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Editor’s Note: from March 27-29, the Rick Smith Show provided exclusive coverage of the 2012 PA AFL-CIO conference, on the ground in Philadelphia. Raging Chicken Press strongly suggests you check out all of the Rick […]
Franklin, Dimock, Leroy, Lenox, Butler – a few of the Pennsylvania towns where clean and safe water has become an issue in the past year. Families who once thought they would find their American Dream […]
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as […]
I feel like I am finally emerging from a prolonged slug-fest with a nasty little virus. About time. I can only hope that cycle of taking turns being sick has finally exited my home and […]
When the Friends of Vestal sponsored an anti-fracking art contest in Broome County’s Vestal Central School (Vestal, New York) which included a sketch of a baby laying on its back sucking from a gas can, […]
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. […]
