Mother Jones

Standing idly by

English - March 01, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB
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The story of an iconic and inspirational woman born Mary Harris in Ireland and eventually immortalised as Mother Jones who stood up for workers, for child labourers for women at a time when the profiteers of the ruling class in the US had everything in their favour until the Unions started to mobilise.
What messages can we take from Mary's story that inform our activism today?