well that. can. mean. it's him in the summer morning and i'm on a bus headed down south from chinatown new york their breathless driver speeds up on the ice who really. am traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of a book. written over dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining area some eastern kentucky the book by italians corner. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle of the words bales to round mining of coal when amy grants would come to the area to work well paid but often has faded jobs the book tells the story of harlan county

that's where i'm going. this are part of the. land. headed to the depot mary kom. i want to see what's left to die ward thirty years. is first base is now that the us is shifting to major and gas and coal

mines for shutting down one after another i do not expect to find a lively city when i drive into harness i find a ghost of a city where people are stuck in my car turner said in black and white picture their stories and there is this have not changed much from those recorded by push pills research and that they are leaving me in this turning round. or. musical. well when i really don't know what you know. they go in the back. banging bags backwards person goes i've been in thirty. plus at least two it will be.

worth. then i want. but they from there it's. like appalachian man but. appalachia male even. it's. very. low grade. writing or farmer paul. are shallow. i got married when i was sixteen years old and my husband was seventeen years old and lead me in myriad about six minutes. and he went into the mountains in six

months and you know that down and i went to court next thing. i had two week old son. lady who lived down the street here only. killed. berta but you know what it was really. low. when this. company wants to hold real it's gorgeous and also the coal ready for the christmas they would in there it would. suck the whole world you put stuff at. that wall it. killed of me if. you know it much. too through the boat so much good want to do it that.

shielded. that even if you. would tell me. anything. i find remnants of the mining history or longer memories of the casualties in the hard labor are alive in the stories told by the young and the like they're not had for the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the local barson saloons you can see that their life was and still is mine mine is hard their narrative their collective legend and while they're played a part where sit with pride. their survived. first word disappearing

before day i ask for the rose parade rest. in their spot branded a bit of a work first see a racist god shield but first you have like i went sixty of them at meyers grill. it was work and i got there well that's my grandpa grandma a six awful sweater. but here you. will. go. in every lady made home a and at it. he always had peace because you know now we face the life that you'll say.

going through. it won't help you get. the water in the mine and soon you would have to drown through water it would get it over your knees and. the horses would have to pull through the. and then they would lay to balfour's for tracks sometimes when they'd run out of traffic people here named were you know anywhere. there's nothing for him today and there have been all the young pay for the turning to. alcohol. and. if someone would have to stay and say our government would get interested in this place this party can attack you i think we can. these young people could make it but if they don't know their

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this ripoff. eight point seven b.n. t.v. to downtown weisberg this is johnson brain in sin arcade until ten o'clock tonight so i'm talking to some of the best music of two thousand and thirteen playing the song but all. is holding its own groove. in one thousand nine hundred i was the first woman to work in this one particular mine and my job was what they called the belt boy and then they started calling me the belt person because i was a female so when i would go underground everybody would be kind of gathered to see this woman coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face would be all black with the coal dust and i was a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i. and wipe my face off before we come outside so if we all

clean. so that it but the guys will always be looking for me to come in because it was just so amazing i guess to them to see a woman working in the mines. it's all true. malo know. i remember when i was in high school is i love the earth science i love the mountains all of anything he was brock's and my earth science teacher back then said there's going to be eight hundred years of coal and when he said that that's when things were good you know where everybody was working like the guys that

worked in the mines they always had the nice cars like the camero i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. we. tried it is what. and it's time to check. a load of. things.

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something happens in this case it was the chemical attack on civilians in syria and then the public in the media are waiting for the response and i think it's very clear now that if president trump said that there is going to be a response then it will be i just think that our expectations in a way that this american response will be so severe that it will be a game changer i think this is not the case it will again be misadjusted a very careful calculation by the americans not to deteriorate into a clash a direct confrontation with russia. and with the home counties looking for the past from. the class struggle still going on. the maybe you go with the terms of the unions but for instance right now

in terms of your bar. that you came to that it really. nobody's ever found you go get me one. you're wasting your can they were. very evil people were you know they do things to fame these. they do things to the young and the. opposite sex game you know in season in the never never standing it would be. all kentucky county is hardly and produce the most coal at a time in which most of what powered the united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active mines in harlan employ less than two thousand.

some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off and left with nothing since the ninety's many leave off was for they don't see any other options in the fuel handouts in town unemployed man are the usual customers. will orange county was founded on coal and there's a reason marin county was below its three. babies born care is why the if the best was warren county of the building code in coal there's nothing else here we don't. go live to the cities we don't have factories we don't in the reason one of those days because those are closed in the mountains we don't have the road boys in which the largest cement trails going to be in. and. i go flip

hamburgers it welcome it down is when i go down here peace joy. i stand up and ideals. people want. to do more to give people goes both ways you must be. very strong and give more for their bodies every way home. i'll give you. the majesty. of some. good. teacher and. uncles that were good examples in this work and to save these in fact it is. and i don't know if you're going to be coming out of what i'm going to look if i don't because i'm in here and you know they're. going

to go find. they were going to live here rich or. so. when i was in the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around again and. worked in the coal mines for five years underground to yourself from. my perch and thirteen cents an hour for us to it and say is that how my around in the world. kids are married. or not as much money in the town. why am i doing here i just got out of jail. possession of stolen property. i'm not a good. jails. will. has. now ruled.

that fiji three times a day. it will pay for t.v. . knowledge to. me all those things you. need to leave here with me. no. good. way. below. this where i was a teenager smith and jones is creek it is a two of the roughest places for it and the story carried a pistol in the us best way of euro enough carried one ever see as the steel. i learned later. the scale that

we meet. so. we. found a gun guy here the pawn shop here for the past five years we take everything from you know d.v.d.'s to. motors or whatever you want imagine we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like you say say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred dollar mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining mines are shut down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because he's worse these were being sold to personal miners for their own use. they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying

it. like mine. where all of them are very accounting. ever. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past their once made hard in the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one for years people used to make moonshine now drugs are on the rice a trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners now i'll ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of people here this is a big fish and or a. very upset. very much any of that

there makes me feel better and they think it makes them feel better i mean we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem then i'd say again it's desperation to try to get some money to maintain a habit you know and i think since all this you know all the mining and depression of the mining everything it's caused. a rise in pills. it's the pills or the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we might lose. your industry over a week because. we'll be able to hope for as we carry it for yourself or valerie. the blackberries will go to order again but we get a list. money from there to close it so. true for the weather.

closely what would love for in the food is called. lol. so. be it though we were also. in a in the beginning and we're going to take the field to the ocean and they are always the in the in our day the a f found the tea in the air to see and maybe before they switch to the ones in jail the. i am one of the mayor did you know are they up to fails now are they ever the job to go home. and showed him where all the coal was a fair. share an advantage people. in power to. its own. i

want the same road so this under a bush tally walked three decades ago and words from the opening paragraph to his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was in the winding road from harlan to have birds driving a borrowed pick up truck when i began to notice the road kill it was a dangerous road with more than its share of adventurous drivers and it was getting dark. i began to think of the many ways in which there was a presence in this land the day and the most the road accidents and of course the corn mines the audience and black lung. returning to new york. leaving behind harder than none the less rain. i tried to

put together the pieces still very remote were to i only got a glimpse off. i own waste wonder where all that came from. the energy that lights up the luxury so. there was really the his whole bar is worth one hundred is a little girl's grave. all daddy dear daddy please don't go away. with. don't go to the. madre would. come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy plays doll away. with.

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the three of petitions to toast news for two snippets on little new of course the us the girls are with you for your supporters to your. shouldn't be you should cook door for one who's doing. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean there is this justice is a fair business all us your were jews are country like of disrepair but and when it things it doesn't need it anymore it just got us to where i think it serves it's very immoral. you know. you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub you can walk into that excitement is that

not knowing that's where the adrenaline in much comes from. and you can easily move by definition and the extremes will put most of. the violence is a part and it's almost a schizophrenia. where you can do all these things and behave badly. they're going to be full of all this colorful all. the more social that's going to last. and this man infirmed. rule all of us from the start. i would roll the way enough i figure out i really did a poll don't want to get. the meaning in these music at least if you don't and the evolves it's constantly evolving in.

the u.s. the u.k. and france carry out strikes against the syrian government in response to an alleged chemical attack in eastern. intervention came just hours before an international inspectors were due to arrive to investigate the claims. the united nations security council holds an urgent meeting on the attack and rejects a russian draft resolution calling for an end to aggression against syria. u.k. prime minister praised the joint military operation against assad's government as limited targeted and effective. and in other news russia's foreign minister claims that the international chemical weapons watchdog may not have correctly i.