#PhlEd: Dissolving Teachers Contract Wasn’t Difficult; It Was a Public Relations Offensive
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September 2014
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 […]
Working Class Solidarity is the Key to Health Care Becoming a Human Right
Just before the start of the 2014 NFL season, Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Devon Still was cut from the team’s main roster. In the offseason, Still’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer causing him to miss off-season […]
#BurnItDown | Ripping Back the Veil of Exploitation in Higher Ed
The dirty secret of higher education in the United States is that the entire system depends upon the systematic exploitation of the majority – the super majority – of those who teach in its classrooms. […]
#PutPeople1st: Live Tweeting from Put People First’s 2nd Annual Convention Today
Over the next two days, Put People First PA will be holding it’s second annual statewide convention in Philadelphia. Raging Chicken Press’s Sean Kitchen will be at the meeting along with about 100 members of […]
Reorganizing Vermont: Keeping Universal Health Care “Universal”
Authors Note: Over the past summer, I became a member of Put People First! Pennsylvania, an organization that is dedicated to organizing working class citizens across the Commonwealth. The organization is currently focused on a “Healthcare […]
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: Progressive Third Party Politics in West Virginia
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the wonderful world of Virally Supressed: Muckraking for the Modern World out of Cincinnati, OH. Our awesome assistant editor, Sean Kitchen, stumbled upon this awesome blog run by Drew Gibson. We […]
Kathryn Knott is Our Child
Kathryn Knott is the 24-year-old young woman who, along with companions Philip Williams, 24, and Kevin Harrigan, 26, has been charged with the brutal beating of two young gay men in Philadelphia on September 11, 2014. The three were part […]