Matewan, History From Below

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The West Virginia Mine Wars are a series of armed conflicts which collectively make up the largest labor uprising in the history of the United States, yet many of us are unfamiliar with this history. For almost a century, the fossil fuel industry, private interests, and industrial capitalism have done their best to suppress the stories of militant labor uprising from the coal fields of West Virginia. In our current revolutionary era, groups of people inside Appalachia work tirelessly to preserve this rich labor history. This film follows some of these artists, organizers, and educators, as they share the people’s history of The Battle of Matewan, the spark that ignited the West Virginia Mine Wars.