Arsenic-Laced Coffee Good for You
You’re sitting in your favorite restaurant one balmy September morning. Your waitress brings a pot of coffee and a standard 5-ounce cup. “Would you like cream and sugar with it?” she asks. You drink your […]
Wendy Lee
Corbett Deepens PA’s Dependence on Fracking in the Name of Environmental Protection
You may have caught the announcement that Gov. Tom Corbett was on hand to open Philadelphia’s first public compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station recently. VNG – a Bala Cynwyd-based start-up devoted to “building the […]
Faculty Union, APSCUF, Passes Resolution Against Fracking on PA State System Universities [video]
From September 19-21, 2013, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) held is fall Legislative Assembly in Harrisburg, PA. Part of the Assembly’s business was to consider a resolution against fracking […]
Raging Chicken Press Turns Two! Happy Birthday!
Dear Raging Chicken Press readers and supporters, Two years ago today Raging Chicken Press’s first issue hit the Internet. Back then we were publishing one online issue a month. That first issue featured: “An Open […]
A Thank You from Wendy Lee
Editor’s note: The amazing Wendy Lee. Wendy has been with Raging Chicken Press right from the start. Any reader of “the Chicken” knows of Wendy’s fearless and unyielding work to stop the fracking industry. I […]
PA Rep Garth Everett Bought and Sold by Natty Gas Threatens to Kick Fracktivist out of the Town Hall Meeting (Video)
Last week, State Representative Garth Everett held a public town hall meeting in the 84th district, which is located in and around Williamsport, Pa. Since Representative Everett is aiding and abetting the industrialization of rural […]
Can a Small Community Throw a Monkey Wrench into the Global Fracking Machine?
Editor’s Note: Normally, I would list this post in our series on fracking, “Frack That!” However, I wanted to put this on the front page for a couple of reasons. First, I want to thank […]
Dear Governor Corbett: Pennsylvania State System Universities are Not Training Depots and Employment Offices for the Extraction Industry. Settle the APSCUF contract NOW.
I’m as deeply committed a union member/activist as they come. Standing shoulder to shoulder with something like 500 of my fellow APSCUF (Associated Pennsylvania College and University Faculty) members in the frigid cold for several […]
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 […]
The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Part 3)
Editors Note: This is the third piece in Wendy’s “The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing” Series. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found on the […]