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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 […]
Social Movements Start Like This: US Uncut Philadelphia Bails-In Bank of America
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 […]
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 […]
An Open Letter to Governor Corbett
4.2.11 Governor Tom Corbett: After having carefully read and digested your proposal for the Pennsylvania budget of 2011, after having considered the relevant facts concerning the Commonwealth’s fiscal health, the relationship of the state to […]
No More Teachers?
At the start of “Good-bye, Teacher… “ Fred Keller quotes one version of that old doggerel: Good-bye scholars, good-bye school; Good-bye teacher, darned old fool! I learned it as: Good-bye pencils, good-bye books; Good-bye teachers’ dirty […]
Mr. Picketman – “Fight On”
Looking forward to the launch of the first full issue of Raging Chicken Press? Here’s a little mood music to keep your political passions burning:
Pics from May 3rd “Rally for a Responsible Budget,” Harrisburg, PA
Of the three major rallies in Harrisburg I’ve attended since Gov. Corbett proposed draconian cuts to the state budget, the “Rally for a Responsible Budget” organized by the CLEAR Coalition was by far the largest. […]