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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, September 9, 2011

For good jobs with real living wages provide the American people with free health care and free child care

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For good jobs at real living wages provide the American people with free health care and free child care. Why this subservience by organiz...

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Taking apart the Wall Street web to create a beautiful tapestry

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I kind of like the comparison of the tapestry and the threads to our society that I read in a posting here on FaceBook but there is a lot l...

Jobs, jobs, jobs--- flushed down the St. Paul sewers into the Mississippi River

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Ford is closing the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant this year here in Minnesota.The Plant is built on the high banks over-looking ...

Thursday, September 1, 2011

My response to Leo Gerard's call for no protests and demonstrations on Labor Day

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United Steel Worker's President, Leo Gerard, has offered (see his blog posting below) a very typical example of what is wrong with orga...

Monday, August 29, 2011

Anyone want to come along for a walk?

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I'm thinking of trying to organize a "walk for peace, social and economic justice" across the Midwest starting on May Day unti...

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Letter to the Editor New York Times on health care reform; please consider for your health care discussion

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From: Alan Maki Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:39 AM Subject: Letter to the Editor on health care reform; please consider for your healt...

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

What kind of organization would a third party movement require?

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My two cents. I like the ideas former United States Senator Mike Gravel gave voice to— for the most part. But Gravel always seems to toss...

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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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