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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

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Workers at American Crystal Sugar have been locked out; as long as scabs are working the members of BCTGM are doomed.

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What I don’t understand is WHY the BCTGM leadership would put its own members through such misery like the American Crystal Sugar lockout...

Friday, August 12, 2011

Finally!

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Gravel names his price: $1 million to challenge Obama 7:37 PM 08/09/2011 Despite speculation that President Barack Obama will face a prima...

A Midsummer Night's Dream Obama has sold out the working class

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Letter to the Editor submitted for publication to Morning Star Online; In the article "A Midsummer Night's Dream Obama has sold o...

Friday, August 5, 2011

We must say "NO" to the unconstitutional "Super Congress"

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Please help me distribute this by turning it into a " digital leaflet " forwarding it to family, friends, neighbors and co-workers...

Thursday, August 4, 2011

1,300 American Crystal Sugar workers are locked-out without pay or health insurance while AFL-CIO union official, Mark Froemke, who led these workers to doom continues to get paid with his health insurance

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11794/10-month_iowa_lockout_ends_with_new_contract_and_disappointment/ I guess this should tell...

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Fight To End The Most Base Form Of Exploitation

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Note--- This is a guest blog; I welcome submissions of guest blogs. Send to: amaki000@centurytel.net Brian McAfee 2838 Mason B...

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Labor Day 2011; State of Today’s Unions

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With Labor Day coming up, I am publishing this guest blog by trade union activist Pancho Valdez which I think many of you will find very ...

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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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