James Green, a past president of LAWCHA, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Mother Jones Festival in Cork, Ireland, a four-day community-organized festa of songs, politics, and labor histories. For a text of the speech, visit the Cork Mother Jones Festival 2014 website.
Green’s remarks were based on his forthcoming book from Grove Atlantic, The Devil is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and their Battle for Freedom (pub date Feb. 3, 2015). For pre-orders, visit the Grove Atlantic official site for The Devil is Here in These Hills.
Green’s new history of the West Virginia mine wars will be also available in electronic and books-on-tape editions.
The PBS series “American Experience” acquired the rights to the book, which will be basis of a two-hour television documentary based on Green’s narrative. The program will be broadcast nationwide in 2016 and produced by a Boston group, The Film Posse.
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