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8 Mar 2010

Author:
Jeff Biggers, in CommonDreams.org

The Women I Love (on Women's Day): Agitators Who Stand Up to Big Coal [USA]

On International Women's Day, let us now praise the muckrakers, the agitators, the coal mining women, the organizers, the fearless ones willing to stand up to Big Coal...I love two women agitators, in particular: Mary "Mother" Jones, and Agnes Burns Wieck.

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