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 Leon in The American Prospect. WARRIOR MET COAL is a unique example of that phenomenon....
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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.
There's nothing Republicans won't turn into a full culture war these days, as this is really all they have. That includes in West Virginia, where the state legislature is considering.
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 increase pollution: Following the emergence of evidence that power plants using a chemically treated coal—purportedly...
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 January 2, 2006, a coal mine near Sago, West Virginia exploded. Thirteen miners were trapped inside and only one of those survived the two days it took to get.
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. This critical action succeeded and helped their men win their strike. In May 1899, about...
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.
On August 29, 1933, the National Miners Union shut down mines in Gallup, New Mexico. This labor action, which in many ways pitted Mexican miners against Navajo miners, demonstrates the.
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 dumps toxins in the region so that rich coal executives can make the planet uninhabitable...
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..
On October 12, 1898, a racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in the southern Illinois coal mining town of Virden, Illinois. The so-called Battle of Virden demonstrates the ways that.