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05/24/2016

Today on the Sit Down, we’ll be talking with Dr. Amy Lynch-Biniek. Amy is a faculty member in the English Department at Kutztown University.  Amy writing pedagogy, literacy studies, and labor studies. Her forthcoming book, Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor & Action in English Composit...

05/24/2016

It’s another Tuesday in this presidential election season. For the first time in a long time we don’t have a primary or caucus! But just because there are no primaries, doesn’t mean that there is no news. We’ll get into the big news of Bernie Sanders getting the opportunity to appoint a Dream Team t...

05/18/2016

Welcome to the first edition of The Sit Down - new project of Raging Chicken Radio! In addition to our regular weekly podcast, "Out d'Coup," Raging Chicken Press editor, Kevin Mahoney, will talk with activists, public intellectuals, and hell-raisers of all sorts.  For our first episode, we sit down…

05/17/2016

A HUUUUUUGE day for Raging Chicken Radio. Today we officially roll out our expanded podcast! After our regular Out d'Coup podcast, keep on listening for our interview with Steve Horn, Research Fellow for DeSmogBlog and freelance journalist, about the on-going probe into ExxonMobil's role in the clim...

05/10/2016

On today's episode we do a little Election Reflection now that Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee for president...what are Trump's prospects in the General? Are the Democrats up to the task to defeat him? Meanwhile, the Democratic primary is still going strong. Today is Primary day in West…

05/03/2016

It's May 3, 2016. On today's episode of Out d'Coup podcast, we talk to Sean Kitchen about his upcoming article on Katie McGinty's ties to the natural gas industry as she prepares to take on Pat Toomey for a PA Senate seat this fall. We talk about the sway of money in politics and the need for the De…

01/07/2016

Last month, when the Pennsylvania House Republicans sunk the pension reform bill – a part of the budget package that Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans, House Democrats and Democratic Gover…

10/18/2014

ICYMI: Raging Chicken Press recap of this week in the struggle to save Philly Public Schools More to come: Stay tuned, get involved, fight back!

03/13/2013

Just sayin'

"An example I came up with: A guy stabs another guy and then the victim is in the hospital. The guy who stabs him comes to the victim's bedside with the victim's family, just to tell him everything...

03/01/2013

Version of my latest article on PASSHE Chancellor's departure on AAUP's Academe blog.

Ever since the attacks on public sector unions, working families, and public education in Wisconsin that began just over two years ago, my own writing has changed. It's become less...well, "academi...

02/03/2013

APSCUF reports a framework agreement has been reached with PASSHE.

APSCUF, the union that represents over 6,000 faculty and coaches in the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), announced earlier today that their ne...