Join us for an evening of conversation around rural radical resistance and resilience with Ian Byers Gamber (I Come Creeping), Mitch Troutman (The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942) and Gordon Simmons (Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers 1969-2019)! The panel will cover the West Virginia mine wars, historic and recent strikes in the Appalachian region, subsistence in the face of concentrated government repression, how these events have been portrayed historically, and what can be learned from them today.

This event is organized in collaboration with PM Press as part of their All We Have Is Each Other Speaker Series.

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Ian Byers-Gamber is a Los Angeles based artist and art documentarian who makes work in the service of a liberatory politic, celebrating community within and around the institutions that shape how we engage with the world.

Gordon Simmons is a retired union organizer and is president of the West Virginia Labor History Association. He is now employed as an investigator for the West Virginia Human Rights Commission and lives in Charleston.

Mitch Troutman is a writer, educator, organizer, and jack-of-all-trades living in Central Pennsylvania. He is a direct descendent of bootleg coal miners and belongs to the group Anthracite Unite.