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Further Reading:
- General Information:
- Coal Mining Facts & History:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/coal-miners-blair-mountain.html
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g59295-d10802537-Reviews-West_Virginia_Mine_Wars_Museum-Matewan_West_Virginia.html
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Ludlow-Massacre
- Vulcan Bridge:
- https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/03/how-soviet-helped-vulcan-american-town.html
- https://blueridgecountry.com/newsstand/magazine/curios-the-bridge-the-soviets-nearly-built/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan,_West_Virginia
- https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/2433
- https://lpcrown.medium.com/when-a-west-virginia-town-asked-the-soviet-union-for-a-bridge-b04c23c81751
- Joe Mauri:
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/america-russia-history-cold-war-spy.html
- https://slate.com/podcasts/one-year/s3/1986/e7/the-man-from-fifth-avenue-joe-mauri-soviet-documentary
- https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,655386,00.html
- https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP83M00914R002100120034-3.pdf
Music Credits:
“Wishful Thinking” – Dan Lebowitz:
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What a great podcast episode! I love history and I really appreciate all of the work you did digging up and collecting all of the information.
I could be labeled as a progressive Democrat however I am strictly against taking away any rights including the 2nd amendment. That being said, the introduction to this episode is the perfect narrative to support gun ownership rights.The miner wars is the worst case scenario where the government murders it’s own citizens. If the miners didn’t have access to guns how would that have changed history and labor laws today? If guns were banned in the US what would prevent the corporations from reverting back to the coal mining companies of the miner wars?
I’m not a gun fanatic. I do believe that guns laws and regulations are necessary. I don’t believe in untrained citizens walking around with open carry firearms. I do believe that the miner wars for now is a deterrent but eventually corporations will try to repeat history.
I’m curious if anyone else thought the same.
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Thanks for listening and for the feedback. I don’t have a lot of thoughts on the gun thing. On the one hand, yeah, it helped them to be armed in some ways. In others, it got them slaughtered when they were seen to be more dangerous. That is–the guns didn’t stop them and their families being mowed down by the mining security. So, I don’t have an opinion there. I do think that what turned the tide here, and in almost any case where change has been effected, was reaching a tipping point where public sentiment was so much on the side of the workers that the government and capitalists couldn’t ignore it anymore and had to support worker’s rights. And I think we’re right back in that space again today in a lot of ways. Too many people are buying into narratives that some citizens deserve to be unhoused, unfed, without access to healthcare–because we’ve become so invested as having a “job” as the only means a citizen can support the society–which really is supporting the 1%.
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