Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Please note I have a new phone number...

512-517-2708

Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Friday, June 25, 2010

An experiment

Someone at the U.S. Social Forum 2010 taking place in Motown should conduct a little experiment to find out if there is any support for a new progressive political party...

Get a couple cardboard boxes and ask people to vote for three tickets:

Palin/McChrystal

Obama/Biden

Cynthia McKinney/Cindy Sheehan


Of course Palin/McChrystal would have to have a slight handicap of some sort--- maybe pay anyone voting for them $10.00 and offer the opportunity to vote as often as possible.

The Obama/Biden ticket probably wouldn't need as much of a handicap... just offer a free drink of Detroit River Water or what we called Stroh's.

To the McKinney/Sheehan team, don't provide any incentive except for a future of peace and social justice to voters who are only allowed to vote once.

I wonder if anyone has thought that the U.S. Social Forum 2010 would be the perfect place to launch a new progressive political party? It seems like there might be an activist or two with such a notion... imagine, 20,000 left-wing political activists returning home to organize a real progressive political party as they are engaged in their other peace and social justice activities!

Now, for a name for this new political party?

In their new book on page 83 of "Getting America Back To Work," Stewart Acuff and Richard Levins give us a pretty good hint:

Warriors for Peace and Social Justice