Mini-cast: Pay KY Coal Miners Now! (w/ Josh Holbrook)

We talk with Josh Holbrook, one of the Kentucky coal miners currently protesting coal companies Black Jewel, Black Hawk, and Revelation for stiffing him and his coworkers on backpay after going bankrupt. 

 

Additional links/info below...

• GoFundMe - Letcher County BlackJewel Coal Miners 
• Action Network - Fund for Former Revelation, Black Hawk, and Black Jewel Miners Demonstrating in Harlan County 
• Brittany Patterson & Sydney Boles, Ohio Valley Resource, " Laid-Off Employees Of Bankrupt Blackjewel Mining Seek Pay, Answers"
• Oakley Fugate & Shaylan Clark, "Black Jewel Protest in Cumberland"
• Curren Sheldon, 100 Days in Appalachia, "The Protesting Kentucky Coal Miners Who Stood Up and Stopped a Train"

 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"