Thanks to all who have donated and endorsed the Mother Jones Chicago statue project. We are half-way there! Add your name today.
Cork, Ireland Spirit of Mother Jones Festival
"The monument will honour the Irish diaspora, many of these immigrants created one of the foundation stones of the American Labour and Trade Union movement which fought for the rights of workers and their families. The trade union organisational abilities of Mother Jones remain an inspiration to many and she has become a catalyst for achieving social justice and rights for workers.
We urge Irish people everywhere to support this extraordinary project."
Ger O'Mahony, James Nolan, Angela Burke, Ann Piggott, Mother Jones (Joan Goggin), Ann Rea, William Hammond, Dominic O'Callaghan. (not included, John Barimo, Richard T Cooke, Geraldine McCarthy)
Donors
Mother Jones Legacy
$10,000 & above
Government of Ireland
Laborers International Union of North America
Chicago Teachers Union with members match
Roofers Local 11
Painters District Council 14
Bricklayers ADC1 Chicago
Ireland Funds, Chicago
History Makers
$5000 level
Sprinkler Fitters Local 281
Chicago Federation of Labor
Int'l Union of Bricklayers & Allied Trades
National Education Association
Fight for the Living
$1000 and above
Ernestina Padilla
in honor of Lotty Blumenthal & Geri Baginski
in honor of Helen Ramirez Odell
Brigid Duffy Gerace
Helen Ramirez-Odell
Mary Lou Edwards
Anonymous
CTU Women's Rights Committee
In honor of David J. Rathke
United Mine Workers of America ($2000)
Illinois Education Association Staff Organization
Eugene Debs Foundation
Plumbers Local 130
Dowd, Bloch, Bennett, Cervone, Auerbach and Yokich
Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee
Dolores Connolly
Laborers LIUNA Local 1, Chicago
National Staff Organization
Iron Workers Local 1 ($2000)
Christina & Tom Chambers
Irene King
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council
David Hourihane
John J. Cullerton
Margaret Fulkerson
Justice Warrior
$500 and above
Saul Schniderman
Bakers Union
Jeanne Graham
Hector Arrellano
Timothy Gilfoyle
Elliott Gorn
We Shall Rise!
Raymond O. Wicklander
Anonymous
Paul Bailey
Carpenters Chicago
AFGE Local 648 Chicago
Representing US Dept of Labor Employees in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin
Padraic Connolly, Longford Construction
Teamsters Local 916
Construction Industry Service Corporation
Amy Bromsen
Cork Spirit of Mother Jones Festival
Sons & Daughters of Mother Jones
$250 & above
Coalition of Labor Union Women
David Prosten
Working Women's History Project
Patricia O'Brien
Jacqueline Kirley
Marcus Rediker
Julia Nowicki
Helen Elkiss
Sheila Durkin
Kenny & Becky Osborne
Barry Bennett
Bob and Suzanne Breuler Petri
Long live Mother Jones and all she stands for!
Carrie Biggs-Adams
Working Class Hero
$100 & above
Carl Rosen
Blythe and Associates
Shari Paul
Leah Humes
Sue Walton
Sandra O'Donnell
Zeese Papanikolas
John J. Vespo
Theresa Boyle
Stephen Jones
Donald Marcus
Taru Spiegel
David Johnson
Noel Beasley
Harold Rosenthal
Stephen Goldberg
Rosemary Trump
Virginia Ayers
Susan Strauss
John Enyeart
James Tibensky
In memory of Gary Puleio
Eileen Durkin
Ellen Skerrett
Byrne, Brennan and Richards Family
Ellen Garza
Acknowledging and honoring Chicago's women organizers and activists is crucial to our identity.
Jeana Brown
Women do because Mother did.
Christine George
Sue Sebesta
Christopher and Bernadette Murphy
Dan Durkin
Gemma Doyle
Michelle Frenette
"From a proud Sangamon State Labor Relations program alumni"
Paul Bailey
Eric Dirnbach
Michael and Catherine O'Connell-Cahill
Tim Bancroft
Carlos Andrade
Kevin Cullina
Betsy Kraft
Jim and Janet Fennerty
Robert Broda
In Honor of Gene Debs
Stephen Brier
Paul Bailey
Al Villalpando
David Newby
May Her Spirit Continue to Inspire!
Jim Barrett
Community Foundation of West Alabama
McArthur Gunter
Community Foundation of West Alabama
Anne Durkin
Robert Bloch
Trailblazer
$50 & above
Shannon Zalinski
David Jablonsky
George & Rhonda Milkowski
Kassandra Tsitsopoulos
"Long live Mother Jones and female union members!"
Norine Gutekanst
Michael Savoir
William Hassett
Nicholas Bode
James Schaudt
DB Hunt
in honor of Elliott Gorn
John Powell
Susanne Paradis
Ivana Krajcinovic
Joanne & August Ricca
David Richardson
Rita Alfonso LaBarbera
Julie Quirin
Colleen White
John Zurzaw
Joan S. Jacobs
Phyllis Magee
Donald Morris
Marion Sirefman
Kathleen Carey
Bernie Eshoo
Kathleen MacMillan
Helen Smith
Linda Bonner
Dorothea Jacobson Wenzel
Thanks to Cook County College Teachers Union
Robert & Marie Syzyman
Janita Tucker
Peg Strobel
Paul Schoewetter
Michael Sprinker
Richard Dawson
May this statue inspire a new generations of labor revolutionaries. I started to say "labor activists," but that have been a disappointment to Mother Jones.
James Valek
Melissa Garman
Grassroots
$25.00 & below
Judith Dever
Phillip Dortsch
Jennifer L. Johnson
Carlene M. Blumenthal
Amanda Scampini
Mary Ann Trasciatti
anonymous
Jerry & Irene Adler
Stephanie Cummings Collins
Lois Evans *
* This donation is by LuLu LoLo whose campaign "Where are the Women? in 2015 highlighted the lack of monuments to women in NYC
David Band
Robert Stauffer
Karl Knobler
Patricia A. Wright
Robert Lehrer
Diane M. Dorsey
Martin Mikinas
Michael Zielinski
Louis Wolf
Kenneth DeBay
Elizabeth Hastings
Henry Ooten
David Tarlo
Ed Pickford, England
Bonnie Shapiro
Marissa Koziar
Ann F. Hoffman
Dr. B Iverson
Dean Doberstein
Bruce Trigg
"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living! " I am honored to support this effort in the memory of this great woman.
Stephen Mitchell
Deborah Pope, Chicago
Deborah Montgomery
Anna Johnson
Stuart Walsh
Madalyn Kenney
Angela Just
Sunti Segrave-Daly
Janet Hickey
Paul Baicich
"Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike." --Mother Jones
Judith and Tom Flynn
Dave McGrath
Endorsements
Donors - Amount Undisclosed
Elliott Gorn
"Because, as Upton Sinclair wrote, ". . .wherever she went, the flame of protest has leaped up in the hearts of men, her story was a veritable ODYSSEY of revolt."