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 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Obama's August Surprise on Mountaintop Removal? As the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining--including the re-emerging scandal of reckless black lung policies on strip miners--continue to mount despite the shift of coal production to the heartland and western Power River Basin--President Obama has an election-year opportunity to declare an armistice in the polarized Appalachian coalfields, mend a 30-year mining policy of betr Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 26, 2012 SB 1070 Backlash Isn’t Over The Supreme Court ruling to uphold a key provision in Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law may send out a last shred of hope to “attrition through enforcement” Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Freedom Summer: AZ Attorney General's Chance to Learn About Civil Rights Facing a $10 million lawsuit and an FBI investigation for campaign violations, and with a federal court decision imminent on the constitutionality of Arizona's thinly veiled ban on Tucson's Mexican American Studies Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 06, 2012 Have You No Decency, Republicans? Last Friday night, en route to the cankered strip mined ruins of my family's 200-year-old homestead in southern Illinois, I was too stunned by Goldman Prize recipient Maria Gunnoe's story on the phone to adequately follow up in writing. Read more |
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Views Friday, May 04, 2012 Coal Train Uprisings In a dramatic lockdown on the coal-hauling train tracks leading into the Marshall Steam Station, a half-century-old toxic coal-fired plant owned by Duke Energy on the outskirts of Charlotte, North Carolina, legendary mountaintop removal activist Mickey McCoy and other Appalachian coalfield residents teamed up with Greenpeace and regional groups to launch a new phase in a galvanized anti-Big Coal movement across the country. Read more |
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Views Friday, April 27, 2012 Tucson High School Blocks Renowned Author Ana Castillo's Visit In a stunning rejection of celebrated author Ana Castillo's offer to read and speak with Tucson high school students next week, Tucson Unified School District administrators added a new chapter to the nation's most troubling censorship crackdown and dismissed any overtures for healing in the torn community. Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 05, 2012 Tucson's Latino Blogger Shut Down by News Site With the impeccable timing that continues to cement Tucson’s reputation as a hotbed of censorship and intellectual freedom violations, the online Tucson Citizen news site just announced that it has pulled the plug on the city’s most popular Latino blogger and activist, The Three Sonorans. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 03, 2012 Arizona Teacher Embodies Educational Spirit of Howard Zinn While the Daily Show brilliantly reminded millions of viewers last night of the disgraceful racist elements behind the attack on Tucson's acclaimed and now outlawed Mexican American Studies program, educators across the nation recalled a teaching moment. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Climate Activist DeChristopher Facing Cruel Punishment in Prison? In the same March week that an unprecedented heat wave made even President Obama feel “a little nervous,” imprisoned climate change activist Tim DeChristopher languished mysteriously in isolation at the FCI Herlong’s Special Housing Unit in California. Read more |
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Views Friday, March 09, 2012 Dear Tucson Students, It Gets Better It's spring-time in the Sonoran Desert, and as la maravilla of the wild flowers stretches across the valleys of southern Arizona, caravans of literary heroes and national education advocates will be descending on the Old Pueblo this weekend for a series of celebrations in support of Tucson's outlawed Mexican American Studies program. Read more |