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Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Mother Jones began posting its magazine content on the Internet on November 24, 1993, the first general interest magazine in the country to do so. [29] [30] In the March/April 1996 issue, the magazine published the first Mother Jones 400, a listing of the largest individual donors to federal political campaigns. The print magazine listed the ...
The guards are shown pointing their Winchesters at the strikers and their families. Atop the bas-relief is a bronze portrait of Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones"). Mother Jones is buried in the Union Miners Cemetery in nearby Mount Olive, Illinois, alongside miners who died in the October 1898 conflict.
The center granite spire features a bas-relief of Mother Jones and is flanked with bronze statues of two miners. [3] All construction labor of the monument was donated. [3] The monument was erected in 1936 and unveiled to a crowd of over 50,000 union members and their families, activists, and government officials. [3] [4]
Paul Jacobs (August 24, 1918 – January 3, 1978) [1] was a left-wing populist activist, journalist, and co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. [2] In 1966, he signed a tax resistance vow to protest the Vietnam War. [3] In 1968, Jacobs was the nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party for the U.S. Senate from California. [4] He received 1.31% of the ...
Mother Jones and CIR were both founded in the 1970s and merged earlier this year. Both are based in San Francisco, as is OpenAI. The lawsuit from CIR, also known for its Reveal podcast and radio ...
The move comes after the 1619 Project creator’s months-long battle with the university in 2021 over her initially being denied tenure, which sparked national controversy.
Debra J. Dickerson (born 1959) is an American author, editor, writer, and contributing writer and blogger for Mother Jones magazine. [1] Dickerson has been most prolific as an essayist, writing on race relations and racial identity in the United States.