This gallery contains 1 photo.
How to Take a Payday Loan Payday loans How do you apply
Posts Tagged ‘ fracking ’
The Police Raid on Riverdale: How Kevin June Didn’t Mean to Break My Heart
In a recent Williamsport Sun-Gazette piece, Kevin June, one of the leading voices at Riverdale among the residents, is quoted as saying that “the cops were more than kind to us from day one,” and that the gas industry “supports a lot of families who make a good living here.” What the second claim...
Read More »
The Police Raid at Riverdale: The Decision to Stand Down
It is genuinely difficult for me to capture the surreal almost slow-motion atmosphere of the police raid of Riverdale. Someone suggested to me that because there was no use of force, this wasn’t really a raid. But there was a palpable threat of force, and I think that given that threat there is nothing...
Read More »
The Police Raid on Riverdale: To Defend a Drop of Water is to Defend Life, Home, and Dignity
To tell the story—or at least one story—of the raid and forced evacuation of the Riverdale Mobile Home community’s guest activists…to be able to explain what that raid was about, I need to begin with a story about washing dishes. I need to make real the life of this vibrant, optimistic, experiment in a...
Read More »
The Raiding of Riverdale: The Resistance Has Only Just Begun 2 (Photos)
This gallery contains 2 photos.
The Snipers of Jersey Shore
Garder54 calls Kevin June “a real scum.” LadyDawg4 calls him a “sleazeball.” Proud2bMom calls him a “liar and a thief.” Kevin June is the reluctant leader for the 37 families of the Riverdale Mobile Home Village in Jersey Shore, Pa., who were evicted from their homes, most of which they owned and paid a...
Read More »
Hands Across Riverdale: A Man, His Family, Some Paint, and “Barricades” Hardly Captures the Magic
There are a hundred unique and compelling stories that make up the transformative magic that is Riverdale. Here’s just one: A young man who lived in the park with his wife and children, who works for a fracking-related company, and who has become one of the most industrious, imaginative, and just plain helpful members...
Read More »
Hands Across Riverdale: Barricades–The Forward-Facing Body of the Occupation
In some sense, the entire story of Occupy Riverdale–now on day eight if you count the vigil–can be captured via an understanding of the barricades erected to prevent Aqua America/PVR construction crews from moving in to build the water withdrawal station rubber-stamped by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Susquehanna River...
Read More »
Hands Across Riverdale: Occupy Well Street Responds to Fracking Refugees
Today begins my blog about the extraordinary events at Riverdale Mobile Home Community. We are at day 5 (though really day 6 if we are counting the vigil–and I would–on May 29th). I am, I have to say, just bursting with things to say about this experience. So this blog is both personal and...
Read More »
– It’s a New Member Give-Away — Lee Fang’s “The Machine”
Behind the Kitchen Door – Available NOW!
Smashing Apples
Powered By AK: Featured Post
Raging Chicken Press by Raging Chicken Press is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Magazine Premium created by Themes by bavotasan.com.
Powered by WordPress.
