Matthew Millan

In late August 1921, thousands of coal miners in West Virginia marched to demand union recognition, safer working conditions, and an end to company control over their lives. They were met with armed guards, state forces, and eventually federal troops in what became the largest labor uprising in U.S. history.

This song looks back on the miners’ wars not as a story of triumph, but as a reminder of the cost of organizing and the violence that was used to suppress it. It honors the workers who were killed, imprisoned, or blacklisted, and insists that workers’ rights were not granted freely, but won through struggle, sacrifice, and endurance.

Our mission is to shed light on stories that transform our world. Armed with the scientific process and the principles of veracity, Beyond Borders aims to challenge established world views, and combat fake news that has proliferated since the rise of social media. Beyond Borders episodes are globe-spanning bullet documentaries that cover a wide range of topics from science to mythology to the current events that forge the future, and many are seen through the eyes of those affecting change.

Living by the credo that reality doesn’t care what people think, we at Beyond Borders strongly believe that knowledge must be filtered through our own lenses as little as humanly possible. Hence our primary focus is to challenge the biases and mythologies that drive our lives wherever and whenever we encounter them.

Palinode is a philosophical technology collective spearheading the creation of innovative products, academic courses and philosophical events, while producing media rooted in the exploration of ideas and philosophical tradition.
In a landscape dominated by algorithmic optimization and endless engagement loops, we offer an alternative: technologies and approaches that don’t flatten thought and are capable of mediating nuance instead of eradicating it, reward intellectual risk, and invite users to think differently. Our name, Palinode, evokes a poetic retraction: a turning back to revise, not regress.