Playwright Kaiulani Lee has written and is performing a new work called “Can’t Scare Me, the Story of Mother Jones,” about the life of labor reformer Mother Jones. As Lee toured her one-woman show on Rachel Carson across America in recent years, she found troubling images of people who are falling through the cracks. “I kept running into these families,” she said. “They’ve worked hard but they go to bed anxious about how to keep a roof over their children’s heads.
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