We were never supposed to know her name. She was a poor Irish immigrant who survived famine and war, fire and plague. Unable to save her husband or their four small children, she dedicated her life to saving working families everywhere. The robber barons called her "the most dangerous woman in America," but workers called her "Mother Jones."

Upton Sinclair said of her, "She had force, she had wit, she had the fire of indignation; she was the walking wrath of god." Mother Jones said of herself "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hellraiser." Most famously, she told her followers to, "pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." She educated, agitated, and organized the dispossessed and showed America what it could be.

With the gap between the rich and poor growing wider by the day, the just and democratic society Mother Jones fought for is under attack. Her hour has come again.

Drawn from her autobiography, letters, speeches, and interviews, this one-shot film was adapted from Obie Award-winning actress Kaiulani Lee's one-woman play "Can't Scare Me," and produced by the same team as A Sense of Wonder with Kaiulani Lee as Rachel Carson and directed by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney

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Reviews
"A most timely film! Indeed, now is the time to recall the courage of the great and inspiring labor organizer Mother Jones - a woman who not only recognized the exploitation and oppression of the Gilded Age, but also the imperative of challenging it from the bottom up. In this performance, we hear 'first-hand' from her about how she mobilized the anger, hopes, energies, and aspirations of a generation of American working people - men, women, and children - to join in solidarity, challenge the corporate bosses, and demand government action. Now, in this Second Gilded Age, when working people are organizing anew, we should not fail to appreciate struggles of the past."