thoughts from podunk

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

Monday, December 6, 2010

A challenge to debate...

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Joel Albers, I would be willing to debate you on point #2 and concerning your support for the Marty legislation. You are wrong on both po...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

DFL needs to get back to principles to succeed

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Letter to Editor published in the Bemidji Pioneer Press http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/100023770/   Published Novembe...
Monday, November 15, 2010

U.S. Military – The World's Largest Polluter

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Editor Brita Belli bbelli@emagazine.com Dear Brita Belli, Editor; (Please note; I am responding to the article below.) The Editors ...

Sarah Palin coins ‘word of the year’

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"Refudiate"

"Brazilian and U.S. Elections: Opposite Outcomes"

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A dialog with Professor Immanuel Wallerstein...(see Professor Wallerstein's "Commentary No. 293, Nov 15, 2010, below) Professor W...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Can anything be salvaged from this wreck? I doubt it. The deficit commission should be told to fold its tents and go away.

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Friday, November 12, 2010 "Can anything be salvaged from this wreck? I doubt it. The deficit commission should be told to fold its ...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Camping with Oprah

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This comes from the Sierra Club... I find it interesting that it is claimed that few people of color use our National Parks... why not? I li...

Democrats' Own Racism Has Done Them In

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Letter to the Editor , submitted exclusively to the Bemidji Pioneer Press for publication; The next political battle about to shape up in...

Cougar seen on Wolf Lake trail camera

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Published November 09 2010    From the Bemidji Pioneer Press http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/100023437/group/News/ Cougar se...
Monday, November 8, 2010

No "democracy" in "e-democracy"

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Mr. Perry, e-democracy Forum Manager; I agree whole-heartedly with David Shove's characterization of e-democracy as a front for the M...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Peace = health care + child care + over 15,000,000 new jobs

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Neither Paul Krugman nor Evan Bayh place the questions about the economy correctly by asking this very important and fundamental question: ...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Minnesota Republicans and Democrats to fight like cats and dogs over 9,000 votes to figure out who will be the next governor...

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Letter to the Editor; Submitted for publication exclusively to the Bemidji Pioneer. As an ardent supporter of Governor-elect Mark Dayton, ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Racist Minnesota DFL State Senator Mary Olson owned by Minnesota Indian Gaming Association is defeated...

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Racist Mary Olson finds comfort holding on to her campaign manager John McCarthy who is the head of the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association ...

An opening for liberals, progressives and the left... defeat racism and the corporate agenda

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Now is the time for liberals, progressives and the left to come out fighting clearly articulating an agenda for real change where the needs...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Some thoughts about the "populist economics" being pushed by the Democrats as a way to evade any mention of wars and real health care reform, etc...

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Democrats are making a futile last ditch effort to defeat Republicans using a sham "economic populism" which goes like this... O...
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Alan Maki
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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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