tv Documentary RT August 2, 2018 6:30am-7:01am EDT
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it's i'm in december morning and i'm going to the dollar from china new york there reckless driver speeds up on the ice who really wants and traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of a book. written over dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining areas to eastern kentucky the book by a time in school or this. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle of the words males to round mining of coal when immigrants 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. to pop the.
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head to the depot mary. i want to see what's left of the thirty years since his first visit now that the us is shifting to nature and gas and coal mines for shutting down one after another i do not expect to find a lively city when i drive into harlem i find a ghost of a city where people are stuck. car terms from black and white picture their
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stories from their horses have not changed much from those recorded by first scales research and today a leading me based. friends i've gathered for was. the. one easy. well when i really don't know what. they go in the back. banging backs the back woods person goes i've been in thirty. plus at least to italy. and canada to the. interrogation techniques were through blew away well. you know. yeah i want guys from the syrian troops. but i am proud they from there it's.
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like i like appalachian man but playbook out of appalachia male meat eating. its. early years how fast i'm still the. great grandma god. wolde crying or farmer fall when. i shall the world. i got married when i was sixteen years out and my husband was seventeen years old and that lead me in myriad about six months and he went into the mountains and six months after that down and then i went to contacts and aunt mary had two week old son the. lady who lived down the street. only on. the hook was killed. that he would hit
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reply. low. where no. company wants to poll real that's georgia said also it helps in coal ready for the christmas they would in their way to. suck the whole world you would done with stuff that was bad that was. killed of it. though you know it much. to three tell the pope the market went through so it. killed in the last. thirty fifty. robert there. was that. alan. feel it was was. i
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find remnants of the mining history or longer memories of the casualties and the hardly are alive in the stories told by the young and the like they're not just for the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the locals barson saloons he conceded their life was and still is mine mine turned their narrative their collective legend and whether played a part where said with pride. their survival of the word disappearing before their eyes. closed as well. as barbara having a bit of a work first rate is gone sure but diversity of my comments section of the headlines will prescribe. it work and i got. as my grandpa
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the horses would have to pull through it. 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 formed today and there have been all the young pay for the turning to. alcohol. and. if it were some one would have a state and say our government would get interested in this place in this part of kentucky i think we could. these young people could make it but if they don't they're dying every day. albert of sin and they say you know they're.
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is. being. proved. 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 bell person because i was a female so when i would go into ground 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 coldest since i was a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i would wipe my face off before i would come outside so it would be all clean. so that it but the guys that always be looking for me to come out because it was just so amazing against in the see a woman working in the mines. it's all true.
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mon for mon morrow you. know well. i remember when i was in high school is i love the earth science i love the mountains of anything to do with rocks 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 and 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. in
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that number calling this the all day experience as the oldest hymn of the. master of the new growth that's. not a slogan that. russia is one of the countries that most by capacity and all the very high population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about sustainability i would say yes absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of farm per person so to say you know you have a lot of wealth ecological wealth and the word is very scarce so that's a huge economic advantage as well and saying wow this is an amazing farm let's look after it well because that's said that's a major loss to live well the long run. it's
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slow for. some people simply. people as you know we that. feed in. the trees. mostly and so that's the only thing but the. out of a sudden. just. unfold be there was a time. i said i when entering it seemed to me if they were not alone and. if they will shoot you. i don't i'll. meet you indeed i'm not i'm not going to be indicted beach have you don't want to feel me no no no i got a fake i'm utopian i'm i'm in uganda. i
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was for the code blue for the past from. the class trouble still going or. maybe in those. terms of the unions but for instance right in terms of your buyer. that you came phatic only. nobody's ever followed you go get me in mind and you're wasting your time and they've. very evil people you know they do things to fame ease and they do things to the young
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and the. sick if you notice it sees. me as if it was. all kentucky county it's 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 a thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's manny laid off was for they don't see any other options in the she'll have nelson time on employed and are the
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usual customers swell her uncanny was founded on co and there's a reason harris county was a deal that's the reason. and. that is our encounters was if i squeeze welfare and get me into the building code and they get cold there's nothing else here we don't have the luxury of the cities we don't have factories we don't in the reason now days because those are closed in the mountains we don't have the road boys and it's the largest same interest in me and in a way in that. i go for the hamburgers at the local mcdonald's or i go down here peace joy may pay to. work that's not something i deals over horrors boom boom voices. you can walk straight fanny's honeymooners if you did more to get run over people goes both ways you're still being. told many stories very strong and
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numerous give more for their bodies every way home will. continue these days i'll give it him he managed to any. person sooner and it will go to teacher and i'll. call my uncles were good examples of this working to save the city now stack it in years and years. and they tell me to get your guns will not be a thing out of me what i'm doing. is i don't because i'm in here and you know other than four years ago i'm going to go spend. to the window while you're both really rich or they will be with growth rates or below just six so we're now in the home. as i was eighteen years old it was around me and i. worked in a coma for five years and. two years service from. a waiter here
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to. take. my two hours and thirteen scenes an hour bus to it and since then how my town anymore. are very few. years not as much money in the town. when my doing here i just got out of jail my. possession of stolen property. i'm not here. jails jail. has. now been. a feature three times a day. for t.v. . knowledge that. i don't. all those things you.
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i'm the go to guy here the pawn shop here for the past five years we take everything from you know d.v.d.'s to. boat motors or whatever you want to madge and we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like us 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 these were so these were being sold to personal miners for their own use they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying that. line. here. 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
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there once made harlan the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one for a year people used to make moonshine knowledge 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. nurse said there's an a in very much anything there that makes me feel better and they think makes them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. maybe not just from drug use and. that is a problem when i say guinness get spiration 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
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alcohol. you're talking about the forty inch unit of forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made it so only a year in december we pick up over his black berry so we'll be able to hope for as we carry it for yourself for valor again. the black berries will go to order again but we get a list you know all. muddy from there to close and some food for them where they're . mostly what with troy in the food was corn will lower. so they will go a bit they'll be withheld so the. flat. in the beginning i would only have to take
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a few to the last count it towards the end of my credit to the state. family and. maybe before they switch. to the ones in jail that. i want to feed you know or they hand it to sales now or they have with the jobs or ground. shut him down while the coal mines are said. live to the mines is alive in nature in a van with people. in poverty. it's no more. i walk the same road sunny sandra pushed kindly walked three decades ago and works from the opening pair. after his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was on the winding road from harlan to our birds
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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 adventures drivers and it was getting dark. i began to think of the many ways in which that was a presence in this land that any most the road accidents and of course the core mines beyond and block long. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in an endless rain. i tried to put together the pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse off. my own with wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up the luxury. there was believe the his whole door is worth when i heard it is the little girl's grave.
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body continues on it's just an appendage. so this is what people don't understand is that the u.k. leaving the e.u. the e.u. continues on great but if you take the appendix out of the bodies it's going to wither in trouble and die because it has no body to just anymore and this is what's happening in the u.k. and it's going to be a lot of fun to watch because this living beyond their means for somebody years now now it's all coming all. the philippine city of angeles when the u.s. military moved out the six to us moved in. and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up you. played that. games in general. i know your.
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son. this is the first time in the t.v. crew you see you and takes you were no. answer is known that now and that if. that's it you know you want my god. a little bit to continue to deliver above that you can take the birth of the girl. on the piano with you know. oh i love doing that on. the view. russia is one of the countries that most buy capacity and all the very high
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population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about sustainability i would say yes absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of farm per person so to say you know you have a lot of wealth ecological wealth but the word is very scarce so that's a huge economic advantage as well and saying wow this is an amazing farm let's look after it well because that's our outset that will enable us to live well the long run. and move on don't let them leave the french to live for you know need.
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