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 I've been alive. The film is focused on a British firm responsible for some of...
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Of course the fascism coming out of the White House is replicated in the states, those good ol' laboratories of democracy. TN will make it a felony to set up.
Some people might call this vandalism, but I call it is a needed correction to the historical record. A Confederate statue in Nashville's Centennial Park was vandalized late Sunday night.
In 2014, the United Auto Workers attempted to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Despite tacit neutrality from the company, Tennessee politicians and right-wing funders used open race-baiting and an intense anti-union campaign and the attempt failed, one of the worst blows to the...
Oh coal, you never have any downsides. A federal jury on Wednesday ruled a global contractor tasked with keeping disaster clean-up workers safe instead endangered them – some fatally. A.
Former Democratic Tennessee Gov. Philip Bredesen speaks with the press as members of the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fix the Debt enter.
On July 27, 1989, workers at the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, rejected United Auto Workers representation by a 2-1 margin. This overwhelming lost was one of the first of many defeats the UAW has suffered in the last three decades, losses that have left...
On June 7, 1943, 16 black workers at Buckeye Cotton Oil Company in Memphis, a Proctor & Gamble owned operation, went on a wildcat strike in protest of continued workplace.
Our federal fascist force of ethnic cleansing sure is making American great again. Jessica Bailiff looked out at her class and saw empty desks where her students were supposed to.
Tennessee Republicans seem nice: Nashville Public Radio reported over the weekend that the Tennessee legislature is finalizing legislation that would add work requirements to the state’s Medicaid program, kicking at least 3,700 Tennessee workers off their health care. The state’s Republican leaders appear to have...
I think the main significance of Bob Corker's retirement is that any Republican who is not completely cynical or completely mouthbreathing may find it not really worth it to stick.
If you only read the New York Times and listen to NPR, you would be sure that the only rural people in America are white. After all, hasn't every rural.