APSCUF Sets Date for Strike Vote; PA State System Intent on Gutting Faculty Earlier today I was on the Rick Smith Show talking about the news that APSCUF – the union that represents faculty and coaches at Pennsylvania’s 14 university State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) – took an additional step towards its first-ever strike. This past…
Why the APSCUF Contract’s Treatment of Adjunct Faculty Matters to Tenure-Line Faculty
Why the APSCUF Contract’s Treatment of Adjunct Faculty Matters to Tenure-Line Faculty Note: I teach in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education [PASSHE] and am a member of our 14-school union, APSCUF. Professors statewide have been working with a contract for a year. This post is addressed to my fellow tenure-track / tenured colleagues in…
#PABudget: Hands Off Our Parks
#PABudget: Hands Off Our Parks Pennsylvania’s state parks belongs to us, the people. They do not belong to State Representative Brian Ellis or the Republicans and Democrats who seek to privatize them as a way to generate revenue. They do not belong to Arnold Palmer or developers who would like to build golf courses, water attractions…
Pennsylvanians Against Fracking Decry So-Called Clean Power Plan
Pennsylvanians Against Fracking Decry So-Called Clean Power Plan Media Release: Pennsylvanians Against Fracking Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvanians Against Fracking today released the second in a series of statements on the Clean Power Plan. In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency made revisions to the Clean Air Act to set standards for power plants, redefining the standards for…
Donald Trump v. The First Amendment
Donald Trump v. The First Amendment If Donald Trump should become president, don’t expect his administration to be a transparent one or one that tolerates dissent and believes in the First Amendment. At his campaign rallies, even those held at public venues, he forbids, according to his press advisories, “homemade signs, banners, professional cameras with a…
PennLive Must Apologize for Labeling Environmental Leaders as “Domestic Terror Threat”
PennLive Must Apologize for Labeling Environmental Leaders as “Domestic Terror Threat” It is fitting that I came across this photo linking to a Pennlive article on my Facebook feed as I was driving from Yellowstone National Park to Denver, Colorado, a ride that included beautiful scenery and a landscape that was littered with coal trains, oil…
PA Residents Intensify Campaign Against Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
PA Residents Intensify Campaign Against Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Residents of Lancaster County, Pa., are ratcheting up their efforts to prevent Williams Partners LP from building a 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline through their community. Approximately 150 people walked more than three miles on June 12 to protest the company’s proposed Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline project. The…
Factory Farm Runoff Contaminating Your Well Water? Not EPA’s Problem
Factory Farm Runoff Contaminating Your Well Water? Not EPA’s Problem Amity Township resident Mark Deal took the stand on May 26th to protest the factory farm being proposed 2500 feet away from his house. Deal, a retired engineer and adjoining property owner, fears the facility — which will produce 700 tons of manure per year —…
#PABudget: Senate’s Payroll Debit Card Bill Keeps the Poverty Cycle Spinning Faster and Faster
#PABudget: Senate’s Payroll Debit Card Bill Keeps the Poverty Cycle Spinning Faster and Faster The Pennsylvania Budget season hath commence and the Senate is gearing up to vote on a bill that keeps the hamster wheel that is poverty spinning and spinning. Senate Bill 1265 was introduced on May 13th, voted out of the Senate Banking and…
When Grades Incite Violence: Why I Am More and More Afraid To Be In Education
When Grades Incite Violence: Why I Am More and More Afraid To Be In Education Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Colleen Clemens’s blog, Reflections on Gender and Postcolonial Issues, on June 2. Check out all her great work and tell her that Raging Chicken sent ya! I am shaken this morning. Again. Another shooting…
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