Pennsylvania

Struggle on to ban fracking in Michigan

Hundreds of grassroots activists across Michigan are working to make this state the second, after Vermont, to ban horizontal hydraulic…

June 28, 2013

Doomsday for education in Philadelphia

The School Reform Commission of the School District of Philadelphia voted May 30 to pass its “Doomsday” budget. This budget…

June 6, 2013

Book launch for ‘Maroon the Implacable’

For over 30 years, former Black Panther member and Philadelphia community activist, Russell Maroon Shoatz, has been held under torturous…

April 11, 2013

Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz transferred

Taken from a March 20 audio column from prisonradio.org. To read more on the case of political prisoner, Russell Shoatz,…

April 5, 2013

On his birthday, April 24: All out to Free Mumia!

With a rally and a community organizing meeting planned for the anniversary of his 59th birthday, supporters of political prisoner Mumia…

April 1, 2013

Penn students protest privatization

Philadelphia — Just the threat of students protesting was enough to send the Boston Consulting Group running. BCG, a major cheerleader…

March 28, 2013

Fracking records unsealed in Pennsylvania

Philadelphia  — Since 2005, a provision of the federal Energy Policy Act popularly labeled the “Halliburton Loophole,” allowed the giant corporations…

March 26, 2013

Philadelphia’s ‘1% mayor’ shouted down during budget speech

Philadelphia — Hundreds of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 and District Council 47 workers, electricians, school crossing guards,…

March 19, 2013

‘Promised Land’ hits nerve with drillers

Fracking has gone Hollywood. In January the movie “Promised Land,” directed by Gus Van Sant and written by and starring…

February 7, 2013

Conference strategizes to ‘Free Mumia’

Philadelphia — United around the goal “Mumia, Free in 4!” — meaning his release in four years — dedicated activists…

January 31, 2013