thoughts from podunk

Leave a twig for the birds to perch on... don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you... if you are in the neighborhood, stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full... looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table... new postings daily...Yours in the struggle...Alan L. Maki

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Get Involved: Health Care Demonstration; Health Care Forum

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Get Involved: Health Care Demonstration; Health Care Forum See pictures at bottom right of article. This is an e-mail I distributed widely, ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Today is Martin Luther King Day. Most of the problems that Dr. King sought to correct still plague our nation--- racism, discrimination, ine...
Saturday, January 13, 2007

Labor & Sustainability Conference

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Labor & Sustainability Conference January 19th-20th, 2007 Next weekend --- mark your calendar please distribute widely UNITED AUTO WOR...
Friday, January 12, 2007

The Problem with Research, Facts, Figures, and Statistics

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A politician called me today and asked why I don't rely more on research, facts, figures, and statistics to back up what I write about i...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

The Democratic Party and Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party just don't get it

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Yesterday hundreds of Minnesotans were shipped off to Iraq... for what? To occupy a country, and steal the oil. Funding for this dirty war s...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Venezuela... on the road to socialism

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Why must we always be forced to read between the lines and research the truthfulness of the statements that our great "free media"...
Tuesday, January 9, 2007

How Can We Change Things?

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On my way back from the Cities I stopped to visit with a few friends in Cohasset, a small community just north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. A...
Monday, January 8, 2007

Joe Lieberman and John McCain: a very dangerous alliance

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Sunday, January 7, 2007

Meet Lt.-Gen. David Petraeus; Saddam Hussein's replacement in Iraq

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There is something very hypocritical about the "justice" of U.S. imperialism; Saddam Hussein was hung while the butcher Augusto Pi...
Saturday, January 6, 2007

The Future of the Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant and Hydro Dam

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The future of the Ford Twin Cities Hydro Dam is now in the balance as bids are being considered. The time for emergency action on the part...
Friday, January 5, 2007

Wages and the Economy

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Today the big economic news was that the American economy is headed for some tough times but corporate profits are doing pretty well. Accord...
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Lame Duck

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"Then there is President Bush. He may be a lame duck, but he is still commander in chief. No matter how much Democrats rail against his...
Tuesday, January 2, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth

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Al Gore missed one heck of an inconvenient truth in his movie of the same name. Actually Al Gore missed the truth about capitalism; and, he...

Minimum Wage

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The minimum wage should be a real living wage based upon scientific calculations, not some figure politicians pull from a hat trying to loo...
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Alan Maki
United States
I have been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years, and I am a socialist. I would encourage everyone to get involved in promoting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which came into existence on December 10, 1948; we should strive to use the yearly anniversary of this document to popularize it. We need to struggle to create a more progressive, socially just society where all working people receive real living wages and have a voice at work, and in their communities. I have worked with casino workers across Minnesota who are trying to organize a union. I have worked with people in northern Minnesota struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer--- this bog is being mined for peat. In my spare time during the spring and fall you can find me fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. I look forward to hearing from you. Nothing human is alien to me.
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