Journalism professor emeritus Clancy Sigal published an op-ed piece in the London Guardian on Nov. 11 titled "Blair Mountain and labor's living history." Sigal's article discussed the debate surrounding the impending mountaintop removal of the historic Blair Mountain. "A billion dollars of undug coal inside the mountain is at stake. The world is in the middle of a coal rush. Dynamite is cheaper than people," wrote Sigal. "Incorrigible companies like Massey aim to blow up Blair, via "mountaintop removal" (aka "strip mining on steroids"), to get at the coal and, while they're at it, destroy the people's battleground, the ecology and any inheritance of resistance." "It is a fight over memory and honor," Sigal wrote. Read "Blair Mountain and labor's living history"