A compelling look at the remarkable Mother Jones

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 5, 2001 ;     580 words ......compelling look at the remarkable Mother Jones By JAMES ASHER Baltimore Sun Thursday, April 5, 2001 Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America...also known as Mary Jones, a.k.a. Mother Jones. These days, few know Mother Jones...

Mother Jones, Anti-Feminist.

The American Enterprise;  June 1, 2000 ;     637 words ......REMAIN EVER A CHILD--Cicero Today we know Mother Jones as the name of a magazine for yuppie...stock and buying Microsoft. The real Mother Jones--Irish-born Mary Harris Jones (1830...nickname was not bestowed sarcastically. Mother Jones, whose husband and four young children...

Ronnie Gilbert: resurrecting Mother Jones.

American Theatre;  July 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Labor leader Mother Jones was 100 years old when she died...gesture. She was quite a fibber. Mother Jones, the one-woman show that Gilbert...McCarthy era. The combination of Mother Jones, Gilbert and Berkeley itself - a...

Mother Jones Magazine Releases Second Annual '400' List

PR Newswire;  April 17, 1997 ;     402 words ......millionaires who set Washington's agenda? Today Mother Jones magazine releases the annual Mother Jones 400, a comprehensive listing of the 400...addition to the stories and rankings in Mother Jones magazine, a searchable database of the...

Labor icon, in depth: Elliott Gorn produces a complete biography of Mother...

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  December 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......follows labor or Appalachian history. Mother Jones rarely talked or wrote about her early...bearing witness, to a pilgrim's story." Mother Jones frequently said she was born in 1830...of the unemployed in 1894. At age 57, Mother Jones began 30 years of traveling across the...

Profile: Mother Jones' life as a labor movement activist

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  December 2, 2000 ;     424 words ...00-00-0000 Profile: Mother Jones' life as a labor movement activist...dedicating an historical marker to Mother Jones. This icon of the American labor...s in mourning for the death of Mother Jones. Gloom and sorrow hover around...

Russ Rymer Named Mother Jones' Editor-in-Chief.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service;  January 13, 2005 ;     372 words ...Byline: Mother Jones Magazine SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mother Jones magazine announced today that Russ Rymer has been named editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, effective February 7. A noted writer and editor, Rymer has held senior...

Doug Foster: moving Mother Jones into the '90s; anticipating a social...

Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management;  May 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Doug Foster: Moving Mother Jones into the '90s San Francisco--If Mother Jones is going yuppie, management made an odd choice...And he disputes the yuppie label tacked onto Mother Jones' February redesign by the general press, such...

United Around Mother Jones; Illinois Town Remembers Worker Rights Advocate

The Washington Post;  October 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ......to impersonate famed labor crusader Mother Jones, she's gotten used to the questions...esn't happen in this sleepy town, a place Mother Jones (whose real name was Mary Harris Jones...here in costume at the town's inaugural Mother Jones Festival. "I never had my picture taken...

Mother Jones pokes fun at itself

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 24, 1986 ;     460 words ......U.S. senators. Having achieved this, Mother Jones has received a higher accolade. It was...circulation sweepstakes. The July/August Mother Jones is a 10th-anniversary issue that takes...with pompous self-congratulations, but Mother Jones, true to its irreverent nature, pokes...

Mother Jones: The woman

Mother Jones;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......remembered today? HPTON SINCLAIR knew Mother Jones. The author of the bestselling expose...miners." Stories, Sinclair wrote, were Mother Jones' weapons, stories "about strikes she...revolt." When Sinclair wrote these words, Mother Jones was one of the most famous women in...

Mother Jones played key role in bitter 1917 streetcar strike

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  May 13, 2007 ;     630 words ......Earth and Mother Teresa. There's also Mother Jones, the "mother" of the United States labor...fever epidemic of 1867. Eventually, "Mother" Jones, as she came to be called, developed...that in the summer of 1917, 87-year-old Mother Jones found herself in Bloomington urging...

Keeping Up With Mother Jones

Irish Voice;  March 14, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Irish Voice 03-14-1995 Keeping Up With Mother Jones. "I COULD never die, because when I...most of her hundred years simply as `Mother' Jones -- did actually pass away in 1930, there...cats from New York to San Fransisco. Mother Jones arrived in the U.S. as a child after...

SYNDICATED NEWSMAGAZINES 'INSIDE EDITION' & 'AMERICAN JOURNAL' FORGE JOINT...

PR Newswire;  May 15, 1996 ;     387 words ......newsmagazines, have joined forces with Mother Jones, the nation's foremost investigative...appear on air as well as in the pages of Mother Jones. Early installments are expected to...pleased and excited about teaming up with 'Mother Jones,' which produces some of the most important...

Meet labor activist Mother Jones

News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  March 21, 2006 ;     382 words ......raiser." She was Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, "the greatest woman agitator of the 19th century." You can "meet" Mother Jones at the Warren-Newport Public Library...WomanLore (www.womanlore.com) in "Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children...