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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

Friday, July 1, 2011

Minnesota shuts down--- where is the money? It's time to talk about redistribution of wealth.

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These private, for profit, home health care "providers" (read profiteers) are bankrupting Minnesota like other states. State l...

Saturday, June 25, 2011

A FaceBook friend asks me why I am "soft" on the Republicans

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Debbie Murphy Alan, I'm curious...I rarely read if at all that you bash the Republicans. Why is that? Seems there would at least be s...

Friday, June 24, 2011

What kind of "labor solidarity" rally has been planned by the AFL-CIO in the name of "Hands Across Borders?"

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A letter to a Canadian trade union friend. There are all kinds of ironies in life. Here is one of these ironies--- The International La...

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Slow economic recovery hurting Obama politically as re-election campaign begins

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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/apArticle/id/D9O166OG1/ Published Wednesday, June 22, 2011 AP-GfK poll: Slow economic recovery hurt...

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Netroots Nation 2011

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The Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council extends a progressive welcome to bloggers from across the country and from around the world as...

Sunday, June 12, 2011

The question we need to keep asking...

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As liberal, progressive and left working class activists we should strive to make sure the entire politics of this country begins to revol...

The question we need to keep asking...

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As liberal, progressive and left working class activists we should strive to make sure the entire politics of this country begins to revol...

Saturday, June 11, 2011

How the big-money of the Indian Gaming Industry controls the media and places profits above human health

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I sent "Letters-to-the-Editors" to over 100 newspapers in response to the Walk Across America promoting awareness of diabetes in t...

A guest blog: Save the Penokees

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(Posted as a guest blog on request by the author who would like this to receive the widest circulation possible. Alan L. Maki) By ...

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Greetings from Walkerville

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Greetings from Walkerville Phil Neuenfeldt, Wisconsin State AFL-CIOpresident, < http://www.wisaflcio.org/ > sends an update on th...

Monday, June 6, 2011

A thought...

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I think it is becoming very obvious to many working people we can't afford to wait until the next election to begin turning this count...

New Democrats need to attack Tories on economic record, Pawley says

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New Democrats need to attack Tories on economic record, Pawley says Left-leaning federal parties like the New Democrats should take a pag...

Sunday, June 5, 2011

A FaceBook discussion with an Obama supporter

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http://my.firedoglake.com/alanmaki/2011/06/05/a-facebook-discussion-with-an-obama-supporter/ A FaceBook discussion with an Obama supporte...

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future wrote me asking for suggestions for their upcoming conference...

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Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future wrote me asking for suggestions for their upcoming conference... by Alan L. Maki ...

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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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