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Jeff Biggers

Jeff Biggers is the author of numerous books, including his latest: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition? His previous works include: State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream; The United States of Appalachia; Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland; and the forthcoming Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition. Follow him on twitter: @JeffRBiggers

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	Views Friday, January 31, 2014 If We Don't Put People Before Profits, Spills Like West Virginia Are Our Future Read more
	Views Sunday, December 01, 2013 Free Mike Roselle From Jail: Free Appalachia From Mountaintop Removal Nearly four years ago, long-time environmental activist and Kentucky-native Mike Roselle sat in the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, with one simple message: Mountaintop removal mining, the most egregious human rights and environmental violation tolerated in our nation, must be abolished, not regulated. Read more
	Views Sunday, October 13, 2013 Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner's Day) I hear Mother Jones calling. The deadbeat coal barons still need to be called out. Read more
	Views Thursday, September 26, 2013 Does Illinois Host Nation's Worst Website for Kids on Coal? While Illinois Gov. Read more
	Views Saturday, June 08, 2013 Pro-Fracking Greens Called Out in Sandra Steingraber's New Manifesto A new salvo has been fired in the national battle against fracking. Read more
	Views Wednesday, June 05, 2013 Illinois’ Flawed Fracking Law Is Everyone’s Problem, Ecologist Says Read more
	Views Saturday, May 25, 2013 At the Floodgates of Fracking in Illinois in the Battle Over the Climate Change Crisis What happens in Illinois, doesn't stay in Illinois -- especially when you're dealing with the national ramifications of a combined fracking and coal mining rush unparalleled in recent memory. Read more
	Views Thursday, February 28, 2013 Challenging Georgia's Ban on Undocumented Students With comprehensive immigration reform afoot in Congress, and measures to grant undocumented immigrant students in-state tuition status spreading across the country, a galvanized movement in Georgia is ramping up its effort to end the state's extraordinary ban for undocumented immigrant students at the top five state colleges. Read more
	Views Friday, February 08, 2013 Will Congress Finally Deal With The Health Emergency of Mountaintop Removal? With the daily silica -laced blizzard from five million pounds of toxic explosives in the background, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth and Rep. Read more
	Views Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Immigration Reform Must Begin With Moratorium on Deportations and Recognition of Shattered Families As President Obama unveiled his immigration reform plan in Las Vegas yesterday, admonishing the U.S. Read more

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