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These are “Lead” articles, i.e. articles we want to feature in each issue of Raging Chicken Press.

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...
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Pennsylvania State Universities Called Out for Quietly Opening Up Campuses to Guns

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

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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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RCPress Interview: History of May Day and the Return of the Second Gilded Age

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May 1, 2013
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Hello Raging Chicken Press readers and members! And Happy Holiday!  I would like to introduce Erik Loomis to our 8th episode of the Raging Chicken Press interview series, where activism meets the netroots.  Erik is a labor historian at the University of Rhode Island and a writer for Lawyers, Guns and Money.  Erik took...
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Happy Earth Day Pennsylvania: You Are Fracked

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April 22, 2013
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is a special Earth Day edition of my weekly social issues column, Wanderings. The information is from my latest book, Fracking Pennsylvania, an overall look at the nature and consequences of high-pressure horizontal hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking.  Even if you are not a Pennsylvanian or living in the recent boom in the...
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Lives on the Line | Faculty Unionism and the Threat to American Public Higher Education – Part III

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April 18, 2013
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Editor’s Note: Marty Morand’s, “Faculty Unionism and the Threat to American Public Higher Education,” inaugurates Raging Chicken Press’s new newest series, Lives on the Line. Morand’s article was a talk given at Baruch College in 1976. At the time, Morand was the Executive Director of APSCUF – yes, the very same union that currently represents...
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