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We are living during an incredible moment in history. Finally, after years of taking it on the chin, sucking it up, and keeping heads down a movement is emerging, giving oxygen to the deep embers […]
Raging Chicken Press just donated $40 to help get this project off the ground. Here’s a description of the project: About the Project Occupy Wall Street is the beginning of a whole new kind of […]
Readers of the Raging Chicken know that today marks the beginning of an unprecedented mass occupation of Wall Street. In the September issue, Dustin Slaughter posed the question, “Will Occupying Wall Street be America’s Tahir […]
By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed levels of production. Those who today attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers […]
A year or so ago, the notion that Americans would descend on lower Manhattan to set up peaceful barricades, outdoor kitchens and attempt to camp out for a couple of months would seem unlikely, if […]
I am 23 years old and I have never learned Algebra. When my Algebra-I teacher, who spoke very little English, called me and a few other students “stupid,” the meeting between my parents and the […]
“The Sweetest Place on Earth” is looking a little more like a sequel to Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory these days after hundreds of international students walked off their jobs and conducted a […]
Editor’s Note: Raging Chicken Press will cover on the ground activist work as a way of documenting and demonstrating growing resistance to corporate takeover of our democracies. The national and even regional news is not […]
We are living in extraordinary times. The gulf between rich and poor has widened to its greatest since the Gilded Age: executive salaries have skyrocketed 23% in just over a year, while wages (when adjusted […]
Today, August 2, 2011, is not a great day for those of us who spend many of our waking hours fighting against various aspects of neo-liberal hegemony. As of today, both houses of Congress passed […]