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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

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Make way for the working class to have a say…

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This enormous economic mess we are now experiencing, along with the heavy debt the bankers and the politicians of both major political parti...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words...

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Note: Click on pictures to enlarge. The past as prologue? Lining up for food and water, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937. By Margaret Bourke-White...

An Open Letter to Barack Obama…

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From: Alan L. Maki Director of Organizing, Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council and Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party activist ...

Thursday, October 9, 2008

CRONY COMMUNIST OR BUSINESSMAN?

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HTTP://WWW.OURFUTURE.ORG/BLOG-ENTRY/2008104109/CRONY-COMMUNIST-OR-BUSINESSMAN#COMMENT-8903 CRONY COMMUNIST OR BUSINESSMAN? Campaign for Ame...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Chickens Home to Roost

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This is my response to Leo Gerard's: Chickens Home to Roost http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008104107/untie-noose-rebuild-us-manufa...

What they don't want to talk about

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Friends, There is plenty that Barack Obama does not want to talk about, too. As far as the “Savings and Loan crisis” mentioned in the Obama ...

Monday, October 6, 2008

Middle class bail out or working class bail out?

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We need more concrete proposals from Barack Obama on how he intends to save "Main Street"... As anyone can see, people are expecti...

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

PRISONERS OF WAR

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PRISONERS OF WAR By Robert Borosage Campaign for America’s Future STAFF September 30th, 2008 - 10:27am ET http://www.OurFuture.org Septem...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling

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But, what about Barack Obama's ties to the same Indian Gaming Industry? This is my response to the New York Times (the New York Times ar...

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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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