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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
4.24.13 Dear Sandra, I hope my letter finds you, and finds you well. I have followed and, where I could, photographed and documented the defense of Lake Seneca against those whom I have called the industrializing profiteers of the extreme…
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…
