Articles by Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (The Nation/Basic Books). His website is: www.jeffbiggers.com
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New soundtrack/website rocks the coalfield justice movement
Ever miss the wondrous liner notes from your old LP’s? An extraordinary new album, “Still Moving Mountains: The Journey Home,” just released with one of the finest showcases of musical talents from the Appalachian coalfields, has gone one step further: Accompanied by a multimedia website the album includes a map and search engine that allows […]
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What About the Homeland Security of the Coalfield Residents?
Editor Jon Queally at Common Dreams has just posted the testimony of Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe from last Thursday’s historic Senate hearing on mountaintop removal. Below is the full text from Gunnoe, who is a community organizer with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. by Maria Gunnoe The following was submitted as prepared testimony to […]
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VIDEO: Violent Massey attack on Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds
Question of the week: Has any Obama administration or West Virginia state official publicly denounced the violence by the mountaintop removal operators this week? Courtesy Coal River Mountain Watch / Amy SicklesIn last Tuesday’s nonviolent march from Marsh Fork Elementary School, which sits downslope of a precarious 2.8 billion gallon coal sludge impoundment, and a […]
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Historic Senate hearings on Clean Water Protection Act today
In memory of Jeremy Davidson “It hurled like a cannonball into Dennis and Cindy Davidson’s house, right through the wall of the bedroom and onto the bed where 3-year-old Jeremy was sleeping. The huge boulder continued its path, crashing through a closet before finally stopping at the foot of 8-year-old Zachary’s bed. Zachary would be […]
