The UAW and the Struggle for Social Justice
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While many amongst us may grow weary in this time of economic crisis, political stagnation, and a resurgent radical right-wing movement bent on turning back the 20th century, we would all do well to
The Beloved Community.
Midnight tolls its chime I try to ignore it because I know I need the sleep Still the chime tolls and another Night of sleep is a night of sleep And roaming and writing and wanting And waiting for the
Happy Day
Waking this historic day in Atlanta The day our nation formally Inaugurates its first Black President for the Second time – hallelujah, hallelujah! Waking in the hotel I slept so many parts of Nights in his first history-making run Waking
The Lessons Today’s Organizers Can Learn from Dr. King
Today begins one of the most important weekends in American history. Over this three day weekend, our nation will inaugurate and celebrate the second term of our first African-American president – one of the
Dr. King was assassinated because he was a nonviolent revolutionary
In a wonderful irony of America’s continuing struggle with and for racial justice, President Obama’s second inauguration is on the same weekend as our Dr. King Holiday, the man who led the nonviolent revolution
Organizing to Create Social Change
We’ve talked a lot in this space about the abomination of income and wealth inequality, the shrinking of the middle class, and the loss of opportunity for the poor. There are two recent, even immediate,
Where there is no Vision, the People will Perish
“Rise up shepherd, rise up,” Bruce Springsteen “The Boss” sings on his new disc – to us, to you and me, those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear. “We take
Our Battle for Freedom and Justice
The Rightwing Radicals of the Republican Party passed right-to-work in Michigan, home of the UAW and the first successful sitdown strike in Flint in our nation’s history. When that governor threatened to send in
Stewart Acuff on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “We are called by his struggle”
“You see, Dr. King understood that it is organizing that makes us most human. He knew that when we use our social nature to lift each other up, we express our full humanity. We
Stewart Acuff on Workers Independent News talking Playing Bigger Than You Are, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Stewart Acuff has spent 35 years in the labor movement working for economic and social justice for working people, In his new book Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing he shares
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