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Burnett transferred to Tuscaloosa by way of Texas Tech after the 2021 season. Unfortunately the Chicago native to his ACL in September and missed all of the 2022 season.
Warrior Met Coal miners strike in Alabama nears two months in historic region of class struggle
The seven-week strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama is being conducted in an area that is rich in the history of the class struggle and miners’ resistance to the violence of the coal bosses and the government. The miners, who walked out on April 1 determined to restore previous pay cuts and fight abusive and unsafe working conditions, have displayed enormous resilience and courage.
This is in sharp contrast to the actions of the United Mine Workers and the AFL-CIO, which have isolated the striking miners and forced them to fight alone against Warrior Met and the Wall Street investors who run it. Opposed to a real mobilization of the working class, including mass picketing to halt Warrior Met’s strikebreaking operations, the UMWA organized a civil disobedience style protest in front of the company’s main offices on Alabama Route 126 on Wednesday morning.
By ALEX HORTON | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 It was early September 1864 when Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, with a reputation among Southerners as a swashbuckling gentleman, was surrounded by federal soldiers outside a Tennessee mansion. Morgan fled across the lawn. A Union bullet shredded the general s heart, a member of his staff wrote to Morgan s wife, ending his campaign of ambushing and capturing U.S. troops. Nearly 160 years later, Morgan s legacy lives within 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment of the Kentucky National Guard, which traces its lineage through a cavalry unit he commanded. Its members are officially nicknamed Morgan s Men. On the radio, the commander is known by the call sign Morgan 6.