The Streets Aren’t Safe The streets aren’t safe. My best friend was harassed while waiting at a bus stop today, and I am livid. I’m angry that I wasn’t there to protect her, and angry at the senselessness and stupidity and gall of the person who accosted her, and I’m fucking furious that not a single…
EPA Changes Course: Fracking Can Contaminate Water Supply
EPA Changes Course: Fracking Can Contaminate Water Supply The Environmental Protection Agency walked back its controversial claim that fracking had caused no “widespread systemic” water contamination in the final version of its long-awaited study released today. The claim that appeared in the June 2015 draft assessment made the headlines across the globe, delighting the oil &…
Philly Newspaper Normalizes White Supremacy with Support for Phillies’ “Pistachio Girl”
Philly Newspaper Normalizes White Supremacy with Support for Phillies’ “Pistachio Girl” Last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board published an opinion piece on outed white nationalist and white supremacist Emily Youcis, better known as the “Pistachio Girl” from Citizens Bank Ballpark. The opinion piece titled “Firing ‘Pistachio Girl’ for comments understandable, but hard to swallow” does exactly…
Going Down A Dangerous Path
Going Down A Dangerous Path At the ceremony honoring retiring senator Harry Reid, former senator and candidate for President of the United States, Hillary Clinton, took time during her remarks to talk about the proliferation of fake news and it’s real world consequences. The former candidate brought up what is now known as Pizzagate, a fake news…
What Diane Ravitch Means To Me
What Diane Ravitch Means To Me Am I crazy? That’s what many of us had been wondering before we read Diane Ravitch. As teachers, parents and students, we noticed there was something terribly wrong with our national education policy. The Emperor has no clothes, but no one dared speak up. Until Diane Ravitch. We were told…
Resources for a Progressive Future
Resources for a Progressive Future For some of us the Election of 2016 still stings. For others it’s galvanized a fight in us that we might not have seen before. With this in mind, I want to provide a collection of resources to help us fight for a progressive future. A future that we’re going to…
Sanctuary Campuses Come Under Fire in Pennsylvania
Sanctuary Campuses Come Under Fire in Pennsylvania College students across the country have launched local campaigns to make their campuses safe places for undocumented students since the election of Donald Trump. “Sanctuary campuses” promise to protect undocumented students from federal authorities and aide them in finishing their studies. The spreading movement has caught the reactionary eye…
Justifying My 64 hour Work Week
Justifying My 64 hour Work Week Every semester I along with all my colleagues have to fill out a “Faculty Workload Analysis.” The analysis is part of the “Snyder Report” – much catchier than the official title, the “Instructional Output and Faculty Salary Costs of the State-Related and State-Owned Universities.” According to the Joint State Government…
The Reason Why I Joined The Democratic Socialists of America
The Reason Why I Joined The Democratic Socialists of America Ever since the election, I’ve been wondering… wondering about my political and social identity. For my whole life I’ve been a democrat… a proud democrat… until this election, when I saw for the first time the corruption that is in ALL politics. With the election of…
Put a Little Red in Your Black Friday
Put a Little Red in Your Black Friday This Black Friday Support Activist Media! By now all of our mailboxes and inboxes are filled with sale flyers and “big savings” announcements as the official launch of the holiday shopping frenzy begins. We hope that you’re going to support as many local businesses as possible this year…
Juicy Pumpkin Juice 