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Bruce MacDonald

Chambers said if the state moves quickly to permit new mines, and the companies continue to tell people that mines are safe, they're only leading communities to disappointment.

"If the message is we're going to have mines, and the price is water quality contamination, then let's say that up front," he said.
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#mining#water#Wisconsin
Newsramp

Lahontan Gold Corp leverages proven Santa Fe Mine history to target 2027 gold production in Nevada, offering strategic approach to mining challenges with 2M oz resource at $1,230/oz cash cost #Mining #Gold

Newsramp

ESGold discovers remarkable geological similarities between Montauban and Broken Hill deposits, revealing new exploration potential for historic mine site. Innovative ANT survey suggests $350M in potential tailings reuse revenue. #Mining #Exploration

LM Little

"This project would slice through the range of the Bathurst #caribou herd which is at a critically low level of about 6,240 animals, down from about 470,000. This project would cause irreversible and detrimental impacts to the herd that is already on the brink of #extinction." cabinradio.ca/251369/news/poli

Cabin Radio · Former MLA ‘dismayed’ by YK council vote supporting Nunavut roadLife's Better at the Cabin
#Arctic#wildlife#BillC5
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 1, 1921: Sheriff Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were murdered by Baldwin-Felts private cops. They did it in retaliation for Hatfield’s role in the Matewan labor battle in 1920, when two Felts family thugs were killed by Hatfield and his deputies. Sheriff Hatfield had sided with the coal miners during their strike. The private cops executed Hatfield and Chambers on the Welch County courthouse steps in front of their wives. This led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, where 20,000 coal miners marched to the anti-union stronghold Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. The Battle of Blair Mountain started in September 1921. The armed miners battled 3,000 police, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. It was the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, and the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The president of the U.S. eventually sent in 27,000 national guards. Over 1 million rounds were fired. Up to 100 miners were killed, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and 3 national guards. They even dropped bombs on the miners from planes, the second time in history that the U.S. bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against black residents of Tulsa, earlier that same year).

Several novels portray the Battle of Blair Mountain, including Storming Heaven, by Denise Giardina, (1987), Blair Mountain, by Jonathan Lynn (2006), and Carla Rising, by Topper Sherwood (2015). And one of my favorite films of all time, “Matewan,” by John Sayles (1987), portrays the Matewan Massacre and the strike leading up to it. The film has a fantastic soundtrack of Appalachian music from the period. And the great West Virginia bluegrass singer, Hazel Dickens, sings the title track, "Fire in the Hole." She also appears in the film as a member of the Freewill Baptist Church.

You can read my complete article on the Battle of Blair Mountain, and Matewan, here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #westvirginia #strike #union #police #vigilantes #uprising #racism #riots #blackwallstreet #film #novel #books @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 1, 1917: IWW organizer Frank Little was lynched in Butte, Montana. Little was a Cherokee miner and member of the IWW. He went to Butte during the Speculator Mine strike to help organize the miners. Little had previously helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He had participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” On August 1, 1917, vigilantes broke into the boarding house where he was staying. They dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car and then hanged him from a railroad trestle.

Author Dashiell Hammett had been working in Butte at the time as a strike breaker for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They had tried to get him to murder Little, offering him $5,000, but he refused. He later wrote about the experience in his novel, “Red Harvest.” It supposedly haunted him throughout his life that anyone would think he would do such a thing. He was also investigated by the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) because of his ties to socialism.

Read my complete biography of Little here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/
Read my complete article on the Pinkertons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/
Read my bio of Dashiell Hammett here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #racism #indigenous #immigration #mining #freespeech #civildisobedience #civilrights #antiwar #author #books #fiction #writer #novel @bookstadon

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