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At the end of 2012, Raging Chicken Press launched a new membership campaign to help support and expand our work. We’ve grown rapidly since we launched in July 2011 and we continue to look for […]
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The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Women of Fracking – The Courageous, the Extorted, and the Excuseless (Part 2)
Long ago Karl Marx argued that one of the hallmark characteristics of the marketing required to support mass production was the creation of a kind of false consciousness, that is, a sense of needing things […]
Krancer-Gate: Organizations Demand PA-DEP Reveal all Data from Water Tests.
Editors Note: The following letter comes from 25 Pennsylvania grassroots and environmental organizations demanding that the PA Department of Environmental Protection release all water testing results pertaining to natural gas drilling. The letter is […]
Confessions: I Voted Third Party in a Swing State
I am a Pennsylvania voter and I voted 3rd-party in a swing state. I’ll have you know that I didn’t make this decision lightly. I waffled. I contemplated, vacillated, oscillated, fluctuated. I weighed my options. […]
IT’S ELECTION DAY!!! – VOTE!!!
IT’S ELECTION DAY! VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!! PA LAW: You ARE NOT required to produce a photo ID. You may be asked for one, but you ARE NOT REQUIRED to produce one. See Philly Inquirer http://goo.gl/YQG4L. If […]
Bring on the Hurricane. It Can’t Be Worse Than the Frack-Storm That’s Already Laying Us to Siege
On October 10th of 2011, in response to the tremendous destruction of Hurricane Lee for my town, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding townships, I wrote a short piece titled ” Fracking, Floods, and Fools” (Fracking, […]
BREAKING NEWS: AP, Media Fumble News Story
On the Sunday before the final presidential debate, Mitt Romney and some of his senior staffers played a flag football game with members of the Press Corps on Delray Beach, Fla. Ashley Parker of the […]
Fracking in Pennsylvania: Shock Doctrine to Systematically Dismantle Higher Education
For an example of institutional hypocrisy, I would highly recommend you to send an email to PASSHE Chancellor John Cavanaugh. Seriously, send an email to jcavanaugh@passhe.edu, and ask him why he openly thanked Governor Tom […]
And the Winner Is…
Want to know who is going to win this year’s presidential election? I can tell you. In fact, I am so confident that I am correct, I would stake everything I own on this prediction. […]