FRACKING Part 3: Corruption – a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage
The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land…
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FRACKING Part 2: Health, Environmental Impact Greater Than Claimed
(This is Part 2 of 3. Part 1 looked at a state gag order on physicians. Part 3 examines why Pennsylvania is giving special consideration to the natural gas companies….
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FRACKING Part 1: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The…
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Private Corporate Court System
There is a country where Big Business can completely bypass the court system and have cases brought by employees, customers, and individuals heard by a private court system that is…
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Frack-sylvania
What are you waiting for, Frack-sylvania? It’s time to Occupy our Environment and take back our Commonwealth. “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is…
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE
The original impetus for the French Revolution came not from the proletarians or starving unemployed but from the wealthiest one per cent of the nation’s aristocracy who feared losing their…
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Politician
Politicians promising through their lips Issues and answers Giving us all the lip Spreading to the people like cancers Crooked suits on the hill Homeless in the street Doctors and…
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Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Bruno Schultz was a Jewish writer in Germany during World War II, quite possibly the most dangerous time and place for a writer to live in through the 20th century,…
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End Mass Incarceration
At Green Night Out on March 10, History Professor Heather Thompson of Temple University discussed “Why Mass Incarceration Matters.” Thompson explained to the gathered diners that “there are now more…
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Pennsylvania’s Grim Fracking Future
Pennsylvania’s Grim Fracking Future: Senator Daylin Leach Explains His Concerns about Act 13 First and foremost, I would like to thank State Senator Daylin Leach of the 17th Senate District,…
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