Four Rivers Indivisible is ON IT when it comes to calling out Mitch McConnell and letting people know “We can’t afford six more years!”
They put up Burma Shave signs attacking McConnell and supporting Amy McGrath. Then they put up a billboard in western Kentucky.
Now they’ve got a new video out, and it’s a winner.
Here’s the story: All the people in the video are local to the Four Rivers area. Each person made their own poster, and then had a family member shoot a video of them holding the poster. Leslie McColgin, one of the leaders of Four Rivers Indivisible, asked her daughter to put all the videos into one overall video and add music.
The song used in the video is “Which Side Are You On?” It was written by Florence Reece (1900–1986) at the age of 12. She wrote the song when her father was out on strike at one of the coal mines. As an adult, Reece was an American social activist, poet, and folksong writer. She updated the song for the Harlan County War coal miners strike in 1931, where her husband, Sam Reece, was one of the organizers. From Wikipedia:
In 1931, the miners and the mine owners in southeastern Kentucky were locked in a bitter and violent struggle called the Harlan County War. In an attempt to intimidate the family of union leader Sam Reece, Sheriff J. H. Blair and his men, hired by the mining company, illegally entered their home in search of Reece. Reece had been warned in advance and escaped but his wife, Florence, and their children were terrorized. That night, after the men had gone, Florence wrote the lyrics to “Which Side Are You On?” on a calendar that hung in their kitchen. She took the melody from a traditional Baptist hymn, “Lay the Lily Low”, or the traditional ballad “Jack Munro.”
Here’s the video from Four Rivers Indivisible. Be sure to share it!