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"Democracy Now!": Fri. Feb. 26 2010
As the healthcare summit ends in deadlock, single-payer advocates remain excluded. We speak to Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor Trudy Lieberman and pediatrician Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program about it. V-Day founder Eve Ensler talks about her new book, “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”; and as Obama pushes “clean coal,” Jeff Biggers tracks the history of destructive mining in “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland”. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
Email this pageGRITtv: Jeff Biggers Uncovers the Devastating History of Coal Mining
Writer and environmental activist Jeff Biggers' latest book, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, tells of his journey into his own family's history in the mountains of Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois. He uncovers the devastating environmental destruction of those mountains taking place today, and exposes the truth about coal. In addition to being an award-winning author, Biggers is a contributing editor to The Bloomsbury Review, he regularly blogs for the Huffington Post and Grist, and is co-founder of the theater company, Coal Free Future Project.
