America Aspiring to Greatness Again
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Last week was very busy! I had two radio interviews, and a great long television segment on Thom Hartmann’s May Day show on RT America. Thom not only plugged my Busboys and Poets book
Neoconservative Hawks are Beating Their War Drum Again…
The same neoconservative war hawks are stepping up their calls for war in Syria. There is an awful civil war in Syria. It is not clear that US involvement in that war would mitigate the
Creating a More Just America
My good friend Ed Martin just sent me an important article from Reuters reporter Chrystia Freeland analyzing a poll that shows more and more Americans fear falling out of the middle class. The middle class
It’s May Day! A Global Celebration for Workers & Unions!
It’s May Day, the global celebration for workers and unions. We celebrate the struggles and victories of our foremothers and forefathers. We celebrate our Solidarity! We celebrate our work together today for a better
Growing Incarceration & Our Budget Crisis
We have noted in this space before that one consequence of the destruction of any freedom to form unions and stagnant wages for 35 years is an 800% percent increase in incarceration. The pro-reform Drug
Go Big on Infrastructure!
Last week the Association of General Contractors announced that the deep cuts in federal spending known as sequestration have stopped $4 billion dollars of infrastructure work. The radical rightwing Republicans in Congress have celebrated the
This much needed work would create jobs in America!
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) say America would have to spend three and a half trillion dollars to bring our nation’s infrastructure up to a grade of B. The ASCE gave our infrastructure a
The Future of the American Labor Movement (Part 2)
This is the second of a series of blogs written by Stewart Acuff titled The Future of the American Labor Movement. A couple of days ago, I started offering a few humble suggestions regarding the future
The Imperative of Change
In my blog Change is Coming, I provided ideas for a new and mostly complete agenda for America’s unions to fight our way out of the crisis that workers, our unions and country are
Renewable Energy & Job Creation
I am very happy to be in Vancouver, Canada this morning on the way to Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia to help with training for the Canadian Labour Congress’ senior organizers. The Labour Congress is
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