Baltimore’s Voice of Mother Jones: 1970
The Voice of Mother Jones was the community newspaper of the Mother Jones Collective in Baltimore, Md. The collective functioned as a predominantly white organization organized similar to and parallel with the Baltimore Black Panther Party.
The organization existed circa 1970-72 after which many of its members joined the Revolutionary Union—a predecessor organization to the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The collective operated under a “serve the people” philosophy and ran a free lunch program for children in a working class community, a “liberation school,” a film program and a recreation program for children.
Politically, a spokesperson once described it as “Marxist-Maoist” and the group carried out demonstrations against conditions in the city jail, against rising bread prices, and in support of a bakery strike.
The group ran an offset printing press which the Black Panther Party printed their broadsides. Printing was done for other community a left-leaning groups in Baltimore as well.
It rallied community support to form a line of people outside the Black Panther Party headquarters in the city to protect that organization against an anticipated police raid.
It was itself raided by Baltimore police who failed to show a warrant and evidently planted drugs in the headquarters building of the no-drug group. Five members of the Mother Jones Collective were arrested.
Subsequently the group organized demonstrations against the raid and during the trial of Arthur Turco, the Patriot Party leader charged with ordering the murder of a Black Panther Party police informant.
The available issues of the Voice of Mother Jones are:
No. 3 – circa September 1970 – washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1970-09-ca-vo...
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Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
Baltimore’s Voice of Mother Jones: 1970
The Voice of Mother Jones was the community newspaper of the Mother Jones Collective in Baltimore, Md. The collective functioned as a predominantly white organization organized similar to and parallel with the Baltimore Black Panther Party.
The organization existed circa 1970-72 after which many of its members joined the Revolutionary Union—a predecessor organization to the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The collective operated under a “serve the people” philosophy and ran a free lunch program for children in a working class community, a “liberation school,” a film program and a recreation program for children.
Politically, a spokesperson once described it as “Marxist-Maoist” and the group carried out demonstrations against conditions in the city jail, against rising bread prices, and in support of a bakery strike.
The group ran an offset printing press which the Black Panther Party printed their broadsides. Printing was done for other community a left-leaning groups in Baltimore as well.
It rallied community support to form a line of people outside the Black Panther Party headquarters in the city to protect that organization against an anticipated police raid.
It was itself raided by Baltimore police who failed to show a warrant and evidently planted drugs in the headquarters building of the no-drug group. Five members of the Mother Jones Collective were arrested.
Subsequently the group organized demonstrations against the raid and during the trial of Arthur Turco, the Patriot Party leader charged with ordering the murder of a Black Panther Party police informant.
The available issues of the Voice of Mother Jones are:
No. 3 – circa September 1970 – washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1970-09-ca-vo...
For other alternative periodicals, see washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/periodicals/
For other images of alternative periodicals, see flic.kr/s/aHsmGkArk4
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson