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Labor’s Day in Troubled Times
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 […]
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The Case of the Missing Youth: A View of Young American Inaction from the Inside
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 […]
More Fracking Letters
On 8.20.11, a group of excellent young people orchestrated an event in Bloomsburg Town Park to highlight the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, FRACKING, for the environment, health, and community. Throughout a day of music, education, […]
Call for Submissions: “Back to School” issues for Sept. and Oct.
Raging Chicken Press is now accepting submission for the September and October issues. We are dubbing these two issues the “Back to School” issues for a couple of reasons. First, this will be the first academic […]
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History Demands Nonviolent Resistance from Us
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 […]
Those Fracking Letters to the Editor
June 15, 2011 To the editor, The Press Enterprise headline, ‘Fracking comes to area” hardly captures what’s coming to Columbia County now that Williams Production Appalachia (WPA) has struck gas “gold.” Let’s not speculate about the […]
One Big Company Town: Frack the Future
The Red Rock Corner Store sits at the intersection of PA Route 118, PA Route 487, Mossville Road, and Old Tioga Pike. There used to be a pizza place across the street on 118 and […]
Kutztown University, Shock Doctrine, and Snake Oil Tales
I arrived at Kutztown University in the fall of 2002. With the exception of one year, the university has been plagued with persistent budget crises – or at least talk of them – last year […]