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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, December 22, 2009

Are you fed up?

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I sent out this e-mail to several hundred people this morning in response to an e-mail I received about aggressive moves by Obama towards Ve...

Monday, December 21, 2009

We need a new Declaration of Independence...

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From the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new Declaration of Independence from the Democratic and Republican parties because w...

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Stephen Hemsley home demonstration for single-payer universal healthcare

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This important notice was posted to David Shove's "Progressive Calendar:" From: Roger Cuthbertson Subject: Hemsley ho...

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Some thoughts about Copenhagen and global warming...

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I'm curious; is there any industry that contributes more to global warming than Wall Street's military-financial-industrial complex ...

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Obama pressures peace movement through dirty e-mailing campaign to soften its resistance to his escalation of the war in Afghanistan

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The Obama administration is stooping to the exact same dirty tricks used by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in trying to undermine the effo...

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Criticizing or Accountability... what do Obama and the Democrats need when it comes to escalating the war in Afghanistan?

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I have been trying to drum up a discussion to include as part of the peace movement "accountability" which goes like this: No p...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Huffington Post censored my post on Afghanistan

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I posted the following comment in response to an article by a Nation Magazine editor and the moderators of the Huffington Post eliminated ...

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Afghans say: Obama builds occupation

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This article deserves the widest circulation possible… Afghans say: Obama builds occupation Kabul money changer Ehsanullah wondered why ...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

An open letter to peace activists who supported Barack Obama

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Peter Lems and Mary Zerkel, American Friends Service Committee; Here is a President many of you “leaders” of peace organizations support...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sign the Petition for Nuclear Disarmament to: Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations

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We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the wo...

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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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