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A Visit Down to Harlan County

by Geo Ong In 1973, a group of coal miners and their wives in Harlan County, Kentucky, went on strike against Duke Power Company, which owned the local Brookside Mine and Prep Plant. The 13-month strike known as the ‘Brookside … Continue reading

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Occupied.

by Natalie Peart [Natalie Peart is a feminist, activist, and writer (in no particular order) living in Brooklyn. She loves to keep the (political) pot stirring.] It has been over one month since the protesters have taken over Liberty Square … Continue reading

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Preoccupied Wall Street

by Geo Ong I’ve been having a difficult time trying to write about Occupy Wall Street. The movement is a phenomenon, as some pundits have described it, that first stormed Wall Street, and then the city, and then the nation, … Continue reading

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