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Dear Governor Corbett: Pennsylvania State System Universities are Not Training Depots and Employment Offices for the Extraction Industry. Settle the APSCUF contract NOW.

January 27, 2013

I’m as deeply committed a union member/activist as they come. Standing shoulder to shoulder with something like 500 of my fellow APSCUF (Associated Pennsylvania College and University Faculty) members in the frigid cold for several hours in peaceful (though loud—at least me) protest of a contract proposal offered by the State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) whose transparent aims are the conversion of the 14 PASSHE universities into training depots, public relations centers, and employment offices for corporate America may be Governor Corbett’s dream, but it’s not mine. It’s also not any of my colleague’s dreams to convert from substance to mere shadow the quality of the educational opportunity they’re now able to offer their students. No such quality can be maintained under the working conditions the governor thinks good […]

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YouTube: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine)

November 14, 2012

Enclosed is a Susquehanna University presentation of parts I-II of a longer research paper I will be posting in segments here and on Raging Chicken Press over the next two weeks. The title is: The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine). The first section of the paper profiles the links between fracking, benzene exposure, and breast cancer with particular focus on the egregious failures of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to protect the public health-including women’s health. With recent revelations concerning the failures of DEP reporting, the manipulation of water testing results, and new policies that transfer responsibilities from DEP water-testing agents to higher level administrative appointments, Michael Krancer and Scott Perry, […]

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