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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

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Bush finally states real intent in Iraq...

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All the domestic and foreign news services carried this story in some form, did no one on the MN DFL State Central Committee see, hear, or r...

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Universal Health Care... what is it?

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There continues to be a great deal of confusion about what "universal health care" is; or, rather, I should say, the Democratic Pa...

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Health care... the struggle for single-payer, universal health care intensifies

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Note: This is a letter I sent to Minnesota State Representative Dave Olin (Democratic Farmer-Labor Party) and all members of the Minnesota D...

Monday, May 28, 2007

Memorial Day

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On this Memorial Day I think it is now very obvious that the Democrats are in full complicity with Bush and the Republicans in supporting th...

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Freedom to Breathe Act: Two Views of the Minnesota Smoking Ban

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Timber Jay Newspaper Saturday, May 26, 2001907 Volume 18, Issue 20 Mixed views on the impact of smoking ban By Tom Klein Bob Howe estimates ...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party Challenges REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES TO TAKE A STAND ON IRAQ

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The leadership of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party (DFL)sent out this self-serving hypocritical letter. The time has come for the...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

NDP wins majority

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Our great "free media" here in the United States has refused to cover the Manitoba Election. Today, for a third consecutive time, ...

Friday, May 18, 2007

Two Viewpoints: This isn't what the voters asked for in November

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Two Viewpoints: This isn't what the voters asked for in November View One : By State Rep. Bernie Lieder, DFL-Crookston Published: Thursd...

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Iraq: Why No "Exit Strategy"?

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Democrats have demagogically used the lame excuse of "No Exit Strategy" to criticize Bush's handling of the war in Iraq. The f...

Class Consciousness & Politics

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Former Attorney General and the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party candidate for governor Mike Hatch is now gone from his $100,000.00 a...

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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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