#appalachia — Public Fediverse posts
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Hare Krishna Kitchens In W.Va., Soul Food And A Musician’s Call To Arms, Inside Appalachia https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/20874/ #Appalachia #Arts&Culture #Asheville #HareKrishna #InsideAppalachia #podcast #PodcastInsideAppalachia #SoulFood #SoulFoodKitchen #SoulFoodKitchens #SoulFoodRestaurant #SoulFoodRestaurants #TashiDorji #XavierOglesby
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Happy National Book Lovers Day! #books #bookstodon #booksky #bookLovers #sunday #fun #Tshirts #mastodon #fediverse #social #ads #ad #book #selfPromo #promotion #indieAuthor #indie #writing #writingCommunity #writers #writer #scribesAndMakers #fiction #gritlit #goose #goosecreekholler #sophiajanehayden #authors #author #writersCoffeeClub #authorLife #appalachia #rural #south #Southern #southernfiction #legal #drama #sleuth #sheriff #lawsuit #law #corruption
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#miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history
"America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History
The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.
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According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.
Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.
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He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.
Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."
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My name is Laura, but y'all feel free to call me Lala if you like. Or Tink. Or Ishe. I'm here for {in no special order}:
#bulletjournaling
#dogs
#Caturday
#crochet
#Appalachia
#AppalachianHistory
#actualadoptee
#bookwyrm
#wolves
#phonephotography
#Irishlanguage
#pizza
#art
#StardewValley
#music
#stationery
#witchy
#drawing
#buckdance
#donorconceived
#notparentexpected
#formerfosteryouth
#exvangelical
#AuDHD
#Bridgerton
#DerryGirls
#FruitsBasketanime
#manga
#anime
#humor
#yallmeansall 🌈
#tattoosPlease boost, if you'd like. I may edit this in the future. If you've a similar list, I'm happy to boost in return.
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Hype for the Future 119G: United States Route 11 in Pennsylvania, South of Shamokin Dam
Introduction Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States Route 11 is situated within the Appalachian Mountains, often toward the eastern side of the Commonwealth from southwest to northeast and somewhat parallel to Route 220 to the north. Trajectory — Franklin County Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first county after crossing the Mason-Dixon Line that is covered is Franklin County, including the community of State Line within Antrim Township. Today, the Antrim […] -
Hype for the Future 100E: Madison County, North Carolina
Introduction Madison County is located along the western edge of the State of North Carolina, with the Town of Marshall serving as the county seat and the Town of Mars Hill to the east serving as the largest community within the county. Attractions Locally within the Town of Marshall is an art gallery known as “Flow” as well as a statue on the Charters of Freedom. Further east, the Town of Mars Hill is home to Mars Hill University as well as the Mars Landing Galleries and Arts Center […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/hype-for-the-future-100e-madison-county-north-carolina/
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A #Queer #Ecological #Framework for #EnvironmentalJustice in #Appalachia
Historically, one of the most common #arguments for the #demonization of #LGBTQ #people is #framing #queerness as “against #nature.” Similarly, the idea that being #cisgender is “#normal” while being #transgender is not is often invoked to #erode #transgender #rights and #access to #healthcare
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Environment #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/a-queer-ecological-framework-for-environmental-justice-in-appalachia/
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Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline w/ Appalachians Against Pipelines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wuKMytFZSQ&ab_channel=GreenandRedPodcast
The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 300 mile long fracked gas pipeline cutting across the mountains and waterways of Appalachia. For the past five years, Appalachians Against Pipelines (@stopthemvp) has waged a fierce direct action campaign against it with tree-sits, blockades and civil disobedience.
#greenred #podcast #mountainvalleypipeline #appalachia #appalachiansagainstpipelines #joemanchin #joebiden #scotus #politics #money #bribery #profit #pollution #healthrisk #waterdefenders #climatedefense