Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal is a 2007 book published by the University of Kentucky Press. The award-winning book is written by Virginia resident Penny Loeb, a former senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and a former investigative reporter for Newsday.
Loeb spent nine years chronicling the difficult situation of Trish Bragg and other inhabitants of the West Virginia coalfields. In Loeb's analysis, these people are "caught between the economic opportunities provided by coal and the detriments to health and to quality of life that are so often the by-products of the coal industry". Moving Mountains is an account of the human and environmental costs of coal extraction, and the grassroots movement to mitigate those costs.
Loeb has received many awards for journalism, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and for a National Magazine Award in 1993 and 1997.
Read more about Moving Mountains: How One Woman And Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal: See Also
Famous quotes containing the words moving, woman, community, won, justice, big and/or coal:
“The moving finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”
—Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883)
“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“when Mrs Kindhead comes to collect for the Community Chest
grab her and tell her There are unfavorable omens in the sky!
And when the mayor comes to get my vote tell him
When are you going to stop people killing whales!”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)
“A man who knows the Real
is won only by true feeling.
Who can fool an old cat
with sour gruel?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“Have your union. You need it. Alone you are weak. Together you are strong. But remember, that with strength goes responsibility to others and yourselves. For you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice, only with justice and the help of God.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)
“In the past, as now, Haiti’s curse has been her politicians. There are still too many men of influence in the country who believe that a national election is a mandate from the people to build themselves a big new house in Petionville and Kenscoff and a trip to Paris.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)