coal miners
Van Jones at People’s Summit: Progressives must engage Trump voters
June 10, 2017“I may not like how you voted but you are my brother and I don’t want you to die. By sticking together all of us will win.”
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Today in eco-history: Dirty coal killed 45 Virginians
April 24, 2017In the early morning hours of April 24, 1938, 25 more bodies were carried out of the Red Jacket Mine in Keen Mountain, Virginia, then down the mountain and into an identification center that was set...
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Labor Dept. to coal mine owners: Pay black lung victims’ claims, then appeal
April 29, 2016The old appeal policy left hundreds of thousands of coal miners, disabled from black lung disease, usually without a penny of benefits before they died.
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Dead miners’ families react to coal criminal Blankenship’s 12 month jail sentence
April 11, 2016Convicted coal criminal Don Blankenship appeared in federal court for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Irene Berger last Wednesday.
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“Sixteen Tons,” a novel about coal miners, invites us to rethink capitalism
October 15, 2014"Sixteen Tons" represents violent behavior on all sides, urging us to reflect on the circumstances in our class culture that foster brutality.
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