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Over the past few years, we’ve become familiar with the weapons of American police brutality, from tear gas and rubber bullets to automatic weapons. But few realize just how long these tactics have been in play. Nearly 100 years ago, the U.S. federal government was dropping bombs on civilians in rural West Virginia <http://www.ozy.com/flashback/west-virginia-best-virginia/40231>. For a week in the late summer of 1921, planes buzzed, machine guns rattled, gas hissed and bombs whistled through the air around Blair Mountain. It was like a scene out of World War I — a war that had ended just a few years earlier. Now, the United States was fighting itself in a conflict known as the Coal Wars, and the Battle of Blair Mountain would be the biggest fight yet. Impoverished coal miners <http://www.ozy.com/2016/donald-trump-and-the-furor-in-coal-country/71336> risked everything to try to unionize and establish some basic rights <http://www.ozy.com/flashback/jackie-robinson-business-pioneer/40613> for themselves and their communities. http://www.ozy.com/flashback/a-little-known-civil-war-in-coal-country/74879?utm_source=pdb&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01092017&variable=f1fb285d292e14c446e8568e7609c0d6 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
