Sentences with phrase «striking coal miners»

If anything the Climate Campers are the objects of Mrs Thatcher's 1980s strategy to defeat striking coal miners.

Harlan County, USA — Barbara Kopple's verité chronicle of striking coal miners in Kentucky in the early 70s.

The small group of diverse people, mostly young, form LGSM, or Lesbians, Gays Support Mineworkers, choose at random a small Welsh town that is the home of striking coal miners and begin to take up a contribution to be used principally for food for the union members.

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In 1912, coal miners in Colorado and West Virginia went on strike.

Historically, the relationship between the two nations has been one of English incursions and Welsh resentment, from King Edward I's invasion of Wales in the 13th century to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's war on striking Welsh coal - miners in the 1980s.

The miners strike of 1984 — 85 over coal mine closures, which divided the NUM as well as the Labour Party, and the Wapping dispute led to clashes with the left of the party, and negative coverage in most of the press.

The miners strike was a disaster for the coal industry and was scarred by violence and intimidation as the leadership sought to defy the laws of the land and the laws of economics.

After serving in the US coast guard reserve and then studying ballet, Cooper made his big screen debut in John Sayles» emotive drama about a coal miners» strike in the 1920s.

The film deals with a group of lesbian and gay activists who allied themselves with the coal miners during a British strike in 1984.

In the mid 1980s, thousands of British coal miners went on strike in reaction to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's vow to rid the U.K. of the National Union of Mineworkers, or NUM.

8:05 am — IFC — Harlan County, U.S.A. Often considered one of the finest documentaries ever put on film, Barbara Kopple's film documents a 1973 coal miner's strike in Kentucky which lasted over a year.

A landmark account of a community rising up against corporate greed, Barbara Kopple's Oscar - winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners» strike in a small Kentucky town.

In the opening moments of «Pride,» activist Mark (Ben Schnetzer) makes the case at the 1984 London Gay Pride parade that the LGBT community and the coal miners on strike, seemingly disparate, actually share common enemies: Margaret Thatcher, the police and the tabloid press.

It shares one major element with that film: it centers around the 1984 miners strike, where the coal miners stopped work for almost a year in an (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to stop Margaret Thatcher's attempt to close down the pits.

Then the British coal miners» strike slammed into the coal market and residual fuel oil suddenly became a sought - after replacement fuel.

Will these indie miners» strike gold, or will they be giving out coal?

The project coincides with the end of the 30 - year anniversary of the UK miners» strike and an ongoing collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum to give a poetic and historical response to an industry which still figures large in the cultural memory of the region.

It began, the Swindle claimed, with the British coal miners» strike.

It outstrips even years with miners» strikes (1921,1926 and 1984), when coal use fell by around 30 % before rebounding a year later.

Amid worsening economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, coal miners led some of the most dramatic protests as the state imposed martial law, with seven workers killed by strike - breaking police in a 1981 massacre at a Silesia mine.