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"You want to be treated like men? You want to be treated fair? Well, you ain't men to the (coal) company, you're equipment. They'll use you 'til you wear out or break down (or you're buried alive under a slate fall) and then get a new one, and they don't care what color it is or where it comes from."
"They got you fightin' white against the colored, native against foreign... When you know there ain't but two sides in the world - them that work and them that don't. That's all you got to know about the enemy."
- from John Sayles' "Matewan"
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Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
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Excellent
by Jennifer Hathaway on Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:29:47 PM
Excellent analogies and comparisons
by Elizabeth Molchany on Friday, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:56:55 AM