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The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Women of Fracking – The Courageous, the Extorted, and the Excuseless (Part 2)
by Wendy Lee •
Long ago Karl Marx argued that one of the hallmark characteristics of the marketing required to support mass production was the creation of a kind of false consciousness, that is, a sense of needing things we once merely wanted (or…
Krancer-Gate: Organizations Demand PA-DEP Reveal all Data from Water Tests.
by Sean Kitchen •
Editors Note: The following letter comes from 25 Pennsylvania grassroots and environmental organizations demanding that the PA Department of Environmental Protection release all water testing results pertaining to natural gas drilling. The letter is a result from from the…
Confessions: I Voted Third Party in a Swing State
by Alyssa Röhricht •
I am a Pennsylvania voter and I voted 3rd-party in a swing state. I’ll have you know that I didn’t make this decision lightly. I waffled. I contemplated, vacillated, oscillated, fluctuated. I weighed my options. I imagined a cage fight…
Bring on the Hurricane. It Can’t Be Worse Than the Frack-Storm That’s Already Laying Us to Siege
by Wendy Lee •
On October 10th of 2011, in response to the tremendous destruction of Hurricane Lee for my town, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding townships, I wrote a short piece titled ” Fracking, Floods, and Fools” (Fracking, Floods, and Fools | Raging…
Keystone XL Fundraising Drive: Help Send One of Our Own to the Blockade
by Sean Kitchen •
Dear Raging Chicken Press Readers: Over the past couple of weeks, I have been throwing around the notion that I would like to spend a month this summer covering the Keystone XL blockade actions in the Central United States and…
Fracking in Pennsylvania: Shock Doctrine to Systematically Dismantle Higher Education
by Sean Kitchen •
For an example of institutional hypocrisy, I would highly recommend you to send an email to PASSHE Chancellor John Cavanaugh. Seriously, send an email to jcavanaugh@passhe.edu, and ask him why he openly thanked Governor Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania General…
Occupy My Foreclosure
by Andrea Egizi •
For millions of Americans, owning a home is the grandest symbol of having accomplished the illusion of the “American Dream”. Being a homeowner signifies success, financial stability and responsibility. I too had the indoctrinated belief to become a homeowner and…
Why the Occupy Anniversary on September 17th Matters | Lee Camp MOC #169
by Lee Camp •
__________ Lee Camp is a stand-up comic. …Sometimes people make him write things too. He’s a contributor to The Onion and has performed stand-up comedy at events featuring Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. If you like Lee Camp,…
Riverdale: A Story of Two Very Different Nights, and Two Very Different Kinds of Light
by Wendy Lee •
“Here are two sets of photographs–juxtaposed on two very different nights. The first is the last night of the encampment before the police raid, Tuesday, June 12th. This was a magical evening, permeated by laughter, play, music, work–community–everything that we…
