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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, January 18, 2011

The MLK photo that tells an important story no one wants to talk about...

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Will Obama protect Social Security?

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Barack Obama on Social Security: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =n3O_ZoCyCbQ&feature=player_em bedded Barack Obama on single-payer ...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Wealth creation and poverty... are Minnesota legislators asking the poor to climb a ladder out of poverty that has no rungs?

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:39:25 -0500 From: "Alan L. Maki" < amaki000@centurytel.net > Reply-To: amaki000@cent...

Gas used by Israel for "crowd control" is stamped "Made in the U.S.A."

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Mr. Don Smith, CEO Combined Systems Inc. 388 Kinsman Rd. Jamestown, PA 16134 Dear Mr. Smith, It is my understanding that your company ...

Monday, January 10, 2011

The End of New Deal Liberalism

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We need to remember that Wiliiam Greider who is now a "leftist" attacking "liberalism" was a "progressive for Obama...

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Is the Dayton Administration another Obama Administration in the making? Liberal rhetoric; reactionary corporate agenda

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Ok, I see who Dayton has selected to head up the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources--- a selection aided by Roger Moe. Just about l...

Monday, January 3, 2011

Primary Obama and unite around a people's agenda for real change

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I don't think we should get hung up too much on "who" the candidates are to get rid of Obama. As working people who are libera...

Sunday, January 2, 2011

What to do about Israel... just cut off the money

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Here is a letter to the editor for publication: We need a president who has a constructive approach towards solving the problems in the Mi...

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Primary Obama with Hillary Clinton

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Alan L. Maki I have received a lot of responses to my suggestion that we should use Hillary Clinton to get rid of Barack Obama. I can unde...

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Words get twisted; words like "progressive"

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This is my response from a dialog I had with someone who has a very different concept from me of what the word "progressive" means...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Hamilton Day of Action: The People VS. U.S. Steel

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Hamilton Day of Action: The People VS. U.S. Steel http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137151766341671&ref=notif&notif_t=event_i...

I recently made two very controversial posts on FaceBook generating quite a bit of discussion...

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I recently made two very controversial posts on FaceBook generating quite a bit of discussion... Here are those posts and how I sum up my re...

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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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