West Virginia officials fired and suspended over 30 corrections officers for their participation in a photo showing officers giving a Nazi salute. Three people have been fired and dozens suspended over a photo which shows ...
Coal miners have literally provided the fuel for the unprecedented industrialization of this country. (By Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation) Coal mining continues to be one of the most hazardous professions in our society. Even ...
Many mining operations in the region are operating without valid permits, and as a result, have been the defendants in numerous lawsuits. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, showed the world what horrible tragedies can ...
Displaced coal miners in West Virginia are finding alternative forms of employment to replace their coal-mining history. Thousands of coal miners in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the nation, are out of ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...
Construction of the Mountain View Pipeline (MVP), a proposed 330-mile project stretching through the Appalachian mountains, was halted this month after the permits allowing the development to cross through the Jefferson National Forest were called ...
A federal grand jury in Kentucky indicted eight former managers at Armstrong Coal for deceiving coal mine safety organizations and exposing coal miners to dangerous coal dust that causes black lung disease. The indictment alleges ...
University teachers from 61 different universities are on strike in an effort to prevent severe pension cuts. The strikes effect an estimated 1 million students across the U.K. The U.K. teachers’ strike has been the ...
West Virginian state senate candidate, Lissa Lucas, was removed from a hearing on a proposed pro-oil and gas industry bill, for reading oil industry donations to state legislators. Democratic Party candidate for West Virginia’s House ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance On this episode of this Resistance podcast, we run though the empty ritual we all do after yet another mass shooting. This time it was a school ...