45.1K
Downloads
548
Episodes
Activism, politics, and beer from PA-based Raging Chicken Press
Episodes
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
We're back from vacation and so much is going on. The vote on PASSHE consolidation is looming. Haiti's president just got whacked. Teachers are getting fired for teaching diversity. Sir Richard Branson launches into space with civilian passengers. Summer reading. So, much. We're opening up our phones through Riverside.fm (details below). We'd love to hear what's going on on your end of things!
During the live show, I'll announce when we'll be taking calls. If you want to call into the show, you should join the show on Riverside.fm and turn the volume off on YouTube, otherwise you'll get a delay and feedback.
You can join the show, Monday 7/12/21 @ 7pm using this link: https://riverside.fm/studio/out-dcoup-live
Here's info for how it works from Riverside.fm: https://support.riverside.fm/en/articles/4666206-live-call-in
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
The very first interview we ever did at Raging Chicken was with Noam Chomsky. Yup. Chomsky was the featured speaker for World Philosophy Day at Kutztown University in the fall of 2011. Kevin Mahoney reached out to Chomsky to see if there would be a chance that he'd be willing to be interviewed by a brand new left/progressive media site based out of Kutztown at the time. As you can see, he said yes.
The fall of 2011 was dominated by the Occupy movement and growing radicalism about gaping economic inequalities in the U.S. We talked quite a bit about Occupy, organizing, and social movements.
Be warned, the sound is really not good. We had very little idea what we were doing, but in classic punk rock DIY spirit, we did it anyway.
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
On tonight’s show, I welcome Dana Morrison and Eleni Schirmer to the show to talk about that Other debt crisis in American colleges and universities. You’ve probably heard about the crisis in student debt that is crushing a whole generation of graduates from American colleges and universities. However, the crushing debt held by colleges and universities threatens to crush American higher education - especially American public higher education - across the county. As we’ll get into, that debt crisis stems from state legislature walking away from funding state universities on the one hand, and university presidents going on spending sprees to erect shiny luxury dorms, state-of-the-art gyms, and fancy amenities in a full-on, neoliberal approach to attracting students.
Dr. Dana Morrison, is an Assistant Professor at West Chester University’s Department of Educational Foundations & Policy Studies, and an active member of APSCUF (PASSHE faculty union) and the Public Higher Education Workers (PHEW) Network.
Eleni Schirmer is a faculty associate at UW-Madison in Educational Policy Studies, where she researches and teaches about labor movements, social movements and the political economy of education. She is writing a political biography of Wisconsin's largest teachers' union, and its unsteady path towards social justice unionism. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Boston Review and elsewhere.
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, I am thrilled to welcome Erin Wallace to the program. We'll be talking about craft brewing's reckoning in the wake of the flood of stories about misogyny, racism, sexual harassment and assault in the craft brewing industry. The catalyst for the latest round of stories follows an Instagram post by Brienne Allen, a production manager and brewer at Notch Brewing in Salem, MA. Hundreds of women in the industry responded by telling their experiences of sexism and harassment. The attention has led to the resignation managers/owners at several well-known breweries, Tired Hands being perhaps the most noteworthy locally.
Erin Wallace is one of the Philadelphia region’s premier beer experts. The founder and longtime owner of the renowned beer-centric bar and restaurant, Devil’s Den, just south of Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia, Wallace is a fixture on Philadelphia’s ever-growing beer scene. Wallace is a self-taught beer connoisseur and has an extensive knowledge of local and imported craft beers. Former long time board member of Philly Loves Beer and Philly Beer Week, Wallace is also the regional founder & co-leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the Pink Boots Society — a non-profit organization with international membership which supports women working in the brewing profession, especially in creating craft beer.
Erin attended Baltimore School for the Arts, and Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Her love for beer developed from her time as a server and bartender in various bars and restaurants in Philadelphia. She opened the Devil’s Den in 2008. ‘The Den’ is known for its excellent and diverse array of craft beer, curated by Wallace, as well as a dynamic events schedule. She is noted as one of Philadelphia’s top craft beer bar owners. Devil’s Den has won accolades from multiple publications and has appeared in Philadelphia magazine and on Foobooz’s Top 50 Bars list multiple times.
Looking for resources?
- Pink Boots Society: https://www.pinkbootssociety.org/
- Philly Chapter of Pink Boots Society: https://my.pinkbootssociety.org/Chapter_Leader?Code=PA_PHILA
- Philly Pink Boots on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pinkbootsphilly
- Follow Philly Pink Boots on Twitter: @pinkbootsphilly
- Follow Pittsburgh Pink Boots on Twitter: @pinkbootspgh
Visit the Devil's Den in South Philly: https://www.facebook.com/Devilsdenphiladelphia
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
On this episode I welcome Kadida Kenner to the program. Kadida is the Executive Director of The New Pennsylvania Project. The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) was founded in May 2021 to expand Pennsylvania’s electorate so it reflects the Commonwealth’s demographically changing population. The NPP will engage and empower young residents and those living in underrepresented and often neglected communities of color and immigrant communities.
Kadida Kenner is the founding executive director of the New Pennsylvania Project. Kadida was previously a writer, producer, and director for college sports television programming in Charlotte, North Carolina, but energized by the 2016 elections, she decided to take a hiatus from TV production, and return to campaign and organizing work. In 2017 Kadida moved back to Pennsylvania to take on the role of director of campaigns for the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center including the We The People – PA and Why Courts Matter – PA campaigns.
Beginning in May of 2021 Kadida became the executive director of the New Pennsylvania Project, an organization modeled after the successful New Georgia Project and Fair Fight Georgia, both founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. The New Pennsylvania Project civically engages, registers, mobilizes and empowers often-ignored constituents, especially the youth, and communities of color in rural, urban, and suburban Pennsylvania in a year-round effort to change and expand the electorate in the Commonwealth.
Kadida is a tireless advocate for social and economic justice issues and is motivated to empower and excite the electorate to enthusiastically vote in every election, and all the way down the entire ballot. The Temple University graduate was born outside Pittsburgh and currently lives in Harrisburg, although she grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania, coincidentally the birthplace of her organizing hero, civil rights icon, Bayard Rustin.
- Check out The New Pennsylvania Project: https://www.newpaproject.org/
- Donate to The New Pennsylvania Project: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/the-new-pennsylvania-project-1
Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/WMW98RQEYV
Chatting on #livechat during and after the show.
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
On this week's show, I welcome Cory Doctorow to the program to talk about his book, How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to the young adult novels, Little Brother and Homeland. He is also the author of Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults; a young adult graphic novel called In Real Life. His first picture book for younger kids, Poesy the Monster Slayer, was released last summer. You can pick up all his books at the shop on his website.
He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
You can get all of his books on his website at https://craphound.com/
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
This week I welcome Colleen Gray Nguyen to the show. Colleen is a candidate for PA State House in Cumberland County - currently, that's the 87th district, but that could change after redistricting.
Colleen has been living with type 1 diabetes since the age of 3. She co-founded the Keystone Diabetic Kids Camp where she continues to serve on the planning committee and volunteers as a camp counselor. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Nicholas Wolff Foundation which hosts summer camps for children with disabilities. She’s the co-founder of Harrisburg Beer Week, the state leader for the #insulin4all movement, and has worked in both volunteer and professional capacities for PA Stands Up, the Cumberland County Democratic Committee, the East Pennsboro Democratic Club, and campaigns for Nicole Miller, Tara Shakespeare, and Shanna Danielson.
Colleen is a graduate of the Emerge PA training program, and was awarded the JFK Award for Visionary Leadership and Innovation by the Cumberland County Democratic Party. She lives in Enola, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania with her husband and three children.
You can support Colleen Gray Nguyen's campaign right now, right here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/colleenforpa
Follow her on Twitter: @ColleenForPA
Join Raging Chicken's Discord server: https://discord.gg/WMW98RQEYV
Chatting on #livechat during and after the show.
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
This week I welcome Brian Bailie back to the program to talk about a new report, "COVID-19 and Academic Shared Governance," by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The report finds that college and university administrations responses to the COVID-19 pandemic disregarded the norms of academic governances and "were affected largely by administrative fiat, with little or no consultation with the faculty ever where austerity and emergency measures had dramatic effects on the curriculum, an area traditionally considered the faculty's primary responsibility." We'll may also dip into a recent report by the Roosevelt Network, “The Financialization of Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati,” as well as the broader attack on public higher ed.
Brian Bailie is an Associate Professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Cincinnati’s Blue Ash College. Brian’s latest articles include, “Are We an Academic Journal? Editing as Ethical Practice for Change,” co-authored with Steve Parks, in Reflections: A Journal of Community Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, and the ever-timely piece in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, , “So, Richard Spencer is Coming to Your Campus. How He was Allowed on, and How You Can Confront Him.”
Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/WMW98RQEYV
Chatting on #livechat during and after the show.
A special shout out to Jonathan Mann who wrote our intro song, “There Are No People in the Future.” Check out all is great stuff on his YouTube page and follow him on Twitter @songadaymann
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
We're opening up the "phones" again on this week's Out d'Coup LIVE. We'll be talking more about PASSHE redesign plans, the expansion of Raging Chicken's podcasts, some things I've been reading (prepare yourself for a little MMT convo), and whatever you all bring to the table.
Some topics for tonight:
- Seth Kahn, West Chester U faculty pens open letter to Chancellor Greenstein on PASSHE consolidation: https://bit.ly/3vjlPy4
- Liz Downing, Chair Post-Secondary Education Committee of the Women's Advocacy Coalition makes the case for the Nellie Bly Scholarship: https://bit.ly/3vhFMFy
- State Senator Lindsey Williams wants your thoughts on PASSHE redesign: https://www.senatorlindseywilliams.com/passheredesign/
- Just finished Stephanie Kelton's "The Deficit Myth," so Modern Monetary Theory might also make an appearance: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781541736184
Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/WMW98RQEYV
Chatting on #livechat during and after the show.
We're continuing to test our new platform for Out d'Coup LIVE. We'll be doing some real-time experiments with Riverside.fm. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for listeners to join the show while at the same time boosting the quality of our sound. So, we'll give it a whirl.
During the live show, I'll announce when we'll be taking calls. If you want to call into the show, you should join the show on Riverside.fm and turn the volume off on YouTube, otherwise you'll get a delay and feedback.
You can join the show, Monday 5/24/21 @ 7pm using this link: https://riverside.fm/studio/out-dcoup-live
Once your are in the show, you can comment in real time. You should be able to "call in" to the show too. Here's the info for how that works: https://support.riverside.fm/en/articles/4666206-live-call-in
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
On this week's show I welcome Nick Marcil and Alexandra Karlesses. Nick and Alex are graduate students at West Chester University who wrote a piece for the student newspaper The Quad, "Hallmarks of neoliberalism pervade PA system of higher education." In that piece they argue,
"While the promise of market efficiency can seem tempting under such bleak circumstances, it is not a sustainable model of increased access or more abundant resources in higher education. In fact, despite the increasing reliance on this model, inflation-adjusted per-student state funding has declined in 41 states since 2008, according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In PA alone, we have seen about a 40% reduction since the year 2000 in state funding across the board, even as universities continue to struggle and threaten to shut their doors."
Now, Alex and Nick are helping launch a new organization, "PASSHE Defenders," Fighting for a Fully Funded State System of Free Public Higher Education. Sounds like an appropriate addition to the Marvel Universe and I'm all in. Find them on Twitter @DefendersPasshe & Instagram passhe_defenders. You can join them for an organizing meeting this Thursday, May 20 @ 7:00 pm - SIGN UP HERE.
It turns out today is a good day to have them on, too. Earlier today the PA Senate Democratic Caucus Policy Committee held a hearing on PASSHE consolidation plans. State Senators Katie Muth, Lindsey Williams, and Judy Schwank led questions for panels featuring faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
Nick Marcil is a first-year Higher Education Policy and Student Affairs masters student at West Chester University. He is a current Graduate Assistant for Student Engagement in the Center for Civic Engagement & Social Impact and will be returning there next year. He graduated from the West Chester University in May 2020, where he majored in Early Grades Preparation and a minor in Mathematics Education (Pk-8).
Alex Karlesses is a first-year Higher Education Policy and Student Affairs masters student at West Chester University. She is a current Graduate Assistant in the Twardowski Career Development Center, and thoroughly enjoys counseling students and helping them with their postgraduate plans. She was also recently elected as the Vice President of the Graduate Student Association, and plans to use her platform to promote and plan programming for first-generation students, as well as help graduate students obtain any resources they need to help secure funding or further aid for their studies. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 2017, where she majored in English and Journalism.