Franklin, Dimock, Leroy, Lenox, Butler – a few of the Pennsylvania towns where clean and safe water has become an issue in the past year. Families who once thought they would find their American Dream in Pennsylvania are now living…
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the controversial…
When the Friends of Vestal sponsored an anti-fracking art contest in Broome County’s Vestal Central School (Vestal, New York) which included a sketch of a baby laying on its back sucking from a gas can, caption underneath: “How will fracking…
Author’s Note: The Rules for Frackers will be a series that highlights the tactics the Natural Gas Industry uses to gain access to shale plays across the country. The series will focus on the economics, politics, profiteering and media and…
Since about July of 2011, I have been involved both as a writer, a public intellectual, and as an activist in the anti-hydraulic fracturing (fracking) movement in North East Central Pennsylvania. I have written on this issue from a battery…
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it” – Howard Zinn “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead …
I arrived at the McFarland Student Union building with more than hour to spare before Lt. Governor James Crawley would introduce the Corbett administration’s most recent round of crippling budget cuts to the Kutztown community. The building’s perimeter had been…
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I understand that it is not common for you, the reader, to be addressed directly. Nevertheless, I intend to do exactly that. Don’t worry; it’s for a very good reason. I need you to understand how Governor Tom Corbett is…
I wanted to let all you Raging Chickens out there that the March issue of RCPress will be out soon! I had wanted to get the issue out today, but we had several last-minute submissions that I felt needed to…
