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from china new york their breathless driver speeds up on the ice who really it's and traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of a book. written over dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining area tuckey the book. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle words bales to round mining of coal when immigrants would come to. paid off and. the book tells the story of harlan county that's where i'm going.
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to dig deep the mary. i want to see what's left. thirty years since his first visit. 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 hard i find a ghost of a city where people are stuck. in black and white paper. their
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stories and their horses have not changed much from those recorded by first scales research and that they are leaving me the stern friends i've gathered round where war logs. where when i really don't know what you know. they go in the back. banging bags backwoods person because i've been in thirty. plus at least to italy. and canada to the. interrogation techniques were. well. you know. that i want guys from the syrian troops. but i am proud they from there it's.
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like appalachian mountain but playbook out at apalachee now even with the b.b.c. . it's. years have passed i'm still the. great grandma. crying on our summer fall when. i shall have all while. i got married when i was sixteen years out and my husband was seventeen years old and the lean mean myriad about six months and then he went into the mountains and then six months after that down in and went to contacts and aunt mary had two week old son. lady who lived down the street here only. keil. vertebra you know what it
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really. well. when you know christmas is a company wants to poke real it's gorgeous and also the coal ready for the christmas they would in their. supper whole world you put down it doesn't bring back that old wall it. killed him it's. you know it much. too through the boat so much it went through so it. shielded. rob would say oh. yes any.
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i find remnants of the mining history older memories of the casualties and the hardly are alive in the stories told by the young and. they're not had for the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the local barson saloons he conceded their life was and still is mine mine's harder narrative their collective legend and whether played a part where said with pride. yourself by the words disappearing before day eyes. of those. as part of the work first rate is going to feel but first you know by comments that the mind's will. work and i guess you got there well that's my grandpa.
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the horses would have to pull through. 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 to day and there have been all the young pay for the turning to. alcohol. and. if it were some one would have to stay and say our government would get interested in this place this part of can attack you think we could. these young people could make it but if they don't they're dying every day. dose in this same.
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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 bell 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 maine 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 would always be looking for me to come out because it was just so amazing i guess to them the see a woman working in the mines. it's all groovy.
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oh. oh oh 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 camaro 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.
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dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loans to the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and that coin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. you know world a big part of new things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for
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critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i was determined the code is looking for the past from. the class struggle still going on and maybe not on the good terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire. that you came to me early. and nobody's ever found me one. near wasting your time and they've got. very evil people you know they do things to fame days.
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they do things to the young and. all. those easing in season when it may never never standing with the. all kentucky county it's hard learned 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 minds have even been converted into museums. and laid off left with nothing since the ninety's many laid off for they don't see any other options in the fuel handouts in time and employed and our customers
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say swill orange county was founded on coal and there's rain there again it was a series. that is hard and can't is why they. basically as well aren't any of the building code and they got coal there's nothing else here we don't have the luxury of the cities we don't have factories we don't and the reason why they so there's in the mountains we don't have the raw boys in which largess a mantra is going to be and in a day and. i go flip hamburgers at the local mcdonald's or i go down here peace joy and make pizza. well that's not going to pay my bills over horrors rube own voice. if you want fanny's honeymooners if you did more to give people goes both ways yours will be. very strong and numerous give more for their buys
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every way home. will. continue to be i'll give it in the now deceased. person sooner and it will go to t.j. and i'll. call my uncles it will go down because it is working to save the city now the fact it is yours. and they tell me to get to go will not be a thing out of me what i'm doing. is i don't because i'm in here and you know there . are going to be a ghost and. there will be nobody here but rich or poor people. so . when i went in the home i was eighteen years old it was around me and i. worked in a coma for five years and. two years service my. way or.
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my two hours and thirty cents an hour rusty it was and since that home i found a more. ads are very good. and not as much money in the time. when my doing here i just got out of jail but. possession of stolen property. i'm not here. jails jail. as. i feed you three times a day. for t.v. . all those things you.
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heard from the gun 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 imagine 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 you shouldn't be on 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 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
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there once made harlan the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one four years 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 rich and or a. very he said as a. very much any of them makes him feel better and are they going to make him feel better. we have a lot. the problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. and maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem and i say guinness 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
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of the mining everything it's caused. a rising pills. it's the pills or the new alcohol. we're talking about the forty's and. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's when we made. in december we paid cocoa berries but for a sale the hoped for as we carry in the sale for valor again. the black berries will always go to order again but we get a lift you know all. muddy from the. close in central florida where they're. mostly what with troy in the food it was corn. lowered. so they would go a bit with the. flat.
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in the beginning where only a few wanted them last bit towards the end of. a. family day and. night before and basically. to the ones in jail. i want to see you know where they have sales now and i have it here that jobs are gone. shed them out of coal mines are said at. last that. is. shared and people. in poverty. itself or. i want the same. tiley walked three decades ago and words from the opening paragraph to his book come to my mind. it was nine hundred eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was in the winding road
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from harlan to have birds driving a borrowed pickup 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 that was a presence in this land the. road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond. returning to new york leaving behind harlan and the this rain. i try to put together to pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse off. i only wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up the luxuries. there was.
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so small seemed wrong but all in all just don't call. me lol yet to stamp out this thing to come out ahead and engagement it close to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution i'm here to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still pretty meaningless put in the. split needle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took both had invested over five billion dollars to assist
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ukraine enemies another goal that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somehow i want to press. you to the right to be press was like that before playing the boy can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. to sit.
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