Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.
I followed them underground, home, to church, to the strip club where they drink and gossip and taunt and jab and worry about one another. I listened while they worried about Smitty, the loner of the group, who had just ordered himself a mail-order woman.
Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.
“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”
The dangerous corporate ethos of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who is on trial after an explosion at one of his mines killed 29.
