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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!

03/18/2014

Latest on PASSHE Secession legislation from an "untenured and concerned" faculty member at West Chester U, "PASSHE Secession Legislation Leads Down Exploitation Road": http://wp.me/p1unwS-2db.

Latest on PASSHE Secession legislation from an "untenured and concerned" faculty member at West Chester U, "PASSHE Secession Legislation Leads Down Exploitation Road": http://wp.me/p1unwS-2db.

"With the rise of adjunct or contingent faculty in the contemporary era it is clear that the university is once again living off of the backs of professors (and students). Our APSCUF contract protects us from this tendency. The business model for higher education, to be sure, has in no way retreated, but has steadily grown and developed with capitalism more generally. According to Cohen and Kisker, in the years leading up to WWII, for example, 'the trustees became corporate directors responsible for institutional maintenance; and the administrators became business managers' leading to 'governing boards' shifting 'as businessmen were appointed in greater numbers'."

03/11/2014

PA Senators Tomlinson (R) and Dinniman (D) launch bipartisan effort to begin dismantling the PA State System of Higher Education. Social media campaign will push secession legislation. http://wp.me/p1unwS-2bW

03/11/2014

Senators Tomlinson (R) and Dinniman (D) prepare to unveil PASSHE secession legislation at their press conference right now. Watch the live stream here: http://av.pasenategop.com/streams/Videofeeds.html?feed=cmc|title=News%20Conference|desc=Senators%20to%20Announce%20Legislation%20to%20Give%20PASSHE%20Universities%20More%20Options

11/18/2013

Grad student, Grace Kavanah, takes on ESU president Marcia Welsh's claims that retrenchment is necessary http://wp.me/p1unwS-223

Grad student, Grace Kavanah, takes on ESU president Marcia Welsh's claims that retrenchment is necessary http://wp.me/p1unwS-223

"For some reason, she [Welsh] neglects to mention the program cuts; perhaps, those are more concerning signs of a serious problem. And she neglects to mention the number of programs that were initially considered for cutting - all of those, including ENGLISH!, were potentially on the chopping block under the "student demand" value metric. Or, let us be explicit about this, what is essentially the retailing of study options - English, History, French - all competing for shelf space at Marcia Welsh’s Walmart University."