Grieving relative says dead miners’ bodies frozen by icy subterranean water

LEBEL-SUR-QUEVILLON, Que. — A grieving relative says three dead miners drowned in such frigid water that their bodies were frozen blocks of ice by the time they were recovered. After a frenzied rescue effort, their bodies were found three days after they were were trapped when the northern Quebec mine flooded Friday. Rescue workers had [...]

Posted at 9:22 am on November 4, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Mine Disasters | Tagged: , , , | read on

Two die in attack on Chinese mine in Peru

LIMA, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Two workers died and two were missing after an attack on Chinese miner Zijin’s controversial Rio Blanco copper project in Peru, a sign the government’s push to lure foreign investment has polarized domestic politics. About 15 to 20 gunmen invaded the mining camp on Sunday and fired at its [...]

Posted at 12:00 pm on November 3, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Labor and Social Movements, Mine Disasters | Tagged: , , , , , | read on

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Mark Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). For the past several years he has been designing and facilitating “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), Muslim/Somali nurses and healthcare workers (through Rufaidah), and others. Nowak’s writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007), American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan, 2007), The Progressive, and elsewhere. A native of Buffalo, New York, he currently works as Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. For information on bookings, contact Speak Out Now: The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture.

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