Plans for the New Year – An Editor’s Note
Dear all Raging Chicken readers and supporters, It’s been a while since I’ve written an editor’s note on the latest goings-ons at Raging Chicken Press. To say that least, it’s been busy. As 2012 came […]
Hands Across Riverdale
Riverdale Recap: I want to live in a mobile home park
Remember that mobile home park that was the subject of my last post? The 32 families that were being displaced from their homes (without adequate compensation) to make way for a water-withdrawal facility to service the natural […]
Riverdale: A Story of Two Very Different Nights, and Two Very Different Kinds of Light
“Here are two sets of photographs–juxtaposed on two very different nights. The first is the last night of the encampment before the police raid, Tuesday, June 12th. This was a magical evening, permeated by laughter, […]
Death of Riverdale & No More Rainbows
A small community in north central Pennsylvania is uprooted to make way for the fracking industry, Photographs by Stanley Rogouski, Wendy Lee, and Paul Weaver. __________ Stanley Rogouski | Part time editorial writer. […]
Mother Jones Picks Up Riverdale Story
It was great to see that the story of Riverdale was picked up by a reporter for Mother Jones! Check out Xian Chiang-Waren’s article, “Trailer Park Evicted to Make Room for Fracking.” You’ll recognize several […]
The Demolition of Riverdale: This is Not My America
Today, I drove out to Riverdale to photograph whatever I could. I decided to leave when one of the security guards appeared to be calling the police. I made some folks very uncomfortable. They should […]
Riverdale: Aqua America’s Incarceration of Children (Photos)
This set of photographs chronicles the picnic held June 17th at what is now the corporate-destroyed community of Riverdale, Jersey Shore, PA. The residents and the activists–all of whom acted to resist the seizure of […]
The Police Raid on Riverdale: How Kevin June Didn’t Mean to Break My Heart
In a recent Williamsport Sun-Gazette piece, Kevin June, one of the leading voices at Riverdale among the residents, is quoted as saying that “the cops were more than kind to us from day one,” and […]
The Police Raid at Riverdale: The Decision to Stand Down
It is genuinely difficult for me to capture the surreal almost slow-motion atmosphere of the police raid of Riverdale. Someone suggested to me that because there was no use of force, this wasn’t really a […]