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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

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Blocking Escalation Not Good Enough

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From: Alan Maki [mailto:amaki000@centurytel.net] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:27 PM To: 'David Swanson' Cc: 'David Shove...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The new normal

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Following this essay appearing in the new on-line "People's World" are my comment and a comment from Rosalio Munoz, Betty Smit...

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Why did the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party allow a racist Community Development Director to undermine and circumvent affirmative action?

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October 20, 2009 Rita Albrecht, Community Development Director, City of Bemidji. Minnesota rita.albrecht@ci.bemidji.mn.us Ms. Albrecht; I...

Canada sends a socialist, working class union leader and NDP politician to Washington as its Ambassador

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Canada's most reactionary ever politician, Prime minister Stephen Harper, has been forced to send Manitoba's Gary Doer, a socialist ...

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Stalled agenda irks labor leaders; Unions see little action from Democrats in D.C.

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This is a comment I made in response to the posting of this article which appeared in the Boston Globe. This statement here, quoted in this ...

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Enforcement of Affirmative Action: Missing from Obama's--- and the Democrat's--- Agenda

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This letter to the editor appeared in northern Minnesota's leading daily newspaper, The Bemidji Pioneer , (published Sunday, October 11,...

Friday, October 9, 2009

Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

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I published my response to Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize on The Huffington Post: Ironically, the most hypocritical statement (w...

Thursday, October 8, 2009

America Needs Warriors for Justice

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Below is the posting of Stewart Acuff who heads up the National Organizing Department of the AFL-CIO which he posted on The Huffington Po...

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Leading figure in Democratic Party brings to light the abuse of casino workers in the Indian Gaming Industry

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-----Original Message----- From: Alan Maki [mailto:amaki000@centurytel.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:06 AM To: 'marc@asch.org...

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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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