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Hello Readers and Members, Welcome to our 9th episode of our Raging Chicken Press interview series, and we had the opportunity to interview State Senator Daylin Leach. In the first half of the interview, we were talking about Pennsylvania politics and the chance of seeing Right to Work legislation in the next couple of...
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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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Hello Raging Chicken Press readers and members! Welcome to the third edition of our Raging Chicken Press interview series. Today, we are talking to DeSmog Blog blogger Steve Horn, who has been covering the Exxon Mobil tar sands. Even though Steve isn’t on site, he has been working hard at compiling information through social...
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Governor Corbett’s decision to “cliff fund” the State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) for a second straight year, again failing to restore the $90 million cut in the 2011/2012 budget, goes against the Commonwealth’s moral duty to support public higher education. The act that chartered the creation of the State System – Act 188...
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Editor’s note: This article is cross-posted from the PA Students Voice website. There is an old idiom that: “once is an accident, twice is a trend.” And with regards to the cliff funding – the proposed “flat funding” of public higher education for a second consecutive year – of higher education, that idiom is...
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Representative Madeleine Dean scolds Governor Tom Corbett’s budget and attacks the governor’s plans for shot’s for tots, the lack of a medicare expansion plan and the LACK of a real Marcellus Shale Tax. Watch the video here.
Today, the National Guestworker Alliance released this video, “McDonald’s Must Pay!” The video further exposes stories of abuse and exploitation of international student in the U.S. on a J-1 visa. They came here for cultural exchange. What they got was a crash course in low-wage work and abusive labor conditions.
Don’t just stand by. Stand up for these students and all low-wage workers: SIGN THE PETITION
Tweet this video and other Raging Chicken Press stories on the abuse of J-1 students with #McDonaldsMustPay
Video by Barni Qaasim of IftiinProductions.com; Music by Ras K’dee of AudioPharmacy.com
Here are two videos from yesterday’s McDonalds J-1 strike.
One would think that someone working more than 8 hours a day would be compensated fairly 127 years after the Haymarket Affair and one would think that packing workers into slums, dormitories or basements would have been settled 106 years after Upton Sinclair released The Jungle, but for many living in this country these...
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Editors note: This is our latest installment of Jay Wilcox’s “From the Frontlines” video series. Jay has been travelling all around the Shale Country to expose how fracking destroys communities. In the latest episode, he follows around Vera Scroggins and Craig Stevens. In this video Vera tries to go to a meeting but is denied access by former DEP Spokewoman turned Natural Gas Spinmaster Helen Humphrey’s. Helen worked under former DEP Secretary John Hanger. Vera and Craig were unable to get into the meeting and find out why.
For more “From the Frontlines” videos please click here:
From the Front Lines: Cuomo, Fracking, Corruption and Lies
From the Frontlines: Meet the Mannings, Another Family Fracked in Shale Country
From the Frontlines: Need Separation Between Frack and State
From the Front Lines: Wyalusing Frack Sand
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