Stewart Acuff

  • The Fight for the 8 Hour Day

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    Yesterday I spoke to the Michigan AFL-CIO Community Services Conference. We all had such a great time. Today I am driving from the UAW’s Black Lake Education Center in upstate Michigan to Chicago. I will speak

  • Defending Democracy

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    In a military style pincer movement, the radical right-wing Republican moved desperately before the 2012 elections to defeat Democrats and undermine democracy. First, Republican governors and state legislatures in state after state moved to disenfranchise

  • Building the Resources Needed to Protect Democracy

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    Perhaps the single Supreme Court decision most threatening to American democracy is the Citizens United case, which ruled that corporations are people and money is speech; therefore corporations are entitled to spend all the

  • The Common Good is Patriotism

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    This is the third of a series of blogs I started last week. Read part one here and part two here. Throughout human history, the pursuit and commitment to the common good has been necessary

  • How Do We Drive Long-Term Change in America? Part II

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    Last Friday we began a short series entitled How Do We Drive Long-Term Change in America? Today we need to focus on the very significant changes in the attitudes of the middle class and working

May 22

I am yours

Really, I thought you loved me forever How could I miss the passion and the commitment? My arms wanted to wrap you up from now on We knew so much together and loved so much together I’d never

May 16

Walking this path

Written by Stewart Acuff Walking this path, this long path is part of the deal or the Not s’posed to be fun S’posed to be part of the struggle, la lucha This is what you do led by

May 16

Out of the game

Written by Stewart Acuff I had to do it I just had to do it Looks kinda like I may be Out of the game I loved her so long–decades–that I couldn’t not taste her And feel her and know

May 15

Mother’s Day

Written by Stewart Acuff Today is her day Mothers’ Day When she is reminded the love of her life is her kids We could get jealous For what? Her love for her kids Means more love for us Love begets love Love grows

May 11

Aching blues

Written by Stewart Acuff I have not an ounce of anger tho your leaving hurts more than anything I’ve ever felt I carry no regret Hope is slipping through my hands I feel. I feel hard Sadness Real sadness Blues sadness I

May 10

John Henry

Written by Stewart Acuff You know John Henry You know the steel drivin’ man Bob Arnold was my John Henry He never drove no hammer But he could drive them fists Bob and me got caught in so many juke joints

May 7

She left.

Written by Stewart Acuff The routine stays the same Coffee, trip to the gym Weights, cardio How does it stay the same? When everything is different? She left. And took it all with her Not the furniture or the kitchen stuff Just the

May 5

Let’s give in to love.

Written by Stewart Acuff I am watching our 6 month old puppy lying on your couch with my boy idly gnawing the blanket in the pre-dawn gray feeling all the love in this apartment and

May 1

Maybe

Written by Stewart Acuff Maybe Maybe she does Maybe she does but I don’t think so I don’t think she knows her leaving never stops hurtin’ Her absence is never ignored She cannot know how much I’ve loved her all

Apr 29

Forever Love

Written by Stewart Acuff Hard Saturday, this one Open the pictures you sent Opens the heart still unhealed This heart probably ain’t gonna heal Folks use words like love and forever awfully loosely But I don’t or can’t see an end

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