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Mother Jones: We Shall Rise #Blair100 conversation

Thu, Aug 26

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Mother Jones: We Shall Rise #Blair100

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Mother Jones: We Shall Rise #Blair100 conversation
Mother Jones: We Shall Rise #Blair100 conversation

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Aug 26, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

Mother Jones: We Shall Rise #Blair100

About the Event

Mother Jones played a vital part in organizing miners and their families in West Virginia, in encouraging a culture of resistance that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain 100 years ago.

100 years later, all her advice about confronting power and thinking about how to build solidarity are still worth discussing. We face levels of inequality, scapegoating of immigrants, government by monied corporations, legal straitjackets around organizing unions.

The Mother Jones Heritage Project seeks to connect this past history to the present. We have brought Mother Jones back to picket lines with a 12 foot inflatable, have produced exhibits in venues from labor unions to museums, and have worked with artists and sculptors. We are currently in the process of erecting a statue sculpture to her in a prime location in Chicago. We seek to partner with others who know that Mother Jones believed in the power of workers…

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