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, 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 |
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Views Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Historic Victory: Coal Free Chicago Will Electrify Clean Energy Movement In a move that should electrify the clean energy movement across the country, the tireless champions with the Chicago Clean Power Coalition have announced that Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of multinational giant Edison International, will soon shut down the Windy City's two Model-T-era coal-fired plants. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 28, 2012 New Mountaintop Removal Campaign Kicks Off in Washington, DC Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop removal crisis in the central Appalachian coalfields are descending on Washington, DC today, as part of a new emergency health campaign calling for an immediate moratorium on “the toxic coal acquisition process that has been shown to be associated with heart-breaking birth defects, cardiac problems, lung problems and systemic failures in other human organs.” Read more |
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Views Friday, February 03, 2012 If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal. Right? One of the most heartening moments of solidarity in the Tar Sands Action movement took place last summer: A contingent of Appalachian coalfield residents, whose homes are literally under siege from daily blasting and stripmining fallout, took their place at a White House sit-in and went to jail in an appeal to President Obama to deny the TransCanada Keystone pipeline permit. Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 26, 2012 Arizona Unbound: National Actions on Mexican American Studies Banishment What happens in Arizona doesn't stay in Arizona. Read more |