Bread and Roses 1912-2012 posted The Coal Creek War on Facebook.

On Oct. 31, 1891, in response to an ongoing attempt by coal mine owners to replace miners with convicts leased by the state, a group of miners burned the Tennessee Coal Mining Company stockade in Briceville and seize the Knoxville Iron Company stockade at Coal Creek, freeing over 300 convicts and supplying them with food and civilian clothes.

I am publishing a copy of this here before Facebook is forced by Congress to call this Russian propaganda. You know this is the type of thing that the oligarchs owning Congress do not want people in the USA to see. Think about this before you jump on the Russia hysteria bandwagon.

November 1, 2017

Just to maker sure I wasn’t falling victim to “fake news”, I did a Google search. I came up with many entries. I’ll just post the link to the Wikipedia entry Coal Creek War.

The Hill has the article Trade panel recommends Trump impose tariffs on solar power technology.

Senator Edward J. Markey posted remarks on Facebook about this.

Today’s action provides President Trump and the fossil fuel industry the means to kill the solar energy industry in the United States and the hundreds of thousands of blue-collar American workers it employs. Here’s my full statement on today’s International Trade Commission action:

Link to full statement

Congratulations to Senator Markey for recognizing how destructive these recommendations are. I believe that free trade is good for the world. NAFTA and TPP were not free trade. NAFTA and TPP were oligarch protection agreements. NAFTA and TPP gave free trade a bad name.

Not only will a tariff kill jobs in the USA, but it will price solar out of the market in the USA. That will just put our country further behind the rest of the world in adopting the latest technology to improve our efficiency, our environment, and our energy independence. We have plenty of domestic semiconductor companies that are competing successfully in the world market without the use of tariffs. Support from our government for our domestic companies is much better than road-blocks to non-domestic producers. One such support would be taking the burden of health insurance off the backs of domestic companies with the introduction of Medicare For All.

Here is a question inspired by a Facebook friend.

If you hear a candidate say that they are going to move your city or town forward, what do you want that to mean? What must they say to make you think they will move your locality forward in a way that you would prefer?

Consider this a brain-stormiing exercise. No critiques of any suggestions allowed. Only questions of clarification allowed.

Multiple entries encouraged. You don’t have to think of everything before you make your first reply.

I want to use Facebook to collect the answers. Please use my Facebook post to make your replies. Click on the preceding link to make your reply. You don’t have to be a Facebook friend to read the replies or to make one.