the Temple injunction of 1990 and the current APSCUF contract negotiations. To see an overview of what this series is about, […]