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Milwaukee, December 10: UWO Labor Movie Night: Mine Wars

Join us as we watch and discuss the 2016 PBS documentary MINE WARS at the ATU 998 hall, downstairs – 734 N 26th St, Milwaukee.

The Battle of Blair Mountain, involved upward of 10,000 miners fighting to form a union who fought with some 3,000 police and strikebreakers. Both groups were well armed. The clash, which took place over five days in the late summer of 1921, has been called the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.

8/10 IMDB

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRFRJknCo1c

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