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Which side are you on? It's the name of a protest song, as well as the central question of HARLAN COUNTY, USA, Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning 1976 documentary about the struggle to unionize the coalminers of Brookside, Kentucky. Standing in their way was the Eastover Mining Co. and its parent company, Duke Power, which would rather resort to violence than give their workers a contract, a decent wage, and a work environment that didn't needlessly kill miners by explosion, cave-in, and black lung.
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Which side are you on? It's the name of a protest song, as well as the central question of HARLAN COUNTY, USA, Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning 1976 documentary about the struggle to unionize the coalminers of Brookside, Kentucky. Standing in their way was the Eastover Mining Co. and its parent company, Duke Power, which would rather resort to violence than give their workers a contract, a decent wage, and a work environment that didn't needlessly kill miners by explosion, cave-in, and black lung.
For more ReThink Reviews, go here youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B5DFC2A5707C5EBB
