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We were never supposed to know her name. Mary Harris Jones was a poor Irish immigrant who survived famine and war, fire and plague. Unable to save her husband or their four small children from yellow fever, 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. It is time that her story and the fierce struggles of working families are brought back to life.

Drawn from her autobiography, letters, speeches, and interviews, FIGHT LIKE HELL - The Testimony of Mother Jones is as bold and forceful as Mother Jones herself. Adapted from Obie Award-winning Actress Kaiulani Lee’s one-woman play “Can’t Scare Me,” FIGHT LIKE HELL was written and performed by Lee and directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney.

Presented by Bullfrog Films
Directed by Ian Cheney
Produced by Martha Gregory, Ian Cheney
Writer: Kaiulani Lee
Director of Photography: Taylor Gentry
Original Music: Martin Crane
Adapted from the play "Can't Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones" by Kaiulani Lee
Starring Kaiulani Lee as Mother Jones
A Wicked Delicate Films Production

Educational Use: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/flh.html
Academic Streaming: https://docuseek2.com/bf-flh
Community Screenings: https://www.bullfrogcommunities.com/fightlikehell

Background photo by Jon Moore and Tim Mossholder via Unsplash