Mother Jones and Her Children
Emma Bowell and Eddie Noona, Framework
Films & The Cork Mother Jones Commemorative Committee, with the support of the Sound and Vision scheme,
an initiative of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Ireland/USA, 2014, English, 52 mins.
Mary Harris Jones was born in 1830 in County
Cork, Ireland. Her family left the devastation brought by the Irish Potato
Famine and emigrated westward, first to Canada and then to America. Tragedy
befell Jones when she lost her family to a yellow fever outbreak and then her
home in the great Chicago fire. She went on to become a labour activist and was
given the nickname “Mother Jones.” A champion of the working class, Jones was a
campaigner for the United Mine Workers Union, founded the Social Democratic
Party and helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World. Jones died in
1930.
First Cry
T.
G. Ajay, India, 2014, Hindi, [EST]
First Cry tells the remarkable story of Shahid
Hospital in the mining township of Dalli Rajhara, in Chattisgarh. The hospital
was paid for and built by the voluntary labour of daily-wage contract miners
and successfully provides modern health-care to workers, and advises the poor. The Film reveals the history of its making, key turning points of the hospital and the experiences of the doctors and worker- paramedics who manage this oasis of hope.
Discussion to follow: Speakers:
Kelly Rogers, a BECTU member, and former employee at the Ritzi Picturehouse and Jonatha
Parry, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, LSE, recently did fieldwork in
Chhattisgarh state of India
Screenings are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.
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