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SHEPHERDSTOWN — To celebrate the launch of former American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) National Organizing Director Stewart Acuff’s career memoir, “Playing Bigger Than You Are:
The major parties on Capitol Hill like to boast about how much more “representative” their Congressional delegations have become in recent years. But that’s only in the most-discussed categories of diversity—race, age, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Working-class Americans rarely end up in the halls of Congress. Fewer than 2 percent of Congress members had
Stewart Acuff, a Shepherdstown resident, is a co-chair of the West Virginia Poor People’s Campaign. He retired in 2016 after a 40-year career as a union and community organizer. He
Beckley, West Virginia Nearly 100 prison abolitionists and family members of jailhouse murder victims rallied in Beckley on July 15 to raise awareness of the growing number of deaths in jails throughout West Virginia. In the last couple of years, the deaths have become epidemic, with dozens of incarcerated workers…
As Tracy Danzey and I walked 100 miles across the Zealand Island of Denmark in 2019, talking to journalists and everyday people about Danish-owned Rockwool shoving a toxic factory into