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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

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Letter to Gun Lake Tribal Chair, D.K. Sprague concerning the casino "Compact"

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Please note: I have been asking Mr. Sprague to answer these very specific, very simple questions for a long time. Mr. Sprague has not answer...

Monday, August 6, 2007

Letter to the Editor; The Gun Lake Casino, Compacts, Workers' Rights; a question answered

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In response to the following which I posted on the Working Class Studies list serve which has international participation; I received the qu...

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Thank you Tim Pawlenty, James Oberstar, Bernie Lieder, Ron Erhardt & Steve Murphy for keeping our highways and bridges safe...

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"I'm glad to get away from the 35 Bridge. Tim, you and Norm have been a great help to me. Our Democratic opposition has been collap...

Friday, August 3, 2007

Michigan House Democratic Legislators are set to follow Governor Granholm's lead and vote to approve the Gun Lake Casino "Compact" next Wednesday...

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… Even though they have not demonstrated one iota of concern for the health and well-being of the 1,800 workers who will be employed at pove...

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Controversy continues to swirl as Michigan Legislators look at another casino "Compact"

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Note: please see my previous blog for additional information on this issue: http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/governor-granholm-and...

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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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