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Posts Tagged ‘ social movement ’

Secrecy, Drones, Prisons, Kill Lists: Obama’s Legacy

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May 14, 2013
Drones Prisons Kills Lists FEATURED

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 AP last year that the CIA had ”thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in...
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Next Page in Pro-Gun Playbook at KU: Death Threats

Death Threat Note Featured

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 universities, even more than the sample policy suggested by the state’s attorneys,” despite statements...
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Gun Shop

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May 10, 2013

Editor’s Note: After a friend emailed him Raging Chicken Press’s story, “Welcome to Wild West U,” Alan Magee sent us this video to post. He says, “ I made it shortly after the Newtown shootings as a response to NRA efforts to use the tragedy to increase the spread of guns.” And now that we have learned that PA Gov. Tom Corbett directed state universities to open their campuses to guns, we have more organizing to do.

 Gun Shop

 

Gun Shop from Alan Magee on Vimeo.

Happy Earth Day Pennsylvania: You Are Fracked

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April 22, 2013
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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 if you are not a Pennsylvanian or living in the recent boom in the...
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I’m not an educator – I just play one while working at the state capital

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April 3, 2013
Opting Out PSSA FEATURED

Editor’s Note: This was originally published yesterday on @ the chalk face. @ the chalk face endeavors to establish an alternative space to discuss education reform from an entirely progressive perspective. Check out their main blog, their weekly radio show on Blog Talk Radio, and make sure to “like” their Facebook page. Raging Chicken Press readers – especially those...
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Millersville Students Return from Spring Break to Organize Against Corbett

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March 25, 2013
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Students at Millersville University return from spring break this week for the last half of the spring 2013 semester and there will be more on their minds than their studies. This Wednesday, March 27, students, faculty, and alumni will meet at 5:00 pm in the Commuter Lounge of the Student Memorial Center (SMC) to...
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Revolution or Sequestration?

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March 16, 2013
Chalk Face Circle

Editor’s Note: This is the first of what I hope to be many cross-posts by Timothy Slekar and other folks @ the chalk face. @ the chalk face endeavors to establish an alternative space to discuss education reform from an entirely progressive perspective. Check out their main blog, their weekly radio show on Blog Talk...
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Millersville U Commencement Speaker Controversy: It’s About Self-Respect

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March 13, 2013

Editor’s note: a version of this article was originally posted on the AAUP’s Academe Blog. Academe Blog is a production of Academe magazine, and focuses on issues in higher education. The blog and Academe are published by the American Association of University Professors, but opinions published in them do not necessarily represent the policies of the AAUP. Check out their...
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Rick Smith Files | Coordinated Attack by the Rich Continues: The No Rights At Work Edition

Rick Smith breaks down the coming “No Rights at Work” agenda across the nation. It’s headed to PA folks. PA Representative and right-wing extremist Daryl Metcalfe and his travelling side show have unveiled the beautifully titled “Open Workforce Initiative.” Who could be against that, right? Hell, you don’t even need to read the legislation with a name like that, right? Wake up folks, these Republicans and looking to strip away your rights and break the back of organized labor in Pennsylvania. Check out this segment from the Rick Smith Show. Rick breaks down the No Rights as Work agenda better than anyone around.

 

 

Wealth Inequality in America – Not Even Close to What You Think

 

When you’re finished watching and have lifted your chin off your desk, check out the Main Street Campaign by Working America. We’re going to need this movement and a whole lot more if we are going to get our nation back on track – at least to the way we THINK things are. United we bargain, divided we beg.

 



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