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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, August 31, 2012

Labor Day 2012: State of the Unions, or Can Labor Recover from Rightwing Assaults?

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(Note: this is a guest blog published at writers request.) By Pancho Valdez "When the working class unites, there will a lot of...

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Obama was to face a massive protest in Detroit at the Labor Day rally so he chickened out.

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Obama chickened out of going to Detroit for Labor Day after he got wind people would be demonstrating against his Wall Street agenda. I was ...

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

All the corrupt crooks stick together in life and in death.

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All the corrupt crooks stick together in life and in death... a statement of half-truths and outright lies without one iota of consider...

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Mobster Stanley Crooks dies in Minnesota.

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Politicians and the media are mourning the death of mobster Stanley Crooks who forced 5,000 casino workers employed in the huge Mystic Lake ...

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Don't we all have the right to participate in the budget process?

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Why did Bill Moyers, like the National Priorities Project and all the other foundation-funded outfits, leave out the suggestions of the al...

Friday, August 24, 2012

Stop the robbery at the pumps.

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The robbery at the pumps continues. And the reason politicians haven't put an end to this robbery at the pumps is because they are a...

Thursday, August 23, 2012

The National Priorities Project denies my accusation they are fronting for Obama.

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The National Priorities Project has taken issue with me saying that they are fronting for Obama. Very routinely the National Priorities Proj...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Raise the minimum wage to a real living wage

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I just posted this on Congressman Keith Ellison's FaceBook page after he called for a miserly increase in the minimum wage: The minim...

New Priorities Project fronts for warmonger Obama

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I find it mind boggling that the National Priorities Project would front for Obama in such a dishonest way by claiming Obama intends to re...

Monday, August 20, 2012

How capitalism works...

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How capitalism works explained from a worker's perspective... Abba Ramos, a veteran organizer in the International Longshore and Ware...

Saturday, August 18, 2012

The 2012 Elections Have Little To Do With Obama’s Record … Which Is Why We Are Voting For Him

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I agree with Michael Munk's commentary below introducing this piece by William Greider from The Nation. In fact, these "liberals,...

Monday, August 13, 2012

Rush Limbaugh's lies about welfare

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A lot is being made of Obama trying to buy votes by ending "work for welfare." Racist right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limb...

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Remembering the Other Weapon of Mass Destruction

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Remembering the Other Weapon of Mass Destruction By Bruce Gagnon Global Network Aug 6, 2012 I first wrote this blog entry in 20...

The Ascendancy of a Criminal Financial Elite The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens

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This article just begins to scratch the surface of wealth that is being "hidden" in this country in that it only includes "le...

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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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