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In the fictional world of Panem, a girl from a gentrified coal-mining mountain town learned to survive through grit, self-sufficience, and more than a little rebelliousness. The girl on fire lit the spark that burned away the foundation of her dystopian civilization and inspired a generation in our world to challenge the structure of their own society. While Katniss Everdeen and her Mockingjay pin are now immortalized in pop culture and have even unironically become a symbol of resistance, few people know the real-life inspiration.
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If I hear one more person complain about how working conditions today are horrible and corporate greed is worse than ever, I'll shove this video in their face. How much progress we've made!
Pretty much every day my mind is brought back to this hideous chapter of our history as I hear working people champion deregulation and rail against unions. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and those who try to erase history are trying to repeat it.
Sounds like the Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider.
And suddenly, there was a kitty😺😺😁😁
Read the sauce
Battle Royale, as everyone know is great. Hunger Games ought to be the definition of pedestrian.
Why is it I find the term "people of colour" not just annoying but patronising? If you are black, white, brown or polka dot just say so!
dude blames Reagan for economy when it thrived under him but ignores the massive anti-coal or fossil fuel movements that happened as a result of the emergence of "climate change"
Glasscock
This is why Appalachia used to be deep blue, and why the right has worked so hard to undermine unions.
Scotch Irish read Gaelic.
Those company towns were practically slave towns.
Tell me you have never lived in Appalachia without living in Appalachia. 99% of the people taken advantage of by the mines in Appalachia were white people. Nice trying to throw in your communist talking points and anti black "racism" bullshit. The only people who had enough money to own slaves were the mine owners which werent really around during slavery, which is why THEN and to THIS DAY there are hardly any black people that live there, nor were there many black people who worked the mines. Why does EVERYONE always have to place black people in the mix when it comes to oppression, even when they werent involved? Someone ALWAYS has to play the black victim card any time there is someone being oppressed. Appalachia was and still is 90%+ dirt poor white people who society could give a shit less about. Many appalachian people had it WORSE than freed slaves.
I'm from the UK and lived in Wales for a number of years. I never knew any of this, and it's fascinating to see how miners' rights and strikes were handled in the US.
It's always good when this bit of history gets some attention. But man, every mispronunciation of the region gave me a full body twitch. I live minutes away from Paint Creek, and have traveled all throughout the Appalachian Mountains, and I've never heard it said like that. You still get a thumbs up, though.
The most unfortunate is that each generation of working folks has to re-learn, sometimes from scratch that the war is on-going. The aristocracy keep alive those tried and true methods of control.
Always glad to see Jade. Yes, I'm a childless cat lady. It's scary to see history being repeated.
Appalachia is an intergral part of America and hope it can recover stronger than ever.
Absolutely nothing has changed today… At least in GOP run States. The cops are 100% in the pocket of the Senators and business owners.
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Unions are so important. I work for a large retail company and we definitely need a union. Corporate keeps cutting hours and then asking us to do more and more work, all because we made record profits during the pandemic.
Interesting bit of history shows how important unions are. Sad how all world governments are still corrupt but United people outnumber those abusing power.
Appuh-latch-uh.
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Appa-lay-shun
Greed and abuse of power at the cost of the workers and their families. A very shameful part of this nations history…oh wait…that abuse of power and greed is still going on today. What's it going to take. We don't need additional laws… they are already on the law books. Thank you for sharing this information. Very hard working folks thorough out those coal fields and communities.
Great video
No.
And now so many direct descendants of that trauma stand around and defend coal mining as if it's the best thing that ever happened to them
Load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter dontcha call 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the Company store.
Damn.
Sorry bro , but bring back Simon
Say Muscogee again. That was funny. 🤣🤣🤣
I hated the books. Worst 30 some odd hours I've ever listened to. One was pretty good, two started to lose me and three just tanked the entire series for me. I read them before the films because a friend suggested them and really made them seem awesome. I wound up seeing the first movie, which was alright, but I never bothered with the rest. It's not often a book series just… fails me like that. Honestly the Hannibal books by Thomas Harris kinda did the same for me too, but when you're raised on the Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs films, it's really hard to get out of your head about characters and situations. I consider the films better than the books. The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption films are good examples of how a book should be adapted to film. They're almost perfect. The changes made in those films are understandable to trim some of the fat to fit the story into a neat little package. Unlike The Shining and 98% of Stephen King adaptations. Don't even get me started on The Dark Tower.
2:45 – Chapter 1 – The appalachian roots of folk music
5:25 – Chapter 2 – Coal miner towns
8:40 – Chapter 3 – Union busters
9:35 – Chapter 4 – The start of the mine wars
11:25 – Chapter 5 – Mother jones
15:30 – Chapter 6 – The battle of blair mountain
19:35 – Chapter 7 – Bloody harlan
23:05 – Conclusion
My family were coal miners from eastern Kentucky and Tennessee (Fonde and Pruden). My great-great grandmother moved to Bell County from Harlan after her husband was killed in the violence there. I went back there in 2010 to visit relatives (mah kenfolk). As we were driving we reached an intersection with a sign to Harlan. The mere mention of Harlan caused a collective shiver among everyone in the car, even all those years later.
Newport, South Wales, Chartists.
Great work on this video! Loved it!
This is the reason why unions are so important.
I live in PA northeastern Pennsylvania to be specific and I’ve hiked a lot and lived in Appalachia and it’s always funny to me hearing ppl not from around here pronounce it the way you did lol great video though been a viewer of all the channels and since the beginning of this channel. Nice seeing a video close to home.
I loved the Hunger Games books. The first two movies were quite good but they really should have stuck to a single film for the last book. It got tedious sitting through four hours and twenty minutes of The Mockingjay. There is my one minute review of 3 books and four films. 😁✌🏻📚🎬
wow. way to propagandize an entire channel with one video.
you can tell his bias off the bat. it maybe "the history" but there are 3 sides to this story AT LEAST. unsubbing.
That was REALLY interesting. I'd love to know more about the socio-economic and cultural history of this region.
Regulations=communism – uneducated people
very well presented!! = thank you
My great-great grandpa was killed trying to unionize Appalachian coal miners, and my family is still feeling the effects to this day. Generational trauma. His son became an alcoholic and took out his anger on my grandpa, who never drank but treated my dad similarly, who did NOT treat his kids the same. Luckily, you eventually get to a generation that breaks the cycle. My family also left the area in the 30s for Chicago.
Oh my Gosh! Great video. I’m from WV, but your pronunciation of Appalachia is incorrect and killing my ears.
ITS NOT HARD APPLE- AT- CHA….
15:36 Meow
At least pronounce it right!