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  • In the video below, you can see thousands of Philadelphia public school students funneling into city hall looks like.  Around 3,000 to 5,000 students walked out of class from at least 15 of the city’s schools. During their march, they had to funnel through a hallway to get into...

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  • Faculty members at East Stroudsburg University learned yesterday that some of them may not have jobs in the near future. ESU administrators dropped the bomb at a meeting between the university administration and representatives of the ESU chapter of the faculty union, APSCUF. In an email to faculty, the...

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  • Editor’s Note: This post is Steve Horn’s latest investigative piece on the Arkansas tar sands oil spill. It originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love - visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about climate science on the...

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  • On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA had ”thwarted an ambitious...

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  • This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned universities, even more than the sample policy suggested by...

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Thousands of Philly Students Hit Streets to Stop School Closings

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May 17, 2013
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In the video below, you can see thousands of Philadelphia public school students funneling into city hall looks like.  Around 3,000 to 5,000 students walked out of class from at least 15 of the city’s schools. During their march, they had to funnel through a hallway to get into City Hall’s atrium.  It was loud and deafening when students were going through the hallway and it was probably one of the most symbolic moments  I’ve witnessed during a demonstration in a really long time.  Enjoy!
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Pennsylvania State Universities Called Out for Quietly Opening Up Campuses to Guns

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May 15, 2013
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In a stellar piece of reporting by Bill Schackner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, students, faculty, and staff of the 14 university Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and the general public now know that Kutztown University is not alone. According to PASSHE spokesperson Ken Marshall, seven PASSHE universities have all “recently amended their policies”: California , Edinboro, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Millersville, Shippensburg, and Slippery Rock. It’s not surprising that we are finding out now. Upon first glance many of the updated policies seem to prohibit guns on university campuses, unless an individual can demonstrate a “compelling reason” that they should be allowed to carry a weapon. However, as Schackner found in his reporting on Edinboro University’s new policy, Only after a point-by-point discussion of those rules did Jeffrey Hileman acknowledge in one-word answers this week that “No,” there is no language barring someone from carrying a gun in...
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Next Page in Pro-Gun Playbook at KU: Death Threats

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May 13, 2013
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This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned universities, even more than the sample policy suggested by the state’s attorneys,” despite statements to the contrary by the university’s president, Javier Cevallos. It didn’t take long before the radical, pro-gun playbook showed its ugly face. Shortly after he first heard about the policy under consideration at an April meeting of Kutztown’s Administrative Council, the president of the faculty union, Dr. Paul Quinn, began receiving anonymous death threats.  Faculty first learned of these threats at a May 9th meeting of the union’s Representative Council and the Morning Call reported on the threats this past Friday. I spoke with Quinn over the weekend about what happened. Quinn, a physics professor, said after...
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Kutztown University Issues Update on Weapons Policy – Corbett Administration Now at Center of Controversy

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May 10, 2013

Just a few minutes ago, Kutztown University president, Javier Cevallos, issued an update following flurry of news reports that were prompted by Raging Chicken Press’s story about KU’s new weapons policy published yesterday morning. Perhaps the most significant revelation was broken early today by the Allentown-based Morning Call who reported that the directive to open KU’s campus to guns came directly from Gov. Tom Corbett’s office. According the the article, Corbett directed all 14 PASSHE campuses to make sure they did not ban weapons from their campuses. Just moments ago, at about 2:40 pm, the Morning Call updated its earlier story after “Corbet Attorneys Put the Brakes on New Campus Gun Policies.” Cevallos’s most recent statement seems to leave room for a return to Kutztown’s old weapons policy which prohibited guns on campus. According to Cevallos’s statement, PASSHE Board of Governor’s chair, Guido Pucchini (whose private security firm runs university police...
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Welcome to Wild West U: Kutztown University Opens Campus to Guns

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May 9, 2013
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Just over a week before Kutztown University will welcome the families and friends of soon-to-be graduates, the university has decided to revise a long-standing policy in order to welcome guns onto its 289 acre campus. While the massacre of students and teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT is still fresh in people’s minds and the families of the victims are still canvassing the nation in support of reasonable gun control policies, KU President Javier Cevallos and his Administrative Council decided that now was the time to make it easier for students, faculty, and staff to carry weapons on campus. Kutztown’s previous policy, which appeared on the university’s web page as recent as April 23, banned the “possession or use of firearms, explosives, other weapons or dangerous chemicals on university premises.” The 83 word policy was replaced by a two page policy on the “Possession of...
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Allyson Schwartz’s connections to Big Gas: What else did you expect?

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May 6, 2013
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While democratic gubernatorial front-runner Allyson Schwartz has had a fairly centrist environmental voting record (despite her support for the Keystone XL Pipeline), the representative has stuck to all the safe talking points when it comes natural gas drilling in the Commonwealth.  The hopeful candidate believes that fracking can be done with a safe, responsible approach.  On her website, she has the Marcellus Shale listed as a priority and states: Marcellus Shale has the potential for billions of dollars in economic development and tens of thousands of jobs. Additionally, the burning of natural gas produces fewer carbon emissions than that of oil or coal, which pollute our air and significantly contribute to global climate change. These are tremendous benefits, but we must strike a balance to ensure extraction of these resources does not contaminate land and water resources for future generations. Fracking was exempted from the Safe Water Drinking Act (SWDA) when...
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Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of Mountaintop Removal

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May 1, 2013
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Editor’s Note: This is a collaborative report by DeSmog’s Steve Horn and Mint Press News staff writer Trisha Marczak. It originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog and Mint Press News. Check out Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and Trisha’s work at Mint Press News. Make sure to visit both DeSmogBlog and Mint Press News and let them know Raging Chicken Press sent ya!   Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the Black Hawk War of 1832, land rife with a resource necessary for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is in the crosshairs of an industry prepared to turn the area into a battle zone once again. The resource? Frac sand – officially known by the industry as fine-grained silica sand — used as a proppant when blasted thousands of feet down the well during the ecologically volatile fracking process as part of the chemical cocktail that serves as the subject of Josh Fox’s new documentary film, “Gasland 2.” The rolling hills of Northeastern Iowa’s Allamakee County...
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A Personal Message to PA State System University Students Graduating Today

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May 18, 2013

In a letter to the editor published in the Reading Eagle on Wednesday, Kutztown student and president-elect of the Student Government Board, Nick Imbesi, made the following appeal: The negative media coverage of Kutztown University must end. The media day in and day out are slandering the school’s name and ignoring the world-changing accomplishments coming out of the institution. As student body president-elect, I see every day the accomplishments coming from my fellow students. I see...
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East Stroudsburg University Administration May Seek to Downsize Faculty and Staff

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May 16, 2013

Faculty members at East Stroudsburg University learned yesterday that some of them may not have jobs in the near future. ESU administrators dropped the bomb at a meeting between the university administration and representatives of the ESU chapter of the faculty union, APSCUF. In an email to faculty, the president of the ESU chapter of APSCUF, Nancy VanArsdale, wrote: Dear ESU-APSCUF Members, APSCUF and the Administration held a Meet and Discuss meeting on Tuesday, May...
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Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s “Sacrifice Zone” for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking

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May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: This post is Steve Horn’s latest investigative piece on the Arkansas tar sands oil spill. It originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love - visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about climate science on the web. There are few better examples of a “sacrifice zone” for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties...
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Secrecy, Drones, Prisons, Kill Lists: Obama’s Legacy

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May 14, 2013

On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA had ”thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the...
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Texas Tommy’s Commonwealth Education Policy: More Guns, Less Funding

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May 10, 2013

Over the past couple of days the Raging Chicken Press has been uncovering Kutztown University’s revisions to its gun policy, and now the Allentown Morning Call has released another bombshell in this growing saga. According to the Morning Call, the changes came from Governor Tom Corbett’s administration, and this directive from the governor’s administration may be hinting at revisions through the whole entire  State System of Higher Education.  The article reads as: The directive...
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Gun Shop

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May 10, 2013

Editor’s Note: After a friend emailed him Raging Chicken Press’s story, “Welcome to Wild West U,” Alan Magee sent us this video to post. He says, “ I made it shortly after the Newtown shootings as a response to NRA efforts to use the tragedy to increase the spread of guns.” And now that we have learned that PA Gov. Tom Corbett directed state universities to open their campuses to guns, we have more organizing to do.

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Gun Shop from Alan Magee on Vimeo.

The “Fight for 15″ Living Wage Movement has Moved to Detroit

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May 10, 2013

Yesterday, the St Louis joined Chicago and New York in the fast food and service workers Fight for 15 movement.  The workers are fighting for a living wage of $15 an hour.  Last month I had the opportunity to interview Micah Uetrich about the Chicago demonstrations.  Here is a storify link showing photos and tweets from today’s actions in Detroit.  
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Kutztown Students and Social Media Reactions to Change in Campus Gun Policy

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May 10, 2013

Yesterday, Kevin Mahoney from the Raging Chicken Press broke a story that grabbed national and local attention about Kutztown University changing its gun policy.  Here is how students and social media reacted to the controversial change.
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Pennsylvania State Universities Called Out for Quietly Opening Up Campuses to Guns

In a stellar piece of reporting by Bill Schackner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, students, faculty, and staff of the 14 university Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and the general public now know that Kutztown University is not alone. According to PASSHE spokesperson Ken Marshall, seven PASSHE universities have all “recently amended their...

Next Page in Pro-Gun Playbook at KU: Death Threats

This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned universities, even more than the sample policy suggested by the state’s attorneys,” despite statements...

Kutztown University Issues Update on Weapons Policy – Corbett Administration Now at Center of Controversy

Just a few minutes ago, Kutztown University president, Javier Cevallos, issued an update following flurry of news reports that were prompted by Raging Chicken Press’s story about KU’s new weapons policy published yesterday morning. Perhaps the most significant revelation was broken early today by the Allentown-based Morning Call who reported that the directive to...

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Rick Smith Files: Why I opted my daughter out of the Pennsylvania standardized test (Video)

Listen to why Rick Smith has opted his daughter out of taking the destructive PSSA’s.

Rick Smith Files | Coordinated Attack by the Rich Continues: The No Rights At Work Edition

Rick Smith breaks down the coming “No Rights at Work” agenda across the nation. It’s headed to PA folks. PA Representative and right-wing extremist Daryl Metcalfe and his travelling side show have unveiled the beautifully titled “Open Workforce Initiative.” Who could be against that, right? Hell, you don’t even need to read the legislation with a name like that, right? Wake up folks, these Republicans and looking to strip away your rights and break the back of organized labor in Pennsylvania. Check out this segment from the Rick Smith Show. Rick breaks down the No Rights as Work agenda better than anyone around.

 

 

Rick Smith Files | Bank Steals Family’s Home, Does Not Do Hard Time (Surprised?)

Steve Bailey, victim of home theft and member of the Home Defenders League tells the story about how he went from being a prosperous business man to having his home stolen. You’ll want to get into the streets after listening to THIS! Get involved at homedefendersleague.org

 

 

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