Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
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out to our distributor Bullfrog Films and Bullfrog Communities.
Kaiulani also tours (in person or remotely) with the film for Q&A, for bookings and inquires, contact Davis Spylios Management.
out to our distributor Bullfrog Films and Bullfrog Communities.
Kaiulani also tours (in person or remotely) with the film for Q&A, for bookings and inquires, contact Davis Spylios Management.
- "A gut-punch...The hopes and tragedies of America's working people, then and now, are alive in this film."
- Elliot Gorn, Chair, American Urban History, Loyola Univ Chicago
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. 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 is as bold and forceful as Mother Jones herself. This one-shot film was written and performed by Obie Award-winning Actress Kaiulani Lee and directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney.
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 is as bold and forceful as Mother Jones herself. This one-shot film was written and performed by Obie Award-winning Actress Kaiulani Lee and directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney.
