Coal miners in Alabama have been on strike for months now and it is finally getting some attention from the media. Here's a good piece on it from Luis Feliz.
Today's film is this 1974 British documentary on the horrors of strip mining for coal in Appalachia. Good thing we've learned so, so much in the last 47 years that.
Clean coal may be the most absurd right-wing euphemism since right to work. There ain't nothing clean about clean coal. It's nasty and horrible. And in fact, it may actually.
These are the graves of Thomas Hatton, Lewis Davies, and other victims of the Avondale Colliery coal mine fire. What I'm going to do here is paste my Labor History.
On September 30, 1899, Mary "Mother" Jones organized the wives and daughters of striking coal miners in Arnot, Pennsylvania to descend on the mine and intimidate the scabs working there..
I can see why Appalachian white workers are so hopped up on their Democrat War on Coal signs and bumper stickers. After all, when has the coal industry not paid.
This is such a weird story. Mountaintop removal is a horrible, nasty, awful thing, one that reshapes an entire region's geology, some of the oldest mountains in the world, and.
On December 6, 1907 the Monongah Mining Disaster in West Virginia killed at least 362 workers but probably over 500. This remains the most deadly mining disaster in American history..
