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
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
Folks Who Work Like Us
Reckon those Republicans and Democrats who are so anxious to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have ever had a real job – a job like everyone reading this think of as work, a
Our Values
One Saturday just after I became Organizing Director at the National AFLCIO and before Blackberrys, I brought my children to my office so they could play, hang out with the old man, and I
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
Creating a Global Movement for Prosperity
The need for the Americans of good will with a longing for a more just country to rise up in movement to push for change against a powerful and intransigent Financial Elite is undeniable. We have
Dr. King and the “Poor People’s Campaign”
I’ve been on several long, in depth national and local radio interviews this week. Of course, one of the most fun and most interesting was on Atlanta Pacifica public radio WRFG which I listened
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
There’s a Class Warfare, and We’re the Victims of it.
I came across this blog titled Some Statistics Related to Race and Class in America which is an excellent piece by Jeffrey Perry laying out exactly how terrible inequality is now in America, and
Friday Blog: Capitalism on Trial in the GOP?
Editor’s Note: Stewart Acuff recently defended true southern cooking in a letter (reprinted below) to the New Yorker. It gives you a “taste” of his new book, Playing Bigger Than You Are, available at
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